Yippiiieee!

Yippiieeee!! I just found out that I won the candy on Just Scraps with my Thank You Teacher card. I am so thrilled! I have never won anything in my life before, this is so exciting!
My biggest thank you to Jean from Just Scraps - check out the blog for great challenges!

Simply Red

This is my second post today - and yes, you guessed, another commissioned card. I decided to use red mainly, since I was told this was the recipient's favourite colour.

Cuttlebug embossing folder; Nestabilities Labels Nine; sentiment stamp by Hero Arts; Crystal White Dovecraft pigment ink; red gems and white satin ribbon from my own stash.

Onto some challenges:

Tuesday Throwdown - Dry Embossing
Crafty Ann's - Embossing
All sorts - Embossing

Girly and summery card

I am rushing to have all orders finished for Tuesday before we are off on holidays, and I am glad to say I am getting there - slowly but surely!!
This is a girly and summery birthday card for a 7 year old girl.
The image, coloured with Letraset Promarkers, is Swiss Pixies, Liesel and her Wheelbarrow; sentiment from Papermania; the flowery paper is a download; circle and scalloped punch; paper flowers, gems and ribbons from my own stash.

I am entering this card onto the following challenges:
Daisy Doodles - Summertime
Whoopsi Daisy - Ribbons and bows
Freshly Brewed - Anything goes
Aud Sentiments - "love"
Delightful Sketches - All about Summer
Incy Wincy Designs - Wings
Oh Oh la la - Simply Summer
Rosie D's - Summer Birthdays

Thanks for your comments!

Thank You Teacher

First year in school is ending next week for my son. This is the Thank You card I made for his teacher, Andrea, who has been an absolute star.

The digital image is by Dulemba, coloured with Letraset Promarkers; I am afraid I can't remember where I got the "World's Best Teacher" ticket from, but it is a free digi offered recently - apologies, printed in red paper and mounted onto cardstock and 3D pads; the alphabet papers is a CD download; the notebook effect paper and font are all created in MS Word; the brown cardstock and the ochre ribbon from my own stash.

Onto some challenges:
My Partner in Crafting Crime: Teachers
Just Scraps: School is out

Thanks for visiting my blog! Please leave a comment :-)

For the Guitar lover

This is another comissioned Birthday card, this time for a guitar lover. 

Both the guitar and the musical background stamps are from Fourth Dimension; coloured with Letraset Promarkers; the papers are all scraps from my stash; Distress inks; PaperMania brads.

All sorts: Sketch
Aifactory: Distress it
Totally Gorjuss: For the boys
Incy Wincy Designs: Music

Nautical theme card

Good sunny day to you all! Today I have a few new cards to show you... Let's see:
This is an order for a Birthday card I received last night (in case you are wondering "Zorionak" is Happy Birthday in Basque). The gentleman the card is addressed to used to be (or would have liked to be?) a sailor hence the nautical theme.

The nautical paper is a download; the alphas are rub-ons; stamp by Crafty Individuals; Distress Ink; CoreDinations Blue cardstock; I took the idea of the rope from this card.

Some challenges
Aifactory: distress it!
Crafts and Me: Birthdays
Gingersnap Creations: shades of Blue
Rosie's D: Something Blue

Hope you like it.

For the shopping lover

Here's a girly card for a friend of the family who loves shopping and is turning 30 in a couple of weeks.
The image is by Amber Ink; coloured with Letraset Promarkers; Fiskars punch; flower and polka dot papers CD Download; flower and pink button from my stash; the green button I made myself; "30" foam pads; Stickles and 3D embossing fluid for extra texture.

Challenges entered:
Cute Card Thursday: sketch by Claudia
Fun with Shapes and More: Flowery
Bee Crafty: Pink and Girly
Totally Gorjuss - Sugar and Spice
Bunny's Zoe Crafts: Nice and Girly
Practical Scrappers: Glitter
Stamp with Us: colour challenge

Thanks for your comments!

Happy Birthday, Ballerina!

Given the recent statistics on my blog, 3 posts in 48 hours is defenitely a record! Has my inspiration returned? I wouldn't say that much, more like the need of getting my act together and finishing all those cards and orders in my to-do list... So here's another card, just finished.

This one is for a girl in my son's class, a ballet lover who will turn 6 in a few weeks, but since we will be away I am trying to be super organised (big pat on the back for me!!). I have a bunch of this to make - so many people around us seem to celebrate their birthday in July! And since I won't be taking my stash or tools with me on holidays, all cards and presents need to be ready before June 30th! There's a deadline!

