Thanks Sew Much

A clean and simple card today - a thank you card which I don't often make...  

What I used:

Card base - Hambledon Laid 250gsm

Papers - Pink Petticoat

Sewing Dies - free with a magazine

Greeting - Berlin Sans FB font

I'm playing along with the challenges at:

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2420 - anything goes

Allsorts Challenge #781 - anything goes (Happy 15th Birthday!)

The Paper Players #690 - humerous/punny

Thanks for visiting

Sharon

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A Great Big Thanks

Today I'm sharing a card I made for my friend's son to give to his teacher...

The apple patterned paper and the pencil and apple images came from an old issue of Making Cards magazine. The letter stickers have been in my stash for at least 10 years - a couple weren't the right colour so I coloured over the original colour with pro-markers.

I'm entering this card into the 'anything goes' challenges at:

Crafting With Friends #72

Creative Fingers #150

Crafting With An Attitude #41

Craftaholics R Us #29

Crafting By Designs

Crafty Creations #370

Thanks for visiting

Sharon
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CASE-ing Channin

Today's card has been inspired by the challenge at CASual Fridays...

I chose to CASE (Copy and share everything) this card by the wonderful Channin

It looked so easy - NOT! Who'd have thought it was so difficult to 'copy' a card!! I don't stamp so I used dies for the flowers using white card and white vellum. I cut the 'thanks' die three times and carefully stuck the layers together and the 'with' was made using white peel-off letters.

Of course I realised pretty quickly I shouldn't have used striped paper that had a white stripe in it - it means the flower and wording doesn't pop out as much as I wanted.

I'm also entering this card into the challenges at:

Crafty Friends #66 - dies or punches
Crafty Catz #383 - AG/optional thanks
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - September 2017
Dies R Us #80 - die cut handmade flowers 
Glitter n Sparkle #256 - AG

Thanks for visiting

Sharon
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Neon Butterfly

Flicking through blogland this afternoon, I was glad I was still within the deadline for this lovely sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch...

I love the nice clean lines! I dug out some grey and white striped paper (Papermania's Festive Spots and Stripes Capsule Collection) - subtle colours but a clearly defined stripe. To offset the pastel background I used a neon green butterfly from The Range with some coordinating flat backed pearls. The 'thanks' die is from Whimsey Stamps and I've layered it 3 times.

I'm also entering this card into the challenges at:

Always Fun Challenge #1 - anything goes
Crafting From The Heart #154 - anything goes
Crafty Cardmakers #186 - things with wings 
Crafty Creations #339 - anything goes

Thanks for visiting

Sharon
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Houndstooth Washi Thanks

Today's card is inspired by the challenges at:

Less Is More - alphabet
The Paper Players - sentiment as the main focus
CAS(E) This Sketch - 

Earlier this week, I came across these fun tapes in Lidl - I do love finding crafty bits and bob while buying groceries! They were only 99p for each set so I got a few...

I used the black set to make this thanks card...

The die is from Whimsey stamps and the heart is a punch that I haven't used in years.

Thanks for visiting

Sharon
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Daisies

Good Morning Everyone!
 


Welcome to another 'Anything Goes' challenge over at Simply Papercraft and this week we are being sponsored by Stitchy Bear Stamps

who are offering a fabulous prize of $10 to spend in their store and Faery Ink

who are offering as a prize any 3 digis from their shop.

As usual the design Team were given a great set of images to play with. I chose this very simple but lovely daisy image by Stitchy Bear.

I used a textured grey card as the base and coloured the image with watercolour pencils. I just love how the white stands out against the grey background. I've matted the image on bright white card and made a greeting using white letter stickers.

I'm entering this card into the 'Anything Goes' challenges at:

4 Crafty Chicks
Southern Girls Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge  
Crafting By Design 
Through The Craft Room Door 

Thanks for looking

Sharon
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Butterfly Thanks

I've been stocking up with 'thank you' cards for my box of cards for all occasions - you can never have too many! This one was very quick to make and I'm on making more in different colour schemes:

I made the circle background in Microsoft Publisher and coloured different sections with different shades of pink. The butterfly was die cut in vellum using a die that came free with a magazine and the greeting was made on the computer. I've added some flat back pearls to make the butterfly's body and some fine white glitter to the wings which was difficult to capture in the photo.

I'm entering this card into the challenges at:

The Paper Players - CAS girly thanks
Fan-tastic Tuesday - anything goes with no patterned paper
Through The Craftroom Door - anything goes

Thanks for visiting

Sharon
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Thanks!

Today's card is inspired by two challenges.

It's one layer week at Less Is More and the challenge is:

Our ONE LAYER theme 

this week is 

THANK YOU!

 

 

 

I used a very cute bird digi I've had for a while but I don't know where it is from as the file is un-named. Any ideas? The sentiment is a digi from Paper Smooches.

 

My colour scheme comes from this week's challenge at Color Throwdown. 

 

 

 

Thanks for visiting

 

Sharon

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Three Shades of Turquoise

For my second card today, I was inspired by the challenges at:

Less Is More - three shades of one colour
Allsorts Challenge - butterflies
CAS on Sunday - sparkle and shimmer

I made the circle background in Publisher by using a circle pattern digi and pasting it three times colouring each image in a shade of turquoise. This sounds far more complicated than it actually was!

I cut 2 vellum butterflies using a free die that came with Simply Cards and Papercrafts a few issues ago. I added fine white glitter (which is very difficult to photograph) to the butterflies and used turquoise gems for the 'body'. The greeting is printed in a wonderfully funky font called Mountains of Christmas.

I love Bank Holidays weekends - so much more time to craft!

Thanks for looking

Sharon
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One Layer Thanks

Hello folks

Hope you're enjoying the weekend so far...

It's One Layer week at Less Is More and today's challenge is 'Thanks'. I don't do stamping so I always use digis for this challenge which also fits in with this week's challenge at Divas By Design - use a digi.   The colour scheme was inspired by the current Autumn/Fall colours challenge at Stampin' For The Weekend and I've kept the overall look very clean and simple which is this week's challenge at Simon Says...

I decided to use a cute bird with flower digi from Pink Cat Studio and a freebie sentiment from Paper Smooches. The only embellishments are the three red gems - all cards need a bit of bling!

Thanks for visiting

Sharon
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Autumn Thanks

It's colour week at Less is More and this is the challenge provided by Chrissie and Jen...

Sinister isn't she -  I'm not keen on that look in her eye!

Immediately the colours made be think of Autumn and leaves. I pulled out all suitable colours from  my snippets box and came across some lovely darkish green wet effect transparent film that I thought would look good with a leafy theme. The leaf itself is a digi image I came across on a kid's colouring website, printed on some rust  toned paper. And this is what I came up with...

I made it into a 'thanks' card 'cos that is the only work I could think of that fitted! I'm undecided about the result but I guess that's what challenges are about - a crafty learning curve.

Thanks for visiting and enjoy the rest of the weekend

Sharon
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Thank You Card

 As I've been up since half 5 this morning making wedding invitations, this week's challenge at Less is More came as a welcome break at 8 o'clock! The theme this week is to follow a sketch...

I loved Chrissie's card done in shades of green so I cased, sorry STOLE this idea and used shades on red, orange and yellow. As I don't do stamping I die-cut a simple flower in black paper and added this to the strip of colour. A simple printed greeting was added  then I thought STOP - it doesn't need any more!

It somehow makes me think of the German flag! Never mind...

Thanks for looking

Sharon
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