Happy Birthday Dad.

Dad's birthday is tomorrow, but he won't see this (because he is a technophobe) and spoil the surprise!

Remember the grumpy penguins card? Well this is the other half of the background I made for that one on watercolour paper. I stamped the Katlekraft water drops with Versamark then heat embossed with white embossing powder before spritzing the paper with water and sprinkling on Brushos.

These birds are also a Katzelkraft set which I bought from That's Crafty, I must be bird crazy because I have the Tim Holtz ones too - but these are half the price! I don't think there are dies for the stamps, so I fussy cut them.

Happy Birthday is a Hero Arts stamp and Dad is a Papermania stamp, both from clear sets and stamped in Indigo Versacolor ink and heat embossed with clear powder.

I got my Faber Castel Gelatos out, first time using them and the set I have is brights. I blended blue and yellow to make green mainly because I started with blue and realised the birds didn't show against the background so I added yellow and blended it (using my fingers and a sponge) - which is the beauty of Gelatos. I found it hard to use round the detailed areas, and the left hand bird ended up with a green eyeball which I went over with my Sharpie Paperwhite pen. I guess I should have masked the eyeballs in hindsight. 

I hope Dad likes it!

Challenges entered:

Brown Sugar - Spring (well we have had a lot of rain) (Fri)

Craft Stamper - March take it make it, stamps (Wed)

Crafting from the Heart - #104 anything goes (Mon)

Love to Scrap - #74 anything goes (Mon)

Creative Fingers - #105 anything goes (Fri)

Glitter and Sparkle - anything goes (Sun)

Delicious Doodles - Show us some green (March)

Happy Little Stampers - Mixed media challenge theme water (March)

Graph'it Markers - Spring Delights wk9 (1st April)

Love to Create - #6 anything mixed media (10th April)

NBUS #6 Quickly sneaking in!

With only hours to go I wondered how (with my lack of mojo) I could enter the NBUS challenge at Darlene's place. Then I remembered this NBUS that I had made a start on but not completed - voila!

I fell in love with the (NBUS) Katzelkraft Grumpy Penguins rubber stamps that are stocked by That's Crafty and while I was there the water drops set and some crazy birds also fell into my basket, well you have to get the free postage don't you?

The background is a technique I tried from Craft Stamper magazine, you stamp onto watercolour paper with Versamark and heat emboss it with white EP. Then you get messy by spritzing the paper with water then sprinkling on tiny buts of Brushos, letting some run and flicking water on it when it's dry - isn't it lovely?

The penguins were also stamped on watercolour paper in black Versacolor ink and heat embossed with clear powder, then I coloured them a little with Pan Pastels cut them out and mounted them on the background. How unusual, a totally hand stamped card!

The penguins are grumpy about the rain, they are all wet!

Happy Birthday is from a Hero Arts clear set, and Brother is from a Papermania clear set of stamps, both stamped in Indigo Versacolor and heat embossed with clear EP.

There are so many things I wanted to do but haven't got there yet. At least I made it for this one!

So that's my Brother's birthday card sorted for this month! Need one for Dad now.

Challenges entered:

NBUS #6 - Sunday 13th March

Tuesday Throwdown - create a scene.

Love to create - #6 anything mixed media (27th March)

Craft Stamper - Take it Make it for March, anything goes with a stamp.

Quirky January, we are celebrating!

It is the Quirky Crafts challenge reminder, for which I am late, and I am celebrating my Granddaughter's 1st birthday, for which I am very early! She is only 10 weeks old, but for once in my life I am prepared in advance!

We are sponsored by Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet who provided this, and many more, cute images to the team to showcase. The image is called Baby and is by Beary Dust, isn't she cute!

I coloured Baby with Promarkers and die cut her and all the panels with Spellbinders dies. The background and stamped Celebrate ribbon are all Hero Arts stamps, there are three different definition stamps in the background - Celebrate, Birthday and Family.

