SUO Challenge

Hi There,

I decided to partake in the SUO Challenge this week, which is to Make Something Masculine.  I had a birthday card for a male friend that I needed to make and I had recently purchased the Rev Up the Fun set, which I just had to ink up and have some fun with.  This is an awesome set! I don't know why I didn't get it sooner.

Here is my card:

 

 

 

 

 

This is the inside of the card:

 



 

 

Happy Crafting!

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

Hello There,

I wanted to make a special birthday card for a precious little girl who turned one today and was having an elephant theme for her birthday, so I had a look on the internet for some inspiration and came across the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge, so I thought I would give it a go.  Here is the sketch:

And here is my card:

 

Here is the gorgeous Titten modelling the card, I think she tones in beautifully with the card!

 

Happy Crafting!

Owen Turns Two!

Hello There,
Hard to believe it, but our little man turned two on Sunday.  Not sure where the past two years went but here we are.  He is currently loving all things Choo Choo, so that means Thomas and Friends, so I made him a Choo Choo cake, which he was chuffed with.  We had a small party with close friends and family.  He loved being the centre of attention, don't know where he gets that from!  Here our some photos from the day.

Opening presents!

 

 

Playing with his new James train that he got from Granny and Pa.

Lighting the candle.

 It's a choo choo!

 Yummy!

 "What cake? I didn't have any cake."

 

 Enjoying his new train play table.

 

 Trying to wake up after a nap, it was not a pretty site, Owen that is not me!

 

Happy Crafting.



Black and White

With the Just Add Ink team setting a colour challenge of black and white, I decided that they would be ideal colours for a birthday card for a friend. Having no real idea what I was going to do, I sat down with a piece of white card and a piece of black card and came with with a card rather quickly. I utilised one of the Big Shot embossing folders and the torn frame technique that my upline Sharnee demonstrated at the Stampin' Up Convention in May. I am quite happy with the end product. Some time it is good to go back to basics!

Embellish Challenge

I had a birthday card to make for a very special friend and the colours for this Embellish Challenge reminded me of her.




Here is my card:









Again I have utilised some of the techniques from Convention, even some by Shelli herself!

Just Add Ink Colour Challenge

With my Grandma's Birthday coming up I needed to make her a card and decided to utilise the colours from this weeks Just Add Ink Colour Challenge. The colours are:



Here is my card:






I was able to utilise a few techniques that we saw demonstrated at the Stampin Up Convention, including tying the perfect bow and bleaching.

Alice turns 2!

Our lovely God Daughter, Alice recently turned 2 and of course there was a celebration in honour of this event. I thought I would utilise the Inkspirations Colour Challenge as an inspiration for the card for little Alice. Here are the colours:



Here is the card I made, I used a technique that was shown at the Stampin Up Convention, double cut butterfly by the lovely Kirsty (hopefully there will be more about convention later).



Kirsty also showed us a gorgeous butterfly banner, which I just had to make for Alice.






Of course there was cake to be had and then fun on her present from her mum, a trampoline. Needless to say Alice was exhausted after all that birthday fun and I am told she was that tired, she took herself off for a nap!




Andrea with her beautiful daughter Alice.



Tim and Alice go in for some birthday cake.



Action shot of Alice on the trampoline.