A Classy Birthday Card

Busy few weeks and back at school after the summer break so not much time to craft now.   Seems like the Summer flew past in a flash with me still waiting for it to get started.  I don't mind Autumn but feel cheated that we didn't get a good Summer with all the rain, and now we're racing headlong to Christmas. 

Between work and 'The Battle of the Slugs' I have managed to make a few cards, one of which I'm going to share today.  And no I didn't win the Battle, The Slug Gang and their allies The Snail Gang seem to think I'm running an 'All You Can Eat Buffet'

This card was made to order for a friend to give to her daughter.  She wanted something classy but left the design and colour up to me. It's A5 size and I decided on a subtle colour palette so used three papers in the same colour, with white, from Pink Petticoat and teamed them with silver, the image is also from Pink Petticoat.  Colouring this to match proved difficult so I printed a second image onto a solid colour, cut out the shoes and stuck them on.   The sentiments were created in Word and printed directly onto the paper, which was quite a challenge as  it took several attempts before I was happy with the curved writing.  White ribbon, a small silver coloured heart and a few crystal gems finish it off.

 

CHALLENGES ENTERED

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #203 - MILESTONE BIRTHDAYS

Wild Orchid Challenge 58 - Layer It Up

Southern Girls Challenge 53 - It's Well Bling Bling 

Thanks for looking.

Lynn x

Baby Cakes

Not a card today, well not only a card.  This is the first time I've made 'Baby Cakes' for a new mum and I'm quite pleased with the result.

  Cake Box and Card

I wanted to get a small gift for the daughter of a colleague and remembered that I had two cakeboxes that I bought on a whim from Tesco a while back.  Obviously intended for a boy and girl as one was pink and the other blue.  The baby being a boy, I bought a pack of  'onsies' in blue and white to make the 'cakes' but when they were together the blue cakebox looked more greeny blue and not a good match.  So the colour scheme had to be blue, green and white; which suited me fine as my favourite colour is green.

I've used digital papers from Funky Hand, printed on paper and card to make the individual cake cases, card and tag and the image is from Pink Petticoat.

More Pictures

 

D.Papers - Funky Daze by Funky Hand (Son Day collection)

Image - Pink Petticoat

Embossing folder - Cuttlebug

Templates for tag and cake case - My own

Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis

Challenges Entered

Get Funky - Anything Goes

Allsorts Challenge Blog -  wk 169 - It's a gift

Craft Punked - Week 35 - New Baby

Sorry that the photos are a bit dark but I was taking them late at night and didn't get a chance to take anymore as the gift had been handed over.

Don't know what's going on with Mr Blogger as I've been trying to upload these photos for two days but 'he' keeps freezing when only half of a photo has loaded, grrrr!

Thanks for looking,

Lynn x

40th Birthday Card

I made this card for a friend at school who recently celebrated her 40th birthday.  I was short of time so went with a design that I've used before - saved all the indecision that I usually go through when having to come up with something special at short notice.

The patterned papers are both Pink Petticoat left over from an earlier project. The stamp was given free with a magazine some time ago and I coloured the cakes with ProMarkers before adding some Glamour Dust to the 'icing'.

I'm entering this card in Challenge 148 at Passion for ProMarkers which is 'Special Birthdays'

Thanks for looking.

Lynn x

21st Card for Chloe

I needed to make a21st birthday card for Chloe who has been doing teaching practice with us for the past few weeks. I used a Pink Petticoat image and some leftover pieces of green paper, also from Pink Petticoat, together with some silver mirror card and a length of white ribbon. I paper pieced the dress and bag then coloured the rest of the image with Promarkers. The circle and scalloped circle have both been cut with nesties and the edge of the border paper punched with a Fiskars Threading Water punch. I used the same green paper for the insert but forgot to take a photo of it.

I've found some challenges that it fits into so might as well give it a go.

Delightful Challenges - Anything Goes
Little Miss Muffet Challenge # 11 - Anything Goes
Southern Girls Challenge 21 - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Let's Play Bingo
(Bottom line - Shape, Ribbon & Sentiment)

Thanks for looking,
Lynn x

Card for baby Jacob

The daughter of a good friend of ours has just had a baby boy so I wanted to make a personalised card. I recently made a baby boy card that I really liked, using Funky Hand papers, but in order to enter it into the Get Funky Challenge I had to include five flowers. As these were put in the position best suited to the baby's name a new card was needed. I've used the same layout but alternated the colours blue and green, added JACOB instead of flowers and tied a teddy charm to the bottom ribbon. The hood and wheels on the baby buggy have been raised up for extra dimension and the edges of the card layers inked to help them stand out. So that the letters stood out from the background I edged those too but I had to use a pen which was very fiddly and took ages - still it was worth it as I'm pleased with the finished result.

Front View

Side View

Inside

Papers - 'Son Day' Collection, Funky Daze CD by Funky Hand
Image - Pink Petticoat
Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug
Die Cut Letters - Sizzix 'Wingo Zingo'
Ribbon & Charm - Unknown

Today whilst wandering around Blogland I followed a link to Creative Inspirations and was surprised to see that their latest challenge, no 116, calls for Blue, Green & 1 other Colour so I'm entering my card into this.

