A Card for Facebooks Sundays with Santa

Good Morning Crafters, its been a extremely busy weekend for me and I didnt get around to checking the theme for Sundays Facebook Challenge and as I had decided to create this card using the Sue Wilsons products I thought I would enter it instead, but it seems I was right on trend as this weeks theme was all about "Flowers" thats a bit of luck wasnt it?
Firstly I want to warn you about something that happened to me during last week and I would like to give you the go ahead incase it ever happens to you, a month ago I had my credit card details on Amazon hacked and someone helped themselves to £150. of gift vouchers, as I had not spend them (luckily Amazon always send me receipts when I have bought something) I had to go through the procedure of proving it wasnt my purchases, luckily I was able to proof it and they recompensed my account by removing them, but I also had to cancel my credit card and be issued with a brand new number.
I dont know if you can guess I had the old number linked to several accounts and one of these was Create and Craft, and as I had bought something on flexi-pay it was linked to the payments on this, and they (I had changed the details and put the new card details on their website) tried to get payments from the old card to cover the flexi-pay plan, and instead of contacting me directly as soon as the 1st payment was refused they tried again then sent me a letter. To cut a long story short I had to contact them by phone to change the card payment details to the new one and I was charged £15.00 for the pleasure of not doing so before, so be Warned if you have to change your credit card number during a flexi-pay plan ring them to give them the new details otherwise you also will be charged. I did ask them to let other buyers know of this problem but whether they will is another story.
Anyway to get back to my card, I used a mask for the background with Silver glitter texture paste, and this was also used on the poinsettia flowers. The strip is the 3 kings and they are all from Creative Expressions.
This Card is to be entered in the following  Challenges:-
http://christmascardchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://cagichallenge.blogspot.ca/ 
http://lacysunshine.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://lilpatchofcraftyfriends.blogspot.com.au/ 
http://onestitchatatimechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://www.scrapbookblessingsclub.com/ 
http://welove2create.blogspot.co.uk/ 

A Card for Sundays with Santa "Layers" Challenge

Good Morning Crafters, well this weeks theme over on Sundays with Santa is all about layers, so I hope that this card will qualify for that,
I stamped the candle image onto white card before colouring it with my copic pens, afterwards I cut it out with my rotatrim and used a corner punch to do the four corners, I then created a mount for it out of red card and did the same with the corners.
I stamped the flowers and leaves onto red and green paper and then used the dies that also come with this set, I moulded the flowers and layered them up as shown, and stuck them in the top left hand corner and layered them up with silicone glue as shown in the photo.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://craftingwithanattitude.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://www.southerngirlschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://www.addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.com.au/
http://craftingforallseasons.blogspot.co.uk/
http://inspirationdestinationchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/ag-no-45.html
http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/simon-says-tie-it-up/
http://stampwithsarahkay.blogspot.co.uk/
http://whimsyinspires.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://kraftinkimmiestamps.blogspot.ca/

2nd Challenge for Craftyhazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge - Anything Goes

Good Morning Crafters, its amazing how quickly a month flies by and this is our second Challenge over at

and as always we are running a "Anything Goes" Challenge which must be patterned paper and for this one I have created this Card

I have a Sherrie Baldy "Cupcake" image and I printed her onto white card then coloured her with my copic pens, I then used my Nestabilitie Die to cut her out and a fancy one for the mount.
The base card is a 6.50"x 6.50" white card with a first mount out of mauve card and the papers I have used are from Sweetshoppe "Heart to Heart" digi papers, I have used three papers the first is a flower one and the second a patchwork one and a tartan pattern.
I have placed my mounted image in the middle with a sentiment which I stamped in the bottom right hand corner, to finish of I have  used three cupcake buttons down the right hand side.
Now that youve seen my Card I do hope that you will pay a visit to the Craftyhazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge Blogspot and see what the rest of the Design Team have created for your inspiration.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://mybesties3ddecoblog.blogspot.com.au/ 
http://simplypapercraftsforalloccassions.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://simplycreatetoo.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://jwscrapshack.blogspot.ca/ 
http://crafting-with-friends.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://crafts4eternity.blogspot.co.uk/ 

