Butterfly Wishes

Good afternoon everyone!

It's my niece's 5th birthday party today, so I'm taking in the calm before the storm, in a couple of hours, there's going to be 17 hyperactive, sugared-up 5-year-olds legging it around the vicinity, so I won't get any peace! 

I have such a vivid memory of my own 5th birthday - my eldest sister (the mother of this birthday girl actually!) telling me to get dressed for my 5th birthday party, as I was running around the house in my knickers and vest causing havoc haha. Funny the things you remember right? And just like my mother used to be up til all hours cooking and baking and icing and decorating the night before, both Mummy AND Daddy of the Birthday Girl were up til all hours last night, making sure everything will be *just right* for their little darling's do :)

Anyway, enough of that :) I made this card a while ago for a friend to give his god-daughter for her 18th birthday, I had ZERO mojo when I needed to make this, so it literally took 7 hours to make. LOL. But I'm pretty happy with how it turned out :) I wanted it to be less "cute" and more "grown up" but still girly, so I think that worked out OK :) As per usual for my cards these days, I went frantage mad :)

Ingredients 

Image - Fairy Fae by Delicious Doodles

Papers - Wild Rose Studio Annabelle's Meadow

Flowers and blue ribbon - Wild Orchid Crafts

Pink pearl trim, White pearl trim, looped organza trim, charm, silver butterfly, brad - Ribbon Girl

Cheery Lynn French Pastry Die 

Memory Box Vivienne Butterfly Die

MS Butterfly Punch

JoyCrafts Alphabet Die (for the numbers)

Coloured with Promarkers

Shabby Pink Frantage

Blue Liquid Pearls

Glossy Accents

Stickles

A closeup of my flowers :)

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

Ribbon Girls Challenge - Include a Number

Allsorts Challenge Blog - Butterflies

Bunny Zoe's Challenge - Bingo (Ribbon/Sparkle/Charms)

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Anything Goes with Ribbon

Creative Inspirations - Favourite Colour Combo (pink and blue)

Live and Love Crafts Challenge - Photo Collage Inspiration (I chose the pretty pink and blue colours and flowers from the third one and the overall shabby chic look) 

Cute Card Thursday - Pretty In Pink

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - You are my sunshine

Passion for Promarkers - Pink and Pearly

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking :)

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Gothic Wedding

Hi everyone :)

My sister asked me for a wedding card for an alternative couple, they're tattooed and pierced and whatnot, so she didn't want a traditional pretty style wedding card, so this is what I came up with :D

Image - Delicious Doodles

Papers - Papermania Capsule Collection

Sentiment - printed off the computer

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

Swirl - Cheery Lynn Mini Fanciful Flourish

Medium - Promarkers

Ribbon - Wild Orchid Crafts

Charm - Ribbon Girl

Tulle - old Halloween costume

Everything else - Stickles, Glossy Accents

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

Sweet Stampin Challenge - Not cute

Totally Papercrafts - June Bride

Crafts and Me Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - Say it with flowers

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Anything Goes with Ribbon

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes with ribbon

Inky Chicks - Anything Goes

Passion for Promarkers - Name that tune (Chapel of Love)

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking :)

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Crafty Friends Challenge 4

Evening everybody

Today over at Crafty Friends Challenge Blog, our challenge has the theme of Charmed. So get those charms out and get crafty!

We're sponsored by the fabulous

Delicious Doodles

who are providing the winner with these four digis:

The DT worked with all of these, so do head over to the blog to see how amazing they all look on cards :D

I chose to use the beautiful foxglove image for my card.

Ingredients

Image - Foxglove by Delicious Doodles

Papers - LOTV Paper Pack - Promises

Sentiment - LOTV - Greetings Postmarks 

(didn't come out great in the picture, it says "You're in my thoughts")

Ribbon - Wild Orchid Crafts

Twill tape - Ribbon Girl

Button Twine - Ribbon Girl

Brad - Ribbon Girl

Charm - Ribbon Girl

Pearls - Ribbon Girl

Corner Die - Whimsy Corner Die Set

Doily - Cheery Lynn French Pastry

Medium - Promarkers 

Everything else - Stickles, Glossy Accents

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

Totally Papercrafts - Flowers and Bows

The Squirrel and the Fox - Use something metal

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Flowers Galore

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Welcome Summer

I Love Promarkers - Anything Goes

Digi Haven Challenge - Flowers

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Kraft

Stampin for the Weekend - Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations - Summer Blooms

Thanks for looking and do head over to Crafty Friends and see the fab creations our DT have made :)

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Forever Friends DT Card - Anything goes

Evening all

A few hours late with this post! Mum has the flu today so I've been looking after her, and since Dad is about as capable in the kitchen as a baby, I was looking after him too haha! Fun times :) That and going to the supermarket to buy ingredients for tonight's cocktails kept me busy :P

Anyway, over at Forever Friends today, the last challenge of the year is the super easy 

ANYTHING GOES

so we want you to all join in with us :D

We have two FANTABULOUS (yes it's a word - spellcheck didn't mind it anyway :D) sponsors this time, our Randomly selected winner's prize is sponsored by the loverly 

Oak Pond Creations (shop is here; blog is here)

They are providing our lucky winner with 3 digis from the store.

Our Forever Friends Favourite prize is sponsored by the fantastical 

Delicious Doodles,

and they are providing our winner with 4 specified images - see our main blog post for details :)

I used one of the Delicious Doodles images for my card - Butterfly Bliss - and I love it! As soon as I saw them I really liked it, and an idea for a card fell into my head, so I made it. I hope you like it.

Ingredients

Image - Delicious Doodles - Butterfly Bliss

Feathers - taken from a feather boa

Black lace - lace gloves chopped up

Ribbon - headband (yes, I stole most of the ingredients for this from my dressup box lol)

Flowers, gems and corner - Wild Orchid Crafts

Butterfly Border - Tim Holtz die

Medium - Promarkers

Mesh - Tutu chopped up

Everything else - Glitter Nail Polish, Stickles, doily

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

Wild Orchid Challenge - Anything Goes

Card Crafter's Circle - Anything Goes

Digital Tuesdays - Layers

Thanks for looking

and

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Enjoy whatever you have planned for tonight, and best wishes for 2013 :) 

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