Tiny Dancer

Today's card is for my niece Lucy who has just turned 10...

The image is from a topper sheet by Buzzcraft that I got at a recent Ross Papercraft fair. It's very cute and ideal for a little girl who loves dancing. I matted the image on a subtly pink patterned paper and mounted on panels of the patterned paper that came with the image.

I added a greeting created using Candy Round font and added the age using small number dies.

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

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #418
Creates And Makes Challenge #24
Crafty Sentiments Designs #28
Watercooler Wednesdays #185
Penny's Paper-crafty Challenge #395
Through The Craftroom Door week 8-27-18
Crafty Gals Corner #173


Thanks for popping in!

Sharon
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Flying Scotsman

Today's card was a request from a friend for a card for her Dad's 80th birthday with a vintage train theme...

I found a die-cut decoupaged image of the Flying Scotsman, put it together and mounted it on a cream linen background. I mounted this on some sepia striped patterned paper to add to the vintage feel, and added a greeting created in Publisher using Copperplate Gothic font. Finally, I added the die-cut number and a couple of bunting pennants with coloured card candy.

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

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #88 - anything goes
Crafty Calendar Challenge - dots or stripes
Crafty Creations Challenge #373 - anything goes
Crazy 4 Challenges #449 - masculine
Penny's Paper-crafty Challenge #394 - anything goes

Thanks for visiting

Sharon
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20th Birthday

A lady at work asked me to make a bright card for her grandson's 20th birthday - she couldn't find anything suitable in the shops! Here's my effort...

I used a scrap of star patterned paper from my large scraps box to die cut a circle and added a die-cut border and numbers in coordinating colours. For the background I used zigzag washi tape and added a few enamel dots. The wording was created in Publisher using Formal 365 font.

I'm entering this card into the challenges at:

Cut It Up Challenge #155 - ABC or 123
Crafty Creations #373 - anything goes
Crafty Addicts Challenge #51 - boys or men
Seize The Birthday - anything goes
Double D Challenges - moon or stars
Creative Fingers #151 - anything goes

Thanks for visiting

Sharon
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Fantastic Creatures

Oh gosh - where has the last week gone? Cards have been made but I'm not getting the time to photo them and post!

Today's offering is for a young lad who loves unicorns...

 I found the die and the patterned paper at The Range and I've tried to use as little of the pinky/lilac colour as possible to make it less 'girly'. The die really is super cute and it was only a pound!

I've mounted the unicorn onto matted star-shaped die-cuts and added a greeting in 'Mountains of Christmas' font created in Publisher.

I'm entering this card into the challenges at:

613 Avenue Create #212 - fantasy/magic
The Paper Shelter #349 - punches or dies WINNER!
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #88 - anything goes
That's Crafty Challenge - animal magic
Hiding In My Craftroom #366 - use die-cuts
Brown Sugar Challenge #281 - fairies and fantasy
Craftaholics R Us #33 - anything goes


Thanks for visiting

Sharon
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Isla's Baptism

Today I'm sharing a plain and simple baptism card I made for a baby girl who was baptised yesterday. I've kept the design very simple but used stripe embossed base card to add some interest.

I think the both the crucifix die and the scalloped oval die were from Marianne. I've mounted the cross on some pale pink card, fussy cut and added a criss-cross ribbon and pearl. The sentiment was done in Publisher using Formal 365 font.

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

Incy Wincy Designs - ribbon or lace
Through The Purple Haze #147 - make it CAS
Craft Rocket Challenge #51 - AG
Fussy and Fancy Challenge #210- CAS
Creative Fingers #151 - AG
Addicted To Stamps And More #304 - CAS
Crafter's Castle #8 - AG (elegant)


Thanks for visiting

Sharon
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Game Boy

I'm back in my craft room after a lovely few days in Glasgow watching the Women's European Gymnastics Championships and generally larking about eating and drinking and sightseeing!

I've made this card for a friend to give to her son who is turning 13...

I used this fabulous digi image from Mo's Digital Pencil, coloured with Pro-markers. The papers are from an old issue of Making Cards Magazine and the greeting was made in Publisher using 'The Urban Way' font.