Granddaughter is stamped with a Papermania clear stamp, 1 today is I think a Pink Gems stamp set, and Happy Birthday was hand written (with a Marvy's Wet Look pen and heat embossed) by me after searching for over an hour for a vertical stamp I don't think I have after all! I heat embossed the words with holographic embossing powder by Papermania. Finally I die cut the word Cute with a Die-version die.

If you want to see photos of me, the dogs and friends, a robin, ducks and a Kingfisher - check the post below and click the link to my crochet blog!

Hop on over to Quirky Crafts to see some more lovely examples and to play along to win Stitchy digital images.

Challenges entered:

Inspiration Destination - anything goes (Tues)

Fab n Funky - for a child (Wed)

A Gem of a Challenge - female birthday (22nd Jan)

Sweet Stampin' - things with wings (Sat)

Pile it on - #99 Use your first initial (C for Cute and celebrate) (24th Jan)

Simply Papercrafts - #21 anything goes (29th Jan)

Ribbon Girls - any image (30th Jan)

Creative Fingers - #100 anything goes

ABC challenge - Z for Zero embellishments (Jan)

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Stitchy Bear Facebook challenge for Jan.

Catching up on Christmas - Doodle Dragon robin

I love this Doodle Dragon robin. I haven't been able to get in the mood for Christmas. I had maybe a dozen cards left from last year or made this year, but I need more. So I got out the digis that I had already coloured with Promarkers and die cut last year, or maybe the year before and this is one. It was ready mounted on the fancy Spellbinders Label as well as coloured, I just added some paper and a stamped greeting that was also in the box already (Hero Arts?). The paper is from a Craftwork Cards pad and is designed by Steph Davies. 

Like my Yankee Candle jar top? I can't get it to work with all cards, and there is a trick to getting them to actually stand up on this one, which is to open them so the other half counterbalances the front!

I've entered the following challenges:

Crafting from the heart - #91 anything goes (28th Dec)

Cards Galore - anything goes (Dec)

Crafting by Designs - Here comes the Holidays (Dec)

LOC - #109/110 Anything goes (1st Jan)

Love to Scrap - #68 anything goes (3rd Jan)

Crafty Cardmakers - #154 Snow (6th Jan)

Pile it on - Winter/Christmas (9th Jan)

Quirky reminder - rosettes all the way.

I think this Cartoon illustration of a happy boy in a wheelchair, by Ken Brenner and available from our Quirky sponsor - Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet, is great. You don't often see images for kids in wheelchairs, and I thought I would make it into a well done card. I coloured the image with Promarkers and Graph'it Markers (the hair), die cut it with Spellbinders squares and matted onto a scalloped square. The trophy is a Marianne die. The sentiments are stamped with Hero Arts clear stamps. The rosette is a Sizzix Tim Holtz die. The card blank is shiny red card, I had to dumb down the lighting in the mini studio not to get too much shine.

Hop on over to Quirky Crafts to see some wonderful creations by the team and to play along with your rosette makes.

This card had raced into the following challenges:

Crafty Gal's Corner - anything goes (Wed 1st)

Inspiration Destination - anything goes (Wed)

Creative Fingers - #85 anything goes (Fri)

Glitter and Sparkle - sentimental (Sunday)

One Stitch at a Time - red, white and blue (Sun)

Pile it on - flag colours Red white and blue (Sun)

Chocolate, Coffee and cards - Seeing Red (Fri 10th July)

Time for some Quirky Rosettes.

Kemly set the challenge over at Quirky Crafts this time, and all we had to do was add a rosette, or rosettes.

Our sponsor is Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps, who provided us with some lovely digital images to use. I have used two images by Ike's Art: Cushion Kitty who I gave a crown, so she could be queen for a day (or king for a day) using Coronet.

I coloured the image with ProMarkers and added some Liquid Pearls and Stickles glitter glue to the coronet on the jewels to make it pretty. The image is die cut and the coronet cut outside of the frame, then mounted onto a die cut gold panel which looks quite regal, all with Spellbinder dies. The rosette was die cut with a Sizzix Sizzlet Tim Holtz rosette die in red paper with gold circles and the number 1 is cut with an Accucut Zipemate die. I found an oddment of red ribbon from Crafty Ribbons to add a tail to the rosette.

