Birthdays and Butterflies

My card this week is actually the fourth I made this weekend but it is the only one I can share as the others are for a new challenge blog which is coming very soon. You can find out about it over here. I coloured the image a few weeks age when I was making Rachael's birthday card but then I decided Jenni's image would be more suitable. I bought a new set of papers by V&A  and was so pleased with the results I got on the other cards that I couldn't resist making one more. Ah well, the housework will still be there next weekend!
I was very cross with myself as I had just finished putting it all together when I realised I had got a black mark on the corner of the image... hence the butterfly!
I am entering it in the following:

Pollycraft Monday Challenge -pastel colours
The Crafty Pad -Something new
2 Sisters Challenge -flowers
Creative Inspirations -celebrate
Catch the Bug -birthday
Prairie Fairy Friday -happy birthday

Exciting Challenge News

Well I knew that the Fourth of February would be an exciting day as it's Rachael's 20th birthday but now I have another reason. Jenni over at Card Mad Fairy has been putting together a new challenge blog and it is being launched on that day, I have been asked to be on the design team and I am very excited. I can't wait to see what challenges she gives us.
 Why not pop over here and have a look at all her fabulous digi stamps.

There will be blog candy for 1 lucky winner as well so why not become a follower and put the blog on your blog roll so you don't miss out!

First card for 2011

How many of you, like me, can't believe it is 2011 already? It doesn't seem anything like that amount of time since the new millennium. And what it means to me in particular is that I will no longer be the mother of teenagers as my younger daughter is about to turn 20! Actually I still have a month to go but I wanted to get a head start and make a card for Rachael's birthday in February before I go back to work tomorrow. She is already making plans and dropping hints even though we have only just got Christmas out of the way.
 

I decided to have a go at something a bit different for a change so I have folded the card in three, I'm sure there must be a proper name for it but never mind. The papers are from a Dovecraft set which I just happened to have out and Rachael said how much she liked them, so that was a no brainer, and a matching Basic Grey one. The image is one of  Jenni's which you can find over here and you can see her fantastic work over here too. It is very appropriate as it looks just like her( Rachael not Jenni) . I coloured it with Promarkers and added a little extra detail to the flowers on the dress to echo the flowers on the backing paper I hope Jenni won't mind! As I was following the challenge over at Creative Inspirations which is to use something new I then added two techniques I haven't done before, first a tag with a pocket and then a panel for writing on. Also one of the flowers on the front is made with some new felt I made myself so I hope that is enough 'newness' to fit the criteria.

Finally I thought I would add a picture of my beautiful Rachael to prove how like her the image is!

I am also entering the following challenges:

Catch the Bug -anything goes

Crafty Emma -anything goes

Crazy 4- celebrate something

Mark's Finest Papers -use something new

Crafty Sentiments -anything goes

Digi Doodle Shop's Best -anything goes

Seeing Red

I have taken advantage of the travel caos this weekend to encourage my younger daughter to stay at Uni for the weekend instead of coming home with the ulterior motive of getting her Christmas card made. She saw the one I had made for her sister using the same image and liked it so I figured I couldn't go wrong if I used it for hers! The image is one if my sister's which you can find over here. They are on sale at the moment so go and have a look. I coloured it with Promarkers and used a snow flake stamp I have had for ages firstly on card for the big one and then on shrink plastic for the smaller ones. The pearls were actually cream ones but I coloured them with the Promarkers to match. I am entering it in the following challenges;
Wag's n Wiskers -snowflakes
Saturday Challenge -Christmas
Delicious Doodles -use a Digi
Sew Many Cards -snowflakes
Southern Girls -anything using heat
2 Sisters Challenge -sparkly Christmas
Stamp Something -Christmas colours

Another Christmas Card

Well it is the weekend again but I knew I would have no time to craft so I have managed to spend some time during the week making a card using another of Jenni's fantastic digi stamps. It really is so easy to just print out an image from the computer and colour it in. The image is called snow baby and it is really cute, can you guess what is in his present!

I made the card with the challenge over at Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge in mind which is red and gold but it also fits with the following;

Christmas Card Challenge

Crafty Little Place -red  white and green

Digital Tuesday Challenge -digi stamp and never used stash (image and ribbon)

Buttons

So this weekend, not that I'm bitter, my beloved husband was supposed to be off on a mountain biking trip to Wales. I had planned to spend the whole weekend, and this should have included Friday, pleasing no-one but myself. Eat when I want, watch what I want, craft all I want, are you sensing a ' but' yet? Yes you guessed it at the last minute he didn't go and all my plans crumbled. Ok perhaps that sounds a bit melodramatic but I was looking forward to not cooking, watching Strictly and the X Factor without having to Sky+ etc etc!

Anyway I did get some crafting in so I will have to settle for that. I have made this card for the challenge over at Simon Says Stamp which this week is All White. Not the easiest to follow I discovered and also not the easiest to photograph!

I used the image called Buttons which you can find over at Card Mad Fairy Creations along with lots of other Christmas Digi stamps. Then I dug around for ages trying to find anything I had that was white, which it turns out wasn't a lot! The background paper is actually wallpaper which I have had for years and the glitterboard is from Southfield Stationers.

The greeting is a doublesided peeloff which I embossed with sparkly embossing powder and the snowflakes were made with two different punches with sticky pearls added.

I am also entering the following challenges:

ABC Christmas Challenge -winter wonderland

Charisma Cardz Challenge - with love at Christmas

Raise the Bar -use curves

The Stamp Man Challenge - masculine and Christmas

Craft your Days Away -all white

Another Card Mad Fairy Creation

Here is the second DT card I have made using one of Jenni's fantastic digi stamps which you can find over here. This one is called Christmas Owl and I decided I wanted three of them, a bit like the three wise men!
That's what I like about digi stamps, you can play about with the size to suit yourself. I coloured them with my Promarkers, luckily I had the right colours to match the background paper which is one of Dovecraft's I think. I went to visit Jenni last week for a few days so I could visit our Mum who has just moved into a care home and I got total Promarker envy when I saw her collection! Definitely need to get more colours. The ribbon is one I picked up years ago from a street market and I am glad I remembered it as I think it ties in just right. You can find this image and lots of others over at Card Mad Fairy's Creations. Please go and have a look.
I am entering this in the following challenges:
Digi Doodle Shop's Best -anything goes
Bee Crafty - Christmas
Secret Crafter -anything that flies
Gingerloft Challenge- buttons
Stamps R us Challenge -buttons and bows