Been a busy girl

Well I have had a lovely crafty day and decided to leave the housework til tomorrow as I was enjoying myself so much!!!!

The first card is for my mum to sent to my uncle for his birthday. They live in North Carolina, USA and when he retired they bought a ranch and started breeding Arab horse so we thought this image was perfect.



This card is from me and hubby for my dad and I decided to also go with a golf theme. I made a new years resolution to use up my huge stash of embellishment, since I got bitten by the stamping bug they have just sat doing nothing!! These felt golfing stickers were from MEI Flower and were only about 50p for the pack!

The last card I was asked to do for a lady that I used to work with and who goes to the same church as mum & dad. She texted me on Friday and asked if I could make a 80th birthday card and I just presumed it would be for a lady. When she said it was for a retired farmer called Bill and could I do cows or tractors I did panic a bit. Then I remember I had the tractor and cow quickutz die and this is what I came up with. The tractor hasn't been stuck down wrong, but is meant to be coming down the hill!! Just hope Bill likes it.

Sweet Sugar Challenge 5

The 5th challenge at Sweet Sugar is to make TWO (yes two!!!) cards for those very hard people in our lives - men and boys! So get your creative thinking caps on and make two male themed cards.

I really loved this challenge, I think the Sugar Nellie range have some fantastic male stamps and really enjoyed using them.

Stamp - Sugar Nellie

Papers - Dovecraft Kids

Embossing - Cuttlebug Tiny Bubbles

Anchor - Quickutz

Stamp - Sugar Nellie
Papers - Dovecraft Masculine

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Another mans card

Decided to make another mans card and you can't go wrong with a couple of pints!!!! I covered the bottom of a card with some stripped paper which has been in my stash for ages. Added a strip of pale blue card across the top and added a Happy Birthday peel off. I then cut 2 Quickutz pints and added these to the left hand side.

Just Bex Friday Challenge - Happy Holly Days

The challenge this Friday was to make 5 cards all with holly on them. I really struggled with this one as i don't have that many holly things in my stash, so I have to resort to my huge pile of Anita's peel off that I got for about 35p a pack at the QVC outlet shop!

First one I used my new Quickutz candle die and added holly at the base, I mounted this onto cream card and a red scalloped circle. Covered a square card with paper from last years DCWV Christmas stack and added DCWV ribbon across the centre of the card. Mounted a Seasons Greetings peel off to finish the card.

This card I have used a Anita's peel off Christmas pudding with holly on top. I've coloured the waste and then added to the peel off. Mounted this onto red card and put an eyelet and ribbon at the top. Mounted holly paper onto red card and added this across the middle of the card. Peel off greeting at the bottom that has been coloured red.

This was based on an idea I had seen on Pootles blog. I have added some paper from last years DCWV Christmas stack mounted onto green card across the middle of the card. Coloured in some peel offs green and added his above and below. I then mounted 3 epoxy stickers onto green circles, the first one says santa, the middle one is holly and the last one says ho ho ho. Struggled to get a good picture of this one.

My mum had asked me to make some quick and simple Christmas cards for her to give to friends, so I used this Anita's peel off and coloured in using Marvy Le Plume pens. Simply mounted onto gold card and added to a tall thin card with a gold greeting.

The stamped image I got in a swap with Julie at Julie's Japes, which I coloured using Marvy Le Plume pens and red stickles for the berries. I add holly paper to the bottom of a DL card and added red card to finish off. ended up having to add holly to the paper as I got red stickles glue on it and I'm not sure I'm as happy with it.

Just Bex Christmas Button Challenge

This card I covered two thirds of the card in paper from my Christmas DCVW stack (this has been a great buy!!!) and added a green strip of card at the top. I then cut out my Quickutz wreath and added red button for the holly. This was mounted onto a green circle and a greeting added to the bottom of the card coloured green

Just Bex Christmas Button Challenge

I used my Quickutz Reindeer die and added a little red button for his nose. I then mounted him onto a circle embossed with my snowflake embossing folder and then a red scalloped circle. I added ribbon down the left hand side that had been mounted onto red card. I then added a greeting from the £1.49 bargain dovecraft set

First card in ages

I have made my first cards in ages, well not strictly true as I've just spent the last couple of weeks making 157 wedding cards for a friend. It was lovely just to play with things and not feel like I was on a crafting conveyer belt!!!

I was asked to make a christening card for a boy, so I thougth that I would use my new Quickutz stork die.