Cheers!

A masculine card today made for a friend who celebrated his birthday recently.

I used a 'Beer Tankard' die by Sweet Dixie.  I cut the tankard with silver mirror card, layered it over a Memory Box 'Stitched Square' and inlaid the spaces in the tankard with matt silver card.  The patterned dotty card and sentiment card are both from Anna Marie Designs.

I am joining in the following challenges:
The Male Room Challenge #102 - Anything Goes, Optional Twist Beverages
Double D It's On The Menu Challenge
Crafting by Designs ~ Food and Drink
Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #343 ~ Use Snippets (silver card)
HLS January Anything Goes with Dies Challenge
 

Sad News

Any visitors to my blog in the last few days may have seen my post last Wednesday when I posted a 104th Birthday card for a very special lady.  On Friday we received the very sad news that Kitty passed away on Thursday evening, the day after her 104th birthday.  She was the most amazing lady, it was a privilege to call her my friend and she will be missed by so many people.  Up until a few weeks ago she was sat in our local stadium, cheering on our favourite football team.  This is the sympathy card I made for her son and daughter-in-law.

I decided to make a 7" x 5" Joy Fold card.  I always made Kitty's cards in blue and white, the team colours of our football team.  I kept a blue and white theme for this card, but used a pastel blue instead of a bright blue as it seemed more appropriate.  The card base is white, but I covered the front section in blue card as the patterned paper I used on the front is predominately white.  The patterned paper is from a Papermania paper pad.  The image and sentiment are stamped with Versafine 'Onyx Black' and are from the Happy Little Stampers 'Dandelion Wishes' set of stamps.  A flower brad keeps the card closed and I added a few blue, punched hearts.

This photo shows the card open.

I am joining in the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge - Week 501 ~ Hearts and Flowers

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper January 2019 Challenge

Retirement

It's the first Saturday of the month, so time for the first challenge of 2019 over in the Crafty Calendar Challenge.  The theme this month is 'Make It Flowery' and we are sponsored by SheepSki Designs.

I used one of the sponsors images, 'Tulip Border' and coloured it with Promarkers.  The sentiment is computer generated and I used Memory Box 'Stitched Rectangle' dies to make a frame, lining the dies up to include the sentiment.  The background is embossed with Creative Expressions 'Dotted Matrix PinPoint' e/f and I added two strips of ribbon.  The butterfly is punched with a tiny Fiskars butterfly punch and I added a few dots with a grey fineliner pen to show the flight of the butterfly.

The Crafty Calendar Challenge ends on the 28th January, so plenty of time to join in the challenge.  Pop over to the blog to see all the beautiful creations the DT have made for inspiration. 

Many thanks to SheepSki Designs for generously sponsoring the challenge this month.

.

I am joining in the following challenges:

SheepSki Designs Challenge #22 ~ New / Old (new image and old butterfly punch)

104 Years Young

Happy New Year!  
Wishing all visitors to my blog a happy, healthy and creative 2019.

Anyone who follows my blog may remember that this time last year I made a birthday card for a very special 103 year old.  Well, today Kitty is 104!  As usual I made it in our football team's colours, with lots of texture as Kitty has failing eyesight.  I used a football embossing folder to keep the football theme, but included a flower and leaves to keep it feminine.  Up until a few weeks ago, Kitty was still sat in the football stadium watching our favourite football team.  Unfortunately, following a bad fall recently, she's missed the last couple of games as she is in hospital, but hopefully she will be home soon.

The Sue Wilson dies I used were from the following sets:

 'Lavish Accented Octagon' (a Christmas present from my daughter),  

'Double Stitched Octagon',

'Double Stitched Circle'

'Faux Quilled Blooms'

'Windswept Grasses'

As I wanted a really narrow border around the sentiment circle, I used a Spellbinders circle Nestabilities die, which was slightly bigger than the stitched, circle die cut.  The sentiment is raised up on foam tape to add some dimension.   I used a Crafts Too embossing folder, after making the octagon into blue and white quarters,  the colours of the team's football shirts.  A tiny, punched white flower and a blue pearl in the centre of the flower finished off my card. 

I am joining in the following challenges:

Simon Says Monday Challenge ~ Party Time!

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge ~ Anything Goes

Pile It On! Challenge #149 - Shaped Cards and/or Add a Charm

My Time to Craft Challenge #387 ~ Something New (new set of dies)

Little Red Wagon Challenge # 478 ~ Hey, Newbie! (new set of dies)

Die Cut Divas' January Challenge ~ Something new (new set of dies)