I'm entering this card into the challenges at:

Back To Basics - use a digi image
The Male Room - birthday
Allsorts Challenge - from boys to men
Di's Digi Challenge - 2 or more papers
Colour Crazy Challenge #32 - anything goes
Moving Along With The Times #77 - for the boys

Thanks for visiting

Sharon
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Good Luck at School

A friend at work is also a child minder and one of the children she looks after is due to start school in September - here's a 'good luck' card I made for her...

The cute schoolgirl image is an old one from Digistamp Boutique and I created the border of pencils in Publisher - both are coloured with pro-markers.

I'm entering this card into the challenges at:

Crafty Sentiments - ATG

Creates and Makes #23 - ATG

Crafting From The Heart #217 - ATG

Make My Monday #76 - coloured image

Stamps and Fun #329 - ATG

Thanks for visiting

Sharon
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Jurassic World

A quick share today - a card with a Jurassic theme for my friend's little boy Oscar...

I found the film logo on line and printed it and mounted it using foam pads. The papers are from my stash - from packs from Lidl or Aldi.

I had a party hat digi that I coloured, fussy-cut and stuck artistically (!) on the dinosaur's head. the greeting was printed using a Jurassic font.

It didn't take long but works well for a dinosaur mad soon-to be 8 year old.

I'm entering this card into the challenges at:

Crafty Catz #427 - ATG (use yellow)

Crafting With Friends #72 - ATG

Moving Along With The Times - wild animals TOP 5

Seize The Birthday - ATG (use stripes)

Crafty Sentiments - ATG

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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Butterflies and Gingham

I've recently purchased some shaped border dies and decides to have a bit play about...

I used some pretty coral gingham patterned paper for the bottom half of the card and used a matching pro-marker to colour some scraps of card to die-cut the butterflies. The greeting was made in Publisher using white font against a black background. I've also added some thin silver peel-off strips and some flat-backed pearls.

I'm entering this card into the challenges at:

Jo's Scrap Shack #242 - anything goes
Fab 'n' Funky #402 - gingham TOP 3
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - July Challenge
Moo Mania Challenge - butterflies
Creative Fingers #150 - anything goes

Thanks for visiting

Sharon
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Simple Masculine Doggy Card

I needed a distraction from the tension of the football tonight, so made a start on using some fabulous doggy images and papers that came with the April issue of Making Cards magazine.

How cute! I love that the dogs are wearing specs!

I'm entering this card into the challenges at:

Always Fun Challenge #66 - anything goes
Create and Makes Challenge #22 - anything goes
Sunny Day Crafting #26 - any animal 
Pause, Dream, Enjoy #28 - anything goes
Crafting By Designs - anything goes

Thanks for visiting

Sharon
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14th Birthday - Spots and Stripes

I was asked to make a simple card for a friend to give her son on his 14th birthday - 'nothing fussy - just a big number - his favourite colour is red'...

I do like an easy task...

I created the big numbers in Microsoft Publisher, printed them back to front on the back of the striped patterned paper then carefully cut out. They were mounted on red paper then carefully cut out again to give a border. I mounted the numbers using foam pads on to a spotty patterned paper fro the same pad. The greeting was also created in Publisher.

Very simple but as the base card is 8 x 8 inches it will really stand out.

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

Crafting By Designs  - July

Penny's Paper-crafty Challenge #387

A Bit More Time To Craft #71

Crafting From The Heart #213

Crafty Creations Challenge #369

Crafting With An Attitude #41

Thanks for popping in

Sharon
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Pink Stripes and Flowers

Today I was greatly inspired by the Muse challenge:

Pink and green is probably my favourite colour combo and I loved the strrpes and green border. Here's what I came up with:

I loved the way Ardyth created the pink stripes on her card, so I created my own with a ruler and a pale pink pro-marker. This ensured that the stripes were the same colour as the flowers - a lovely digi image from The Digi Stamp Boutique. The green die-cut borders imitate the green leaf border on the inspiration card and to finish off I added some tiny pearls to the flower centres.

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

The Paper Players #400 - celebration - congratulations on reaching your 400th challenge and wow at the prizes you are offering!

Just Us Girls #447 - wild card week - anything goes

Moving Along With The Times #74 - June blooms

Thanks for visiting

Sharon
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Nautical Birthday

Today's card is for a friend to give to her brother - she requested a nautical theme but something modern.

Okay!

I chose a red white and blue colour theme and kept it simple...

