cute card thursday!!

Well you can tell its bank holiday monday, yet another challenge blog card done!!! this time I have done a card for cute card thursday. this weeks theme is no designer papers, you can see the design teams cards here. To be honest I found this q of quite an easy challenge because I just love my cuttlebug!!! Oh and its also the first Xmas card I've made this year. I've tidying out my craft stuff and I got a lot of inspiration from it. The image is a forever friends one (that I think came free with the do crafts magazine last year!!) I have embossed the background with the sledging embossing folder from Cuttlebug. I hope that you like it :)

Totally papercrafts challenge

Yet another challenge card today :) This weeks totally papercrafts challenge is monochrome - check out the DT cards here . I love monochrome, i think that black and white is so effective and can work so well on mens cards.

The image is a stamped image from a pack of tamps that I bought from QVC. I love the images from this kit because they stamp so well and look great black and white but also coloured. I like the simplicity of this card and I'm really pleased with how it turned out.

Papertake Challenge

this weeks challenge on the Papertake challenge blog is a sketch. I have never followed a sketch before but I thought I would try. I did struggle with it but I'm glad that I persevered.

The image is a Forever Friends stamped in black Versacolor and coloured with my watercolour pencils, layered on embossed Bazzill cardstock. Th lettering was cut from white holographic paper from a cuttlebug die.
(sorry about the photo I'm not sure what I did to it!!)

Mum's Birthday

Happy Birthday to my mum today (not that shes in the country she's sunning herself in Crete as she texted me this morning my dad had treated her to a champange breakfast!) Anyway the reason why I'm telling you this is that I have finally finished her card. It was a real struggle my craftng inspiration has gone this week even though I've been doing a lot of blog hopping (and lots of craft shopping too!!) But anyway mum likes really sinple cards but this one I think is very effective. Let me know what you think :)

The wooden butterfly embelishment came from my local craft shop which I have coloured with permanent markers, the pink embossed card is Bazzill basics in Chandler, the alphabet stickers are from a kit I bought from QVC years ago (when I remember who makes them I will let you know) and the black glitter card is from Woolies (as I have mentioned in a few of my posts).

Sweet Saturday Candy

Over on Debbie's Passion for Crafts blog she is giving away Penny Black "Toadiliy" clear stamp set. Check it out here

at last!!!!

I've been without internet for almost a month!! (don't get me started on Virgin media!!!!!) and I have been getting major withdrawl symptoms. Anyway I have it back now and I'm on a blog hop today to do some more challenges so there should be a few cards this weekend (3 days off this weekend cos of the bank holiday!)