Caravan Crafting

I've had a busy week or so, with a long weekend in London with my daughter, home for a day to celebrate a friend's 90th birthday with a lovely Afternoon Tea, then off the next morning for a week in our caravan in North Devon.   I hadn't planned to do much crafting in the caravan if the weather was fine, but there were a few cards I needed to make while we were away.  The first one was for a blogging friend who recently lost her Dad.

A simple design for this sympathy card.  I cut a snippet of patterned paper (from The Range) into a square and then cut it into quarters.  I corner rounded opposite corners.  I did the same with a slightly larger snippet of lilac card, which left a small border around the small squares.  The sentiment is a stamp from the Stampin' Up 'Painted Glass'.

I am joining in the following challenges with this card:

Snippets Playground Challenge #543 ~ Use Snippets

We Love Stamping October Challenge ~ Anything Goes option

My second card was made for my daughter who had an operation on Saturday.  There is a little story about the design.  Despite my best efforts and encouragement, my daughter is definitely NOT a crafter. 😂 However, she does like receiving my handcrafted cards, which I know she keeps.  While we were in London we went in a shop with lots of stickers etc and my daughter said "Oh look there's some of that fancy 'tapey stuff' you use." Sure enough there was some 'tapey stuff', otherwise know as washi tape!  Did I need any more washi tape? No, but I bought it anyway, a box of 12 reels of floral tape with vintage look.  So, I decided to make her Get Well card using the tape.  I cut a rectangle of white card slightly smaller than the card blank put strips of the washi tape across the card, cutting the tape slightly longer than the card so a could tuck it behind to keep the tape secure. The sentiment is stamp from the Stampin' Up 'Humming Along' set and I added three tiny red pearls. The finished card front was layered on the card blank.  

I am joining in the following challenges with this card:

NBUS Challenge #91 ~ Use Never-Before-Used-Schtuff (Washi tape)

Fab 'n' Funky Challenge #643 ~ Three of Something (Gems)

If you've read this far, here are a few photos of my long weekend in London with my daughter, Jo.

Travelling with my daughter is like having my own personal tour guide... she plans everything, mostly as a surprise.  We arrived in London in time for Afternoon Tea at Brigit's Bakery.....

......then a quick visit to Covent Garden.....

.... before a trip to the theatre to see a wonderful evening performance of Matilda.

We were up early the next day to visit the fascinating Time Walk exhibition.

Next stop, a bit of retail therapy and time for some Japanese Souffle Pancakes..... absolutely delicious!

Last activity of the day, a ride on a tunnel slide. The silver curly tunnel is on the left in the photo. 

Here is Jo's video going down the tunnel. Best viewed with sound ON. It was so much fun, we went down twice.

Last day, a brilliant concert at the O2, the main reason for our trip to London.

Allsorts Challenge ~ More Than One Fold

It's my turn to host the Allsorts Challenge for this fortnight.  As anyone who follows my blog knows, I especially love making fancy fold cards, so I've chosen the theme 'More Than One Fold'.  Will your project have two folds, or perhaps it will have multiple folds.  If fancy fold cards aren't your thing, there is always the option of 'Anything Goes' as we love to see all your creations.

For my DT card, I've made a Double Z Fold Card.  The patterned paper is from The Range.  The flowers are dies from Sue Wilson's 'Passion Flower' set. The sentiment is a die from the Sue Wilson's 'Birthday Candles' set.

I decided to cover all the panels and leave the back of the card plain for the message.

There are two prizes, a bundle of craft essentials from Stix2 plus an A5 stamp set.

Cards Gifted to a Friend

A wonderful friend will be 90 years young next Monday and I've been racking my brain trying to decide what to get her as a gift.  I'm sure she will receive lots of flowers, plants, chocolates and the odd bottle of wine when a group of us go out for Afternoon Tea with her next week.  I pop in to visit her regularly and any cards I send her, she displays for weeks and sometimes months, so I thought I'd make her a selection of birthday cards she can send to friends, together with a book of postage stamps.  Here are the cards I made, all designed to send with a regular stamp.

 

 

I'm sharing the last card in a few challenges.  The Happy Birthday is a preloved Poppystamps 'Happy Birthday Channel' die I bought ages ago.  I'd forgotten I had it until I was looking through my dies for a different one, so I used it for the first time on this card.  The orange paper and patterned paper was from my snippets drawer, in fact everything on all these cards, apart from the card blanks was snippets.   The flower was made with Creative Expressions 'Daisy Blossoms' dies.

