‘Here Comes The Bride’

Well this week this challenge was just perfect for me as my cousin is getting married in June and i needed to get a card made for her and her future husband.  Now I won’t be in a rush like i usually am at the last minute.

Ok so here is my card:

The silver card I have had a long time and i love this card so tend to use it sparingly as not sure when i will get anything like it again.

DP: SU Nouveau Chic

Silver flower and horse shoe charm from card charms

Sentiment is computer generated and printed directly onto the card

RECYCLING!

Well I think the title says it all.  We have to make our project recycling something.

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Ok so here is my creation.

I decided to recycle bits from a card i received a long while ago now.  I always save my cards and sometimes use bit off of them at a lot later date after i have enjoyed them for a while.

I decided not to make too much of a fussy card this time as i wanted to enjoy the elements that i had chosen from my source.  I hope you like it

This weeks challenge is a Sketch created by our brilliant Emma

And this week we are sponsored by

And what a fabulous prize it is so pop over to the challenge blog and take a look.

Ok so here is  my creation for this week

I’m not entirely happy with the way this card came out, but it’s definitely better than some of the attempts I made.  I seem to be lacking a bit of mojo this week.

Images: FREE download bundle – Tropical Bird
Polka Doodles

DP: my minds eye – wild asparagus

Well as you can guess I was very excited and couldn’t wait to get started.  The DT is split into 2 teams so we only have to make a creation every 2 weeks and guess what i am team 2 so had to wait a little before my teams challenge.

But here we go with this weeks challenge.

The Theme this week is:

 April Showers

And we are being sponsored this week by:

Here is my creation for this weeks challenge

Image: Row Changito row – Stampendous

DP are some scraps of some SU papers I was given so sorry do not know from which collection.

Ribbon from stash

handmade paper roses by me

I have been so busy with hospital and physio visits that i just haven’t had chance to get in my craft room this week and i didn’t want to miss certain challenges that i love playing.

Well finally i have been able to make a card

I have made this card for 2 challenges

Less is More ONE LAYER CARD with the theme OFF THE EDGE

Creative Card Crew No flowers.

Image and sentiment Papermania Stamping for him

coloured with water colour pencils

"Make it Girly"

Our sponsor this week is Pink Cat Studios

For this weeks card I decided I was going to have a play at making a Drawer easel card, something i have seen blog hopping but wasn’t sure how to go about it.

So as a challenge to myself I sat down and had a play with making my own.  This took many attempts at trying to get the measurements right but finally I think I managed to do it.

Here is the finished drawer card I made.

Hopefully when I get the chance this week I will try and do a tutorial for this card with my measurements.

DP: My Minds Eye – Wild asparagus

Image: Making handmade cards – Glam bags and Heels

I found some nice white embossed paper in my stash and coloured in the flowers and leaves with versa color.  I decided to try and colour match the ribbon by using copic marker to change the colour of the white ribbon

Well i didn’t realise just how little pastel stash i had until i started searching though so i don’t think i am really very happy with this card but i thought i would enter it anyway and see what happens.

I have inked the background strips  directly onto the card using Versa color Seashell and smoke blue and then embossed some lines to give it a bit of definition.

The flower and sentiment are from Papertrey Ink Friends til the end collection.  I have used some seed beads to finish off the centre of the flower

At Creative Card Crew this week the challenge is to Make something Gothic

Hmm I’ve never made anything gothic and when i search through my images i couldn’t find anything gothicy either.  So I decided to download a Kenny K digital image and have a play.

I hope this is Gothic enough

I decided to use things from my scrap box for this.  I roughened up my dp around the edges and inked them.  then out came my mini sewing matching for some stitching.  I found some black feathery fibres and made some black paper roses and glittered the edges.

The image is Kenny K Devastatia and i have coloured her with my copic markers.

The photo doesn’t really do this card justice.  The light in my room today is a bit dull and trying to get the colours true just wasn’t happening.

Let me know what you think.  Comments are always welcome.

SPRING into action!!!

And this weeks sponsor is :

I have really had fun with this week’s card.  I am still sorting through my craft room finding places to put things and i found out my mini sewing machine so decided to have a play with this on my card which is something i haven’t done for ages. 

I was also inspired by Heidy one of my fellow DT members to make some paper roses.  I am going to make more of these as they are so much fun.

The image is one of Robyns digital fetish Chicky  coloured with copic markers

Papers are My Minds Eye Pretty Please Spring Papers.

I Also have the great honour of being once again a member of the DT for FnF and it really is great to be home, so you will be seeing a lot more of me on here again.