The cute polka dot paper was downloaded; "S" created in Word and handcut; gems from my stash; Stickles; 3D embossing fluid; the sentiment is a digi from Pollycrafts; the ballet girl is an image from Bodil; coloured with Letraset Promarkers.

Any suitable challenges for this card? let's see...

PaperTake weekly - Ice Cream colours (mmmm, strawberry - pink and red)
Busy Beauties - Anything goes
Charisma Cardz - All about bling

Right, what's next in my To-do list? :-)

Cheers to a Great Dad!

This card, more humorous than the one posted yesterday, is for my partner for Father's Day on behalf of me and our son. Since my partner is not a blogger I reckon it's safe posting the card before Sunday. :-)

The Beer Monster image is a freebie from Pollycrafts and I can see myself using it quite often! Isn't it great for male cards?! (coloured with Letraset Promarkers)

So onto some (even more!) challenges with the Man/boy/father theme:

Creative Craft - For the man in your life

E-Dink Digi Stamps - Father's Day

Tanda Stamps - For the Big man

Crafty Cardmakers - Cards for Men

CupCake Craft challenge - One for the Boys

Incy Wincy Designs - One for the Guys
Pear Tree Designs - Father's Day
Double Dutch Challenge - Father's Day
Stampacular - A Tribute to all fathers
Cards for Men - Father's Day
Totally Gorjuss - For the boys
CAS-tastic challenge - Father's Day
Creative Inspirations - One for the boys
Fab'n'Funky - Just for Dad

Sit down and relax!

It's Father's Day on Sunday and oh boy- am I late with my cards! I only started with my father-in-law's one (which needs to travel and therefore should already have been on yesterday's post!) this morning, but I am quite happy with the result. God knows that the man needs a day off, put his feet up and relax, so I thought these images from BirdsCards were super suitable.
There seem to be a bunch of challenges this week with man/boy/father theme, so here we go:

Creative Craft - For the man in your life

E-Dink Digi Stamps - Father's Day

Tanda Stamps - For the Big man

Crafty Cardmakers - Cards for Men

CupCake Craft challenge - One for the Boys

Incy Wincy Designs - One for the Guys

Pear Tree Designs - Father's Day

Double Dutch Challenge - Father's Day

Stampacular - A Tribute to all fathers

Cards for Men - Father's Day

Baby Card

About time I blog! Yes, indeed. I can't believe it's been three weeks, time flies! Today I finished a couple of orders - all baby cards, so I decided to check what challenges were out there.

The card enters the following challenges:

Creative Inspirations - Monochrome

My Time to Craft - Xtra Special
Busy Beauties Creation Station - Anything goes

Sorry it's a quick post again; I am tired and looking forward to going to bed soon! :-)

Wedding card

Here's my latest card - a request from a friend who was attending a wedding at the weekend.

The photo frame is a digital image from Birds Cards; the "Honeymooners" image is an A Muse rubber stamp, which I paper pieced rather than colour it; copper ribbon from my own stash; Oval Nestabilities.

A few challenges:
Cute Card Thursday - No designer papers
Hanna and Friends - monochrome
Sundays with Crissy - Layers
A Spoon full of Sugar - Celebrations

Have a nice week!

Vintage Album (part II and last)

This is my second project finished this week. Another big YAY for me!

I started this vintage album months ago, I even showed a peak of it here, but I hadn't managed to fully complete it until now (I was not sure about the main cover and the title, what system to use to close it, etc.). In the end it was worth the effort, though :-)

This little album (10x10cm, 6 pages decorated on each side)encapsulates and celebrates the life of my late father and has been a long, emotional journey for me, collecting photos and re-living many memories in the process. This is the result, I hope you like it.

I am entering this album to the following challenges:
A Spoon full of Sugar - Celebrations
Tuesday Taggers - It's a Man's world
ABC Challenge - V is for Vintage
Crafts and Me - Distressed
Creative Inspirations - Distressed

Some projects

This week I have managed to finish a couple of projects that were started and left aside...Yay for me!!! :-)

One of the projects was these two cushion covers - a little "thank you" gift for a lady who very kindly gave me some beautiful fabric she had to spare months ago. I thought it would be nice to show her my appreciation by making a couple of cushions that she could use in her own place. The covers were finished ages ago (before Easter probably!) but I never seemed to find the time to make the little flowers to put in the centre. So today, finally the flowers were completed and the little project finished!