I am joining in the following challenges:

 Snippets Playground Challenge #542 ~ Use Snippets

NBUS October Challenge #91 ~ Never-Before-Used-Schtuff

A Cut Above October Challenge ~ Use Die Cuts

 Neglected Stuff October Challenge ~ Happy Birthday die

Crafty Calendar Challenge ~ Autumn/Halloween

Oops!  This post should have been scheduled for yesterday, so I'm a day late.  Wishing you all a belated Happy World Card Making Day, hope you managed to find some time to craft yesterday.  I spent all day with a group of crafty friends making cards.

The theme for the October Crafty Calendar Challenge is 'Autumn/Halloween'.  I decided to go with the Autumn option for my DT card.

All the stamps are from Lavinia.  I stamped the wreath using all three stamps from the 'Oak Leaves' set, using a Memento 'Rich Cocoa' ink pad.  The sentiment is one of the 'Heartfelt Verses' set of stamps.  I used two dies from the Sue Wilson 'Double Pierced Circles' set for the image and mat.  A stamp from the 'Acorns' set was stamped in each corner.  All the leaves and acorns were coloured with Promarkers.

The Crafty Calendar Challenge ends on 28th October.  Please hop over to the challenge blog to see the beautiful creations the DT have made for inspiration.

I am joining in the following challenges:

Krafty Chicks Challenge #840 ~ Birthday

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #280 ~ Anything Goes w/optional twist - Fall Foliage

Little Red Wagon Challenge #878~ Autumn Colours

Try It On Tuesday ~ Autumn's Beauty

We Love Stamping October Challenge ~ Shades of Autumn

Sweet Stamping Challenge ~ Autumn 

New Baby

Two cards to share today, now that I know they have been received.

The first card is for new parents who recently welcomed their first child, a beautiful daughter.  The Mum was a pupil in my class many years ago when she was a shy four year old.

I used dies from the Sue Wilson 'Shadow Box - New Arrivals' and 'New Arrivals - Stuffed Animals' sets.  The pink and silver card is pearlised.  I bought the dies about 10 years ago and its been a few years since I used them, so I'll be sharing my card over in the Neglected Stuff Challenge.

I am joining in the following challenges:

A Cut Above September Challenge ~ Anything Goes With A Die Cut

Neglected Stuff September Challenge

The great grandparents have been friends of ours for about 40 years, so I made a card for them too.

I made Hexagon Floating Card, the same fold as the card in my previous post.  It's so easy to make and one of my current favourite folds.  The patterned papers are from Limetree Craft.  I used punches for the circles and hearts.

The card folds flat for posting.

I am joining in the following challenges:

Dragonfly Dreams September Challenge ~ Monochromatic

Creative Creases Challenge #119 ~ Use a Fancy Fold

Try It On Tuesday Challenge ~ Pretty Papers

Everybody Art Challenge #66 ~ Pink

Allsorts Challenge ~ Autumn

It's time for a new Allsorts Challenge and Christine has chosen the theme of 'Anything Autumn'.  I made a Hexagon Floating Card, after watching Paul Ford's video HERE.  I adjusted the measurements slightly to make the middle front panel and little wider.

Someone kindly gave me a part used 8" x 8" paper/topper pad, which included this beautiful piece of patterned paper.  With the leaves in shades of brown, red, orange and shiny gold, it was perfect for an Autumn themed card.  The rich red plain card matched it perfectly.  Behind the middle panel is a strip of strong acetate.  The sentiment is from the Stampin' Up 'Magnolia Blooms' set, stamped with Stampin' Up 'Cherry Cobbler'.  The sentiment circle and mat were punched and attached to the acetate to give the impression that it's 'floating'.

The card folds flat for posting.

There are two prizes of Penny Black stamps, stencil and stickers from Buddly Crafts for the lucky randomly drawn winners. 

I am joining in the following challenges:

Creative Creases Challenge #119 ~ Use a Fancy Fold

Crafty Gals Challenge #280 ~ Anything Goes w/optional twist - Fall Foliage

We Love Stamping September Challenge ~ Include Stamping (sentiment)

Love Those Pretty Papers September Challenge

AAA Birthday Game #89 ~ Use Patterned Paper

Craftlandia Challenge #28 ~ Autumn/Fall

It's my turn to chose the theme for the Craftlandia Challenge #28 and I would love to see your Autumn/Fall creations (or Anything Goes). Our generous sponsor for the challenge is Mirtillamente.

 

Our sponsor kindly gave us images to use and I chose 'HARVEST no.1'.  I coloured the image with Promarkers. The patterned paper is from The Range.

Prize: 2 digis of your choice from our generous sponsor, Mirtillamente

 

Please head over to the store to see the range

of craft supplies and digital designs that Evelin (the owner) has in the store.

Visit also the Mirtillamente challenge blog

and join the monthly challenges.

The Craftlandia Challenge ends on 30th September.  Please hop over to the challenge blog to see all the beautiful creations the DT have made for inspiration. 

