William K T D: Congratulations!!!

Hiya peeps

Today I would like to show you a
New Baby Boy
boxed card that my best friend &
husband (of 40+ year) middle daughter
(I will call her R for this post),
she received this week.

Its extra large, at just over 9 in x 8.5 in
in white, is a triple fold backward opening card.

The main hand coloured digital image is from the
delightful Di's Digi Designs and the cute,
lovable image of animals (on the inside fold)
is called "Animal Shelf 2" & available here 

I coloured the whole image in using pencil crayons.

I would love to be able to tell you about any
of the dies that I have used on this card & box,
but, honestly, I cant remember!! (I have that
many and dont keep packaging for them)

Blue baby feet sheer & the baby themed shaped ribbons were bought from an old website.
They might be available from elsewhere...

Organza Pale Yellow, Pale Blue (wider) Satin
and the Blue Bay Washing Line ribbons are all
available from Crafty Ribbons here in the 
West Country, England.

All the items used for this card & box
are used from my own stash.

I wish to enter this card into the following challenges:

Di's Digi Design Challenge Blog - #For the Boys 

World Wide Open DT Challenge #09 Anything Goes

613 Avenue #213 Anything Goes optional twist Clean & Simple

Create & Inspire #77 Anything Goes or Inspired By A Song

Cute Card Thursday #550 Anything Goes

Morgan's ArtWorld Open Challenge #10 Anything Goes


Crafty Sentiments Designs - AG

Next project for a DT.....

Hiya peeps

Todays card is my DT card for the

Creatalicious Challenge Blog #148

end of September competition. As our theme

this time ANYTHING GOES with optional use texture,

I added 4 different items on to this project to give the

"Texture" option part of our challenge. These textures are

explained as you continue to read through this post.

The card measures 22.5cm x 21cm (8.75in x 8.24in approx)

and is made using 2 x A4 sheets of linen effect white 255gsm

brought from my favourite cardstock website Papermill Direct

located in the Lake District. 

I coloured the gorgeous digital image from Mari Digis Store

  called Mermaid and her horse thats according to Google

Translation that is!, with pencil crayons and added Liquid Glass to her eyes, the seahorse's eyes and all the bubbles. 

****Oh, I do apologise, sincerely, I published this post without double checking and realised that I hadnt finished writing it****
I put that to one side whilst I created the card base, the matt & layering, and adding some of the texture with a lime green "spiders web" netting that I brought from a well known shopping channel for craft stash, added a width of white lace, 
stuck down a strip of blue satin and added a thinner strip of pink ribbon. I still decided that it needed something else....
So it was then time to add pearl effect squares with pearl effect center. i did carefully measure the length of embellishment that I needed to give the 2 small rows of 6 for each side. The final piece of ribbon was the wide seahorse & sea bed that was stuck down to each side. The large round circle in the top left hand

side is a "hammered" effect clear crystal sparklies of 14mm width, available from a wonderful website called The Ribbon Girl. 

I wish to enter this card into the following challenges:

Aurora Wings #71 Inspired By Music - The Beautiful Briny from Bedknobs and Broomsticks

World Wide Open DT #09 - AG

Foxy....

Hiya peeps

Todays card is a project I made this week

to enter in to some blog challenges. I also

wanted to let you know what Im up to when

Im not blogging about my DT projects.

The delightful image in this card is called a Pawfect Day from Tiddly Inks

The card is a standard 15x15cm (6x6 inch) and was made from a slightly embossed card which has a beautiful sheen when in a certain light, (unfortunately

I dont remember where I brought this cardstock from). I added a light piece of beige coloured same

cardstock then topped it with a piece of patterned

paper with large flowers, branches and birds (of which you cant see). I added the piece of vintage cream lace,

added the pencil crayon coloured image, which was matted on to a piece of gold sheen cardstock and

foam pads. The paw prints and sentiment (sentiment

of which I had added a red colour on to the word

"b-day"), are from the same image set from Tiddly Inks. The large round circle in the top left hand

side is a "hammered" effect clear crystal

sparklies of 14mm width, available from a wonderful website called The Ribbon Girl. 

I wish to enter this card into the following challenges:

Tiddly Inks #217 Boys, Boys, Boys

World Wide Open DT #09 Anything Goes

Creative Craft Cottage #111 Ribbon and/or Lace

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #1838 Anything Goes

Crafting With Friends #73 Anything Goes

Pixies Snippets Playground #335 Anything Goes

Di's Digi Designs #For The Boys

Addicted To Stamps and More! #312 Make Your Mark

A card to believe in...

Hiya peeps

Todays blog post is for my Design Team
project for the
Not Just Cards Challenge Blog

I decided to use a very recent card which is
about a magical, fantasy inspired animal
called the Unicorn!!

I know Unicorns are all the rage at the moment

for both little girls, big girls & adults alike,

well, mainly female anyway. They are so beautiful, graceful and majestically all at the same time.

I have been drawn to the "fan club" by making 
the following card as well as another one &

a mermaid (yes another fantasy creature) all
for the birthday girl (from Mum, Nan & Uncle).

For this Unicorn card I used a lovely cute digi from

Pink Gem Designs called "Birthday Unicorn" card
topper set. It fits an 8x8 inch square card but can
be altered in most photo editing software including "Paint".
I left the digi at that size, making the whole card roughly 10" (25.5cm) square. All card stock is from Papermill Direct 
(in the Lake District and my favourite card supplier).
All the decoupage layers were added using foam pads, ribbons, pearls (for the number) and then the row of flower pearls are all from my own stock. The verse was taken from my stash that I have ready printed off. I cant remember where I found it.

I very much hope that I inspire you to
join in with our blog challenge,
you have until Oct 10th 9pm (GMT)

I wish to enter this card into the following challenges:

World Wide Design #08

My project for this months DT....

Challenge  #146 August 31st

My membership part of being on the DT for

Creatalicious Challenge Blog
where the challenge (#146) is Anything Goes
(with the option to use pastel colours)

This month the wonderful company
Sasayaki Glitter is sponsoring the challenge and offered us a few digis to work with, one of them was Image #113 Summer Fun

I just wanted to make a simple card, one that I could
post on to one of my many Facebook friends for their
birthday (postage is just too high now to make a heavily embellished card).  I folded an A4 piece of green card in half, added the piece of multi coloured chevron striped paper (from a set of free papers that I receive from a craft magazine that I subscribe to) taping that in place going from the top of the horizontal sided card
to the bottom. I then coloured the digi image with my pencil crayons (with the intent of making it bright & colourful for the summer season). To make the sun glasses and glass of drink shiny I added some drops of liquid glass from DecoArt. I believe this is available from various larger sized websites & shops (just leave it to air dry). The words "With Love" are cut in coloured card using a steel die and glued to square
pieces of scrap pale green gingham paper & then stuck to the same yellow card to match the card mounted beneath the coloured image (in a bright yellow). The pearl effect mini flowers glued to the flip flops on the image are from my own stash (they cover a small flower drawn on the image).

I hope you can join us in the challenge for this month.

An Orange card....

Hiya peeps

Todays card is an unusual one for me which includes an

image by Becky's Place. I have used the image that is offered free during the August challenge. 

Its an A5 card using card stock from Papermill Direct

in the colours of Mandarin Orange (240gsm) and Buff (260gsm) with natural raffia and stick on pearls & gems for the embellishments. The rounded edge die is from a set of Spellbinders dies and the sentiment die is from Tonic Studios. 

I wish to enter this card into the following challenges: 

Becky's Place #August

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #392

Crafts Galore Encore #54