The sentiment is stamped with a clear stamp from a Hero Arts set. This could be for a birthday, or to say well done to someone I think.

I am late posting this, but at least I managed to make something this week, but I managed to mess up the Quirky post royally. First it didn't go out on time - my fault for not pressing the button and thinking I had, second I mixed up two of the guest designers, only put one card on with the wrong name and link against it. It is all sorted now, but what a prat, I put it down to tiredness - I knew I was out all day today and would be late, and I should have realised what I had done with the guests last night when I did it. So big apologies to everyone.

Having said that, if you would like to see what the team have done and maybe play along just hop over to Quirky Crafts now.

I have entered the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - oh so pretty (Tues)

Passion for Promarkers - anything but square (Tues)

Crafty Gals - #24 red, white and blue (Wed)

Left of Centre - ribbon, twine (Fri)

Little Miss Muffet - anything goes (2nd July?)

Crafting from the Heart - cheeky or anything goes (Mon)

Nearly Christmas, don't panic!

I am panicking as usual, cards not ready to give or post, shopping to do, labels for presents, wrap some presents, and it will all be over in a few days time!

I have cards to write and I know I need more, so here is the first one. Marshmallow Snowman from Meljen's Designs (on offer at $2 right now), coloured with Promarkers and Graphit's, and die cut with Spellbinders rectangle. The very pretty paper is by My Mind's Eye called Winter Wonderland, and I just had to turn the corner down, and secure it with a Papermania brad, so the other pretty polka dot side of this double sided paper showed up too. The stack came free with a magazine, gifts have got so much better.

Ribbon from Crafty Ribbons. The small stamped greeting in the corner reads Warm Winter Wishes and is from a Marianne set.

I have entered this card in the following challenges:

Tuesday Throwdown - #225 Christmas

Pile it on - anything goes/Christmas (Dec)

Winter Wonderland - fussy and fancy (Jan 2nd)

Chocolate Coffee and Cards - Christmas (any of the cards here) (Fri 26th)

Graphit's Markers - festive greetings (Jan 1st)

Pink Gems - Anything Christmas (Jan 3rd)

A batch of quick-ish cards, I had the Hero Arts reindeer, trees and snowflakes stamped, heat embossed and die cut for ages (sadly the snowflake dies have gone missing from the set so I will need to hunt for them and hope they are still in the room and not the trash). So all I had to do was stamp and emboss the background also with a Hero Arts and Sizzix collaboration set, and I used tri-coloured Brilliance ink in pink, blue and purple.

I added the embossed panel to a panel of pink metallic card cut with a Spellbinders card creator die, added some Let it Snow ribbon from Crafty Ribbons, and adhered it to a purple metallic card blank.

A leaping reindeer on this one, and more trees and snowflakes. This ribbon is Papermania.

I have entered these cards in the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - Winter (Wed)

Stamping Sensations - Winter Wonderland (Dec)

Die Cut Divas - snow/Christmas (Dec)

Rubber Dance - colour pallette (Dec)

That's Crafty - anything goes (5th Jan)

My time to craft - Christmas trees (3rd Jan)

Incy Wincy - anything goes (5th Jan)

Creative Card Crew - anything goes (Tues 6th Jan)

Pan Pastels - last minute Christmas (11th Jan)

This is a Spyder Lyn image (and is just 99p), I had them coloured (with Promakers) and die cut already (with a Spellbinders deckled long rectangle die) so simply had to add them to a card blank and add a bit of Crafty Ribbon ribbon.

I made three, and each image was coloured differently and one was a smaller size. I did wonder if I should add something else but these went off in the post today so it is too late now!

