You Are Our Sunshine

I have a card to share with you today that was a special order from a friend.  My friend told me what she wanted on the card and I then came up with the following design:

Stitched on 14 count white Aida using DMC threads.

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Creative Craft Challenge - Use 3 of something (hearts)

Paper Pretties - Use sentiment as focal point

Chocolate, coffee and cards challenge - Stitch real or faux

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Happy Anniversary

On Monday it's my parents wedding anniversary.  This is the card I have made for them:

8 x 8 fancy-edged card blank from Cupcakecrafting

Silver mirror card from stash

Image from Joanna Sheen's Faye Whittaker cd-rom printed onto watercolour card and matted onto blue pearlescent card.

Backing paper from same cd-rom, printed onto Satin Finish printer paper.

Doily from Joanna Sheen.

Sentiment is Lili of the Valley stamped using Faded Jeans Distress Ink, matted onto a Spellbinders Persian die.

I created the little bouquet using flowersoft wires and Delphinium blue flowersoft, a Nellie Snellen punch was used to create the greenery and a heart shaped hat pin from Wild Orchid Crafts.  Mulberry paper was used to create the cone and a tiny ribbon, tied on my bow shaper, was added to complete the bouquet.

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Dream Valley Challenges - Celebrations

Digi Doodle Shop - Anything Goes

Make My Monday - Vintage Childhood

Creative Craft Challenges - Anything Goes

My Mum's Craft Shop - Hearts and Flowers

Teddy Bea

The current challenge over at Teddy Bo is black, white and one other colour.  I combined this with the Sketch challenge at Try It On Tuesday to come up with my card:

6 x 6 card blank

Digi stamp printed onto Neenah card and coloured using Coloursoft pencils and Spectrum Noir pens.

Gingham backing paper from stash.

Card from Create and Craft embossed using a Darice embossing folder from Crafters Companion and sanded slightly, distressed around the edges with a distressing tool.

Mat Teddy Bea is sat on is Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles.

Flowers are a Memory Box die, centres are a punch and pearls from my stash.

Nellie Snellen punch used to create the leaves.

Gingham ribbon from my stash, tied using a bow shaper.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Creative Craft Challenges - Monochromatic Birthdays

Pink Gem Challenge - Animals or Teddies

Digi Doodle Shop Challenge - Use pearls

One Stitch at a Time - Use a Digi

Craft Your Passion - Embossing

Willow Sketchie Challenge

This is my card for this weeks' Willow Sketchie Challenge, this week I have followed the sketch but not the theme:

6 x 6 card blank

Image - LOTV cute squares

Backing paper from Making Cards

Martha Stewart edge punch used.

Sizzix embossing plates used on both backing panels

My card is also for the following challenges:

Dream Valley Challenge - Summertime

Creative Craft Challenge - Summertime

We Wish You A Merry Christmas

This is the song that was going round in my head as I was making this card.  I love this image of the children posting their Christmas Cards:

Image from Joanna Sheen's Faye Whittaker cd-rom printed onto watercolour card.

Backing paper from same cd.

Gold linen card used for matting.

Memory box Tree die cut from Holographic paper.

Martha Stewart punch around the page.

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Inspired by Christmas Carol or Song (We Wish You A Merry                                                   Christmas)

One Stitch At A Time - Red, White and Blue

Creative Craft Challenges 2 - Red, White and Blue

The Cutie Pie Challenge - Die Cuts and Punches

Happy Birthday Emma

Hello

I was meant to post this card yesterday but had a really bad day do didn't get it done.  I'm really struggling with my pain at the moment so will keep this brief.

Yesterday was Emma's 11th Birthday and yesterday morning she headed off on a school trip, due back Friday.  This is the card me and hubby sent her:

Emma is a big Manchester City fan and one of her presents was the new away shirt.  I photographed the shirt to use for her card.  I created the football boot out of black, red and gold card, added silver eyelets and metallic red cord for the laces.  The wording was created using an x-cut alphabet die.  The backing paper is from a Crafters Companion cd-rom.  She loved her card - and her new shirt!

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

PaperPlay Challenges - Shaped cards

One Stitch At A Time - Anything Goes

Creative Craft Challenge - Free For All

I'm missing Emma already but know she's going to have a fantastic time.  On Friday we're going to have a birthday tea (a takeaway of Emma's choice).

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

A New Baby

Good Morning

I have a new baby card to share with you today, created using the paper embroidery technique:

All the sewing uses metallic threads.  This was then matted onto holographic card, and finally white linen card to which I'd punched a border with a Martha Stewart punch.

My card is for the following challenges:

Sentimental Sundays - Colour of your birth flower (mine is iris, hence the blue)

Crafty Sentiments - No designer paper

Ladybugs Crafts - Oh Baby

Raise the Bar - Stitching

Crafty Ann's Challenge - Clean and Simple

Crafts and Me - Use blue

Creative Craft Challenges - Fancy Edges

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x