Yesterday I found out that one of my Mum and Dad's oldest friend is really having a hard time living with cancer and they wanted a card to give him that showed they cared.  Now I've known Jack all my life, his wife was there for my Mum when she started going into labour until Dad arrived.  Now Jack is a lifelong Bury F.C supporter and my husband and his family are fans of bury's biggest rival the mighty Rochdale A.F.C

Now I wanted Jack to know we cared but I didn't want him to think I felt sorry for him so thought I would have a little joke with the card.  I also felt that the usual Get Well Soon was not right for obvious reasons.

I needed to explain all this as you just wouldn't understand the wording otherwise.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges :

Critter Sketch - anything goes

Simon says stamp - anything goes

Stamptacular - anything goes but be creative (I needed to be creative with the wording)

Crafty pad - blue and brown

Paper sundaes - super duper sketch

Pile it on - B is for .... Bear

Bugaboo - anything goes

Card making mamas - digi week

Stamp something - digi week

Do you stack up - friendly critters

Isn't he just the cutest!! He is of course Teddy Bo.  He has just had his shop made-over and would love to show it off to you if you pop over.  He is coloured with my super duper copic's.  In the sketch the image had inverted rounded corner's and sadly I don't have one of those punches so instead I'm using a woodware one Mum won and gave me.  The paper's are actually nitwit one's that came in a pack with a magazine.  I so love these denim look papers.  The gems were originally clear but I coloured them with my copic's to match in with the colour scheme.

I really liked this sketch so much so I continued with it on the inside of the card.

Now there is some blog candy on offer over at Cutie Pie Challenge and everytime I look more stash has been added.  The blog candy is available until the launch of the challenge on the 19th september, which is just 2 weeks today!!!

If you would like to sponsor our "amazing" challenge get in quick as our sponsorship is filling up by the day!!

Hugs

H xx

It's raining hearts on Teddy Bo and Bea

The other day I mentioned to my MIL that I wanted to do a shaker card and as soon as she saw Love Showers Teddy Bo digi stamp she said that I should get that and make it into the shaker card.  So as any good daughter-in-law would do I did as I was told and went to the shop and added love showers to my basket.  As I was there another couple of digi's fell in the basket and then I saw that Gayle had released the first lot of their new goodies, a new 8x8" patterned papers book so that fell in too.  Well it would be rude not to wouldn't it??

The papers arrived this morning and I'm regretting only buying 1 lot of papers.  They are gorgeous and printed on the best quality paper I've ever found.  I had planned on using them on this card but just couldn't take my scissor's to them. 

I am entering this card into the following challenge :

Bunny Zoe's - easel cards

Cute card thursday - weddings

Craft us crazy - anything goes

Teddy Bo - love is in the air

Anything goes - celebrations

Bearly mine - bling

Critter sketch - wedding

Stamptacular - fancy folds

Totally gorjuss - going round in circles

I began by colouring in Teddy Bo and Bea in sepia tones to match the gold sequin hearts.  The actual shaker piece is the plastic covering for the red thin super sticky tape.  I them went onto the gallery on Make the cut and found this gorgeous frame.  I needed to fiddle with it a bit to get it the perfect fit for my shaker.I them cut it out of punch tape and covered it in gilding flakes.  Next came the time consuming job of brushing off all the excess flakes, which wasn't easy due to the frame having so many fiddly bits.  I finally cut a shadow mat and glued everything together.  The front is finished with card candi by craftwork cards.

The inside was made to repeat the front, only making smaller frames to fit the wedding sentiment on.  The cream spotty paper is Bo Bunny double dot.

I think that just about covers it all,

Hugs

H xx

My little girl is turning 21

I don't have any children but due to certain things I got the honour of helping to bring up my niece Rachel.

She turns 21 on the 12th and I feel soooo old.  She's currently working and living in Devon on a dairy farm.  As she most definitely not a girly-girl I had to think of images that were "just her".

