Merry Christmas from Snowy

I made this card to cover 3 challenges and it is my first Christmas card this year. I don't like to think of Christmas in July so never make my cards this early but I did enjoy making this one once I got started so I may carry on now and make some more.

Image - Penny Black coloured with Promarkers
Lime Green, Pear Green, Berry Red, Black & Cool Grey(1)
Glittered with 'Glamour Dust'

Papers - Paper Adventures
Red/Silver Card and Bauble - from stash

Tools used
Cuttlebug Embossing folder 'Snowflakes'
Nestabilities - clasic and scalloped circles
Snowflake punch (make unknown)
Sizzix 'Wingo Zingo' alphabet die

It's is going into the following challenges:-

Penny Black Saturday Challenge Week 111 - IT'S CHRISTMAS IN JULY
I Love Promarkers Challenge # 25 - Christmas in July
Passion For Promarkers week 62 Colour Challenge - Predominantly Green

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

Funky Hand DT call.

Anice at Funky Hand is looking for new members for her design team and as I love Funky Hand papers it was too good of an opportunity to miss. This post is to show some of my work. I had to make a hasty choice of cards to show what I can do so I came up with these, I'm not sure that they are my best however time is not on my side so they will have to do. The first three have been posted on my blog previously. First 'Footy Nut' which I made for my younger son to give to his dad on Father's Day - England's world cup chances were still alive then - but not for long!



This second was also for my husband on Father's Day, from my elder son this time, and I created the background with pieces of real newsprint (sports pages of course) which I inked, scrunched, inked again then flattened before sticking down.

This third card was made for my mum on Mother's Day and looks so much nicer in real life.


This trio of cards were made using the latest CD from Kirsty Wiseman 'Call of the Wild'. I was given the opportunity to use a selection of papers from one of the collections on the CD and these were the result. They were amongst the samples on display when she showcased the CD on Create and Craft TV on July 19th.




Thanks for looking and if you have the time please take a look around to see some of my other cards.


Lynn x

Give Us A Laugh ...

... is the Week 59 challenge at Passion for Promarkers. I hope that this card qualifies, it was made for a colleague to give to a golfing friend. She saw one that I made a few weeks ago using this image and said that it would be perfect for her friend who has been known to abuse his golf clubs when his game has been under par. It is A5 size and I used green card for the base as it was a good match for the patterned paper. The white and blue papers have been embosssed with Cuttlebug folders and the image coloured with Promarkers. The sentiments were created on the PC, as was the greeting inside which reads 'Have a TEE-rific Birthday!'

Promarkers Used-

Ivory, Blush,
Apple, Meadow Green, Mustard,
Pastel Blue, Cornflower, China Blue,
Cool Grey(1 & 3),
Shale, Cocoa & Black

Image - unknown
Patterned paper - from Dovecraft 'Masculine' pack
Green card from stash

Cuttlebug Embossing folders -
Argyle & Swiss Dots

Sentiments and greeting created on PC

Thanks for looking,
Hugs, Lynn x

Commissioned card for Aunty Joan.

I've not posted for a couple of weeks as I've not had much time to craft and therefore nothing to share. I did make a quick card for the Headteacher at school as her Aunty was soon to be 90 and she couldn't find a suitable card so asked me to make one. Flowers and pink (plus the number 90) was the brief so I used Whispers by Penny Black ... again ... with some papers from HOTP and silver mirry card. I printed the sentiment directly onto the smooth white card then found a nice verse for the inside and stamped the image again on the left of the insert. I did consider putting a ribbon bow on too but that would have made it too thick for a standard stamp and would have entailed a visit to the PO. I had to take a quick photo before school, as she needed to get it in the post, so it's not great but this was the best of the bunch.


I said a quick card but if I'm honest it wasn't that quick, they never are. Deciding on the stamp, papers and layout then making the card, finding a verse etc took me into the early hours. Still, she loved it and said that her Aunty would be thrilled to see her name on the front (and inside), I asked for £3 (it's A5 size by the way) but she gave me £5 and wouldn't take any change. It's so nice to have your creations appreciated, isn't it?

Lynn x

Father's Day cards

These are the cards I made for my two sons to give to their dad. It's taken ages again to upload photos ... after my recent problems with Mr. Blogger I decided that he perhaps didn't do late nights ... he doesn't seem to like Sundays either.

For this first card, which is 6"x6", I used a Papermania stamp of a man asleep in his chair, hubby does this a lot, surrounded by his newspaper, tv remote and cup of tea. I liked the idea of using some distressed newsprint for the background after watching a demo on the web, so I looked through the sports pages for a suitable piece of the correct size. Unfortunately I couldn't find what I was looking for as I wanted all words without pictures and didn't like the blank spaces between the columns. Then I had the idea of cutting out the column strips and pasting them randomly to create the background (I used Ranger Distress Inks first) and I'm really happy with the result. The image was coloured with Promarkers and the word strips created on the pc.





My second card is A5 size and I have used a free download called 'Soccer Nut' which was a Friday Freebie from Bugaboo Stamps. I printed the image twice, once onto craft card from which I cut out the 'nut' and created texture using a Cuttlebug embossing folder. The rosette was created with scalloped nesties and another free image but I can't remember where I got this from. I love Soccer Nut, he's so cute.



Thanks for stopping by, if you leave a comment I can return your visit.

Hugs, Lynn x

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Week 105

Late again adding my entry for this weeks challenge over at Penny Black Saturday but I don't know where time goes these days - I look at the challenge each week with the intention of making a card then suddenly it's Friday evening again and I've not got around to uploading my entry. Then of course Mr Blogger goes on a go-slow (he probably thinks he can take the weekend off) but finally he's cooperating. This week there was a sketch to follow which had quite a lot of layers.



And here's my effort ... I've used dark green cardstock to make a 6 inch square card, Bloom and Grow papers from MME and the flower, gems and sentiment stamp are all Papermania. Image coloured with Promarkers .

GRRR ... HE'S NOT REALLY COOPERATING ... JUST DELETED MY CARD PICTURE AND IT'S TAKEN ANOTHER HOUR TO UPLOAD AGAIN.



I really don't know how so many people manage to make cards every day and update their Blogs on a daily basis ... I'm also beginning to think that Mr Blogger doesn't like me ......

Lynn x