Make My Monday - Fairies / Mystical

This week's Make My Monday challenge is Fairies/Mystical .

For my card I created a background using inks and torn paper and a punch out circle for the moon. What you can't see in the photo is that I masked the background and sprayed the moon with glitter spray, so it does have some sparkle.

I googled for a silhouette image of a unicorn and traced it and cut it with my Silhouette cutting machine. The sentiment is a stamp from Docrafts.

I hope you'll join us over at Make My Monday.

I'd like to enter:
Pink Elephant - Anything goes
Cut it Up  twilight
Crafting at the Weekend anything goes
Aloha Friday Challenge fantasy creatures

Festive 48 - Week 25

Hi everyone. This week I used my Silhouette Cameo to 'print and cut' elements from Glitz Designs 'Hello December' digikit. I added a greeting, brad and lots of glitter to the tree,

Just to recap, I have challenged myself to make a Christmas card every week , and post it here (to make sure I do it!) . If I do this, by the beginning of December I will have 48 Christmas cards. I have also issued an invitation to anyone who would like to join me by linking up ONE card each week. 

This link up is always 'Any Christmas Card Goes'. 

Thank you to everyone who's joined me so far. I love seeing your cards. 

I'd like to enter:
Crafting When We Can recipe green
Fab n Funky  Christmas
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge  sentiment
My Time to Craft  Christmas in June
Holly Jolly  show me some glitter

An InLinkz Link-up

Yes Please

I couldn't resist this quirky stamp from Crafty Individuals. I stamped it in black and then coloured it with aqua and brown ink. I coloured some die-cut elements with ink, stamped the banner with a harlequin design and added gems, a button and paw prints.

I'm having some trouble with photographing in artificial light. That's because I made this using the Come and Get It colour scheme of Pool Party, Baked Brown Sugar and Calypso Coral , and then realised I had nearly missed the deadline!  The button is actually very close in colour to the 'Pool Party' ink used on the central panel.

As well as Come and Get It  , I'd like to enter:
Moving Along with the Times Birthday, bunting and buttons
Little Red Wagon  animal antics
QKR Stampede cat or dog
Stamping Sensations animal antics

Festive 48 - Week 24 - Halfway There!

Hooray! - I'm halfway towards my goal of 48 Christmas cards.

I was having a bit of a sort out of some old stuff I'd got free from magazines and found some uncut decoupage sheets. Most of them were not to my taste and ended up in the kid's craft box, but I quite liked this one. After three layers of decoupage, I die- cut into an oval and added lots of background papers and glitter.

Just to recap, I have challenged myself to make a Christmas card every week , and post it here (to make sure I do it!) . If I do this, by the beginning of December I will have 48 Christmas cards. I have also issued an invitation to anyone who would like to join me by linking up ONE card each week. 

This link up is always 'Any Christmas Card Goes'. 

Thank you to everyone who's joined me so far. I love seeing your cards. 

I'd like to enter:

Holly Jolly  3 or more layers

Charisma Cardz  glitter

Brown Sugar  dots

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas  part of a building 

An InLinkz Link-up

Shell Fairy

The fairy and the shell are die-cuts from a Tilda paper pad called 'Seaside Life'. The first thing I did was to draw a mouth on the fairy as that's my quirk - I don't like images without mouths! I sat the fairy on the shell using 3d foam. I made a scalloped circle card on the Silhouette and stamped the sentiment and seagulls. I added pearls and glitter.

I'd like to enter:
Incy Wincy  things with wings
Clear it Out  ice cream - strawberry and vanilla
Crafty Creations things with wings
Crafty Calendar petals and pearls

Pinspirational Challenge 113

It's time for another Pinspirational Challenge  and here's the pinspirational picture:

This picture made me think of the outdoor events we enjoy in summer and for me, the highlights are outdoor concerts and music festivals.

I used the tent image, kindly provided by our sponsor Paper Pretties  and I paper-pieced it with two patterned papers. I used a Sizzix embossing folder and made the word 'Festival' on my computer. I added a flair badge.

At Pinspirational we have great sponsors offering prizes, so please do come and join us.

I'd like to enter
Creative Knockouts  embossing
Cheerful Stamp Pad weekend activites
Papercrafting Challenges   in summer

Make My Monday - Anniversaries

This week's challenge at Make My Monday  is anniversaries.

In September, I celebrate 10 years since I bravely gave up my own flat and moved in with my partner, so I made a card for that.

I used one sheet of 12 x 12 card - one side is pearlised and I created the design on the Silhouette Cameo using basic shapes. Then I used an embossing folder to emboss the pearlised elements , inked the edges and added some gems.

What anniversaries are you celebrating this year? Come and join us at Make My Monday. 

I'd like to enter:
Fab n Funky  shaped cards

Star Chart

My seven-year-old son is no angel! He does need encouragement to behave himself. This is a new reward chart I've made him - when every one of the blue squares has a red star, he gets a reward. ( He's earned 3 already).

I used the leftovers from some October Afternoon Rocket Age papers and stickers, and I inked all the edges in black. The title and the stars were cut out of red vinyl on the Silhouette Cameo.

I'd like to enter:
Try it On Tuesday one for the boys
A Gem of a Challenge For a child
Seema Crafts cute
Bearly Mine  one for the boys
Paula Holifield  Child's Play

Proud

Let me tell you about my daughter. Five years ago, when she already had a four-year-old child, she decided to train to be a midwife. The final three years were a degree where, not only has she had to write essays and a dissertation, but also to work in clinics and hospitals, including grueling night shifts. In her second year of study, she gave birth, prematurely and by emergency caesarean,and her baby was in special care for a while. But she coped with this, got back to study and she is now completing her course and will graduate in summer.

The temptation was to try to make a spectacular card with bells and sparkles - but instead, I decided to focus on the sentiment and keep it clean and simple.

The peacock feather is a digital stamp from a Craft Artist digikit called wings and feathers. I designed the sentiment in Craft Artist, printed it and watercoloured the feather with a mix of Peacock Distress Ink and golden jade Twinkling H20s. I cut the word 'Proud' on the Silhouette and stuck it on with 3d foam. I added glitter glue.

I'd like to enter:
Less is More watercolour
Simply Create Too sentiment is the highlight.
Scribbles Design  say it with a sentiment
That Craft Place anything goes
Suzy Bees Bloomin Challenge  anything goes

Inkspirational Challenge 59 - Blue with White or Cream

Here's my DT card for this week's Inkspirational Challenge  and I'd like to tell you that the camera IS lying - the card does not have a yellow/brown tinge and yet , no matter how many times I photograph it, it still appears to!  I think it might be a sort of reflection off the embossing....

All the stamps here, (except the sentiment) , are from Sheena Douglass's oriental range . As a child, I remember hearing the story of the pictures on Willow Pattern china plates, and quite enjoying it. (I think there were some runaway lovers involved!) I wanted to get the feel of old china on my card, so, after composing the image, I triple embossed the whole panel in clear embossing powder.

Anyway, our challenge is 'blue and white/cream' and we have a wonderful guest designer Laura, so I hope you will come and have a look and join in.

I'd like to enter:
Clear it Out  anything goes
Delicious Doodles  make a scene