"Birdday" card

Happy Sunday, friends. We have had 4 beautiful sunny days and only a few clouds. Yesterday a sprinkling of rain, but hardly worth mentioning. Today's card is another birthday one. This for a friend who loves birds. On one of my PCP groups, Anything but cute... we had to make a card, using a bird punch or template given us.



I used a brown card, with a mottled green paper. Onto this I stamped the grass using a Hero Arts stamp. I cut a bird from a piece of yellow/green DP using my Nesties bird set. I cut a smaller bird out of a plain green and trimmed it slightly for the wing, which I put through the cuttlebug.

Finished it off with a green polka dot ribbon and a sentiment stamped on cream card with brown ink. The sentiment is from Whiff of Joy.



It was fun to do this one.

Wishing you all a wonderful week ahead, I am trying to shake of a terrible cold that I picked up and is most unwelcome, but seems quite happy to stick around.

Warm wishes

A pocketful of wishes

Good evening everyone. As I said i need quite a few birthday cards the next few weeks, so am trying to get on with them Here is another one.

This is how I did it.

Paper: White cardstock, matted a pink cardstock and then DP from My Minds eye "pretty please" that I received as a free gift with a magazine.

Image: The "pocket: is a stamp in a set from Darcies Heart & Home. I stamped it onto another of the DP papers in the Pretty please booklet, and cut it out. Mounted onto the card, I made a tag for the pocket with a computer generated sentiment.

Stamped "happy birthday" onto the DP, punched it with a circle and mounted it onto a Nellie Snellen MFD cutout.
The inside used another of the DP "Pretty please" and again cut out the circle with a Nellie Snellen and added a plain cutout for the message.
Finished it off with a button from my stash.
Hope you are all having a great week. We are still having so much rain. Looking forward to seeing some sunny days before the end of summer.

Dinosaur birthday

Tomorrow is my grandson Dylan's 4th birthday. At the moment dinosaurs are at the top of his interest list. Has to have a dinosaur cake.... so made him a dino card. I didnt have a stamp for a dino so had to think... here's how I did it.

Paper - brown card stock, matted green which I had run through the numbers folder of the cuttlebug. Coloured the three numbers 4 and then put on glossy accents to make them pop. I used a DP with dinosaurs and cut out the 2 under a tree in the top corner. The paper is from Queen of hearts - dinky dino. It is a local SA company.

Image is taken from a colouring book resized and coloured with aquarelle pencils.
Sentiment is from a local stamping company.
The ribbon tag is from a Nellie Snellen MFD.
I chose the colours because I entered it into a challenge using colours brown, green and pink......hence the pink dino. The challenge is for Monday's birthday card on Outlawz group
Hope you are all enjoying a wonderful weekend. Warm wishes.

A gift for you - Karen's Doodles

Hello to you all at the end of the weekend. First my apologies for the picture of my card. Camera playing up so decided to scan it in, but somehow it hasn't come out that well. Will try and take a photo in the morning. Anyway.... this card is for the challenge on Karen's Doodles NL The recipe to follow was 3 buttons, two hatpins/pins, 1 ribbon. This is how I put it together.

Paper; White cardstock. DP Papers were from a freebie in a magazine. I think they were from the Nitwit collection.
Image - Karen's doodles coloured with distress inkpads and twinkling H20's cut out with a Nestability die and the edges inked with chalk.
Sentiment is from a Darcie stamp set, and the rest as required. buttons, pins and ribbon. Added a rose just to finish.
Have a great week now everyone. I am off to bed. Warm wishes.

Birthday flowers

Good afternoon friends. Hope you are all having a lovely enjoyable, relaxing Sunday. I have a card that I made for one of the many birthdays this month. I followed a sketch on a new group The Outlawz They have lots of different challenges, so if you are looking for something new have a wander over and see what they have to offer.
Paper: White card, matted onto a plain green that was together with the DP in a pad I purchased from a local stationary shop. No name brand . On the DP I used my new MS punch for the border at the bottom.
Image is also from a local stamping company.. Great Impressions. I stamped the flowers twice and coloured them with Twinking H20's. Paper pieced the vase, and cut out the flowers from the second image and glued them over the 1st image. Small rhinestones form the centres.
The sentiment is from Whiff of Joy.
A ribbon finished it all off.

That's all for to-day, still cool and raining so I think I will enjoy a good book for the rest of the afternoon.
Warm wishes.

All dressed up

Good evening friends, from a very wet and grey part of South Africa. Boy did we have rain this morning, the heavens opened up for about 45 mins. even came flooding into my studio. So a mad scramble for towels to stop the water and lift anything off the floor.... and more predicted for the next 3 days. Anyway as long as there are no more mishaps I can at least keep crafting.
The card today is for a challenge on a PCP group "anything but cute". We were given the template of the dress to download. This is what I did.
Paper: white card, matted a blue onto that. Used a pale blue velum which I put through the cuttlebug and attached it with brads. The DP was a free download from Jak Heath. She gives us lovely free papers fairly regularly. I printed it onto a cream shimmer card and cut the dress out of it. The shoe was also a freebie from Jak, which I printed onto the same paper and just coloured the bow slightly. Attached a ribbon, some liquid pearls round the neck and a sentiment printed on the computer again in velum and attached to the ribbon.
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend doing whatever you love best. Warm wishes.

Christmas card recycled

Good evening all, Here we are second week of the year and my second Christmas card .... so far so good. This week on Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge we had to recycle or use a freebie. Well I kind of used both.
Paper: white card and matted a green onto that. The green card I first put through the cuttlebug with a folder that I got from my DIL in The Netherlands. It is really lovely and comes from "Crafts-Too" It embosses a frame and the centre is left plain for an image or sentiment. I took the liberty and classed this as a freebie.... it isn't maybe in the true sense... I also added a little bit of bling and shine to the berries and dots.
For the recycled bit I cut the picture from a card received this year and added that, just raising it.
I must say this was so quick. It took longer for the glitter to dry than making the card.
Hope you have all had a very good week and looking forward to the weekend.
Warm wishes.