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.

You're a hoot...

Three Wise Owls in an old elm tree - well okay perhaps only two wise ones!

If it were me and my friends being the owls I think the upside down dippy one might be me, but then again it might be Max! You never know - oh my goodness she will kill me when she reads this!

Materials used:

• gold mirri card and plain brown card
• stamp set 'Upside Down Hoot' by Joanna Sheen
• leafy tree background from Hoot backing paper pad also by Joanna Sheen
• patterned paper DCWV
• brads and peel offs from stash

I think my card is also ideal for the very first challenge at Crafty Calendar Challenges where the theme for this month is Autumn.

When Santa got stuck up the chimney!!

Well yesterday's card saw Messy Rabbit with his reindeer suit on getting in a tangle with his Christmas lights. Today sees him getting into more sticky (or perhaps I should say sooty) situations in his Santa suit.

This is a large 8" x 8" card - it had to be to get the chimney big enough to be able to slide the Messy Santa inside.























I drew the template for the chimney and rooftop myself and just played around wasting card like crazy until I got it looking right!

I made the brick pattern on the chimney and wall part using my Scor-pal.

The snow scalloped edge was cut on my Cricut and then I added the stamped lights one by one. Yep, this card took ages - fun though!

The lights, 'Ho ho ho' sentiment and Messy himself are all part of the Messy Rabbit Christmas set. I used my Promarkers to colour Messy and the other stamped elements.

My card is for the challenge at Creative Card Crew where this week they are focussing on cards for babies or children.