Thanks for looking,
Lynn x

Recipe challenge at Get Funky

This is my card for the latest challenge at Get Funky which is to follow a recipe -

Kathy's Funky Fifteenth: Master Chef Recipe!

5 Flowers

Use 3 different papers

2 Buttons

1 Ribbon (cut up or in one strip whatever you prefer)

and a sprinkling of Gems or pearls



I made this card when the challenge was first put up, but haven't been able to post sooner due to Blogger problems, chest infection, holiday, more Blogger problems and then last night when I tried to log on our internet connection was down due to maintenance work by BT. Still it's here now - I do like to enter this challenge because many of my cards are made with Funky Hand papers as I love the way that the different designs are available in many colour combinations.

The three papers are from the 'Son Day' collection on the Funky Daze CD by Funky Hand - I really love this colour combination and find myself using these papers a lot. The image is from Pink Petticoat and the embossing done with a Cuttlebug folder. I've added the buttons and flowers to fit the recipe and some Glamour Dust for 'a sprinkling of gems'.

Thanks for looking.

Hugs, Lynn x

FEELING FRUITY

The Penny Black Saturday Challenge ... Week 114 - is FEELING FRUITY

After a look through my PB stamps the only one I could find with fruit was 'Chicky Night' as one of the chicks has a cherry in her drink (a very small cherry). But not wanting to push my luck with this very tiny link to fruit, I put my thinking cap on ... could I use a fruitless image with fruit added from somewhere else ... maybe a hedgie or mouse could be made to carry a piece of fruit, or sit on a piece of fruit, or even appear out of a piece of fruit .... MAYBE NOT.
So I had to turn to my Christmas stamps and use one of the images from my 12 Days Of Christmas Transparent set. One of the DT has used this but I tried to make my card completely different so it wouldn't look like I was copying.
Unusually for me it is A6 size, I don't often make cards this small, but it's going into my 'not for special people' christmas card box ... I think I'll make a batch of these using all the other images in the set. It may not be clear from the photo but the fold is at the top, Pink Petticoat papers, sentiment printed on the pc and three extra pears for added interest.

Image - PB '12 Days of Christmas'
stamped with Versafine
coloured with Promarkers
cut with Nestabilities

Red & white card - my stash

Digital papers - Pink Petticoat

I'm off to link up now, thanks for looking,

Hugs,
Lynn x

Christening Cards

Two cards to share that I made a couple of weeks ago. I was asked to make them by a friend, for two seperate Christenings that they were invited to. Although they were for regular Church goers she didn't want them to look overly religeous so I used images from Pink Petticoat but added a jewelled cross. The images were coloured with Promarkers with the frills, bows and wheels layered on top for extra dimension. Although it's not quite clear from the pictures, the mirror card is actually silver. The names and sentiments were printed on the PC and the white ribbon was found in my ribbon box.





My friend was very happy with the finished cards and it seems that the families that they were for, were really happy to receive personalised cards (the inserts included Christening dates in addition to appropriate verses. It's nice when your efforts are appreciated - isn't it?

Thanks for looking.

Lynn x

Get Funky Challenge - July

The Get Funky challenge for July is 'Something New', and whilst we were on holiday the daughter of some good friends of ours had a baby girl - so a new baby card was the ideal subject for my entry. I had already printed the Pink Petticoat image of a baby girl in a buggy so rustled this card up last night (and I do mean night and not evening) so that I could enter it in the challenge and deliver it today. Now I'm not a big fan of pink so I decided to go with a yellow theme and began my search for suitable papers by looking through the 'Funky Seasons' CD - I always seem to start with this one probably because it was the first Funky Hand CD that I bought. The yellow spotty paper chose itself but then I needed something plain to go with it as I wanted to use my baby themed embossing folder. I did like a peachy coloured paper that I thought would match the spots but when it was printed I wasn't quite right so I ended up with .... pink. Not a colour I would normaly choose but I'm really please with the combination ... it reminds me of ice-cream. I used two copies of the image, coloured with Promarkers, and decoupaged the buggy and parasol with Glue Gel to get a 3D effect. The finishing touch was the ribbon, which I had to colour to match, and a teddy bear charm.

The finished card

A closer view of the buggy

Personalised with baby's name

Supplies

Papers - Funky Hand 'Funky Seasons'
Image & sentiment - Pink Petticoat 'Li'l Baby Buggy'
coloured with Promarkers
Embossing folder - Cuttlebug
Die Cut Letters - Sizzix 'Wingo Zingo'
White ribbon from stash coloured with Promarkers
Teddy charm - Mei Flower

Thanks for looking,

Hugs Lynn x

Gina's 60th Birthday

This is the card that I made for my husband's cousin who was 60 yesterday (Monday). I hadn't met her before yesterday when we went down to her home near Northampton. To cut a long story short ... hubby hadn't seen his 3 cousins for many years as they lost touch after his dad then their dad both died within a short time of each other, and the families lived many miles apart. Last year we made contact through Genes Reunited and were invited to Gina's 60th party yesterday. As we were on holiday in Austria last week and onlygot back late on Saturday I had to make the card in a hurry on Sunday. I had been told that she loved cats so used this image (I think it's Penny Black) that I got in a swap and Pink Petticoat digital papers that I had previously printed. On the way down I realised that I hadn't taken a photgraph of the card so had to do it on the back seat of the car, much to my son's amusement as he can't see why I need to take photographs of the cards that I make. I wasn't sure that it would turn out alright as we were moving at the time and I expected it to be blurred but it's ok ... modern technology eh.


