You Rock...

My second try at this sketch from A Spoonful of Sugar and I'm still not 100% happy with it, but eeeeeeek at least I tried.  My daughter, Shelley, wanted a Valentine card for her boyfriend, Tony, who is a rock music fan so this fit the bill nicely.  They both loved it - infact the term 'Wicked' was thrown around quite a lot so I was pleased with myself.

Materials used...

• Stamps by Inkadinkado
• Cuttlebug Embossing folders
• Heart and corner die by Spellbinders

My card is also for the challenges at...

• Stampotique - Love
• Dutch Dare - Valentines
• Cute Card Thursday - In the name of love
• Crafty Ann's - If music be the food of love
• Daring Card Makers - Hearts

Have a great day everyone.  I'm on a First Aid course today so that should be fun.  Just wish it didn't involve 3 buses to get there, but ah well needs must.

Birthday Celebrations...

As promised here is Tony's other birthday card. This was made using the same stamp set by Inkadinkado, but this time I chose to stamp the images of skulls and crosses. These were stamped on to core'rdinations card stock and then sanded to give a really grungy look.

The background paper with stars and guitars is from the Rock Star stack by DCWV.

My card is also for the challenge at the One Stop Craft Challenge where they are celebrating their blogersary and have the theme of 'celebrations' as their challenge this week.

Happy Birthday Tony...

Yeah - it's Shelley's boyfriend's birthday and here's the card I made for Shelley to send him.

I bought the clear set of 'rock' themed stamps by Inkadinkadoo about 2 months ago special for the occasion, but guess when I started the card - yep yesterday!! Why can't I be more organised?

Ah well knowing me if I had made it early I would have put it in a safe place and wouldn't be able to find it anyway!

The guitar image - how cool is that - was stamped onto acetate and then attached to silver mirri card using brads. I added some gems to 'bling' it up a bit - why should men always have such flat cards? With the 'You Rock' sentiment I stamped straight on to the silver. The stars were cut on my cricut and embellished with silver star brads.

The black with silver birthday sentiments is by Kanban and I'm not entirely happy with it as I would have preferred something more funky to go with the theme, but it was the best I could do in my mad scramble.

Hoping Tony's card will count for the following challenges...

La-La Land Crafts - glitter and bling (loads of mirri shine on this and a touch of bling too)
Paper Play Challenges - favourite embellishments (the new glitter border peel offs by Papermania are just gorgeous and clear gems are always on my cards somewhere).

Have a great weekend everyone. I'm going to a Sheena Douglas work shop tomorrow and I am just so excited. See you on Monday for The Pink Elephant challenge and Tony's other card.

Flying in...

with a very quick card made using the sketch 129 at CPS. The stamp is one from a clear set by Inkadinkado and after stamping onto white I cut the image into 3 sections and mounted on black. There are gems on the bird and the flower, but they are not showing up too well in the photo.

I like the sketch, but my card is not blowing me away - it's not even rustle my feathers so I think I'm going to have another go. Watch this space!

My card is also for the challenge at One Stop Craft where this week's theme is to use the colours pink and black.

Something old, something new ...

Yeah it's Pink Elephant day and that means a new challenge. This week we have a romantic theme and would like everyone to play along with us by making a wedding card.

Sorry friends and family who read my blog on a regular basis, but yes it's another ribbon frame - I'm just addicted to them at the moment and I thought the white organza trimmed with diamonds on the knots was just perfect for a wedding.

The stamped image in one by Inkadinkadoo that was part of a huge job lot of stamps bought on ebay. Isn't Ebay brilliant sometimes?

Looking forward to seeing everyone else's creations and I promise no more ribbon frames for a little while.

I also promise that I will be organising some birthday blog candy shortly as I have just realised there is only 15 days to my birthday!!!

Black ink only...

My two cards for today were so quick and easy to make and were both inspired by the challenge at No Time To Stamp where the theme this week is to use only black ink to create your central image. The examples by the DT over there are stunning and I couldn't resist having a go.

I used the sketch from this week's challenge at Secret Crafter. I've done cards very similar to this sketch before, but I think turning the central square to create a diamond focal point is a really good idea.

It's really quite a good idea when doing this layout to do two at the same time especially if you are using two different papers as it means you can use up all your triangular pieces.

Both the butterfly and the dog stamp are by Inkadinkado and are in the same style as those gorgeous birds that everyone uses. The sentiment 'Having a rrruff day' is also part of the dog set.

Thank you...

Another 'Thank you' card. This one is for the challenge of saying 'Thank you' at http://www.daringcardmakers.blogspot.com/. Some of you may have noticed a fair amount of blue and matching papers in my last few cards. I've been using an amazing little DCWV card making pad I bought in one of the sales at Arty Miss. They had been reduced from £9.99 to just a pound and have both card, co-ordinating papers and stickers like the 'you are great' one on this card in them. Lovely collections and well worth a pound.

Once you start sanding cuttlebug embossing you can't stop so although I have already done a card for the challenge at http://cuttlebugchallenge.blogspot.com/ this one counts too. Infact I got a little carried away when sanding this and lost half the design as I went through the card stock. Perhaps the craft tip for this week should be sand gently!!

The 'thank you' stamp is by Inkadinkado and I added a couple of gems from my stash.

Thanks...

Happy Thanksgiving Day to everyone.

The challenge at http://stampchallenges.blogspot.com/ is on a Thanksgiving theme, but as here in England we don't celebrate Thanksgiving we could also make a card or gift to say 'thanks' to anyone.

I decided to finish this acetate card that has been half done in my box of projects for quite a while. I'm still not happy with it, which is probably why it didn't get completed in the first place, but my daughter saw it and said she liked it and I should finish it. So here it is!

The stamp is by Inkadinkado and the stamped image has been coloured with Sakura stardust pens.

Bird silhouette quote...

I can't believe it but this card is actually for five challenges - I had to count them five times to be sure I'd got it right but here are the challenges:

Birds at http://www.daringcardmakers.blogspot.com/ and also at http://themethursday.wordpress.com/

Things with wings at http://rainbowladyschallengeblog.blogspot.com/.

A quote or a verse at http://artygirlzchallengeblog.blogspot.com/

and last but not least silhouette stamps at http://ourcreativecorner6.blogspot.com/.

My card is an acetate one and I have stamped the bird from a set by Inkadinkadoo on to the acetate using white Stazon. It's actually the first time I've done this and although it may not be perfect I'm quite pleased with the results. The quote is one I particularly like that was sent to me last week by a craft company in an email.

I have tried my best with the photos but I think acetate is even harder than mirri card to get a good picture of.

Materials used:

• heavy weight acetate
• white Stazon
• computer generated quote
• silver mirri card
• silver border and corner peel offs
• gemstones from stash

Black and white sketch...

The theme at http://lotstodocallenges.blogspot.com/ is to use black and white - my favourite combination - a total safe zone!!!

I also decided to use the fabulous sketch at http://fridaysketchersblog.blogspot.com/ to create my card.

I've never done a sketch with a triangular theme before and I really it gives quite a funky feel to cards. I must remember this layout and use it again in the future.

Materials used:

• Black Card
• White paper and silver mottled card for matting and layering
• Dot design paper from stash
• Wizard standard oval die
• Penguin stamp from clear set by Inkadinado - Dawn Houser design
• snowflake quickcutz die cut, metal snowflake and gem brad
• black and silver grey ribbon from stash
• silver sentiment peel off
• sakura pens for scarf and hat