Happy Christmas Coach

I was inspired by the challenge at Casology  to make a Christmas card for the manager of my son's football team.

I used two stamps from My Favorite Things - Polar Bear Pals , stamped and masked and coloured in the team colours, The sentiment is of unknown brand and I cut the letters coach out on the Silhouette.

Inside I stamped 'from our family to yours' just so the rest of the family don't feel ignored - his son is my son's friend!

As well as Casology, I'd like to enter:
Stamping Sensations - Christmas Greetings
Crafty Creations  animals
Crafty Addicts  winter blues
Moving Along with the Times  die cut letters

Don't Drink and Cycle

Don't drink and cycle, folks...also, don't drink and craft.....

Last weekend my daughter asked me (on Friday night) to make a birthday card for her friend. She needed it the following morning when she would leave the kids with me so she could go out with the friend. (What a full service I provide!).

The ideas my daughter gave me...bikes, dogs, yoga, Prosecco.  I didn't have time to incorporate all these ideas(!) so I decided to cut out a bike and a bottle on the Silhouette and put the bottle on the back rack of the bike. Being Friday night, I'd had a couple of glasses of wine before I started making the card and when I got up on Saturday morning to do the finishing touches, I realised I'd accidentally stuck the bottle to the saddle!

Ok it was a stupid idea to stick the bottle on the rack but on the saddle looked even sillier! So, I tried to rescue it by adding two glasses onto the rack. Okay..it's just a card- not real life!

Anyway - the patterned paper is from a Prima pad, the sentiment is Personal Impressions and the flowers were all punched.

I'd like to enter:
Deep Ocean  Die Cuts and Punches
Naughty or Nice punches (flowers)
Pinspirational  the patterned paper has 'postcard' and post marks on it,
Aud Sentiments  anything goes

CAS Coffee

At the Scrapbags Retreat recently, we were given a kit (Teresa Collins) and challenged to make a layout and a card.

For my card, I used a journalling card from the kit as a background and added this image by Stamping Bella, using a combination of stamping and fussy-cutting . I paper-pieced the leggings and stool. The sentiment is by Waffle Flower.

I'd like to enter:
Addicted to Stamps  cas
Dragonfly Journeys coffee therapy
Give a Crafter a Cookie  coffee or tea

Monster Thanks

For this card I used my new stamps from Gerda Steiner Designs - the two monsters and the banner , which I coloured with markers. 'Sending and You' are by Avery Elle and I designed and cut the 'monster' word on the Silhouette.

Then I spent a considerable amount of time searching all my stamp sets to find one that said the word 'thanks' (rather than thank you.) . I bet you're wondering why I didn't plan it all out before I started stamping. Quite! Anyway, I eventually found one in a Wplus 9 set.

I'd like to enter:
Addicted to CAS monster
Less is more purple and gold
Tuesday Throwdown all about the words
Shopping Our Stash  a thank you card
AAA Cards thanks

City Crafter Challenge Blog - Ebony and Ivory

Kirsty has chosen our new challenge at City Crafter  and it is : Ebony and Ivory  - Create a project that includes piano, piano keys, keyboard, musical notes or music related items.

I've had a lot going on at home and work lately and I lost my mojo for a bit. This card was my FOURTH attempt to make a card for the theme! The first two cards were more piano-related  but I just didn't like my end result, The third card was a previous version of this design but I like this one better,

I used an old-fashioned record-player stamp from Neat and Tangled, combined with a graphic equaliser stamp by Indigo Blu,which I heat embossed. The larger sentiment was from the Neat and Tangled set and the smaller one is Avery Elle (from a Christmas set!) .

This week, Danielle  is our guest designer. I hope you'll visit us all at City Crafter, see what Danielle and the DT have made, and enter your own music-related project.

I'd like to enter:

Little Tangles  cas

Crafty Friends for someone special 

Craft Stamper  ag

Retro French

Here's a card I made in response to some challenge themes.

The woman with the dog (Joanna Sheen) was stamped and masked and I stamped the building (from the same set) behind her, I did some paper-piecing using a Basic Grey pad from my paper mountain .The sentiment is by Clearly Besotted.

I'd like to enter:
Shopping Our Stash building
Always Use Rubber destinations
Make My Monday get well
Aloha Friday fall colours
Crafty Calendar  autumn colours

Inkspirational - Photo Challenge - Fireworks

Our new challenge at Inkspirational is to be inspired by the photo below. 

For my DT project I made a scrapbook layout. I designed and created the 'fireworks' and title on the Silhouette Cameo. If you zoom in you may be able to see that the title is very glittery!

Jenny is our Guest Designer for this challenge, so I hope you will come over to Inkspirational and see what she, and the rest of the DT have made, and enter your own creation.

I'd like to enter:
Creatalicious anything but a card
Crafty gals Corner  anything but a card
Cute Card Thursday  anything but a card

Some Scrapbook Layouts part 2

The second layout used the tic tac toe board, also from The Studio Challenges .The line was wood, washi tape and flair.
 

Some Scrapbook Layouts part 1

I had a lovely weekend at Scrapbags retreat and am posting some layouts I made.

The first one, of my parent's wedding, used the retreat kit ( Teresa Collins). I used this sketch from The Studio Challenges:

City Crafter Challenge Blog - I See a Star

I chose this week's challenge at City Crafter,and I'd like you to enter projects with a star or stars on them.

For my DT card I used a digital stamp of a seal (? sea lion?) by Mo Manning. I coloured it and masked it and created a sky using distress ink and pearly water.  The star is a Craft Stamper freebie stamp and the sentiment is by Little Claire. 

Our Guest Designer this week is Charlotte E ,so please do come over to the challenge blog and see what she and the rest of the DT have made, and enter your own starry project. 

I'd like to enter:

Country View stars 

Jingle Belles animals 

Winter Wonderland frosty

Allsorts Christmas

Moving Along with the Times  cute animal