The visit was a great success and we met several relatives for the first time and were made very welcome.

Thanks for looking and any comments are most welcome.

Hugs, Lynn x

Two Birthday Cards using Pink Petticoat papers.

Two quick cards for friends who had birthdays in January and I used papers from Pink Petticoat for both of them. I've been using Funky Hand papers a lot recently but for these I had a change and looked through my Pink Petticoat downloads. For the first I wanted something 'bathroomy' to go with the image ... not sure this paper was but I like the effect anyway. With the second card I was looking for two patterned papers in the same colour with white, which Pink Petticoat do so well.

Base card - White smooth A5 size

Image - Jolly Nation 'Bath Woman'
coloured with Promarkers, cut with Nesties.
Papers - Pink Petticoat
Jewels and ribbon from Stash
Sentiment computer generated

Base card - 6" square, smooth Turquoise
Image - Forever Friends
coloured with Promarkers & Sakura Gelly Roll
cut with Nesties
Papers - Pink Petticoat
Jewells & ribbon from Stash

Thanks for looking,

Lynn x

Pink Petticoat meets Penny Black

I'm trying to remember to take photographs of all the cards I make so that I can upload them here as a record of my efforts ... for my own benefit even if no-one else drops by to see them. This one was commisioned by a friend, for a lady named Marian who was turning 80 in early December. As I was unable to give it to my friend personaly it was posted off to her by 1st class post in good time for the big day but failed to arrive so at the last moment she had to buy a basic card locally. I was dissapointed, to say the least, as I thought that even if it turned up after Christmas it would be usless unless my friend knew someone else named Marian who was celebrating her 80th birthday ... unlikely eh. Imagine my surprise when I got a call from my friend last week, to say that the card had now arrived and .... she had discovered that Marian's 80th birthday is not until next December .... maybe the PO knew that all along and held the card up on purpose, LOL.

Basecard - Smooth White A5
Stamp - Penny Black, coloured with Sakura pens
Papers - Pink Petticoat DP
Silver Mirri
Tools - Fiskars, Threading Water Punch,
Plain and Scalloped Circle Nesties
and Cuttlebug 'Hippy Chick' dies
Gems - from stash
Sentiment - computer generated

Hugs, Lynn x

Variation on a Theme

I liked the Lilac and White birthday card so much that I decided to make a similar one for the 21st birthday of a close friend's daughter. She has recently moved into her own house so I used a colour scheme that I think will match her living room. The image is again Lola with Wine from Pink Petticoat, I have paper pieced parts of it and used Pro Markers to colour the rest. The finishing touch is a wine bottle charm tied onto the ribbon.

Digital Image - Pink Petticoat
Brown paper - Papermania 'Secret Garden' pack
Turquoise card - DCWV Textured mat stack embossed with Cuttlebug folder
Die cut numbers - Provocraft Hippy Chick
Sentiment - computer generated
Ribbon, jewels & charm from stash

Hugs, Lynn x

75th Birthday

I was asked to make a 75th birthday card for a lady who used to be a cook, has a good sense of humour and supports Blackburn Rovers FC. After establishing that Blackburn play in Royal Blue and White I decided that I would use this colour scheme for the card and incorporate an image of an elderly lady with a frying pan (Ethel & Murray stamps I think). Well after an unsatisfactory search through my stash for a Royal Blue background paper ... which included numerous CD's and digital papers ... the only one I could find was a check pattern on a Robert Adams CD. I could find every shade of blue but royal so had to go with the check and printed that but it looked dull; then I wasn't happy with the colouring of the image as the Royal Blue dress looked dull too. At this point I began to wonder if a funny card was really what this lady would appreciate so I abandoned that idea completely and made a 'nice' card instead with a 'nice' verse. I was happy with the finished result ... hope the recipient is too.

Papers - Pink Petticoat (Turquoise/white but not sure which collection)
Image - rubber stamp from Dimensions Fourth
Dark Brown Stardream Card
Numbers - Hippy Chick alphabet dies
Sentiment - Hand written in dark brown
Gems from stash

Hugs, Lynn x

Stitched Squares

When I print papers to make a card the pieces that are left over usually get saved 'for another time' as I hate to throw anything away. However they often get forgotten or they are not quite what I'm looking for so they rarely get used. So I set myself a challenge to use up some lilac and white Pink Petticoat papers that were left over and as some of the pieces were small I decided to cut squares and use my sewing machine to get the patchwork look. The flowers on both were hand cut and small pieces of left over ribbon were used to finish off the white flowers.

I'm quite pleased with the finished cards but I've still got some scraps left so need to come up with a new idea for using them up,

Hugs, Lynn x