Bah! Humbug! Day...

Our latest challenge over at Bah! Humbug! is Kiss-mas - ah mistletoe everywhere and everyone puckering up for their loved ones.  No wonder I picked this oh so cute image by Forever Friends as a centre piece.  I teamed it up with lovely Pepper and Co Christmas papers. The frame was cut out using a Wizard die and the sentiment on my tag was printed using my Xyron Design Runner.

My card is also for the challenges at...

• Fab 'n' Funky - It's Christmas
• Ooh la la Creations - Christmas

I'm working till late today so won't be able to do any blogging.  Looking forward to seeing everyone's romantic creations though.  Do check out what Max and our totally wonderful guest designers have been up to though if you get chance.

Ann xxx

Happy Father's Day ... Grandad...

Here's the second card I made for Eli to give his Grandad.  It had to be a quick card as at the moment as you can imagine crafting is not very high on my priority list and it's way below the very important task of cuddling Eli.

As on my card yesterday I've used an image from the Forever Friends CD simply matted on to nestie scalloped and plain circles.  The base card is one of the large scalloped circles folded in half that I bought at Stamp Magic last Sunday topped with yet more of the fab paper from my Makin Memories paper pack.

A really quick card, but I think Eli's Grandad will approve.

My card is also for the challenges at...

• Little Red Wagon - for Dad (or maybe Grandad)
• My Mum's Craft Shop - spots and dots
• Papertake Weekly - Dad's and lads
• Cupcake Craft Challenges - boy oh boy

Off to do some shopping before going for more cuddles now.  Have a great day all and thank you for all your wonderful comments about how cute Eli is.  If you didn't spot the photo check out this post right HERE!  Ah how cute is he?  I'm one very biased Grannie!

Happy Daddy's Day...

Here's the card I've made for baby Eli to give his daddy on Sunday.  I took it to show him today and he really gurgled so I think he liked it.  Mind you at 4 days old I suppose it could have been wind causing the half smile and little gurgle!

I used the fab sketch at Sketch and Stash as a starting point for the design importing the Forever Friends bear image into Craft Artist to get it the right size.  The striped and plain card are by Makin Memories.  Love their paper packs.  The stars were cut out on my Cricut machine at the one inch setting and of course I used the Swiss Dots folder to add texture.  I really must use some of my other folders as I have so many, but always seem to reach for the same one.

Here comes a long list of challenges as nearly everywhere are asking for Father's Day cards so here goes...

• C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Father's Day
• Craft Us Crazy - Father's Day
• Paper Play Challenges - Father's Day
• Alphabet Challenge - Father's Day
• Come and Get it Challenges - Father's  - eek no - it's green, brown and blue!

Phew that's enough for one card methinks.  Will be back with Eli's card for his Grandad tomorrow.  

Have a fun day all.

Ann xxx

Whoops forgot to say that my new stash (for Sketch and Stash) is the paper pack by Making Memories.  It was a bargain buy from Craft Superstore and is just fabulous stuff.

Well I never...

I've created something other than a Christmas card!  I've actually fit quite a bit of crafting inbetween shifts these last few days.  Even had a play with my marbling inks, but the least said about them the better.  I suppose the silver will come off my kitchen work top eventually.

Anyway less rambling and on to today's card which is a so easy to do quick card that my daughter needed for a friend of hers who really likes cute stuff.  What could be cuter than Forever Friends so I got out my CDs printed an image to decoupage and the matching backing papers.  In the words of my famous friend, Max, 'Biff, baff, bosh , a bit of added glitter' and the jobs done.

My card is also for the following challenges...

•  Two Sisters Challenge Blog - Anything goes
• Crafty Calender Challenge - Teddy Bears
• Crafting for all seasons - Anything Goes

Have a great day.

Ann xxx

Friday again...

So that's means it's Bah! Humbug! day and this is one week where I really felt like saying Bah! Humbug!, stamping my feet and scowling like a mad women.  For some strange reason I decided on Monday that my craft area needed sorting.  Hmm, bad idea as it is now the end of the week and what could have been a small job is turning into a marathon.  If I had tried to enter 'What's on your Workdesk Wednesday' this week it would have been more a case of 'What desk? Where?  Not good and it meant that to complete my card for this week's challenge of 'Candy Canes' I had to take all the things I needed downstairs and work on the dining table.  So guess what -  now the downstairs is a mess too now.  Sigh!!

Ah well less rambling and on to describe what I've done for my candy cane card.  I wanted to use the candy images to make a frame that had a love heart shape to it.  I also thought that making the heart an apperture with a romantic image inside might work well.  The image I've used is one from the Hallmark Forever Friends CD which I copy and pasted into Craft Artist so that I could play around with the heart and apperture idea.

My original thoughts were to have the image on the card inner and the apperture on the front, but of course I realised that it would mean cutting through far too many layers.  Instead after printing and cutting out the apperture piece I matted it on to the cute bears image using a double layer of foam pads to really raise it up and give a nice window effect.  After completing the card I realised that I could have kept the original opening idea by making the apperture and image a small card on the front of the main card and have fastened with a ribbon.  Maybe next time I'll try that.

The papers are by We R Memory Keepers and I chose the fab glittery paper as it made me think of rolled up candy canes.  A peel off sentiment, and stamped sentiment mounted on a matching snowflake complete the card.  The red panels are embossed with Swiss Dots, but unfortunately they don't show up very well in the photo.

Additional Challenges...

• Inspirational Card Sketches - fab sketch used for this project
• Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes and something new (my paper)
• CD Sunday - for someone special (possibly for daughter and boyfriend - will need to decide nearer Christmas)
• Christmas Card Challenge - Stitching (mine is faux - hope it counts)

Have a great weekend everyone.  I'm hoping to complete my craft sort out so that I can actually do some fun playing.  Have missed entering so many of my favourite challenges recently.  Perhaps I will be able to catch up next week.

Ann xxx