Cute Card Thursday Challenge Card

This is my second post and my second challenge card, this time it is for the Cute Card Thursday blog, the challenge is called 'Get A Head Start' and is all about Christmas. I dug around in my stash earlier and found the box I keep anything Christmas related in (I find it easy to put it all together as generally you only need it once a year and it's a pain to try and find everything when it's spread all over my shelves), once I found it I started having a look at what I had left over from last year.

I have to admit there was quite a bit but then again i did go a little mad on buying Christmas craft stuff last December and also in the January sales. I thought I would try and do something different and found one of the oldest things i had in the box which was a die cut sheet with 2 Christmas images on it and some sentiments. Both images were big and I didn't really like them and then i got the idea of using part of the best image (which was a robin) so I ran it through my wizard. You can see the completed card below.



















All the items I used are all scraps and it feels good to know that i have finally found a use for something that has been laying in a box for a few years, it does feel strange that there was not a stamp in sight for this card, I made up for it later in the day though.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

Sketch Saturday Challenge Card

I've been really busy today in my craft room and have managed 4 new cards, I know it doesn't sound a lot but I like to take my time and make sure I am completely happy before I commit to using glue. My first post is for the Sketch Saturday blog, I really enjoyed making this as it has lots of layers.























I used a stamp from 'The Greetings Farm, Miss Anya - Dressy' and coloured with Pro Markers. The paper is from my stash but I couldn't locate a makers name, I am also getting to grips with my Wizard and used my new circle dies to cut out a couple of the flowers from the paper and used gems in the center to add a little bling.

My only concern is that I used the same paper for all 3 layers and all of the other cards I have seen for this challenge have 3 different styles/colours of paper, I'm not confident enough with combining lots of different colours but I did emphasize the layers by inking the edges of each piece.

Hope everyone likes it, better get on with my next post.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

Whimsy new release blog hop

Well I have the house to myself now, family left at lunchtime (and I miss them already) and the hubby has gone to work. I'm just about to head into my craft room but first waned to take part in the Whimsy new release blog hop. The start of the hop starts here and you just need to leave a comment on every blog listed. There are full instructions on the first blog and if I can do it anyone can.

Onwards to my craft room now.

Happy crafting

Michelle

Exhausting Day

I wish I had a card to post but I've spent all day spring cleaning the house from top to bottom, I feel really good about it now it's done but I was hoping to find time to make some cards today. I won't have chance tomorrow as I have my family (Dad and 2 sisters) coming to visit and they will be staying until Monday. Maybe Monday night I will have a picture or two to post.

I did just enter a competition for some blog candy over at the All the things I love blog, it was nice and easy as there's nothing to make all you have to do is link to your blog and keep your fingers crossed.

As it's now hit 7pm I'm going to have to wrap this up as i have a chicken roasting in the oven to attend to.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

Dragonflies

I was looking though the many packs of pre made embellishments I have laying around in my craft room last night, I seem to have collected loads and loads over the last few years but never seem to use them. I would love to make it my mission to make one card a night and use at least 1 of these embellishments so i set to work last night with the below creation. So that's 1 down only around 699 to go...lol.


















I spent the rest of last night looking around some of the blogs that I follow and found the perfect challenge to enter this card into, the challenge is called 'Things With Wings' and is on the Sweet Stamping Challenge Blog. The rules do call for a stamped image somewhere on the card and even though it's not obvious straight away I did add in the white flourish and flowers to the bottom left corner as I thought there was to much blue and purple, I liked the effect and I may have to start using more white ink.

I was hoping to get into my craft room tonight but I still have to do dinner yet, although I may just do a pasta bake as it will mean I'm not chained to the oven. OK so off I go to the kitchen.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

Wedding Card

I was messing around with some scraps of paper and card today and an idea for a card hit me. I started out with a piece of blue paper with some flowers and flourishes on it as my background and then I made up 3 pieces of blue card each shorter in length and rounded of the corners with a corner rounder. I mirrored the flourishes on the paper with a stamp in dark blue and decorated the end of random flourishes with some small pearls. To finish the card of I tied ribbon around each section of the cake. Definitely not my usual style and I'm really please with how it looks.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

My New Toy

I know I've been lapsed in posting in over a week, things have been hectic here and most of my free time has been used up crafting. So first things first below are 2 cards I made at the weekend.















Both cards feature stamps from BuzzCraft Fairy Doodles and are coloured with Pro Markers.


So onwards with the news, I finally talked my husband into letting me get my birthday present early and I had my Spellbinders Wizard delivered yesterday along with a couple of extra dies. I played on it all last night and I wish I had brought one ages ago, it's really easy and fun. I'm now contemplating selling my Craft Robo and using the cash to buy some more dies.

With the weekend coming up (and yeah I know we aren't even half way through the week yet) I am going to have more time to do more crafting, although my time will be taken up getting some cards done for my FIL's shop, I will post some pics of what I am making, I also need to concentrate on Christmas pretty soon.

Happy Crafting


Michelle