Crafty Friends DT Post - One for the Girls

Hi all!

Sorry I'm a bit late, I'm playing catch-up still - I've been ill a lot lately so I'm trying to take things easy :) Getting out and about tomorrow to meet a new friend for coffee, first time out of the house in ages, baby steps :P

Anyway, onto crafty things.

This week's theme over at Crafty Friends Challenge Blog is ONE FOR THE GIRLS.

We have two amazing sponsors this time.

All Dressed Up who are providing our lucky winner with 2 digis from their webstore

and

A Day For Daisies who are providing the lucky winner with a $12 gift voucher for their store. 

I used a beautiful image from All Dressed Up called 3 Little Summer Girls for my card :) 

Ingredients

Image - 3 Little Girls from All Dressed Up

Beach background from Make It Crafty

Papers from LOTV

Spellbinders oval die

Ribbons, charm, bling from Ribbon Girl and Ebay

Coloured with Copics

Liquid Pearls, Glossy Accents and although you can't really see it, loads of Stickles

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

All Dressed Up Challenge - Anything Goes
As You Like It - Favourite Season and Why  (Summer because I have SAD, winter is long, dark and torturous)

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Sparkle
Craft Your Passion Challenges - Anything Goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything goes
Penny's Papercrafty Challenge - Anything Goes
Ribbon Girls November Challenge - Use Any Image

Thanks for looking
Tanya xx

Girly birthday card - GDT for Divas By Design

Scheduled this for yesterday, blogger fail!

Morning all!

Today over at Divas By Design, the challenge is

Happy Birthday

and we're delighted to be sponsored by

Crafty Devils

So here's what I made, it was a commission for a friend.

Ingredients

Beauty shop images - Make It Crafty

Girl image - Simply B Stamps (I think it's called)

Cheery Lynn Doily Die

Papermania papers

Spiderweb ribbon and diamanté detail from Ribbon Girl

Sentiment done on the computer

Coloured with Copics (Yes I had a colouring fail on the tiles :'( )

Stickles, Glossy Accents, Liquid Pearls

I'd like to enter into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

Bearly Mine August Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking and do head on over to Divas By Design for a look at all the other girls' fantastic DT cards :)

Tanya xx

One more valentine's card

Hi everyone, another card from me! I'm up to my ears at the moment in the middle of making 100 wedding invitations for someone, and let's just say they're not clean and simple, lots of cutting, embossing, frantaging etc to do, so it's literally taking all of my time at the moment! I love it though, it means that at least 200 people will be looking at a card that I made then, and as that's the case, I want it to be good :D

I had to take a break though for this week, as I had three valentine's orders, two birthday card orders for little girls and then it's my niece's first birthday this week too, so I've had loads of orders for that too so the invites had to take a back seat - just as well they're not needed til May :)

So here's the last valentine's card - it was actually ordered by one of the bridesmaids from the wedding I'm making the invitations for so yay for word of mouth right?

She sent me a picture of the scene she wanted on it and described it down to what they were wearing, so that was a touch challenging to say the least :P Very proud of my ability to find a perfectly dressed couple and then add in the hat afterwards haha!

Ingredients

Image - Some Odd Girl Squeezy Hugs, Make it Crafty Island Hideaway, a hat found on the internet and some serious skills in Microsoft Paint :P 

LOTV Country Gent papers

Sentiment printed on the computer

Ribbon and faux hessian from Ribbon Girl

Stickles (the water is really sparkly, it doesn't show well in the photos), Gold Stickles, Liquid Pearls

Coloured with PMs and Copics

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Let's Get Krafty

The Ribbon Girl Challenge - Red projects

A Creative Romance - Let's Get Sentimental

Bunny Zoe's Challenge - Hearts/Love

Crafting For All Seasons - Show us some Romance

Deep Ocean Challenge - Love is all around

My Mum's craft Shop Challenge - Spots and Stripes

The Squirrel and the Fox - Love

Digi Haven - Valentine's Day

Papertake Weekly - With a Heart

Thanks for looking :)

Tags xx

Sunset valentine's card

Evening all and happy valentine's day.

I was asked to make cards for a couple haha, he asked for one for her and she asked for one for him and they both asked for something Thailand-esque, as they just came back from holidaying there.

So this is his card to her, and my first time colouring a sunset, pretty happy with mself :) I made an easel card.

