60th Birthday Card

Welcome to my two new followers, Lorre-Anne and Kerri-Ann.  

My QCME magazine subscription came to an end recently and the magazine is no longer being produced.  Rather than spend the money on a subscription with another craft magazine this year, as I seem get most of my inspiration from many fabulous crafters' blogs or online craft groups, I decided to treat myself to the Classic Adorned Hexagon dies.  A crafty friend gave me the Double Stitched Hexagon dies for Christmas and the decorative hexagons to go with them had been sat on my wish list for a couple of months.  (I'm sure I'll still buy the odd magazine or two. 😉 )   I've used my new dies on this 60th birthday card I made for a friend.   

The dies are all Creative Expression dies by Sue Wilson:

Classic Adorned Hexagon

Double Stitched Hexagon

Faux Quilled Blooms

Windswept Grasses

Dandelion Clocks (for the centres of the flowers)

The teal, pearlised card and the dotty card are both from Anna Marie Designs.

Many thanks to Loll for designing a beautiful watermark for me. 

I am joining in the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge - Week 457 ~ Ladies Only

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #206 ~ Floral Delight 

My Time to Craft Challenge #365 ~ Monochromatic

Simon Says  Wednesday Challenge ~ Girl Power

Bizzy Bec's March Challenge ~ Anything Goes

Blog Makeover

I am absolutely thrilled with my blog makeover, kindly designed by Loll.  Thank you so much Loll, I LOVE the new design, complete with a beautiful signature.

I thought it appropriate that the first card on my 'new look' blog included sunflowers, so this is the card I made today.

The image is a Hooks, Lines & Inkers stamp. It's got a date on it, '93, so it's pretty old!   It was a pre-loved one I bought a many years ago.  The image was stamped with Memento 'Tuxedo Black' and coloured with Promarkers and a green ultra fine Sharpie.  The corner die cut is a Memory Box 'Distressed Windham Collage' die.

I am joining in the following challenges:

Butterfly  Challenge #96 ~ Spin The Butterfly Wheel with the Letter N (Naples Yellow, Napier Green, Not Square and there IS a tiny red butterfly in the image)

Memory Box Challenge #35 ~ Color Challenge - Green

Country View March Challenge ~ Postcards (6x4 project)

Cards in Envy ~ Green Things Card Challenge

It's A Boy

Today is the start of the Crafty Calendar Challenge for March and this is my DT card.  The theme is month is 'Add a tag or...make one' and we are sponsored by Oddball Art.  

I used the beautiful 'Kawaii Valentine Giraffe' digistamp from our sponsor, which I coloured with Promarkers.  I used Poppystamps 'Stitched Mainstreet Tag' dies for layering the image and added a yellow star brad.  The pattern paper is from a 'Nanas Nursery Baby Boy' paper pad.  I added a few punched hearts to finish off my card. 

There is a generous prize of  two images for the randomly drawn winner.

Click HERE to see lots of inspiration from the DT.  Looking forward to seeing all your beautiful creations - challenge ends on 28th March.

I am joining in the following challenges:

Crafty Catz Challenge #406 - ATG with optional twist...Make a Baby card

Dies R Us  Challenge #92 ~ Use Pastel Colors

Cards in Envy ~ Give It Some Heart!

Addicted to Stamps Challenge # 161 ~ Have a Heart

Addicted to Stamps and More! Challenge #281 - Anything Goes

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper March 2018 challenge

Hiking

In my last post I posted a card I made for a friend's special birthday.  After failing to find a suitable card in the shops, his wife asked me to make a card for her husband's birthday, for her to give him, with the theme of walking/rambling.  

Looking through all my stamps and dies, I didn't have anything suitable. However, I managed to find suitable image on the CraftsUprint website called 'Old Rambler Dude'.  As I had very little time to make the card, I used the pre-coloured version.  I wanted to make the card more personal, so I printed a map of Fuerteventura, where my friend and her husband were staying for his birthday, with the resort highlighted.  After layering the images on green and blue  card, I added two green Card Candi as a finishing touch.

I am joining in the following challenges:

Alphabet Challenge ~ Y - is Your Choice

Scrapping4Fun Challenge #110 ~ Masculine, Boys

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge ~ Anything Goes

Addicted to Stamps and More! Challenge #281 ~ Anything Goes