Thank you Teddy...

A card for my box, but one that I really ought to send to Paula at Pollycraft who is sooooooooooo very generous and each Friday gives a free digi to her followers. This week sees us all treated to Cuthbert who is one of the bears in a new range being released on Monday.  I've got my eyes on quite a few of these as they are just so cute.

Materials used...

• Cuthbert image from Pollycraft
• Swirl stamp by Autumn Leaves (stamped using Versemark and then embossed with fine clear embossing powder)
• Thankyou sentement stamp from stash
• Swiss Dots cuttlebug folder
• Two shades of pink card
• Ribbon and buttons from stash
• Promarkers for colouring

Challenges I had in mind when creating this card...

• Magical Crafts - the sketch
• Just Cute Bears - buttons and bows
• ABC Challenge - Thank you
• Rainbow Lady - Create your own backing paper - hope my swirls count
• Crafty Ann's Challenges - Anything goes

Have a brilliant weekend everyone and if you like the image do pop straight over to Pollycraft as this week the image is only free for one day.  Sheeeeeeeeeesh thank goodness I got my mitts on it!  Will be buying the others on Monday.

Bah! Humbug! Day and it's Food glorious food...

Oh dear me - which silly person left doing her DT card till the very last minute and then got home from work after doing a long shift and sleep over to find I had a card to create with my eyes only half open and brain fully asleep.  The latter being fairly normal for me these days.  Anyway all that waffling is my excuse for there being no glitter on Messy Rabbit's Christmas pudding or his tail.  There will be when the card gets sent out, but at the moment a touch of imagination is required.
For this week's theme I decided to do a tag shaped card and used the large traditional scallop tag die by Sizzix to cut out my card.  Messy Rabbit with his Christmas pudding is on the front fold of the tags and on the other two tags there is a 'real' recipe for Christmas Carrot Pudding.  I've not tried this yet, but I love carrot cake so I'm sure it will be gorgeous.

Have a fabulous weekend everyone.  Do remember to check out Bah! Humbug! and hopefully join in.  Whoops - nearly forgot to mention that as it's the 1st week of the new month of challenges there's a fantastic prize been pulled out of Santa's sack and is just waiting to be won by one of our entrants.  

Hmmmmmmmmm wonder if I could get away with entering - nah think Max and Irene would spot me!!
Ann xxx

For Dad...

How brilliant is this digi image by Paula at Pollycraft?  It has to be the perfect pictorial representation of so many dads all over England - well everywhere really!  I love it to pieces and another brilliant thing about it is that all the money raised from the digi sales are going to support The Yorkshire Air Ambulance, who do an amazing job and have saved so many lives over the years.

How brilliant is that?

My own father died when I was small and sadly my two girls have done the last ten years without their father who died in 2000, which may be why I really wanted to support Crafty Emma's fundraising.  She is doing a wonderful job raising funds in memory of her father. Do visit Emma's blog to find out how you can help and maybe join in her challenge.  Be quick though as it ends tomorrow.
Over the coming weeks, I'm hoping to do more Father's Day cards and sell them for charity providing I have enough time.  Hmmmmmmm famous last words, but at least I have made a start.

Materials used on this card...

• Pollycraft digi
• Dovecraft Papers
• Sentiment stamps from stash
• suede strip from old belt
• brad and bottletop from stash
• Promarkers and brown base card

Other challenges...

• The Sweet Stop - the sketch
• Tuesday Taggers - Let's recycle - brown suede from belt 
• A Spoonful of Sugar - Furry Friends
• Tanda Teaser - Paws for thought

Well two posts in one day - incredible - I'd better have a rest now.  Back at work tomorrow and doing the really long shift so I won't be around while Friday.  Take care everyone and do make sure you pop over to Emma's blog or Pollycraft to find out more about the fundraising that's going on.
 

Happy Birthday Laura...

Yeah my little girl is 25 today!!! Now making this 8" x 8" birthday card was a little worrying as Laura wanted an 'Alice in Wonderland' card and Alice wears blue not PINK!  As my friends already know usually when making anything for Laura it has to be PINK so the birthday theme for this year was a bit risky to say the least!   I even considered changing Alice's clothes, but decided against as she just wouldn't have been Alice in any other colour but blue.

My Alice image is a digi purchase from Mo Manning and was coloured using Promarkers.  Love Mo's work - so many gorgeous images by one super talented artist - yikes!! 

The sketch I used is this week's challenge at Truly Scrumptious.  An amazing sketch with the added option of putting a hidden message on the tag...

As you can see I used a rub on by Letraset to add a sentiment to the partially hidden tag.  Laura loved it when she opened her card this morning.  She also loved the card sent by my dear friend Irene (hers was pink) and would you believe it from all the sketches in blogland Irene had chosen exactly the same one!  How weird is that?  I can only think that Irene and I have the same impeccable taste!  Irene's card will be on her blog soon - don't miss it - it's a fantastic card!

My card is also for the following challenges...

• Rainbow Lady - Alice in Wonderland
• Crafty Ann's - Recipe - no more than 3 colours, 3 flowers and 1 ribbon
• Dare you to digi - flowers
• Sophisticats - card for a child (well she is my child and doesn't act grown up - well not at home anyway!)

Have a great day everyone.  I will be posting again later as I really must get my card on here that I've made in support of Emma's Charity Challenge at  Crafty Emma.  If you haven't seen/joined in this yet please do.  Such a worthwhile cause and thanks to Paula at Pollycraft you can buy a fantastic digi to help raise funds.

Monday, Monday....

At long last a day off!!  Yeah maybe I will be able to catch up with some of the challenges I have missed.  It feels so strange not to be posting a card for The Pink Elephant.  I did pop over there this morning though to have a peek at everyone's work.  Wow check out Lori's new stamps - totally the cutest ever!

My card today is one I sneaked enough time to do between shifts.  Laura needed a card for one of her work colleagues who very inconsiderately had a boy (I have two baby girl cards in my box!).

The card is larger than the normal foolscap size.  I was lucky enough to be walking past my local card shop as they were throwing a lot of old stock out.  They were kind enough to let me rummage through the bag and salvage the good envelopes.  Doing things like this makes my daughters despair of me, but hey I got tons of beautiful envelopes for free!

The large envelope allowed me to use the baby words Cuttlebug folder without trimming any of the words off which was good.  As you can see I used Swiss Dots at the bottom of the panel with ribbon inbetween.  The stamped baby tree image is a stamp I've had some time and I can't remember the maker, but it is a cute one.

Luckily my card fits the following challenges...

• Fab 'n' Funky - No designer paper
• Pile it on - Boyish Colours 

Have a great start to the week everyone.

Ann xxx