A little holiday...

Just had a wonderful five days away in the Isle of Wight which has made me a little late announcing our new challenge at Aud Sentiments.  This time we have a super easy challenge - 'anything goes' - as long as you include a sentiment.

There is a great sponsor again too - Lacy Sunshine Stamps - with a fab prize on offer for one lucky person so do pop over and check out the challenge.

My official project will be on show next week, but I'm taking this opportunity to show another butterfly birthday card I made recently.  I really am loving using my Silhouette machine at the moment.  This paper cut butterfly was yet another file I bought in the recent sale at the Silhouette Store and I love it. My sentiment was printed out on card in a long strip and then mat and layered on silver mirri card.  I also printed 'sister' and '70th' on card and then used a tag die to cut out these and added them to each side of the butterfly.

Materials...

• cutting file from Silhouette Store
• computer generated sentiments
• tag die
• organza ribbon and gems
• blue pearl card and silver mirri
• A4 dots embossing folder

Challenges...

• Polka Doodles - use a die (tag die )
• Seize the birthday - anything goes
• Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
• Papertake Weekly - a cut above

Ann xxx

Aud Sentiments Day...

It's week 2 of the challenge at Aud Sentiments which means I can finally reveal my make.  Sorry to say it's not one that I'm really proud of as I had so many problems making it including a printer that refused to take good card so I had to try and colour on duff stuff  and green card with a white core that when cut reveals a little too much white in my opinion.  However, I don't think the results are too embarrassing!

Our challenge this time is to use a two word sentiment which of course gives you loads of scope as there are so many good ones.  I decided to use this really snazzy useful 'Happy Birthday' sentiment by Ginny H.  It's free on the Aud Sentiments Challenge blog so do pop over and add it to your collection if you like it.  I know the team would love to see it used on your creations.

This fortnight we are being sponsored by Scrapper's Delight who have a huge range of digi images.  Do check them out if you haven't shopped there before. Fab stuff.  For my creation I used a cutie called Fruity Babies Strawberry and attached her in a 3D box of strawberries.

I really love these clever little boxes that are just so easy to make and yet so effective.  This one was made using a cutting file from SVG Cuts.  It came as part of a collection and I have a feeling that I will be making loads more of these over the coming weeks.  Here's the folded down version that slots into an envelope so easily.

Materials used...

• patterned papers, green, white and red card
• gems
• sentiment by Ginny H freely available on challenge blog
• cutting file by SVG Cuts 
• image by Scrapper's Delight

Challenges...

• Addicted to Stamps and More - anything goes
• Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge - use your favourite embellishment (gemstones always on everything)
• Scrapper's Delights - Anything goes

Have a great week everyone.  

Ann xxx

A Fairytale Castle

Something a little bit different today - a fairy tale castle all in pink!  I think my daughter would love to live here.  The castle is a cutting file from the Silhouette Store and I think it is intended to be used as a shaped card, but I wanted to create a larger card with it and so I cut it in pink and then attached it to an 8 by 8 card.
The castle walls open up to reveal the sentiment.

Materials ...

• Pink, white and silver mirri card
• Silhouette cutting file no 63752 
• brick wall embossing folder
• silver embossed stickers by Papermania
• gems

Challenges...

• Sentimental Sundays - Fairy Tales
• Papertake Weekly - Happy Anything

Ann xxx