I would like to enter Rachel's card into the following challenges :

Tuesday Morning sketches - great sketch guys

Papertake - anything goes -optional metallic, I used metallic card

Critter sketch - summer fun - the sun is on her t-shirt

i-copic - skin tones

Dutch dare - birthdays

Stamps r us - birthdays

copic oz - hair

Paper sundaes - sky and clouds
Cupcake challenge - how old/ include an age

As soon as I saw this stamp I thought of Rachel, its by Nellie Snellen and you can find here.  She is coloured with copics.  All three blue papers have different textures on them.  The mirri blue is from kanban, the others I'm not too sure of.  The 21 was cut out of the same card as the image mat and I then put it through my zyron sticker maker and then covered it in glamour dust glitter.  The ribbon and crocheted lace are from my stash.

Thanks for dropping on by today,

Big Hugs

H xx

Craft Your Passion Guest Design Spot

Today see's me starting my Guest Design spot at Craft Your Passion challenge blog.

Today is challenge #69 and the theme is Anything Goes.

My image comes courtesy of Doodle Pantry. 

My image is coloured with my copic's.  I added glossy accents to the candy corn.  The sky is done with my small stipple brush and a clouds template.  This is such a great technique.  The excellent video tutorial is by Bev Rochester and you can find the cloud template I use here. 

The tag's sentiment is computer generated and tied with some bakers divine twine and the extra corn candy were hand drawn, coloured and then covered in glossy accents.

The backing paper is actually yellow card covered with orange angel hair.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges :

Critter Sketch - the sketch I used

A spoonful of sugar - use a tag

Allsorts - free and easy

Thanks for dropping on by and I hope to see you again next week for another challenge.

Thanks so much for dropping on by today,

hugs

H xx

Happy 40th Wedding Anniversary

Today is my wedding anniversary and on Sunday its my in-laws 40th wedding anniversary.  Unfortunately my hubby didn't get a card as I've been really busy with card orders.  Don't feel sorry for him coz I didn't get a card either.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges :

Totally Papercrafts  - bling it up (glitter, flowers, gems in the flowers and on the bow, clear glitter pen on champagne then coated in glossy accents)

Charisma Cardz - four legged friends (both bunnies)

Anything goes - flowers
The outlawz - anything goes
Lili of the Valley - the sketch used

The main DP is a Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen that I got for £1 from Every Crafts A Pound.

The ribbon was carefully removed from a parcel.  Th gem in its centre is from some jewellery from Primark.

The image from Lili of the Valley is coloured with copic's, with some glamour dust glitter and i coloured the champagne glasses with clear glitter pen and then I covered them with glossy accents.

The three flowers were in a pack that I got from The stamp pad in Saddleworth.

I really like this card.  Come back tomorrow for another Lili of the Valley card.

Teddy Bea is a star

I'm cutting it fine making the deadline for the Teddy Bo challenge but I've made it with 24 hours to go.

So I would like to enter this card into the following challenges :

Sketch Saturday - the great sketch used

DYSU - wings

Stamp something - favourite embellishments - glitter and ribbons

Emerald fairy - all things nice

Totally Gorjuss - punches or dies

Allsorts - free and easy

Critter sketch - a birthday card to myself would have a teddy bo image and lots of glitter

Stamptacular - animals

Teddy Bo - use a teddy bea image

Teddy Bea is coloured with my copic and also a clear sakura stardust pen for her wand.  The punched borders above and below the ribbon is a fiskars bracket punch.  The stars were cut on my cricut and covered in glamour dust as is the edge of the star sentiment.

So thanks for dropping on by,

Hugs

H xx

Look Who's 1

This card is to celebrate a relative's 1st birthday.

I am entering this card into the following challenges :

Doodle Dragon - you must use the image I have used

Sunday Sketch and Stamp - the sketch below

Critter sketch - use yellow and green

Sorry for the quick post but hopefully I'll be back to normal mext week,

H xx

Critter sketch card

This card is being entered into the following two challenges :

Critter sketch challenge - sketch below

and 

Lili of the Valley - Animal Antics

These mice are called Cherry on top.  They are coloured with my copics and then I added glossy accents to the cherries.  The PP and ribbon is from my stash and the sentiment is from the Docrafts tulip range.

H xx