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

B I N G O at Catch The Bug Challenge

I love Bugaboo images and have loads of them - some bought, some won and others that were 'friday freebies'.  This image is one of the bought variety - had to have it because my son has three Guinea Pigs so I knew it would get used.  This card, for his birthday, was made to fit the August Challenge at Catch The Bug which is BINGO.  I've chosed the top line of BOLD AND BRIGHT - PEARL - SENTIMENT.  Now I was OK with two out of three but PEARL had me stuck until I found some small flat back pearl stones in my stash.  Stuck one on each star and the result looks OK and not at all girly.

The papers were free with a magazine - unknown
Image - Bugaboo
Colouring - Promarkers


Thanks for dropping in,

Hugs, Lynn xx

Less is More

Decided to have a go at the Less is More challenge, thinking that it would be a quick card to make.

Week 80 - ONE LAYER CARD

The subject to feature FUR or FEATHERS

Well no backing papers to choose but it still took me ages to decide which image to use.  Instead of a stamp I used a digital image so that I could resize it to fill more of the space and added a text box for a simple sentiment and a bit of embossing.   Not sure if I'm happy with the finished card but it's definately only one layer, lots of white space and the bird/stork/whatever satisfies the FEATHERS bit.

Image - Bugaboo

Colouring - Promarkers

Font - Cricket

OTHER CHALLENGES ENTERED
Top Tip Tuesday - Challenge 83 One Layer Card
The Paper Shelter Challenge Blog - #77 Clean and Simple
 Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Animal Antics!! (a bird is an animal isn't it?)

Thanks for looking,

Hugs,

Lynn x

CAS Square Card

A card for CAS-ual Fridays: CFC65

'Square Shaped Cards'

Image - Craftwork Cards
Embossing - Hougie Board


Thanks for looking,

Lynn x

Fabulous at 40

Last minute again for the 'Get Funky' challenge which this time is 'Just a number'.  The instructions ask for a large number, no images allowed but text is fine.

The idea for this card came together quite well but took time because I had to cut the large numbers by hand and the black layer took ages to get right.  The green paper was left over from another card and I thought that I would easily find a matching paper for the background - WRONG - I spent ages looking for just the right one and printed several before deciding that they weren't quite what I had in mind.  Eventually settling for this dotty one which is from one of my favourite CD's 'Funky Daze'.  The white base card is 20cm square and the text has been printed directly onto the background with a few black stars added to finish it off.

I do like to enter the challenges at Get Funky, partly to support Funky Hand because I love the designs but also because many of the cards I make do actually feature Funky Hand papers.  This one was made for the June challenge which was to follow a sketch.  Now I quite like having a sketch to follow as it takes away some of the decision making but I found it difficult incorporating the circular element.  However I came up with this card for a friend who was cellebrating her 60th birthday.  The papers are from the Winter Birthday collection on 'Happy Happy Birthday' and the image is by Bugaboo.

Sadly Mr Blogger had fallen out with me again, kept saying that my password had been changed, so I couldn't get into my blog and the challenge ended before I could enter it. Well I've forgiven him now so thought I would share the card anyway.

 

I'm entering it in Challenge #2 at Created With Love
which is sponsored by Bugaboo as the theme is 'Happy Birthday'



Thanks for looking.

Hugs, Lynn x

Beer Monster

Cards don't always turn out exactly as planned (not with me anyway) but this one did and I'm quite pleased with it.  It was number One Son's birthday last Friday and this card was made for his brother to give to him.

  

Can't remember where I got this digital image from but I think it was a freebie.*  I coloured it with ProMarkers in blues and oranges to go with the craft card used for the 'beer glass'.  The layered  image has been shaped and attached with glue gel for dimension and the sentiment was created on the pc and printed directly onto the card. 

Challenge # 28 at Here Come The Boys is  'Anything Goes'

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge # 80 - 'Anything Goes'


Stampin' Royalty Challenge # 126 - 'Masculine Cards'


Hugs, Lynn x

Edited

Image was in fact free from Pollycraft.

Celebrate in Style

I made this card for my friend Marie, who turned 60 on the 14th May.  We did 'Celebrate in Style', with six of us (ladies only) flying to Belfast for the weekend.  Marie's brother has been to Belfast several times so he gave us a list of places that we just had to visit, we managed most of them and saw the Titanic Exibition too.  Back late on Sunday then back to school on Monday was tough but we got through the week and now have a sunny weekend to relax - only one more week then it's half term, I can't wait.

I used digital papers left over from a previous project so I'm not certain where they are from but probably a free download from Shabby Princess.  The image is from Bugaboo and has been coloured with ProMarkers.

Challenges Entered

Allsorts Week 156  - Happy Birthday to Someone Special

Pixie's Crafty Snippets Challenge

Passion for ProMarkers Week 150 - birthdays

Thanks for visiting, please leave a comment so that I can visit you too.

Hugs, Lynn x