Look North

Ten years ago, when I moved to my town, I joined a reading group and made a good friend. Now, she's left me and cleared off to Yorkshire!

I used a Tando chipboard house and fence, coloured them with ink and stamped with a flourish stamp. I made a hill out of a page torn from a book we did at the reading group, which fell to pieces. The numbers in the sky are an Inkadinkado stamp. I masked off the edges of the card black and inked through a stone wall mask.

I'd like to enter:
City Crafter chipboard
Time Out  picture - the home theme, the blues and greens and the triangle shapes (roof)
Creative Knockouts  friendship
4 Crafty Chicks The Great Outdoors
That's Crafty  mask

Festive 48 - week 27

Here I used a fox family digi from Oak Pond Creations, coloured with markers and 'frosted ' with glitter ( wish it showed up on photo!).

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  Christmas critters 

Eclectic Ellapu  Furry Friends 

Jingle Belles - one year old stuff (embossing folder)

Shopping Our Stash - one year old stuff (embossing folder)

Addicted to Stamps  holiday 

An InLinkz Link-up

Make My Monday - End of Term

I've been with the Make My Monday DT for two months now and I'm excited to say that I've chosen this week's challenge, End of Term.

I chose this challenge because not only have I a school-aged child, but I also teach in a college and I've got a four week holiday coming up!

I like to try to make cards for my son's teachers at the end of the school year. This year, I have seven to make! The class teacher, reading group teacher, 3 TAs and the workers at after-school club.

For this card I used a Bugaboo digistamp coloured with markers and a Papermania 'thank you ' stamp that comes with its own die. I kept it simple by just mounting it onto a white textured card blank.

It's not just thank you cards for teachers that will fit this theme. How about a congratulations card for a student who's passed their exams ? Or a Bon Voyage card for someone taking a summer break? Come over to Make My Monday and join in.

I'd like to enter:
Oldie but Goodie  school's out
Catch the Bug  anything goes
Artistic Inspirations  anything goes

The New Boy

I was at my lovely local crop yesterday and this is one of my layouts. It's my friend with her newborn grandson. The patterned paper, patterned cloud and plane are all from Little Boy collection by Echo Park. I die-cut and punched the white clouds and the hearts.

I'd like to enter:
Craft Your Passion  on the move
Creative Knockouts  sew it up (hope the faux stitching isn't too unconvincing! )

Parade

I've made these cards as 'thank you cards'  for the two workers who run my son's after-school club. I know it's summer and the kids are wearing jumpers but , hey, this is Britain - it could be jumpers , umbrellas or shorts for the summer holidays - or(most likely) all three!

The digistamp is by Jellypark and I coloured with markers and paper-pieced with scraps.

I'd like to enter:
City Crafter  sunshine and lavender
My Time to Craft paper piecing
Hiding in my Craftroom  paper piecing
QKR Stampede paper piecing

Pinspirational Challenge 115

Here's the inspirational picture for this week's Pinspirational Challenge:

For my DT card , I used a digi- stamp, kindly provided by our sponsors Aurora Wings . I coloured the flowers, butterfly and eyes with shades of purple marker and added gems. As the inspirational photo is a butterfly, I tried to emphasise the butterfly by cutting out a wing , covering it with glitter glue and sticking it on at a dimensional angle.  I mounted the image onto torn mulberry paper.

Please come and join us at Pinspirational Challenges . We have great sponsors and prizes to be won.

I'd like to enter:
Eclectic Ellapu girly birthday with butterfly
Delightful Challenges  fave embellishment (gems)
Bearly Mine go digital
Paper Make up  anything goes
Sister Act  anything goes

Thank You Mentor

My daughter asked me to make a thank you card for the community midwife who has mentored her during her midwifery training.

I used a digital version of Carta Bella Beautiful Moments papers, which I used to fill  shapes in the Silhouette electronic cutting machine and then print and cut. The advantage of using the Silhouette Studio software is that you can scale the patterns - I used the same pattern on the 'thank you' and the bunting, but scaled it larger on the bunting. I outlined everything with a dusky pink marker.

I'd like to enter:
Pink Gem animals
Silhouette Challenges print and cut
Tando Creative  come fly with me
Just us girls  bird
Brown Sugar anything goes 

Make My Monday - Mail Art

This week's challenge at Make My Monday  is 'mail art' and this theme was a new one for me , so , before making my DT card I had to 'google'. I discovered that mail art can be several things, but the one that attracted me was stamping on an envelope.

First I masked off spaces for address and a postage stamp and inked using different colours. Then I went through my drawers of stamps and made a pile of stamps that I haven't used for ages, and really enjoyed myself using them to create an (unlikely) scene.

Whether you love mail art, or whether it's new to you too, I hope you'll come over to Make My Monday and join in with our challenge.

I'd like to enter:
Suzy Bees Blooming Challenge  ag
Artistic Inspirations  going places ( I hope my envelope will go places!)
Love to Scrap anything goes

Festive 48 - Week 26

This week I used a vintage photo image which has been kindly provided for download at Completely Christmas. I layered it on white on white die cuts and embossing, including a poinsetta die from Marianne and a Stampin Up sentiment.

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:

Completely Christmas anything goes
Merry Monday white on white 
Simply Create Too Christmas in July 
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge anything goes 
Papertake Weekly anything goes 

An InLinkz Link-up

Inkspirational Challenge 60- Mermaids

Here's my DT card for this week's Inkspirational Challenge.  This time it's a photo challenge:

Well, I chose this picture and to be honest, I could have picked any one of a dozen ideas from it ...but I went with this mermaid stamp from Enchanted Ink.

I stamped onto acetate, put adhesive on the back and brushed on several colours of mica powder. Then I attached this panel the layers of cards using eyelets and added gems for water bubbles.

I hope the picture will give you some ideas and that you'll come and join us at Inkspirational and also check out the projects of our fantastic design team.

I'd like to enter:
That's Crafty all at sea
Papercrafting Challenges anything goes
Open Minded Crafting  water