For a Few Challenges

Happy Hump Day! I've had a day's leave today, and not done any housework (yaaaaay!!!!). I spent ages this morning looking for a present for my sister in law, and still haven't decided what to get :(

But, this afternoon, I managed to make her a card - although I'm not all that happy with it really - not sure why LOL! I do wish I'd used eyelets to feed the ribbon through on the image instead of just cutting a slit.



The BP is Kay and Co, and the image is Demure stamp from Sugar Nellie (coloured with promarkers). I received the lace in a RAK, ribbon from my stash, and the flowers, brads and sentiment stamp are Papermania.

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:

The Sugar Bowl - the sketch I followed
Speedy the Cat's Friends - flowers
Magical Crafts - flowers
Quirky Crafts - ribbons
Creative Craft Challenges - stamp it up

I do have another card to show you - not sure whether to keep it for tomorrow or post it later tonight (LOL!)

Anyway, thanks for popping by and I hope you come back sometime!

Love, Andrea xx

Cute Card Thursday

Hello Everyone - wow, today is such a beautiful day - almost made me want to go out in the garden (but not quite (lol!)) - I really do not have green fingers or any kind of garden design inspiration, and I so wish I did. But I have been out without a coat today (yippee!!).

As I said yesterday, I am in the process of making a few cards for the Do Crafts Create a Card Campaign for Cancer Research. And I've just discovered that this week's challenge on Cute Card Thursday is Mono Mania, so I can enter one of the cards I've made.

This card is C6 size, the papers are DCWV Floral Prints Stack, and the image is Demure from Sugar Nellie (she is so beautiful isn't she?), and I've coloured her with Promarkers for skin and hair and watercolour pencils for her dress. I've also added glittery colour with Copic Spica pens. The ribbon is from my stash, the flowers were punched out and then Papermania flower gems added. And that's it - a simple card that still took me ages to create! I haven't added a sentiment - do you think I should? I'd love to know what you think!

Thanks for looking and I hope you are able to pop back again sometime!

PS - Sorry about another naff photo!!

Love, Andrea xx

My Second Mother's Day Card

Hello Everyone - I hope you've had a wonderful weekend! We had such a beautiful day here today, lovely and sunny, but a little chilly! And I had a lovely day yesterday when I discovered that I was lucky enough to be the winner of last week's Sketch Saturday challenge - lucky green for me definitely - see the card in my previous post!

I am happier with this second Mother's Day card. I am entering it in this week's Sugar Bowl Challenge - which is a sketch with the added 'please include' theme of 'Shabby Chic'. I'm not very good at distressing, so I used some Kay and Co papers which looked shabby chic to me. The round mat was sprayed with Memories Mist, then embossed with my new Cuttlebug, and then sanded to show the embossed design. I also made a paper flower - I'm so pleased with it - I followed the tutorial here and I did use tissue paper out of a shoe box! - instead of using an ink pad, I lightly highlighted the creases of the paper with a promarker. The image is Demure from Sugar Nellie, and I coloured her with promarkers.


I hope you like my card - my next project is a card for a Golden Wedding - hope to show that to you soon.

Love, Andrea xx