Friends and Flowers

The last few days I have struggled with creativity. Every card I tried to make didn't work and my imagination seemed to have taken a small holiday!

However thanks to my blogging friend Brenda (check out her blog), the vacation came to an end. Brenda suggested making a card similar to one I had made before. So my card today is based on one I made a few months ago but with a new sentiment, colours.......well I guess it is new really but the old card provided the inspiration-so thank you Brenda.

The sentiment is quite hard to read here but it says-Friends Naturally beautiful. I have embossed the navy blue card.

I am going to enter this into the following challenges:
Crazy Challenge
 Incy Wincy Designs
Cute Card Thursday


Used in the card:
Sentiment: Create with TLC
Funky flowers-craftline
gems-kanban
ribbon and card-stash

Are you fit yet?

So how are the 'New Year, New You' fitness resolutions going???

My sister asked me to do a card for her friend and wanted it to be based around running in the woods!! Well that is pretty specific and I really had to get my thinking cap on. This is what I came up with:

I used some designer paper for the woods and the digi image from the stamping boutique for the runner.

The colour challenge at Colour Q inspired me to do this card-I had been dragging my feet on this as I was struggling with my sister's request! But I liked the colour combo at colour q and it all just seemed to stem from there. I decided to go with a sketch challenge and chose the one at sketch Saturday.  And just to make it a little bit more of a challenge I decided to try to incorporate a twine, button and New Year's resolution theme so I could enter the challenge at The Ribbon Reel.

I got there in the end and to be honest it was these 3 challenges combined together that gave me the inspiration to start and complete this commission!!

Used in the card:
digi image-stamping boutique
Inks-memento tuxedo back and whispers savoy green
Paper-papermill, stampin up
Twine, button from stash
sentiment clear rubber stamp-wild rose studio

Never enough shoes!

We really can do anything in the right pair of shoes.......unfortunately we never have enough shoes!

My card today is for all of us that love shoes:

I found this sentiment at Scrap-a-luscious. This site is well worth checking out. There are some great designs and this sentiment was free to download.
I chose the colours after seeing the colour challenge of pink, red and white on Just Us Girls. I found this quite a challenge as pink and red seem odd to me but I think the little red gems are sweet on the shoes and the red ribbon just finishes off the card for me. And I just love this shoe stamp from 'Hero Arts'. I embossed half of the pink card just to add some more girly features.

I am also going to enter this into the challenges at Panpasteluk and Ooh La La both sites wanting to see 2 of the same stamp used.

Have a good day all you shoe lovers out there!

Time to sew!

Happy Sunday,

Well the filing and shredding has continued and yes it is very tedious but one step closer to finishing.

But to ease the stress of all that paperwork I did some crafting and here is my card today;

These are 2 digi stamps I haven't used before so I had some fun coming up with this design.

I will be entering this into the challenges at:

Cas-ual Fridays (Black and White challenge)
Charismacardz (CAS challenge)
Wicked Wednesday (Dress challenge)

Used in the card:
dress digi image form 'craft pad designs
tape measure digi image-mygrafico

Time to Waltz

Happy Saturday to all.

Today I have made a card for my sister's friend who is a ballroom dancer. So I thought this waltz digi was perfect for her card:

Very similar to my Tango cards here.
I followed the challenge sketch this week at Willow Sketches and also the theme of 'Music and Dance' at Cute Card Thursday.

Making this was a stress release as today Callum and I have continued sorting out our craft room. And to do this I have challenged myself to sort out all our paperwork and filing. Oh my goodness-what a job. I have been shredding papers we have accumulated as far back as 2005. So try to imagine how much more I still have to do!! I am doing this so I can have room to store my ever increasing craft stash. My Dad is coming up this week to put up 6 shelves so all Callum's music study books and c.d's can be stored. Callum has thousands and thousands of c.d's and he really believes he will listen to them all.  I have persuaded him to get rid of maybe 10!! And, you know how some people store c.d's in A-Z well he stores his colour coded-weird right. But when I test him (as I can't understand how he would know where they are) he can describe the exact picture on the cover of the c.d-weired right??

Anyway tomorrow the work continues but hopefully I can end the day as today with a card to share-please cross your fingers for me x

Used in the card:
Digi image from delicious doodles
ibbon-stash
Kanban gems
Card and paper-back to basics and papermill

Love and Marriage

We may all be preparing for the month of Love but I also have to prepare for a few friend's weddings this year. So today I started playing around with a few ideas. My card today was first inspired by this photo at Jay Gee's Nook :

The colours made me think of weddings and the flowers draped over the vase in the photo at the bottom right of the picture, gave me the idea for the embossing folder I have used in my card:

The sentiment (again from create with TLC) has come out a bit scratchy on the photo-not sure why as it is clear?? I did struggle trying to get a good photo of this but I hope you can make out the drapy flowers that I have embossed on the white card. A very Clean and Simple card but one that, to me, feels just right for a wedding.

This card will also go into the challenge at The Inspired-the wedding dress in the photo being my inspiration.

Used in card:
sentiment-create at TLC
embossing folder-handy hippo
Kanban gems
Papillon ribbon

Rocking Wednesday!

Today I was doing some clearing out and instead of throwing away an old tissue box I decided to use it to make a card. The picture on the box is of pebbles and rocks and I remembered the sentiment 'you are my rock' that I had from Create with TLC. Perfect match, so I decided to combine these 2 and make a card for Callum.

Callum really is my rock and, particularly over the last 5 years when times have been tough for me, he has always been there for me. So when I saw this sentiment I had to have it!

I used my Big Shot to cut the hearts and emboss the olive paper.
I chose the colours after seeing the colour combo challenge at Colour Throwdown- red, olive, kraft and ivory. I have also entered this into the 'die-cut' challenge at Stamping Boutique

Used in card:
sentiment from Create with TLC
papers-stampin up, papermill, dcwv.
card for heart-tissue box from Sainsburys-own brand!
Kraft card-Handy Hippo