Here are the finished cushions and the covers wrapped, with a Thank You Tag. (I opted for a very simple style of cushion covers and very simple flowers in the end as you can see!)
I guess the tag, even though it is also very simple, can enter the All Sorts Challenge of this week :-)
Inkadinkado stamp; Dovecraft Hot Pink Pigment ink; Embossing powder; Circle Nestabilities; silver ribbon from my own stash.

Russian Dolls

This is my creation for today - an A5 card with a matching bookmark.

PaperCraft Essentials were recently giving these cute Russian Dolls papers and I liked the idea of incorporating them in some of this weeks challenges:

Crafty Angels - Ripping and tearing

Die Cut Dreams - Lace it up

All Sorts - Birthday

Project Tuesday - Card with a matching bookmark
Everything But the Kitchen Sink - sketch 15

The bookmark enters the challenge on One Stitch at a Time - Anything but a card.

White cardstock; purple CoreDinations; Russian Doll image coloured with Letraset Promakers; papers from the Russian Dolls Collection (papercraft essentials); lace and ribbons from my own stash; Fiskars punch

Thanks for your feedback.
Have a nice day!

Strawberries

I have been under the weather {and therefore MIA} for most of the week, struggling to make just a couple of Communion cards for orders, checking mail and blogs randomly, all with not much energy...
Today the sun is out :-) and I pushed myself to create a card and enter some challenges.
And among my stash of papers and digital images I came across this yummy paper that I downloaded ages ago and these beautiful Studio Nine Design digital strawberries. I had them even coloured! And then this cute image of this "strawberry girl" from Bodil's Scrapperverden appeared and it all got together in my mind! You see, I love strawberries, and when I say "love" I really mean LOVE! Jokingly I often say that I would sell my soul to the devil for a bowl of fresh ripe strawberries! They have always been my favourite fruit so the images and the paper were just a delicious temptation to play with!

My card enters the following challenges:

Passion for Promakers - Strawberries and cream

Dare u 2 digistamp - Anything goes

My time to Craft- Too Cute

Charisma Cardz - Sweet treat

ABC challenge - U for Unused stash (corrugated card, strawberry paper)

7"x7" white base card; all digital images coloured with Letraset Promarkers; Basic red Ribbon from Michaels; corrugated green card and red cardstock from my own stash. I left the card without message but this could be a Birthday or a Congratulations or a Thank you card.
Hope you have a nice weekend!

Newborn Layout

Scrapbooking has kept me occupied for the last week. I was commissioned to create a few LOs for newborn babies, which is something I always enjoy. This LO enters the following challenges: 

[Please note that photo and data of the newborn have been blurred to protect the child's idendity.]

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturdays - Anything but a card

Easy Craft projects - "this week our challenge is all about pretty flowers, baby animals, new beginnings...spring."

Fun 2 Stamp - Borders

Quixotic Challenge - Oh Baby!

Thanks for your comments!

Baby Girl circle card

I made this little birthday card over the weekend - hopefully the last of my children's birthday cards for a few days! ;-)

The little girl turns 1 so I tried to keep it sweet (with the Forever Friends stamp) and in nice pink tones. I coloured the image with Letraset Promarkers and paper pieced the crown. The balloon stamp is from Hero Arts; gems and ribbon from my own stash.

I am hoping to enter the following challenges:
The Creative Cottage - Circles
CRAFT Challenge - Shaped card
Meljen's Designs - Show us your shape
Whoopsi Daisy - As you like it
Incy Wincy Designs - Anything goes
The Crazy Challenge - Bling, bling

Handbag Shaped Card

Believe it or not - I am still working on those children's birthday cards... yeps!
This one, however, felt a bit easier and it was defenitely more fun for me. It is for a 6 year old girl to start with (I find girls' cards easier than boys'); and she is a very girly girl, a little lady who, by the way, I love to bits. So pinks, ribbons, buttons, bows, glitter - all allowed! :-)

Here is my handbag shaped card, simple but very girly as intended!

{It does not contain a stamped image but a sentiment so I hope it is still be OK to enter the following challenges}:

Aifactory- Use Buttons
Creative Cottage - Circles
CRAFT challenge - Shaped card
Crafty Catz - Spots
Totally gorjuss - In Stitches
Sundays with Crissy - Dots
Meljens Designs - Show us your shape

Happy Monday!

More samples with my digital zebra

Here are two more great cards using my digital zebra. Aren't they gorgeous?! These ones were made by Debb, check out her blog full of fab creations! Thanks fos sharing, Debb!