Another card for Facebooks Sunday with Santa "Shades of White" Challenge

Good Morning Crafters, this weeks Challenge over on Facebook is "Shades of White" and for my card I have used a Sue Wilson embossing Folder and also a Merry Christmas sentiment, plus several sizes of snowflake which were punched out with a Martha Steward punches.
The base card is a plain one with a edge of punched holes and on top of this I have layered a card that was run through the cut and boss machine with the holly embossing folder from Sue Wilson. Then on top I have layered the diecut Merry Christmas, and then punched out several sized snowflakes where dipped into German Glass Glitter and layered up and stuck in the two bottom corners. To finish of I have stuck 8 flat backed pearls in all four corners in pairs.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://craftingwithanattitude.blogspot.co.uk/
http://cardz4guyz.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.craftysentiments.blogspot.co.uk/
http://deepoceanchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/
http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.co.uk/
http://sweetstampsblog.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.co.uk/
http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.co.uk/

 

A Card for the Creative Expressions "Easter" Challenges

Good Afternoon Crafters, well you will never guess I originally created this card for what I thought was the Creative Expressions Easter Challenge but when I went to add it, it seems that it was a old challenge and they hadnt updated their blog since it was run, anyway I was looking at Sue Wilsons blog this morning and decided to create this card using her card design as you can see I have used two shades of yellow for my card and layered it up slightly differently to her card design.
I have used the Monarch Butterfly and cut it out completely then layered into the diecut shapes two more butterflies in different shades of yellow, then placed a piece of double sided sticky backed paper and then layered it up with glitter.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://www.craftysentiments.blogspot.co.uk/
http://creativecardcrew.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.co.uk/
http://cardmaniachallenges.blogspot.co.uk/
http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/

A Card for Facebooks "Sundays with Santa"

Good Morning Crafters, well its been a really busy week, I have been catching up with my Spring Cleaning and gradually getting to the end of it, just a few little jobs left to do, I was amazed this morning and how much dust collects on the lamp shades on the ceiling I used a brand new duster and it was filthy by the time I had finished.
Also I had two fabulous pieces of good news in the last week my second eldest grandson who is almost 22 got a 2-1 grade in Computer Sciences at Sheffield University and that might sound pretty good but when you consider he suffers with Asperger's and mild Autism I think its brilliant he never did find it easy to express himself or cope with English to well, Im so very proud of him, He also worked all through the Summer Holidays last year that he was able to afford his own flat, Well Done Thomas.
Then my younger Granddaughter had her Prom and she looked stunning, shes such a beauty and her dark red dress really looked beautiful, she has now left School and hopes when shes 18 to start Teacher Training but I think in the meantime she will probably think about getting a certification in child care to help her along the way.
But back to my card this was created with the new Sue Wilson Festive Dies, I have also used a embossing folder and layered it up with red card as well as the white. I hope you like the result.
This card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://artimpressionsstamps.blogspot.co.uk/
http://craftingwithanattitude.blogspot.co.uk/
http://sassystudiodesigns.blogspot.co.uk/
http://carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/
http://inspirationdestinationchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/
http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/
http://inkyimpressionschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.wordartwednesday.blogspot.co.uk/ 

 

A ArtbyMiran Card for the Facebook Reserved Challenge

Good Afternoon Crafters, at the weekend I received my image for this months Reserved Challenge over on Facebook, and I printed her onto white card before colouring her with my copic pens. I then used one of my Nestabilitie Labels die to cut her out and then created a faux die for the mount by drawing around the die to create the larger one. The sentiment was created in the same way.
The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount out of blue card the papers are from Maja Design and I have used three of them with blue being the made colour scheme, the first has roses on and the second is a tapestry pattern and the third a distressed look
The mounted image was then placed towards the left and the sentiment in the bottom right hand corner. The final flourish are the two paper carnation flowers from my stash in the top right hand corner.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://clearitoutchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.craftysentiments.blogspot.co.uk/
http://doodlepantryblog.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/DPDC
http://fattastictuesday.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.lovesrubberstampschallenges.com/
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.co.uk/
http://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/
http://cardmaniachallenges.blogspot.co.uk/
http://artbymiranchallenge.blogspot.ca/