I am joining in the following challenges:

We Love Stamping September Challenge ~ Trees and Leaves

Creative Moments Challenge #286  ~ Autumn Colours

Creative Creases Challenge #119 ~ Use a Fancy Fold

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #280 ~ Anything Goes w/optional twist - Fall Foliage

Fab 'n' Funky Challenge #642 ~ More than one fold

Cardz 4 Guyz Challenge #390 Fall/Autumn Theme Colours

 

Dots and Stars

Well, I'm finally getting new posts popping up in my Reading List, not necessarily in chronological order, but at least is much better than none at all.

My masculine card was made for a friend who celebrated his birthday this week.

The card shape was made with a die from the Sizzix 'Card, Circle Flip-Its #2' set.  I used patterned paper from The Range.  The stars were all made with punches.

This shows the back of the swing part of the card.

I am joining in the following challenges:

The Male Room Challenge #214 ~ Dots and/or Stripes

Dragonfly Dreams September Challenge ~ Monochromatic

Fab 'n' Funky Challenge #642 ~ More than one fold

Creative Creases Challenge #119 ~ Use a Fun Fold

AAA Birthday Challenge Game #89 ~ Use Patterned Paper

Our 52nd Wedding Anniversary

Today my hubby and I are celebrating our 52nd Wedding Anniversary and this is the card I made for him.  I've made several Hexagon Pop-Up Cards before using the instructions HERE, but I wanted to make a larger one, so I played around with the measurements to make it much bigger.  

The patterned paper was all snippets and is from a paper pad from The Range.  I used three dies from the Lisa Horton ' Nested Hearts' set.  The small heart is a die cut from Sue Wilson 'Mr and Mrs' set. 

This style of card folds flat if it needs to be posted.

I am joining in the following challenges:

Snippets Playground Challenge #541 ~ Use Snippets

Dragonfly Dreams September Challenge ~ Monochromatic

Love Those Pretty Papers September Challenge

Creative Creases Challenge #119 ~ Use a Fancy Fold

Fab 'n' Funky Challenge #642 ~ More than one fold

Allsorts Challenge ~ Sympathy/Thinking of You/Get Well

There seems to be a problem with the Reading Lists on Blogger.  I've had no notifications of new posts for several days now, so apologies if I usually visit your blog and you've made a new post recently.  Hopefully the glitch will be sorted out soon.

Gail has chosen the theme of 'Sympathy/Thinking of You/Get Well' for the new Allsorts Challenge.  I've made two masculine DT cards for this challenge.

For my first card, I made a masculine 'Get Well' card for a friend who recently had a fall.  Initially the doctors thought he had fractured his hip, but fortunately it's just badly bruised.

The die is unbranded and the patterned paper is from The Range.  The sentiment is a stamp is from the Happy Little Stampers 'Dandelion Wishes' set, stamped with Stampin' Up 'Night of Navy'.

I am joining in the following challenges with this card:

Craft Rocket Challenge #140 - Use dies

Crafting Uncles Challenge #80 ~ Anything goes

Triple B September Challenge ~ Birds, Butterflies and Blooms

My second card is a Thinking of You card for a friend whose Mum recently passed away. 

 

 I used a Creative Expressions 'Dragonfly Dreams' die with a square of white card and layered it on a pale blue mat.  The extra little dragonfly die comes as part of the set.  The sentiment is a Woodware stamp, stamped with Versafine Clair 'Morning Mist'. 

 

I am joining in the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #525 ~ Diecuts and/or Stencils

Aud Sentiments Challenge #341 ~ Tags and/or Thinking of You + a Sentiment

We have a lovely prize of three floral dies and download of ready coloured reflections artwork to match the dies plus papers from Highlight Crafts.

Dinosaurs

 A card for a delightful young man who celebrated his 7th birthday yesterday.  He loves dinosaurs, so this is what I came up with.  

I used a new Craft Addiction 'Stitch Craft Fusion Frames (Rectangle)' die in the front of a 6" x 6" card blank to create the stitched aperture.  I found a piece of fern patterned paper and backed the aperture, completely covering the inside of the front of the card.   The dinosaurs are dies from the Craft Addiction 'Dinosaur Set', also used for the first time.  A sentiment and two Card Candi finished off my card.   The dinosaurs were cut from snippets, so I'll be joining in the Snippets Playground Challenge.  The patterned paper wasn't technically a snippet, but has been sat in my snippet drawer for well over 10 years waiting to be used.

I am joining in the following challenges.

Snippets Playground Challenge #539 ~ Use Snippets

NBUS Challenge #90 ~ Use Never-Before-Used-Schtuff (dies)

Craft Rocket Challenge #140 ~ Use dies

Let’s Create and Craft Challenge #235 ~ Frame It!

AAA Birthday Challenge Game #89 ~ Use Patterned Paper