My Mojo Has Been On Holiday

Happy Saturday Crafters!

A bank holiday weekend ... and we have rain! (lol!)

I have not crafted anything for ages - my mojo went on holiday - it came back just in time for me to make a card and present for another schoolfriend of my daughter whose birthday and party was today.

I'm not very good at choosing presents for children who I don't know very well, and I usually buy or make something small and give some money as well. So this week's challenge at Whiff of Joy was perfect - make a money card. I just added a strip of card inside, and made a small envelope to slip the money into.





The image I've used is Queen Charlotte, and I've coloured her with Promarkers, watercolour pencils and Sakura Stardust pens, then cut her out and popped her on with glue gel. The mats for the image have been die-cut using my gorgeous Nellie Snellen dies (I love this shape), and then the lemon card was embossed using a Cuttlebug embossing folder. I've done paper weaving with the Kay and Co papers for the background, and then added punched flowers. I decided not to add a sentiment on the front of the card - I thought it could then be hung on her bedroom wall.

I'm entering this card into this week's Sketch Saturday challenge - it's a fluke that my card (roughly) fits the sketch actually but I can definitely see the sketch in there - you might need to look hard (lol!)

The gift I made is a photo hanger - paper weaving again. I have made the frame myself, using my Crafters Companion Ultimate Pro - I had to jiggle this about a bit when embossing, as the frame on the board was a bit too big for what I needed. So, I think this can be entered in this week's Cute Card Thursday challenge, which is make your own (made my own frame). The frame has been added on with foam tape, and Queen Charlotte and the flowers have been added with 3D glue gel, so I'm also entering this in the A Spoon Full of Sugar challenge, which is 3D.





Hope you're still with me after this lengthy post - thanks for looking - and enjoy the rest of your weekend!

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

For a Few Challenges

Hello Peoples

This is just a quickie post to enter a few challenges. I'm really sorry about the skew wiff photo - I tried to straighten it and made it worse!!



I'm entering this card for the following challenges:

Friday Sketchers - the sketch I followed
Cute Card Thursday - Dimension - I decoupaged the image which is Jenson Skater, a digi image from Pollycrafts
Creative Card Crew - Going Dotty - the papers I used
Simple Doodles - Add some layers - layers of papers and the decoupaged layers

That's it from me.

See you soon.

Love, Andrea xx