Don't panic! It's the Quirky Move It reminder!

Yep, you only have until Saturday to enter the fun Quirky challenge called I like to Move It! Your project must have something that moves, whether that is a tag you pull out, a shaker card, drawers, or something clever, lets MOVE IT!

I wanted to make this pop up card that I found the tutorial for on Split Coast Stampers, I used cakes and candles from the huge selection of images in the Birthday Fun set from our sponsor The Cutting Cafe, coloured with Promarkers and with stickles added to the icing. The chiffon polka dot ribbon allows you to still see the candles. The sentiment is all my own work, done in Pageplus. This card is supposed to lie flat when closed but mine won't despite extra sharpening the creasing.

Laying down, still not flat!

Then you pull up the tag which turns the card into a box base, neat or what? Inside the tag has a panicking monster from A Bunch of Monsters, and one of the great Keep Calm panels from Keep Calm - it's your birthday, also from our generous sponsor The Cutting Cafe.

I thought I had planned out the placement all perfectly, but when I pulled up the tag I realised I made an error with that big cake - the candles need to bend! So if I make another one I will either place the cake to one side of the tag, or swap the big cakes with the candles panel to create a double pop up, I need to try that now. I also think it would be nice to decorate the back of the tag, and maybe the back of the box that shows when popped up, leaving a space for a greeting on the bottom.

I think all in all I like this one and will make it again.

Now hop over to Quirky Crafts Challenges to see some more great examples and please let me know if you like this card. 

I have entered the following challenges:

I love Promarkers - more than one image.

Papertake Weekly - anything goes. Tuesdays

Death and beauty

Over on the Unity Facebook page Angela Blom set a challenge to make something with this lovely digi image she gave away. This is for the Unity creative CHA party which is on all week. I printed the image onto kraft, and had to fight the printer to get this, but managed two copies after which the printer sulked. I was going to print it on white card and colour it, then I was going to colour the white card and cut out the flowers to mount on the kraft background, and in the end I decided to get my neglected Prismacolor pencils out because they colour beautifully onto any colour card. I kept it simple, die cut the image and sentiment with Spellbinders card creator dies (I had to pop the leaf outside the box), and made a c6 card blank in purple with a lighter mat, finally adding some polka dot ribbon.

Anyway check out the details on the Unity stamp company blog.

I have entered the following challenges:

Crafty Ribbons - anything goes with ribbon.

I found this beautiful butterfly dead, cooked to death in the conservatory. Sad because I have never seen one of these before, I thought it might be a moth, but finally decided that it must be a Marbled White butterfly. I know it doesn't look very black and white but remember - it cooked to death! I hope that there are more of these around.

My brother's birthday card.

Now that he has the card, hand delivered by my parents today, I can show you what I made for my brother. He is a big ornathologist, even guarding some protected birds of prey when he was in the RAF. His present is also bird related, hence the card, I bought a piece of pottery with a bird in a tree to hang on his wall from the Made in Bradford on Avon shop, I wish I had taken a photo before I dashed it over to my parents, but it was all a bit of a rush, when I didn't need to take it for another day really. I hope he likes it better than my father likes his cat activity centres (about which he is still complaining).

The card features die cut shapes using a Sizzix Bigz die, I used the flower as a sun this time, and cut it in corrugated card, the bird is cut from a book page, a very old battered copy of Worzle Gummidge I picked up second hand to save it from the recycling bin. Brother is a Papermania stamp from a family set, and Happy Birthday is from a Hero Arts set. Polka dot ribbon from Fantastic Ribbons, and the spotty card was a piece of A5 I got from Payperbox pick and mix years ago.

I have entered this card in the following challenges:

Coffee, Chocolate and cards - Bring on Spring.

Anyway I will be back later with some more examples for the Quirky Challenge reminder post, I am having a battle with the ecraft which I so want to love, but it doesn't seem to want me to love it! I have had it since they came out and hardly used it becuase it always seems to fight me!

For those of you who follow my blog with Google Reader - this is about to disappear, however there is a replacement called Bloglovin, which seems to be even better. You can import all your blogs you are following from reader (do it before it goes) and it emails a daily activity update which I love because that way I don't miss anything and it is easy to scroll down through.

Happy Mother's Day UK

I love this Hedgehog Squares stamp from Little Claire, and I think I will use it a lot. I haven't managed to make any Mother's Day cards for the shop for this year, maybe I should make them ready for next year! Anyway one of the Mum's will be getting this one tomorrow.

Images coloured with Promarkers, sentiment from a Hero Arts set, ribbons from Fantastic Ribbons bought at the Exeter Show.

Anyway I have been buying lots of stamps in various sales, and some new Metallic Promarkers,and a set of skin tones. I bought lots of Little Claire stamps in their sale, and this was one of them. I have also won a few things, a stamp from Visible Image that I hope to show you very soon, a set of Distress Markers and a set of Marianne Dies from Crafts U Love were the latest prizes to arrive.

I have entered the following challenges:

Passion for Promarkers - one for the ladies.

Joanna Sheen Challenge blog - Mum's the Word.