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