I have entered this card in the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - the last Christmas card (Tues)

Cards Galore - anything goes (Dec)

I love Promarkers - #250 anything goes (6th Jan)

Pretty Woman, walking down the street.....it's Quirky Charades

Here's my second attempt at playing Quirky Charades, this time my card is about a book and a song, Pretty Woman. Once again I was singing this song all the way through making my card!

I used Molly from Limited Runs, isn't she gorgeous!

I decided I wanted the film strip somewhere and it ruined her to have it over her, so I decided to put the street scene, using a Hero Arts stamp, behind her in the film - she is walking the streets after all!

I found the perfect papers in my 8"x8" DCWV Rockstar stack (discontinued), and I had looked at the smaller stack first, but it wasn't big enough. I was amazed to find that the larger stack had more foiled papers and more designs, and I hadn't noticed this beauty before and I am so glad I managed to find someone selling it. The pink seemed perfect for my theme, and I added the strip of stars which I also liked. Molly is coloured with Promarkers and Graph'it markers, I coloured her hair and did the shadow with Graph'its and the rest with Promarkers. The street scene is also coloured with a combination of the two. Molly was die cut with a Spellbinders die, the film strip is a Sizzix originals die. I added some black lace which seemed appropriate too.

I haven't added a sentiment yet.

Hop on over to Quirky crafts to play Charades and see what else the team has done!

My pretty woman is walking into the following challenges:

Die cutting Divas - Think Pink (Tues)

Ike's World - think pink - just for fun (Tues)

TTCRD - anything goes (Tues)

ABC - V for vibrant (Wed)

Chocolate coffee and cards - for the boys (well she was in the film lol) (Fri)

Vintage Stamping - colour challenge - red coat (Oct)

Pile it on - #43 create a scene (Sun)

Crafty Cardmakers - cut it out (Sun)

Crafty Boots - music (Monday 10th Nov)

Creative Fingers - #54 Anything goes (??)

It is getting Quirky colder, and those leaves are still falling.

 To make a change from Ike's Art lovely cats, here is an Ike's Art lovely dog image. He is called Leaf Pooch, and is such a happy Jack Russell that I thought the Hero Arts Sending Smiles stamp was perfect to go with him and it is stamped in brown Versacolor and heat embossed with clear EP. I cut all the panels out with Spellbinders card creator and rectangle dies. I found some Autumn Papermania ribbon with more leaves on it. The paper is HOTP Artsy Collage. I kept this card monotone in shades of brown, apart from the green in the ribbon, and pink tongue, and it is coloured with Graph'Its, and Promarkers which blend together beautifully.

This card is made in the same way, paper from the same pad, and same sentiment (and I used another dog image). I just thought this was such an amusing scene it would make someone smile too. The image is called Standing Guard by Gingerloft from Stitchy Bear Stamps, the ribbon is also from the same pack.

This image is coloured mostly with Promarkers, with a little Graph'Its brown for the soil, they blend together beautifully.

Our sponsor is Stitchy Bear, and the challenge is happening at Quirky Crafts now, you have until Saturday 11th October to join in.

I have entered the following challenges with a woof:

Die cutting Divas - anything goes (Tues)

Addicted to Stamps - photo inspiration (Wed)

Left of Center - 3 or more layers (Fri)

One Stitch at a time - colour orange (Sat)

Open Minded Crafting Fun - Autumn (Sat)

Pile it on - Autumn colours (Sat)

ABC - U for Unique anything goes (Sept 15th)

Graphit Markers - autumn colours (17th Oct)

Pan Pastels - Autumn (18th Oct)

Crafty Little Faries - only one DP (6th November)

Thank you - 102 follower blog candy. Extended to 30th Sept.

My blog candy will end on Sept 30th - see the details at the bottom of this post and please enter if you want. This post is pinned to the top, please scroll down for newer posts.

I planned this card to fit in with the latest Marianne challenge, use your newest Marianne product, as well as numerous black and white challenges, however I can only find one of those now and that is Stampotique (oh and that has ended too - but luckily the bow lets me enter the newest challenge) - so I guess I missed the boat on the rest!