Ingredients

Images - Make it crafty beach background and Some Odd Girl Two Hearts Kody and Mae

Flowers - WOC, Ribbon Girl, LLC

Cheery Lynn Fanciful Flourish

Sentiment printed on the computer

Lace from amazon

Ribbon from stash

Coloured with PMs and Copics

Stickles

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Stampin for the Weekend - Flower Power

A Creative Romance - Let's Get Sentimental

Bunny Zoe's Challenge - Love/Hearts

Crafting for all Seasons - Romance

Deep Ocean Challenge - Love is all around

Digi Haven - Love/Valentine's

Divas by Design - With love

The Squirrel and the Fox - love

Penny's Papercrafty Challenge - Monochrome

Papertake Weekly - With a heart

Thanks for looking :)

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Girlfriend Birthday card

Hi everybody :)

I made this a while ago for a friend to give his girlfriend on her birthday, my first 8x8 card so was strange working on a bigger card hehe, but it suited the image perfectly I think, there are just so many little details in it that I really don't think it would look good on a 6x6. She's a beautician and loves pink and white, so this is what I came up with :) I took inspiration from a card on the Make it Crafty website (where the background set is from) by Tracy Payne of Crafteezee, using a similar layout so felt I had to include that in my post too.

Ingredients

Images - Simply B Stamps Beauty Spa Rio and Make It Crafty Beauty Spa Set

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts: Roses, rosebuds, chrysanthemums, heather, cherry blossoms, cosmos daisies

Sentiment - LOTV Greetings Postmarks

Cheery Lynn French Pastry Doily Die

Cheery Lynn Mini Fanciful Flourish

Whimsy Corner Die

Papermania/Lucy Cromwell Papers

Coloured with Promarkers

Ribbon Girl: Pink lace, pearls, Stickles, Glossy Accents

Feathers and Tulle from stash

Closeup of the sentiment I printed off myself

My feathery flower arrangement

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Totally Gorjuss - Bows

Papertake Weekly - Flower Power

Wild Orchid Challenge - Pink and Cream

Thanks for looking :)

Tags xx

Sweet Stampin DT Post - Create a Scene

Morning everybody!

I was lucky enough to be asked by Sweet Stampin' Challenge Blog to be their May Guest Designer! 

Today is the first challenge that I'm part of, and their theme this time is to CREATE A SCENE. 

The sponsor this time is Cuddly Buddly and they're providing the lucky winner with a £10 voucher for the store. Sweet Stampin also have a monthly sponsor - Ribbon Girl, so there's a £10 voucher to their store each month too.

So here's the card I made, as soon as I heard the theme, I immediately thought of these images :D And I'm pretty happy with how it turned out I think!

Ingredients

Images (from the back forward)

Egyptian Pyramids - Make It Crafty

Desert Oasis - Make It Crafty

Egyptian Pottery - Make It Crafty (I used both images)

Cleo Walk the Walk - Tiddly Inks

Medium - Promarkers

Papers - Papermania Capsule Collection and LOTV Country Gent

Twill ribbon - Ribbon Girl

Pearl trim - Ribbon Girl

Hessian Mesh - Ribbon Girl

Lace - Ribbon Girl

Cheesecloth - Ribbon Girl

I stamped corners and edges with Fancy Pants Journals a la Mode stamps

Everything Else - Stardust Stickles, Distress Stickles, Glossy Accents

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Tiddly Inks Challenge - Inspired by a Movie or Book (my niece is currently reading this)

Allsorts Challenge - Add Some Sparkle

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Anything Goes with Ribbon

Totally Gorjuss - Ribbons and Pearls

ABC Challenge - M for Make it Sparkle

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Happy Mail

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Passport to Fun

Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes

Inky Chicks - Shabby Chic

Thanks for looking, and do go and see what the fantastic DT over at Sweet Stampin made :)

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As You Wish

Hi everybody :)

It's a gorgeous sunny day here, so I'm happy! I love sunny weather, I really hope we get a good summer :) 

Here's the card I made last night, hope you like it. I was thinking that I could send it to my boyfriend maybe...and tell him we need to watch The Princess Bride, because it's amazing. I'm just hoping that he'll say "As you wish" in response to my demands :D hehe.

Ingredients

Images - As you wish by Tiddly Inks and Courtyard by Make It Crafty

Ribbon - from an old top

Paper - Papermania capsule collection

Gem - from my niece's broken hairband

Medium - Promarkers

Everything Else - Stickles on her hem, Glossy Accents on the little rocks

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Tiddly Inks Challenge - Inspiration from a movie (the princess bride of course!)

Crafting for all Seasons - Monochrome

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Anything Goes with Ribbon

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Favourite Colour Combo (B&W is always a classic)

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Happy Mail

Party Time Tuesday - Anything Goes

Bunny Zoe's Challenge - Favourite Colour Combo (B&W)

Moving along with the times - one for the boys

Thanks for looking :)

Tags xx