Rudolph Days Challenge

Wow the 25th of the month sure came around fast this time. I made my entry into the Rudolph Days Challenge at the end of last week, as I knew that today would be hectic. Not only do we have our Grandson for the day, but tomorrow we are up and off at stupid o'clock as we are going to Canada for a holiday. Still most of the bags are packed now just that last few bits to be added. For my card this time I have again gone for snowmen and this lovely stamp I picked up last September at Ally Pally on the Creative Expressions stand for just £3.00 (wood mounted). If I remember correctly it was originally  by Jayne Nesterenko. I stamped on to watercolour card and embossed with black embossing powder before using Aqua markers to colour them. I finished off by going around the outside with blue distress inks.

 As normal for this challenge I made a batch of 4, so my stash is growing every month. I normally like to get around and look at what everyone has made, my apologies for not being able to do that this month.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

When I'm 65

Yesterday it was Hubby's birthday and he's reached his official retirement age, although he retired in 2012. We had a quite day together and finished it off with a trip to our local Indian restaurant. I had asked him what he would like to do to mark the occasion and he decided on a birthday tea, so later today I have family and friends arriving for just that. There is going to be loads of sandwiches, nibbles and cake all washed down with party drinks no doubt. As it's his 65th we are celebrating by going away and for this trip we are of to Vancouver and also an Alaskan Cruise. This is something that we have both wanted to do for sometime now. I'm also hoping to meet with a couple of blogging friends while there.

Below are a couple of the cards that I made for him, the first covers his favourite hobby, Fishing. And the second his latest obsession Golf. For the Fishing card I used an image from Joanna Sheen's Nostalgia Collection and dies from All Occasion dies and Tonic. The image show two children a girl and a boy, we have one of each, hubby often took them both with him while fishing but I certainly did not dress my daughter in dresses.

 The second card was made using the Fairway to Heaven stamp from Indigo Blu. It was coloured with distress inks and distress pens with the sentiment being made on the PC.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Happy Birthday CD Sunday

It's Birthday time for The CD Sunday challenge blog this week, they are 6 years old. For their challenge they are asking that we back link to our favourite entry into their challenge. That's easy I hear you say, well let me tell you I have have spent the last few days looking and trying to decide which one I liked the best. I have been taking part on and off since I started blogging 5 years ago and was even on the DT for while so there where quite a lot to look through. In the end I went for this card which was made for our Great Niece on her birthday in 2013. I picked this image because it looks like our niece, she has the most beautiful blonde curly hair and wears it loose and flowing like this too. It came from Josephine Wall's Enchanted Dreams CD, you can find the original post by following this link.

Happy 6th Birthday CD Sunday and may you have many more!!!

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Sue

Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge

I was inspired by the colours of this months Chocolate Baroque challenge and also by the the tulips that have just opened in my garden. So using one of last years Year of Stamping Tulips made the card below to enter.

I stamped the smaller of the two stamps using Memento ink and coloured using distress pens, I then cut out the image and mounted onto gold mirri card. The background was made using distress inks and then over stamping with a flourish stamp from the Patchwork Butterflies set. Finally the sentiment is from the Amazing Birthday set.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Ooops I Forgot...

... In more ways than one. First I forgot a birthday, my mum's next door neighbour. This is someone that I grew up calling Auntie Margaret and all these years later she is still my mum's neighbour and best friend. Sitting on my desk was a Debbi Moore CD Shabby Chic Enchanted Garden. So I popped it into the disc dive and printed off some papers to use. It's an 8x8 card base and after cutting the backing paper out I went around the edges with some distress ink. The topper was cut out and mounted onto the card using foam tape, the leaves are cut from a Tattered Lace die and the flowers from a Crealies die, The birds are from an X-cut die and coloured with distress inks. Needless to say I used a verse in the card saying how sorry I was that the card was late. The second reason I'm late is that I meant to post this on here at the weekend but forgot again.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Another Birthday Card

Just a quick post from me today, I'm writing this as Hubby is out taking our Grandson for a walk so time is limited. This card was made for my Sister who's birthday it was yesterday. She was very musical in her younger days playing several different instruments and loved to sing as well. So the beautiful new stamp from Chocolate Baroque was a perfect choice for her card. The background paper was printed from MCS Love in Bloom CD and then given a treatment of distress inks around the edge and over stamped with some swirls and musical notes, I then added a stencilled figure from Clarity. The sentiment was also a Chocolate Baroque stamp.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Collapsible Box Card

Today I have this collapsible box card to show you, made for my Father-in-law to give to my Sister-in-law the other day for her birthday. The beautiful flowers and papers are from Debbi Moores Country Rose Dimensional CD. The flowers were all cut out and decoupaged then popped onto acetate to arrange in the box. The sentiment is a Tonic die and the butterflies made with an All Occasions die. I have spoken to my sister-in-law since she received this and she loved it.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

CD Sunday - Get Well Soon

It's been a while since I've taken part in the CD Sunday challenge but this week the theme is Get Well Soon. I like to keep a couple of these cards made in my to go box, so as I have none it was a good reason to take part. I've used a Debbi Moore CD Floral Moments Special Edition and an A5 card base for the card. I've printed this off on Matt photo paper and before popping the topper onto my card I went over the top of the stamens with a gold Signo pen. You can't see it very well in the photo but it gives them a nice shimmer. I also added a little of the gold to the butterflies, then went over the top with a Wink of Stella pen.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Butterfly Birthday Card

Today is my Sister-in-laws birthday and this is the card that I've made for her. I started with an 8x8x card base then printed a backing paper from the new CD from MCS and Tattered Lace, Love in Bloom. It was a very plain backing paper which I then over stamped with background and swirl stamps from Chocolate Baroque. The main image and sentiment are also from Chocolate Baroque, I coloured the image with pro markers before cutting out with an oval die. I then mounted onto another oval cut in gold mirri card. The butterflies were cut from a Tonic die and the With Love from a Crafters Companion die. I finished by just adding a gem to the centres of the butterflies.

Thanks for taking the time to look and you kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Garden in a Frame

Wow, where did the last week go, it's just flown by. I had several things that I needed to get finished this Garden in a Box Frame being one of them. It was started on the recent crafting retreat that I attended. The box frame comes from Ikea (so I'm told) and the backing paper, Garden Scene was from a Debbi Moore CD. Then using dies and ink pads it was decorated. The garden implements were from a X-Cut die set, cut out of craft card and inked with distress inks, the branch at the top of the picture was from another X-Cut set while the blossoms were from a Tattered Lace set. The roses and spiked flowers in the bottom are from Tim Holtz tiny Tattered Florals die set by Sissix and finally the leaves are from All Occasions dies.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue