1st Birthday Card

Its taken me a little while to get back into cardmaking after all the build up to Christmas.  However the juices are flowing again and as its my friends Grandaughters 1st Birthday next week I thought it was a good opportunity to get back into the swing

I've based the card on the janes sketch over at Just Magnolia Blogspot for challenge 141
http://justmagnolia.blogspot.com/2012/01/challenge-141-janes-sketch.html

I wanted something bright and colourful so dug out these papers from Artic Frog that I have had in my stash for a number of year.  The stamp in Tilda with presents and is coloured with Copics, finished off with peeloffs and gems.

More Scrappin

It was the first crop of the year for my ladies at church, kit made up of papers from the Welcome Home collection from Bo Bunny www.bobunny.com
12WH088 Flourish, 12WS149 Stripe, 12WT057 Dot and 10HG364 Home Grown Cardstock Sticker
with Bazzill cardstock in dark brown, beige and green.

Here are a couple of layouts that I did as samples

This one was based on the sketch from My Scraps and More blog
http://myscrapsandmoreblogspot.com

Other items used

Tim Holtz distress ink brushed corduroy
Title done using Artemio stamps

The second layout was based on sketch #63 from Sketchablilities blog
http://sketchabilities.blogspot.com/2012/01/sketch-63-new-design-team-reveal.html

 

Other items used :-

Tim Holtz distress ink - brushed corduroy

Grid Mask

Flourish Stamps from Artemio

Flower stamps

Title done using letter tile stamps

And enough left to do some more ............

Hope you like them as much as i enjoyed making them

Your comments appreciated

1st card of 2012

A work collegue asked me to make a new baby boy card so here goes
I have based it on this weeks Sweet Sketch Wednesday sketch
http://sweetsketchwednesday.blogspot.com/2012/01/happy-new-year.html

the check paper is from craft creations and the blue card is bazzil, die cut teddy bear embellished using chalks, googly eyes and ribbon bow, candy from craft work cards.

Happy New Year

Apologies for the lack of posts, this was due to the busy time of year and blogging seemed to be way down my list.  I finally managed to get everything done for the festive holiday which we spent in a beautiful barn conversion in the peak district at Monyash nr Bakewell. It was the first time we've been away for Christmas and it was a lovely family time and certainly something we will be doing again.
 
New year ahead and hopefully lots of time for crafting, my new years resolution is to make at least one christmas card every week so that its not a mad rush come November, how long I will keep to it is anyones guess but I'm going to try, I also aim to try and finish all the patchwork projects started in the last 18 months.

Yesterday it was our monthly Scrapaholix crop, however due to problems with the kits arriving on time we have decided to work a month behind so we did not have a new kit for this month.  I decided to use up the Christmas kit from last month before starting on anything else and depspite a lot of chatting and catching up I managed to get 2 layouts done.

Papers from My Minds Eye "Lost and Found" collection

The first layout is based on the sketch from The Scraproom Blog
http://thescraproomblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/january-sketch-and-december-winner.html

The 2nd layout I did is based on this weeks sketch from Sketches In Thyme

http://sketchesinthyme.blogspot.com/2012/01/thursday-takes-65.html 

In both layouts the photographs were taken at Christmas 2010

I look forward to reading your comments.

Scrapaholix Monthly Crop

It was our monthly Scrapaholix Crop yesterday at Birstall, it lovely to meet up with the regulars and as it was the last one before Christmas it was a bit of a party theme with nibbles and secret Santa.  This months kit was made up with papers from the My Minds Eye, Lost and Found Collection, such beautiful papers it was hard to cut them up.

The first layout I did was based on this months sketch from Sketchabilities
http://sketchabilities.blogspot.com/2011/11/sketch-60-design-team-reveal.html

As well at the Lost and Found papers I used my new Tim Holtz die for the holly spray, 2010 cut using cricut



















2nd Layout was using one of this months sketches from Page Maps http://www.pagemaps.com/

and I've still got lots more of the papers to play with.

Hope you like them as much as I enjoyed doing them, your comments are appreciated

21st Birthday Card

Its Cara's 21st Birthday on Friday (my youngest daughter's girlfriend) and a surprise party has been arranged, I have been helping my daughter with a card for her and also doing some photo boards and very nearly forgot to do her a card myself. 
Anyway just managed to finish one which I've based on this weeks sketch from Promarker Challenge Blog http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.com/

The papers are from My Minds Eye Lime Twist collection.

I really love the bright colours of this collection

Molly Bloom stamp coloured and  highlighted in areas with glossy accents

Gems from my stash  (I just need to add a 21)

Daughters Birthday

Its my eldest Daughters birthday next week and as she is away at University we have arranged to meet half way this Sunday and have a day together, we are going to visit Trentham Gardens in Stoke on Trent and no doubt she will be treated to a birthday meal as well, as the day is looming I thought I had better get on and do her birthday card
I've based it on this weeks sketch from Paper Take Weekly http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/

The papers are from Basic Greys Porcelain collection with bazzill cardstock embossed using an embossing folder on the big shot.

Molly Blooms stamp coloured with Copics and parts highlighted with glossy accents , ribbon and card candy from my stash.

I'm also going to post this on
http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/