PPPick up a penguin....

 

Yeah I'm back with Bah! Humbug!  It felt so strange last week to let the side down and not have a card to show.  Not like me at all and I guess I must still feel guilty as this week I have two samples for our theme of 'Penguins'.

Both are very easy cards using some scenic background paper from a card making magazine quite some time ago and some cute felt penguin stickers by Papercellar.  I don't normally buy stickers, but I must admit to being addicted to goodie bags and there always seems to be an odd pack lurking in the bottom of the bag.   Actually I rather like these penguins as they have a lovely fuzzy texture which obviously doesn't show up in the photo.

Card number 1 is just very simply trimmed, matted and layered to within an inch of it's life and then a few gems added plus a simple sentiment.

Hopefully in addition to Bah! Humbug! it fits the bill at these additional challenges...

• Christmas Cards All Year Round - Anything Goes
• Creative Craft World - Christmas in June

For card number two I used the brill sketch at Sketch and Stash.  The backing paper for the penguin is the remaining part from my first card and the snowflake paper was from the same magazine.  Both the papers and the penguin stickers have been in my stash for some time so I guess they will count as my neglected stash for the challenge.  I've added some embossed white snowflake card, gems and an organza bow.

Have a fabulous weekend everyone and hope to see you joining in with our theme of penguins at Bah! Humbug!  Don't forget to pop over there and check out what Max and our super talented Guest Designers have been up to.

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.