Special Delivery

This is the card that I made for my Brother-in-Law, I love this cute little DigiStamp Boutique Murphy image, I think he is perfect for a male card.

I coloured Murphy with ProMarkers, cut him out with a Spellbinders Standard Circle die and mounted him onto a Scalloped Circle die cut. The papers are from the HOTP - Nonna's Garden collection, I've had these in my stash for ages, and the die cut corners have been cut with a Die-namics die. I have made a little collar with some card stock and a buckle.  The card candy is from my stash and my sentiment was computer generated and printed on a DigiStamp Boutique Simple tag.

I have decorated the inside of my card with the same papers.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

DigiStamp Boutique May Customer Competition - Use a DigiStamp Boutique image
Digi Sketch Challenge - Cute (T)
LEJ Designs Challenge 54 - Die Cuts and/or Punches
Ruby's Rainbow Challenge 54 - Squares
The Perfect Sentiment Challenge 80 - Anything Goes
Let's Craft and Create Challenge 70 - Die Cuts
4 Crafty Chicks Challenge 143 - Critters
Passion for ProMarkers Week 199 - Special Anniversary Challenge: Anything Goes
Alota Rubber Stamps Challenge 107 - Childhood (we always had a little dog that would bring the newspaper into my dad when I was growing up)

Thank you for visiting me today, leave me a comment and I will try my best to come and visit you.

Pauline
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Party Time

This is the second card I have made for my son's best friends birthday.  He is the lead guitar player in their band 'Talking to Amy' so the card just had to have a guitar on it.

This one is a little more subdued than the last one I made.  I followed the sketch at Sketch Saturday:

I rotated the sketch because it suited the image better that way.  I used distress inks to distress the edges of the image a little so that it matched the music papers and sprayed it with Spray and Shine to give it some gloss.  Full details of everything I have used are listed below.

This is the inside of my card, decorated to complement the front:

Card Recipe:

Image:  Delicious Doodles - Electric Guitar

Papers:  Polka Doodles - Pretty Tuff CD, Hot off the Press - Roses in Harmony

Card Stock:  Dies to Die For - Kraft

Tools:  Crafter's Companion - Spray and Shine

Embellishments:  music brad from stash

Sentiment:  LOTV

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Sketch Saturday Week 195 - Sketch
Creative Card Crew Challenge 4 - Masculine
Dream Valley Challenge 26 - Just for Men
CES Challenge 73 - Spots and Dots
One Stitch at a |Time Challenge 101 - Use a digi or no image
The Sisterhood of Crafters - Use a digital Stamp
Papertake Weekly - Getting Krafty

Thank you so much for looking today.

Pauline
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Christmas Hugs

Well, that's another weekend over, they just fly by so quickly.  This is a card that I've made to enter this weeks LOTV Challenge 110 - a sketch by Pops - it's a great sketch with loads of lovely layers.

I used one of the Christmas Girls Die Cut Designs and teamed it up with some NitWit papers.  I made some Poinsettia flowers with the My Craft Studio Embellishment Attic CD, I don't usually buy My Craft Studio CD's because I've been a little disappointed with them in the past, however I have to admit I'm quite pleased with this one.  I didn't have any red ribbon so I coloured some seam binding with a Ruby ProMarker.  Full details of everything I have used are listed below

This is the inside of my card.

Image:  LOTV - Christmas Girls Die Cut

Papers:  NitWit - Simple Joys, HOTP Forever Christmas Cards

Tools:  Spellbinders - Labels Twelve (inside card)

Embellishments:  My Craft Studio Embellishment Attic, seam binding from stash

Sentiment:  LOTV,  Creative Expressions

I would  like to enter this card into the following challenges:

LOTV Challenge 110 - A Sketch By Pops

Paper Play Challenges Week 35  - Make your own Flowers

Moving Along with the Times Challenge 114 - Handmade Flowers

CYDA Challenge 28 ~ Make Your Own Flowers
Lothian Crafts Challenge 18  - Handmade Flowers

There is still time to enter the sketch challenge going on over at the Willow Sketchie Challenge Blog why don't you pop over and have a go.

Thank you for looking, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

Pauline

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Two Today!

Good afternoon everyone, this is my entry for the TeddyBo Challenge - Anything But A Card.  I really struggled with this one as I usually only make cards.  In the end I decided to make a Photo Frame and a Door Hanger for a two year old.

I used one of the TeddyBo Number images, coloured with ProMarkers, these are really useful for children's birthday cards as you can colour them according to who they are for.  My Picture Frame is for a little boy, hence the blue, green and yellow colour scheme.

I paper-pieced the number two and the balloons using HOTP 'Citrus' papers and added some little strings to the balloons.

I also added some bunting cut from the same papers and joined together with string along with some extra balloons.  Full details of everything I have used are listed below.

One final photograph of the door hanger which I have decorated to match.

Image: TeddyBo Number Two

Papers:  HOTP ' Citrus' 

Card stock:  Core'dinations White Wash

Embellishments:  string from stash

Thanks for looking today, I hope you have a lovely weekend.

Pauline
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