It is a lot different to any card I have made before, change is good.

My latest Marianne product was going to be just the stamp set (CS0858), which I bought recently, but then I spotted this chicken wire embossing folder and die set (DF3404) - ordered it and it arrived this week. 

I stamped the letter from the set and cut hexagons from it with the die, black ink and white card. These were mounted on the embossed hexagons of the black square. Then the negative of the hexagon die, expanded, was trimmed and used on the black embossed square. I stamped the postcard, frank, watch, quill and a stamp from the set, the stamps and quill were coloured with Graphit pen in turquoise, in fact I air brushed the large stamp using my little spritzer and the Graphit marker! The black panel was mounted on a square of glittered white card and attached with white brads. I had some b&w Papermania Designer paper that was just right for the larger panel, around which I tied black and white polka dot chiffon ribbon. I had some black and white Prima blooms that were perfect, and found some polka dot brads for the centres. The sentiment is stamped from a Fiskars set. Finally I added a bow and some black glitter paper hexagons, and two white buttons. I think you can put more clutter on a monotone card without it looking too trashy - I hope so anyway!

This is the inside of the card, same paper and panel cut with Spellbinders scalloped square.

It seems appropriate that the card is a Thank You card.

Whoo hoo - I came in the top 3 at That's Crafty

That's Crafty - use stamps (Aug 22nd) - Top Three

I have entered the following challenges:

Marianne Design Diva's - use your newest Marianne stash (Wed 13th Aug)

Stampotique Designers Challenge - bows SDC159 (Wed)

We Do Doobadoo - shabby chic (Sat 23rd)

Pink Gem #125 - embossing (Sat)

Allsorts - #271 All sentimental (Sat)

Papertake Weekly - anything goes - optional torn paper (YAY I have torn paper!) (Tues)

Charisma Cardz - buttons and bows (Aug 20th)

Creative Fingers - #45 Anything goes (Fri 22nd Aug)

Stamping Sensations - anything goes (Aug)

Cards Galore - anything goes (Aug)

The Artistic Stamper - Anything goes (Aug)

102 follower Blog Candy.

Here is the first item in my 102 followers blog candy! I was thrilled to find I had got to 100, and even more thrilled that 102 people actually want to follow me, and combined with my recent birthday and several challenge wins myself this year, I decided I should give a little candy to my followers.

I will add some more bits to the candy, the winner will get this Tonic die and some other nice goodies, maybe stamps, ribbons, buttons, charms and more!

Here's a bit more candy, this is a useful set for Christmas.

Would you like to see a little more of what might be coming your way?

Here is some more candy!

 A few bits of lace.....

An assortment of charms......

and more goodies not shown here!

Here is the bag of goodies so far, looking good?

If you would like to win my candy please leave a comment, and add your link below.

I haven't decided on a closing date - I have set it to the end of August, maybe I will extend it - I will see how it goes!

My candy is ending on 30th September - whatever happens! You don't have to tell people on your blog, but it would be nice if you do!

Sweet little robin.

I made this card for my Daughter-in-Law's birthday on Friday. The image is from a set by Digi  Stamp Boutique (called Pretty Garden Flowers available at £1.75 sale price at the time of blogging), and you can place any of the cute animals on either of the two backgrounds and you get a number of cute sentiments too. I coloured the image with Promarkers and die cut it, and the layers of purple and lime green, with Spellbinders labels one and scalloped labels one.

I mounted it on a 6" x 6" scalloped card blank from Craftwork Cards, then die cut a ribbon slider with a Spellbinders die and stamped the Hero Arts greeting in purple, before threading it onto purple polka dot chiffon ribbon. I kept it clean and simple because that is what she likes, and just stamped a greeting inside.