The patterned paper is from a nautical pad from The Range, and the embossing folder and dies are unbranded, though the dies are very similar to the SU Swirly Bird dies.

I'm entering this card into the challenges at:

Crafty Catz #423 - wet or dry embossing
Crafting With Friends - anything goes
Shopping Our Stash #360 - anything goes
Simply Papercraft #59 - anything goes
Seize The Birthday - anything goes
As You Like It - favourite type of embossing - wet or dry? Definitely dry. I don't do rubber stamping so I haven't even tried wet embossing but I love the quickness of using an embossing folder and the perfect results every time.

Thanks for visiting

Sharon
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Christmas In June

OK - so it's 26 degrees outside and I've been inspired to make a Christmas card for my friend to give her son...

I'm not normally this organised but I was at The Range and I spied a mahoosive pack of Hunkydory's Christmas decoupage and toppers for £6 - started life at £25 so I got myself a bargain. They are beautiful quality - sturdy card and foiled highlights and there's enough to make about 30 cards. I've never been this excited since I found a Radley handbag in a charity shop for £3!!

I used an 8x8 inch silver base card and  some silver 'firework' patterned paper from my stash to give the effect of a blizzard. I added various bits of one of the topper sheets and the greeting was done using unbranded dies from my collection.

So easy but I have a real sense of achievement making Christmas cards in the summer!

I'm entering this card into the challenges at:

Fab 'n' Funky Challenge #400 - quick/easy Christmas TOP 5
Watercooler Wednesday's #176 - all about Christmas
The Holly and Ivy Challenge - ag (Christmas)
The Sisterhood of Crafters - what's that up in the sky?
Sparkles Christmas Challenge - Santa
Crafting By Designs - get ready for Christmas (June)

Thanks for visiting

Sharon
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CASE'd Penguin Birthday Card

Needing to make a penguin themed birthday card I turned to Pinterest for inspiration and found a gorgeous card to CASE...

It's quite an old card by Teneale Williams but I love it!

I was inspired by the layout, the cute die-cut penguin and the balloons.


Here's my interpretation...

I didn't have a penguin die so I adapted an owl die by cutting the ears off! The gorgeous papers are from a pad from The Range and rather than use real ribbon I used a cute bow die.

I'm entering this card into the challenges at:

Crafting With Friends #70 - anything goes
Aud Sentiments #206 - anything goes
Seize The Birthday - anything goes
Craft Rocket Challenges #49 - birthday - TOP 5!
Crafty Creations #368 - anything goes
Crafty Gals Corner #168 - anything goes

Thanks for visiting

Sharon
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Cheers Jim!

Another quick male card to share using the super blokey 'Jim' from the Digistamp Boutique (not sure if he is still available)...

I've coloured him using pro-markers, matted then re-matted on black then white card and used a co-ordinating scrap of red, white and blue striped card from The Range. The 'cheers' greeting die is from China.

I'm entering this card into the challenges at:

Digi Stamps 4 Joy #149 - AG + for the men 
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #84 - AG
Pearly Sparkles #29 - masculine
QKR Stampede Challenge #300 - AG
Daisy Chain Challenge #20 - for the men
Crafty Catz #421 - AG

Thanks for visiting

Sharon
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Classic Car

Today's card is to add to my growing collection of male cards...

The car image is from a Buzz Craft topper sheet and I've used a checked patterned paper from my stash. I've used a cream linen card for the base to add a more 'vintage' feel.

I'm entering this card into the challenges at:

Creative Craft Cottage #108- anything goes
Daisy Chain Challenges #20 - for the boys/men WINNER
Create and Inspire #75 - anything goes
Always Happy Birthday (June) - anything goes
Jo's Scrap Shack #238 - anything goes

Thanks for visiting

Sharon
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Embossed Birthday Cake

I love decoupage and one of my favourite brands is Anita's Die cut - they are so quick to put together. Today's card is made with one such topper, mounted on an embossed birthday greetings panel...

It looked a bit basic so I added a single piece of bunting and a number of sparkling gems.

I'm entering this card into the challenges at:

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #83 - anything goes
Creative Knockouts #249 - anything goes
CAS On Friday #134 - embossing
Crafting With Friends #69 - anything goes
Jo's Craft Shack #237 - anything goes


Thanks for visiting

Sharon
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