Cards for Parents.

With it being Fathers Day today and my mum's birthday yesterday I can now show you the cards I made for them.

                    Firstly the card for my mum the centre of which was made with a rub-on.

Lastly my dad's Fathers Day card, the sentiment was made in Microsoft Publisher, printed out and coloured in with my Promarkers.

Please excuse the shadows on the photo's, I took them outside and didn't notice the tree was casting shadows on the cards.
Hope you had a great weekend and thanks for dropping in on me.

Sarah's Cards Challenge.

                  I'm back again with a page for the sketch challenge over at Sarah's Cards.



Here is the sketch for June and I decided to turn it on it's side as I had a landscape photo.

My layout shows gorgeous Billy on a walk with us in our local woods. The title was inspired by Billy's really long tongue hanging out as he ran around, he has the longest tongue of any dog I know.



The patterned paper is Pebbles Cats and Dogs and the trees and banners are by Erin Bradley.

And just a close up of the top corner.

I am going to have a go at Shimelle's challenge for this week, which is to use a transparency!! Something I haven't used in years and is another of those items of stash that I really should 'use it or lose it', but I know I'm not the only one guilty of stash stashing!

Pages, (plural) !!!!!

At last, I have found the time to post the projects I made at our recent all day crop. We had a wonderful relaxing day of crafting with the odd cake or two thrown in for sustenance.
 

This page shows a cake I made for my youngest daughter for her eleventh birthday.

I had remembered to take my sewing machine so I put a little stitched detail on the heart border.

This page was super quick but was my favourite of the three I finished.

I had started this page before the crop so it was just a case of adding the title and some finishing touches.

A close up of the embellishment cluster. 

Lastly a card that I made two of as I had a couple of men's birthdays this week.

I am working on a layout to enter into Sarah's Cards sketch challenge, so hopefully I will get the time to finish it this weekend.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend and thanks for stopping by. 

Monster Birthday!

Hello, I have a card to show you today that I've just finished ready to pop in the post in the morning.
As I knew I had to get it done before Thursday I thought I would design it around the sketch #15 at Retro Sketches .

Here is my jolly monster card, don't you just love his smile!



A close up of Mr Jolly, I even did some layering!!! 





The  sentiment was personalised as I thought that the boy who is to receive the card might get a kick out of having his name on the front.





Here is the sketch that I used as my starting point, I turned it on it's side and used a tag instead of the frame. The bow was replaced by some ribbon tied through the tag.

I have some more projects to show you but the next few days are a bit hectic so it may be a couple of days before I'm back.

 

Ninja Stars!

I have a double page to show you today, I have slowly been trying to get through the pile of photo's that need a double spread but as I prefer to scrap single pages it's taking a while. (perhaps I should alternate between single and double then it might not seem so bad)!

click image for a better view

The title says it all I suppose, my girls had made paper trowing stars and took them outside (mum wouldn't let them trow them indoors as they were surprisingly heavy). I just happen to be free to take some photo's of them having fun in the street seeing how far their stars would go.

Here is a close up of the tag embellishment that is down the bottom of the first page.

I will be back soon with some projects I got finished at our recent all day crop.

Thanks for popping in.

Friendly Challenge.

Last Friday was a wonderful day at my friend Helen's, we did the usual crafting, chatting and eating but also compared the results of the challenge that we set ourselves, which was to scrap a wedding page. 

I had to do a double page as I had photo's of a wedding we went to in Jersey in 2002!

I used some glitter card for my title and for the hearts that are in the middle of the flowers.

Helen's page is of her parents wedding day and I loved the colour combo she used.

Check out the heart embellishment she made using her Cricut then topped with butterflies and tiny hearts.

I am always so jealous when Helen does a title with her Cricut, look how fab this one is.

I can't tell you what our next challenge to each other is as we forgot to set one before I left and I am having trouble thinking of a good one.

 Any ideas? 

Sketch Challenge.

The challenge I gave out a couple of weeks ago at Bradfield Craft Club was a sketch designed by little ole me, hexagons seem to be the 'in' shape in the crafting world at the moment so I thought I would add them to my sketch.



As usual I try to keep my sketches simple as it allows for individual scrapbooking style to have a say in the overall design.

This is my page, it ended up as a mirror image of the sketch and I used squares as the paper I used was all squares that I cut out.

Joan stayed true to the sketch.

Pam has adapted my sketch to suite her style but you can see the elements of the sketch are all there.

I will be back soon with pages from the challenge Helen and I had set each other.

Hope you have a great Jubilee weekend.