This little robin has flown into the following challenges:

Passion for Promarkers - things with wings (Tues)

Papertake Weekly - anything goes optional Christmas (Tues 8th July)

Addicted to stamps - #102 Make your mark (Wed)

Pile it on - #27 add flowers (winners on Wed 16th)

Crafty Ribbons - anything goes with ribbon (Thurs)

Chocolate Coffee and Cards - Summer Days (Fri 11th July) 

Bunny Zoe's - Layers (Month of June, ends 14th July)

Crafting at the Weekend - anything goes (26th July - last Sat in month)

Cards Galore - use a digi (month of July)

Digi Stamp Boutique - use a Digi Stamp Boutique digi (31st July)

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Quirky peacock theme reminder.

We only have two entries so far in the latest Quirky challenge, it ends Saturday Midday so get your peacock coloured projects or projects with peacocks, or peacock feathers in now, great chance of winning a prize from our sponsor Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps.

For my first card I used the gorgeous peacock by IKEsArt, which I painted with Twinkling h2Os and highlighted with Atyou Spica pens. I decided not to add backing papers with this stunning image, but I did cut a couple of feathers from a new Spellbinders die. Happy Birthday is stamped and heat embossed in gold, the stamp is from a Hero Arts set. MUM is die cut and embossed with a Sizzix Embosslit alphabet die set. The thin satin ribbon is from Ribbon Oasis and was some I got when getting samples for my son's wedding stationery.

Will she like it? I will find out tomorrow!

For this card I used a panel of paper from the Coosty Creations Mehendi Peacock pack, it is covered in tiny peacocks. The large peacock is by Delicious Doodles and is totally coloured with Atyou Spica pens, I tried to give the tail feathers a goldy green look.

I sat my peacock on some green grosgrain ribbon from Crafty Ribbons. Happy Birthday is cut out and debossed using a Spellbinders set of words, I felt the urge to fill in the debossing with gold stickles - did that work?

These cards have flown into the following challenges:

One Stitch at a Time - Keep it simple (Sun)

Polkadoodles - things with wings (Sat)

Daring Cardmakers - Light as a feather (Fri)

As Proud as a Quirky Peacock

Monica set us a beautiful challenge this time at Quirky Crafts, and it is all about peacocks, feathers, peacock colours, and beauty! I decided to use the Mehendi Peacock Digital Stamp and Paper Pack by Coosty Creations, which contains papers and just one of the many peacock images that our sponsor, Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps, gave us to work with.

I think this is a fabulous challenge, and made this into a fabulous birthday card! I coloured the Mehendi peacock image from the pack with Atyou Spica pens to give it that lovely peacock shine, I keep finding bits that need touching up, and this stuff (like other metallic ink) seems to rough up my card stock. I will try either Prismacolor pencils, or Promarkers on it next to see what can be done.

I just happened to notice some peacock feathers in a box on my shelf a few days ago, and decided this was the perfect time to use one! They are from Crafty Devils and I can't remember if I bought or won them but they are in a box of stash I had long forgotten about that I think was a prize, so I might have won these.

I used three different papers on the front (all three and the image are cut with Spellbinders dies, had to hang that tail out), and I stamped the sentiment with a Brilliance Peacock ink pad, seemed appropriate! Originally I stamped it and heat embossed in gold onto the patterned paper, then changed my mind. 

(this was it in gold, I didn't think it showed up enough once I took the photo).

The stamp is a Hero Arts one from a clear set, this time I heat embossed with clear powder, and edged it with A Wink of Stella gold, that is a strange pen - I had to try one when I saw it at a show being sold by Little Claire, you keep it upright when not in use, squeeze the barrel to get the ink flowing (after shaking), and every time I squeeze it gold ink is coming out where it shouldn't be. Is that usual or is that just mine?

One of the papers in the pack is this ombre one with a 3d embossed effect, you don't see the effect on the front small panel so much, which is too small scale but you can on this size (the card is C5 size).

Every time I see a peacock I remember my friend's wedding reception. It was held in a barn which was converted to a functions room, and in the yard was a peacock which either got amorous or jealous of a bright blue car parked in the car park - it did a lot of damage!

As usual you can see more inspiration and a very funny video, and join in the fun if you hop on over to Quirky Crafts. 

