Colin's Birthday Card

Hello There,

My beautiful husband, Colin, had a birthday today and obviously I had to create a suitable card for him.  Unfortunately it was rather hot here the night I was making it and I was sweating as I was stamping, which is just not right.  I don't cope well with the heat.  Anyway, thankfully I had some inspiration from a sketch challenge from STAMPlorations.  Here is the sketch:

 

And here is my card:

 

 

Some of the detail of the inside of the card.

 

 

 

Colin loved his card, it was definitely worth sweating for!

 

Thanks for stopping by and may the crafting force be with you.

Birthday Card

Hi There,

I wanted to make a male birthday card and was able to combine two challenges, a layout and a colour challenge, to come up with a card.  The layout challenge comes from Just Add Ink and the colour combination comes from Chromatic Craze.  Here is the layout design:

 

 

and here are the colours:

 

 

Here is my card:

Thanks for stopping by and may the crafting force be with you!

 

 

Perfectly Rustics - Love Challenge

Hi There,

The challenge at Perfectly Rustics this fortnight is to show the love and to include the word 'Love' in your creation. I am slowly working my way through my wedding photos and decided to use a photo of myself and my bridal assistant and good friend, James.  I am not one to get all excited about weddings and when it came to choosing a bridesmaid I instantly thought of James.  It was so much easier to hire a suit and not have to worry about hair and make-up etc etc.  It is definitely the way to go.  I decided to team the theme of Love with the layout challenge over at Sketch n Scrap.  This is the layout design:

 Here is my page:

Thanks for stopping by and may the crafting force be with you!

Frosted Designs Sketch Challenge

Hello There,

I came across another scrapping challenge when looking for inspiration the other day.  The team at Frosted Designs came up with a layout challenge as well as using paint, mist or ink on the page. Well using ink on a page is no drama for me!  Here is the layout design:

 

And here is my page:

 

 

I stamped the banners for the side of the journaling panel and punched them out with some new Stampin' Up! products that are in the Sale-a-Bration catalogue which commences soon.  I love the soft colours, which I took inspiration from the paper that I used.

 

Thanks for stopping by and may the crafting force be with you!

 

 

 

Sketchabilities Challenge 107

Hello There,

Sketchabilities have a new layout challenge at the moment, which I decided to join in on.  I am loving the layout challenges that Sketchabilities are putting up and look forward to seeing what they come up with next.  With so many photos to scrap I am always looking for inspiration via online challenges.  Here is the layout design:

 

Here is my page:

 

 

 

 

I used vellum to make my own colour coordinated washi tape by using the Tape It stamp set.

 

Thanks for stopping by and may the crafting force be with you.

 

 

 

 

Scrap & Music Challenge 19

Hello There,

With new products in hand I decided to play along with the Scrap & Music challenge, plus I love the song that has been chosen, Kiss Me by Ed Sheeran.  Here is the sketch:

 

And here is my page:

 

  

 I used vellum on this page which I stamped on and coloured in with markers.  The photos are from our Honeymoon we were at Emerald Lake in Canada.

May the crafting force be with you.

The Arrival of Thomas

Hello There,

One of my dear friends and her lovely partner, welcomed their beautiful baby boy into this world on Sunday 12 January 2014, they named him Thomas.  Obviously I had to make a suitable card so I went looking for a challenge to partake in and found the My Time to Craft challenge of make an easel card.  Easel cards are not something I have made a lot of so I thought I would give it a go as I wanted the card to be special. So here is my easel card:

 

 

 



 

Perfectly Rustics - Colour Challenge

Hello There,

 

This fortnight over at Perfectly Rustics I have set a colour challenge.  I included Garden Green as one of the colours as I don't believe that it gets out there enough.    Here are the colours:

 

 

 

 

Here is my card:

 

 

I made this card for a friend (male) for his birthday, the road is washi tape, just one of the many rolls that my darling husband gave me for Christmas.

 

 

I look forward to seeing your creations using the above colours at Perfectly Rustics.

 

 

May the crafting force be with you!

 

 

Sketchabilities Challenge #106

Hello There,

I am just loving the sketches that are put together by the Sketchabilities team so I joined in with there latest challenge.  Here is the layout:

 

Here is my page:

 

 

This one of my favourite photos from our wedding day.  I don't know about you but I dread scrapping favourite photos just in case it does not work out properly but I took the plunge with this photo and I am so happy with the way that it has come together.  I used washi tape to make the flower, I just love washi tape, so versatile.

 

Happy Crafting and may the crafting force be with you!

 

Owen

Hello There,

Thought I would share a few recent photos of our little man, Owen.

 

Getting a sweet kiss from my beautiful little man.

 

Kicking back on the couch, watching the movie of the moment 'Polar Express'

 

Seeking refuge on his trike from the overly friendly ducks at the Country Club Resort when we went to feed them on Saturday.

 

Here are the ducks, they liked to snatch the food bag out of your hands!  I put the food in my hands and we counted to three then I would open my hand and let the ducks hoover the food of my hand, Owen thought this was very funny indeed.

 

Owen having some fun with stickers!

 

My Auntie Avril, who lives in Scotland, sent Owen the First Fire Station Duplo set for Christmas so we built a massive structure using this one and other sets.  Owen and I had great fun building this structure.

 

Where's the fire at?

 

Sheer concentration as he drives the fire truck!

 

Thanks for stopping by and may the crafting force be with you.

Scrap & Music - Nothing Else Matters

Hello There,

I had such fun completing the Scrap & Music challenge for the first time a couple of weeks ago, that I thought I would give their next challenge a go.  The song for this challenge is "Nothing Else Matters" by Metallica. Here is the layout: 

Here is my page:

 

 

Happy Crafting!

 

First Card of 2014

Hello There,

Thought I would show you the first card that I made in 2014,  I took inspiration for this card from the awesome work of Heather Telford.  I wanted to make a thank you for a dear friend of mine so I thought I would use Heathers work as inspiration.  Here is the card.

 

 

I did the inside of the card as well.

 

Happy Crafting!