A man card...

The challenge at Fab n funky is for a male birthday card so here is mine!  An easy peasy one using one topper from a Kanban sheet and added extras including die cuts by xcut and Spellbinders.  Gold peel offs complete the look.
Have a fabulous weekend.
Annie xxx

Happy Valentine's Weekend...

Check this out - it's the card for my youngest grandson who I love so much!  Created using an old set of Crafter's Companion stamps and coloured using Promarkers.
I've highlighted the 'check this out' because our latest challenge at My Time to Craft is to use checks - could be gingham - could be tartan - so many possibilities.  Hope you will have time to both check out the fab creations by my team mates and to join in too.
Other challenges...

• Crafty Card Makers - Love love love
• Cute Card Thursday - Sweet Valentine

Have a fabulous weekend.

Annie xxx

and all because of a forgotten heart!!

Well what a challenge I have had with this week's dictionary letter for the Craft Barn Challenge?  As some will have seen in my post yesterday I completely forgot that there was an extra to the challenge and we had to add a heart to the chosen letter F.
Now most people would have simply added hearts like bubble leading up from the fish's mouth - in fact lots of friends suggested that in the comments, but oh dear no I didn't think of it - no I had to go down the more complicated route of adding a fisherman who loved his fishing hobby !!
So many things went wrong along the way - too much of a sad and boring a tale to tell involving having to remove pages from the dictionary and other disasters, but in the end I ended up using a page from the front of the dictionary with the Italian word for fish and fisherman on it and then die cut the appropriate part in a heart shape to go alongside the stamped and coloured fisherman.
At one side we have the English words 'fish and fisherman' highlighted and at the other the Italian words 'un pesce et un pescatore ' in the heart.  
I got there in the end even if it was a very round about route!!  Next time I'm going to think my idea through more before putting stamp to paper.
Thank you to all my lovely friends who have been so kind about yesterday's efforts.  I didn't read your tips till after I had stamped the fisherman!
Have a great evening.
Annie xxx