Happy Mother's Day - Mum

Happy Mothering Sunday Mum!

Here is the card I made my lovely Mum.

Papers - Basic Grey Oh Baby Girl (Hannah, Carlie, Ivy and Rosebud)

Greeting and Image Stamp - Lili of the Valley

Die cut shapes -Cricut Cindy Loo Cartridge

Promarkers (Rose blossom, leaf, apple, bright green, carmine, magenta, burnt sienna, tan oatmeal, ivory, blush, light fawn)

Punches - Woodware and Stampin' Up

Inks - Memento and chalk inks

Also - gems, pearls, blossoms,ribbon roses, perfect pearls and stickles

I also made Mum one of my aprons.

Thanks for looking.

x

Happy Birthday Anita!

We celebrated the birthday of my dear friend and fellow crafter Anita at our recent crop held at Cardinal Colours. It's not her birthday until next week, but thought I would share this with you.

I made Anita a twisted easel card using a 6" x 6" K and Co. paper pad and a Craftwork Cards card blank. They seemed perfect for this spring birthday.

A Lili of the Valley stamp

The flowers were from a Godiva Easter egg, I added decorative pins, punched leaves, ribbon roses, organza ribbon and glitter.

Lots of flat backed pearls in yellow and flat backed gems in green.

I coloured the image with Promarkers

honeycomb, apricot, oatmeal, ivory, buttercup, lemon, tulip, pastel blue, apple, leaf, bright green, cinnamon, gold cool grey 1, dusky pink, metallic silver and the blender.

The image was stamped onto digital quality white card with Memento ink. The card and Bazzill mount were cut with the Lacy Labels cartridge and the Cricut.

I'm entering this card into The Passion for Promarker's Yellow and Pearls challenge 140.

I also made Anita one of my calico aprons and this is what her name looks line on the front.

Hope you have a great birthday Anita.

xxx

Mother's Day - Auntie Barbara

This mother's day card is for my Godmother, Barbara.

 

I used:

 Basic Grey's Oh Baby Girl collection (lilly, buttercup and lilac).

Lili of the Valley stamps

Woodware and Stampin' Up punches

Promarkers

Cricut - Wild Card cartridge

ribbon, ric-rac, blossoms, brads, stickles and perfect pearls.

I'm entering the card for the Passion for Promarkers Challenge - Mother / Female Relative and also for the March 2012 flickr Friends: Purple

Here are the details - "A new month brings a new theme for our flickr pool challenge and we hope you’ll be a part of it!The theme for this month is “purple” and was inspired by our Plumeria collection which will soon be hitting store shelves. We’re so excited! There are many shades of purple, lavender and violet within this collection which are perfect for almost any project you have in mind.

"Each month, we provide a theme for you to use on your projects and then ask you to upload them to our flickr pool. At the end of each month, we’ll select a few of our favorites to post here on our blog and send them some BasicGrey goodies as our way of saying thanks. Sound good? You’re free to create any project you’d like – a card, a layout, an altered piece, a mini album – whatever you’d like! You’re also able to incorporate the monthly theme into projects that you upload for our sketch series or any other challenges.

Upload your projects to our BasicGrey flickr pool, making sure to tag it with our monthly theme “purple” so that we can find it easily. Projects must be uploaded by March 29, 2012 at 11:59p MST."

Thanks for looking

Good Luck Catherine!

We had a great day out on Friday, it was Catherine's show in the evening and Emily came home the night before from Nottingham. We travelled to Strawberry Hill to see Catherine in her flat before she set off to prepare, and presented her with a bunch of flowers and this card I made her (very quickly).

Alan, Emily and I took a trip into Richmond and had a walk around by the river, did some shopping and had a meal.  Then we returned to the theatre for the excellent performance. As soon as we get some photos of the performance I will post some here.

Late afternoon in Richmond.

Happy 50th Birthday Bob

Today is Bob's 50th birthday, but I had to schedule this post for after his surprise party was well underway for fear of giving the secret away!

I got busy with some Basic Grey Cupcake papers

(balloons, streamers, surprise, mac 'n cheese, make a wish)

and the Don Juan cartridge for the Cricut.

Lots of 3D foam pads and a big '50' with a shadow.

The greeting and date stamp are both from Lili of the Valley

I used a Woodware scalloped circle punch and a Stampin' Up circle punch.

Additional supplies are Perfect Pearls, black chalk ink, and a Craft Creations card blank.

Thanks for looking.

Happy Birthday Bob!

Making it a double!

A few weeks ago I posted a layout about a show my daughter is working on at university. At the time I mentioned I was working on a second page, and here it is:

The title reads 'They Shoot Horses Don't They' around the circle and 'Photo Shoot' reading top down. The tiny letters are from My Little Shoe Box.

Here are the two pages side by side.

I used the Kaiser Craft - Madame Boutique collection as the colours were prefect for her dress. 

Beige and turquoise Bazzill Cardstock

American Craft Thickers - self adhesive glittery letters for title

Flat backed pearls

Perfect Pearls

Flat backed glass beads from Quixotic Paperie

Seam binding ribbon from Stampin' Up

We see the show  tomorrow - it has been sold out for some time now - I can't wait to see it.
Good luck Catherine and all the cast!

Happy Birthday Jackie

I made this card for Jackie's birthday using the dandelion fairy.

I have had this beautiful paper for years and been waiting for the perfect occasion to use it. The paper is from Heidi Grace Designs and is called 'Midnight Kisses'.

I have also used cream organza ribbon, charcoal chalk ink, crystal stickles, cream and peach cardstock, Cricut Cindy Loo Cartridge, Woodware and Stampin' Up punch, Lili of the Valley Stamps and a Craftwork Cards cream scalloped card blank. I coloured the image with Promarkers (ivory, peach,soft peach, mango and lime). I also coloured the gems with a peach promarker.

I 'm entering this card into Lili's Little Fairies Challenge - Peaches and Cream.

I also made Jackie one of my Aprons.

Happy Birthday Jackie!