A Special Request

I was commissioned to make a card for a friend Tina's mother on her 80th birthday - sounds simple enough. Then Tina said her Mum loved her garden - sounded like a perfect theme for an 80th birthday card for a lady... then she added she also needed it to feature her Mum's favourite TV star - David Boreanaz from Bones - not quite so simple! 

Here is what I came up with in the end: 

I used:
Patterned papers - Basic Grey's Wisteria collection.
Card Blank - Craftwork Cards
Dies - Die-namics for upper, lower case letters and numbers, Memory Box for flowers, gate, fence and leaves
Punches - Stampin' Up - circle and scalloped circle, Woodware - Corner rounder
Ink - Distress Inks
Other - Flat-backed pearls and Stickles

I added a few die cuts and punched shapes to the inside too.

Hope you have a great weekend celebrating Tina's Mum.

Thanks for looking

Lynn x

52 Christmas Crackers 2014 - Week 27

Back with my Christmas card for week 27 challenge and we have a colour prompt for inspiration. For details of this challenge please see Kool Kitty Musings Blog
Look at the fab colours in this image and all the possible options it offers:

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While we don't have to use every single colour in the palette on the card, a simple selection of our choice of the colours is all that is required. 

I made a very simple one this week using colourful papers and picking out a few colours from the inspiration image for the Santa - I used:
Patterned papers - Ki Memories
Sticker - SEI
Cardstock - Bazzill
Cricut - Simply Charmed
Inks - Distress Inks

Thanks for looking
Lynn 

52 Christmas Crackers 2014 - Week 26

My Christmas card for this week's prompt is a sketch prompt but Nat didn't have a drawn sketch for us to follow, instead she had a card design for us to use as a jumping off point for the layout of our card. 

For details of this challenge please see Kool Kitty Musings Blog   Here is my card:

This is Natty's lovely wedding card offered as inspiration:

I used:
Dies - a very old die cut gingerbread man I cut years ago at a crop - Sizzix (Thanks Linz)
Patterned papers - Making Memories - Fa La La
Inks - Memento and Distress Ink
Punches - Martha Stewart
Stamps - Papermania
Other - ribbon, 3 D foam pads, flat- backed pearls, buttons, Twine, Liquid Pearls
Cardstock - Bazzill

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

52 Card Challenge 2014 - Week 26

This week's prompt is a sketch prompt but Nat didn't have a drawn sketch for us to follow, instead she had a card design for us to use as a jumping off point for the layout of our card. 

For details of this challenge please see Kool Kitty Musings Blog

Here is the card Natty made for a wedding:

Here is my version. I wanted to make a pearl wedding anniversary card for my friends Mark and Hilary who were married only a few months after us. So not only was the layout of this card ideal, so was the theme and some of the images.

I used:

Patterned Papers and stickers - Basic Grey's Porcelain collection

Cricut and the Heritage cartridge. 

Flat- backed pearls, Liquid Pearls

Stamps - Wplus9

Inks - Memento and Distress Ink (pumice stone)

Thanks for looking, back soon with the Christmas version.

Lynn x

52 Christmas Crackers 2014 - Week 25

A quick Christmas card for the 'Whatever the Weather' challenge:

Any form of weather needed to feature on the card. For Christmas the obvious choice was Snow! For details of this challenge please this week - for more details please see Kool Kitty Musings Blog.

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This pin image was used to help inspire us.

I used:

Patterned paper - K and Co.

Sticker border - Colorbok

Greeting sticker - freebie from a magazine

Ink - Distress Ink

Stickles, Liquid Pearls

Thanks for looking

Continuing to catch up with blogging these cards now completed week 25.

Lynn x

52 Card Challenge 2014 - Week 25

Here is my card for the 25th challenge - details of this challenge please see Kool Kitty Musings Blog

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Inspired by this Pinterest Pin - any form of weather needs to feature on the card, Natty says "go all cheery with rainbows and sun shines, feature cute puffy clouds, include an inspirational quote about silver linings and the like, and for winter you know what particular type of weather will work - snow!"

Here is my rainbow inspired card:

I used:
Papers and stickers by Echo Park - Summer Days Collection
Stamp - Hero Arts
Ink - Memento and Distress Inks
Pens - Promarkers and Gel Pen
Die - Sizzix
Cardstock for card blank - Bazzill


Thanks for looking
Back later with the Christmas version.
Lynn x

SPRING FEVER!

This month Scrapology have chosen a stunning layout by Stacey Cohen to scraplift.

Having just returned from Disneyland Paris when I prepared my DT layout I chose to use some photos from one of the parades 'Spring Fever'.

I used:

Cricut - flowers

Punches - Woodware corner rounder & Martha Stewart 3 in 1 butterflies

Daisies - Wild Orchid Crafts

Stickers - Simple Stories and Doodlebug Design Inc.

Cardstock - Bazzill

Ink - Distress Ink and Chalk Ink

Font - Walt Disney Script V4.1

Die and stamp - Wplus9 Banner

Other - Buttons, 3D foam pads

Here is Stacey's pretty layout ...

 

... and our sketch as always

Please go to Scrapology to see the layouts created by our design team to give you some inspiration. You will find details of the challenge and prize too.

Thanks for looking

Lynn