Blue RAK card

I made this card to a card-making friend as an RAK this month. The fold was taught to me by Elaine at a Stampin' Up evening held at her house and, for once, I was able to remember it when I got home and have made several since (just to make sure it stays in the brain you understand!). I think I used blue Brilliance ink to stamp and watercolour the little FF bear. The paper on the front was FF and the paper inside is Stampin' Up.

With Love card

This card was for a friend of mine who, on top of caring for her poorly mum, is due to go into hospital this week. The paper was from a paper pad that came with a magazine and I used glitter on the petals and glossy accents and seed beads for the flower centres.

Pink Christmas

This was for a UKS challenge, the criteria were 1) use pink, 2) use bling, 3) use old stash.

I picked out my photo and then discovered I had no pink Christmas themed papers but dug deep and managed to find something that looked kind of Christmassy (it was so old I'm not even sure where it came from!) I added pink gemstones to the snowflakes for the bling and the page is generally pink!

Note to self for this year, acquire pink Christmas paper!

Funny Face

I have finally found the scrapbooking bug! It's one of those things that I keep putting off, all the while buying new stash. I came across this photo of DD whilst having a sort out of my scrapbooking stuff and the idea just popped into my head. It was a sharp learning curve as I had to learn how to find the photos from the PC (DH normally sorts all of that out), crop them and edit them. Really pleased with the result and I hope it will be the first of many layouts.

Forum 'Twins' Challenge

The fortnightly challenge on a cardmaking forum I belong to was Twins - to make 2 identical cards. I managed 2 sets, all using the same image. This is the first time I've coloured the FF bears with Promarkers so it still needs some work! The papers on the first 2 are Cupcakes (Craftwork Cards) with flowers and buttons from my stash and on the second the papers were FF (With Love collection) and the butterfly is a Papermania Dimensions sticker

Penny Black Saturday - Week 85

Something Sweet was the challenge for this week on Penny Black Saturday and I think this image fits it perfectly. The image is Penny Black and has been coloured with Promarkers, paper is from the Cupcakes collection (Craftwork Cards I think), the sentiment is an Inca stamp. Hopefully I'm going to be just in time for this challenge but if it's not in time at least I've made a start on Easter cards!

Belated Happy New Year

It's been such a long time since I've updated my blog with anything - Christmas and illness got in the way and more recently I've been sorting out my craft room (I use the term loosely as it's really the conservatory/dining room/children's playroom!).

Anyhow, I have been making some cards inbetween so here's a few to keep you going

Hopefully that's me back in the swing of things and ready to catch up with some challenge blogs again.