My peacock card strutted into the following challenges:

One Stitch at a Time - use a digi (Sun)

Left of Centre - masculine colours (BH weekend Fri)

Creative Fingers - anything goes (Fri)

Country View Challenges - Nature's Glories (May)

Papertake Weekly - anything goes (Tues)

Polkadoodles - something old -peacock feather, something new -Images and digi paper pack(Fri 16th May)

I found a Design Seeds palette for this, so I can enter Pan Pastels  pick a colour palette challenge ends May 17th.

Mother's Day UK

It was Mother's day yesterday here in the UK, and I hope all the Mum's had a good day! We went out for a family meal with my parents, mother in law, my son and his girlfriend and I enjoyed it very much.

Now for Spot the Difference - can you see the differences between the two cards I made for our Mums?

I started this card back to front, it was totally the wrong way to start, by cutting the window with a Spellbinders die, adhering to some DCWV paper adding the paper roses - then try and assemble it to the rest of the card which had not been decided at that point! No, it is better to decide and assemble the card and do the window last! I mounted the DCWV panel on some Papermania paper. This was mounted on to a large scalloped square of pink. Then the spotty ribbon was applied and the pink square was adhered to the yellow square which had ribbon already applied one side, then the holes were punched through both colours for the brads, and this was attached to a Craftwork Cards 8"x8" scalloped card blank. I added some butterfly die cuts that came with the Papermania paper pack, a corner Spellbinders die cut and a spotty bow. I wanted to turn the plain end over but the glue I used to attach the bow was so strong I couldn't do that. A touch of glitter glue on the roses, butterflies and paper, then Happy Mother's Day was stamped on the paper (with a Hero Arts clear stamp) and heat embossed - and it was done.

 I lined the inside of the card with Papermania paper, I think it is called Rose Garden.

Same card, a few little differences, the papers are different, there is one large butterfly, the brads are a different colour - that's all!

I have entered the following challenges:

Allsorts - use those dies (Sat)

Craft All Day - anything goes (March)

Cute Card Thursdays - Flowers

Left of Center - flowers and or ribbons (Fri)

What is in my Quirky Cupboard?

Whoo hoo, my turn to set the challenge and it is based on the image supplied by the sponsor Crackerbox Palace. It is all about cupboards, shelves or dressers, and they must have contents!

The team used the digi version of this but I had the stamp set which I won some time ago so I decided to use it and the sentiment it comes with.

I cut out and coloured two cupboards, and layered them together with foam for depth to add embellishments. I coloured the foam tape to match, colours used are Denim Blue blended with Cyan and Ruby Red Promarkers for the hearts. I added some "wallpaper and carpet" using DCWV paper and some card stock, die cut with a Grand Nestability scalloped square die, added gingham ribbon to cover the join (gingham skirting??) and mounted that on a panel of teal cardstock, which has narrow and wider heart ribbon top and bottom (all ribbon was from Crafty Ribbons), and faux stitching with a white pencil, and added the die cut sentiment to the bottom. Then went hunting in my stash for the mini cans, and found a few other embellies to use! This said Mother to me, so I stamped a Hero Arts sentiment and heat embossed it. 

I cut the doors off the underneath cupboard and stuck them to the back of the doors of the top cupboard, I scored the doors first so I could bend them forward, and then cut out two heart knobs to add to the doors. I wish they closed, I would have liked to have them as openable, but sadly they don't meet by a long way. Maybe they would look strange if the doors were big enough!

So hop over to Quirky Crafts to see more Cupboards or shelves and to join in the fun!

I have entered the following challenges:

Pink Gem - Mother's day 28th March

Cards Galore - use a stamp or digi (March)

Craft all Day - anything goes (March) I WON

Papertake Weekly - Bingo (die cuts, free, glitter) (Tues)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Mother's day

Stamping for the Weekend - anything goes (end March)

That Craft Place - Flowers and/or Mother's Day (end March)

Tuesday Throwdown - Faux stitching (now you know why I did that!)