Papertake challenge

This weeks you can choose between two challenges, either firsts - first birthday, Christmas, anniversary etc OR No Stamping! See if you can guess what I chose!

Yep I chose no stamping! Dies I have used are: Sizzix, Girl Birthday- Ellison, Balloons #2- Sizzix, Skittle Dee Do- Ellison, Neon mini Alphabet. Papers used are DCWV cardstock stack and stripestock, Cindy, from Reminisce.I have also done the inside:

Also I got another award!This time from Shaz from funky fairys, she has said some very lovely things that are much appreciated so be sure to go and check out her blog!

Double post, Funky Fairys challenge

Double post again today- sorry about that, just had to upload my card for the funky fairy's challenge #35 before it was too late. It was a sketch challenge and had to be a non traditional Christmas card.

I used funky fairy papers from the blue it, the image is a pc crafter download and is Santa's helpers by Shelly Comiskey, who also designs for whippersnapper stamps- which I love, so I was so pleased to see these on pc crafter, watercoloured with whispers pens. the swirls are my new spell binders dies that i got at Ally Pally, the snow flakes are punches from x cut and fiskars. I put snow writer over the snowy bits and covered it with doodlebug sugar coating. The text stamp is from Stamposaurus.

Papertake challenge chocolate wrapper

This is my entry for the Papertake Challenge Katharina's sketch #12. Its also a holder/wrapper/presentation wallet for a big bar of chocolate that I gave to my mum. Papers are from Summertime Designs Energy kit.

Here are the inside

and the side view of the holder.

It was very easy to make, just a piece of A4 card scored and folded to fit the chocolate bar with some pieces of card at the side to hold it in place. Thanks for looking x

Criss Cross Medallion Card

I made this card a while ago to send into a competition in a card making magazine but missed the deadline for the competition !

The medallion stamp is by creative stamping and I've glittered it with ordinary glitter. The sentiment is an Irish blessing printed from my computer with some swirl dingbats added. I used the Swiss dots cuttlebug folder on the cross over pockets and tied a bit of white organza ribbon around the middle.
I've been busy making Christmas cards this week and will upload pictures once I've taken them, the camera battery is flat at the moment and Tristan bought round the wrong charger so I'll have to wait for him to bring me the right one!

Grandad's Birthday Card

Finally I have finished my Grandad's birthday card! It's taken me all day on and off, I had to keep coming back to it as I really didn't know what to do with it. I'm quite pleased with the result, although don't look too closely as I accidentally put my finger in the glossy accents I used on the water when it was drying- oops.

Its a 8x8 sized card (made from an A3 sheet of blue card cut to size). The letter are chipboard covered with doodlebug sugarcoating, the papers are DCWV. The stamp is a new one I bought at Ally Pally yesterday, its by Rubberneckers and was only £3- what a bargain!

The sentiments are computer generated, it says you're good at so many things.. But you're best at being my grandad. This is the inside:

New Goodies- again oops!

I made a last minute decision to go to the Big Stamp and Scrapbooking Show at Ally Pally yesterday, and boy am I glad I did, I spent all my money, but look at the lovely goodies I got!

I'm off now to use my new frog fishing stamp to make a birthday card for my grandad- yes I've still not done it, I'm not good at men's cards!

Second post of the day.

I just wanted to upload this card I made with my new stamp from Funky Kits designed by Elisabeth Bell called Pen Pal, water coloured with whispers. The paper is Homespun by A Tanabe and was downloaded a while ago, unfortunately i cannot find a link for it now. Flowers are Primas, the charm is from an old bracelet.

I think it needs a sentiment on the bottom left corner but cant decide what to put so will wait until I have a use for it and then decide what to put there.