Anniversary

XOXO Lovefest - ANNIVERSARY

It's time for our third February Challenge! As you probably know, we are posting a challenge each Friday during the month of February. Now, it's all about Anniversary cards.

This is for a friends 2nd wedding anniversary, it's a bit late but thanks to Caarvarks for the challenge it jogged my memory!

Die cutting again.... with a little of my doodling round the hearts, adding gems. Then I stamped border stamp in black and used glitter pen for the centre of flowers. I tried to stick with colours to suit both of them, hope they like it!

Thanks for stopping by, and just a quick note to answer a few baby questions, I am due 5 weeks on friday. Still getting morning sickness, and tiredness. Am awake at silly times (look at time of this post), she's very active in my belly. Thank you all for congrats, I mentioned it in previous posts... it's just sometimes I forget that I'm pregnant & I get told off for doing too much and not resting!

Girly Pink, Candy Challenge!

Claudia is having a challenge for some blog candy....

"Please celebrate 30.000 hits on my blog with me. Wow... thanks to all of you. This is a big number for me in only a little bit more than 3 months of blogging. Some of you i know from postings here and from other blogs or from boards but most of you i dont know. I would like to know a "little" bit more of you.What is YOUR favorite color? Mine is defenetly Stampin up's Chocolate Chip.To win this blog candy I would like you to make a card or project with your favorite color."

I have wanted to try a pop up card for a while, I enjoy trying new folds. I've taken lots of pics of this one, click on any to enlarge. At the moment I am really loving Pink, I think it must be carrying a girl makes me girly.

This is for my cousins Birthday, it is pretty much all die cuts using the sizzix shoe set, made with papers mostly from DCWV.

Thanks as always for stopping by!

Excellent Blog Award!

Thank you so much Lou, this very talented papercrafter has rated my blog with Excellence! Totally pleased. Of course I have to award it right back to Lou as she is an amazingly, excellent blogger!

So now I need to pick some people to pass it on to.

This is NOT an easy task, there are SO many fantastic blogs to choose from All the ones in my list I would recomend but here's a few more....

So, in alphabetical order, they are;

Kim is amazing, you really have to take a look... http://paperhugs.typepad.com/

Lauren is always on the go and gives herself to everyone, check out this talented lady.. http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/

Rachelle is a truely talented artist, she will inspire true creativity, Stunning!http://rachelleannemiller.com/

Thanks for stopping by, and your continued interest, makes me very Happy!

Love and Friendship

DCM Dare - Love and Friendship.....

Keryn and Rachel are daring you to make a card in the theme of love and friendship for one of the special people in your life. It could be a valentines card, a thankyou for a close friend or a way to propose to the man in your life on the 29th February.

There is no expectation that everyone can or will use Stampin' Up!(R) product in their dare cards but if you can Keryn and Rachel would love to see what you come up with.

I used my stampin' up lovely as a tree set, which I love it can suit so many occassions. I stamped my trees in versamark and used blending chalks for the colouring!

I then cut with my nestabilities & inked edges. I wanted to try a different fold and marked the card to fit the cut images, then used my cutting mat only covering the die by half. I concertina folded so that it still fits into a C5 envelope.

The sentiment is from see D's set. The front section I used cuttlebug embossing folder and lightly inked.

Thanks for stopping by, HuGs!

Happy Valentine's Everyone

Flocked Love Letters

This is the card I made for my other half, and it also fits in with the DCM extra dare - We have Valentines day coming up on the 14th- as you well know, and obviously we have to do a romantic type dare to celebrate! So, this weeks little extra is to give us a card with a romantic theme AND to use both red and black ribbon!

I was so pleased with how the letters came out... I've included a picture of my flocking half way through. I die cut each letter in double sided sticky sheet using a heart shape for the 'V'. I then placed them on the acetate. I peeled off the front protective sheet then put this through swirl die cut. I placed all the pieces back into place like a jigsaw, so that I can cover selective areas in flock. I Flocked first with fun flock, then removed the rest of sheet and covered the swirls in glitter.

I used eyelets to fix the acetate layer in place over DCWV patterned paper, then threaded red and black ribbon through. 'Hugs and kisses' were rub ons under acetate.

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It's a shame the flocking didn't come out in the photo very well, it has a lovely texture, very velvety. Thanks for stopping by and Happy Valentine's! HuGs x

Asian Fan

Thought I would have a go at the challenge set on Wednesday Stamper...

This week we challenge you with ASIA! Being a big continent, you can pick any country of your choice, any style you like, or maybe just add an Asian element to your creation.

Yet again I used the sketch over at Ismaki's No.5 and also used 2 - option colours : (brown / rose) (sorry for combining, I will try not to in future).

I stamped floral apple blossom stamp on the background layer with brilliance dew drop ink. The next layer I used DCWV new stack printed paper (matt and layered). The fan I stamped once onto backing paper and second on the floral paper. I cut out the one on floral paper to make it 3d with foam pads.

The sentiment (chinese proverb) is inked on edges and raised on 3d foam on thick brown grosgrain ribbon. For the butterfly I cut out each layer and used gold wax to rid the whiteness & attached as shown.

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Thanks for stopping by!

Stripey Thanks

Papertake Weekly challenge -

This weeks challenge is 'Simply Stripes' - quite self explanitory really lol! This weeks challenge is to use stripes on your project!

I have used the sketch from Ismaki No 6, but not sure I was meant to combine (just read that on her blog), sorry!

I haven't used a lot of stripes, mostly at the bottom and a little for the sentiment. I stamped the stalk from fancy pants pollen dust with green ink, Instead of stamping a flower head I went for die cut, which I adhered to vellum. I have added clear glaze pen on the leaves and pollen on flower (not sure you can see in pic).

I embossed paper for the stripe across the card, I used nestabilities to matt and layer the stamped image. The large scallop is vellum to co-ordinate with the petals.

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Thanks for stopping by, I love all your wonderful comments, cheers!