Same sex wedding card

Afternoon everybody. 

I'm digging through all my cards that I have not yet blogged or shared anywhere - there's hundreds of them! I made loads of "draft" posts on Blogger so I'm doing those ones first :P 

As you can see from the date on this card, it's from 2014 - I'm REALLY behind :P The card is a wedding card, and this image from Some Odd Girl was perfect for it :D

I made a stepper card - they're so effective, I must really get more imaginative in my crafting again!

Ingredients

Some Odd Girl image Best Man

Discontinued LOTV papers

Ribbon from stash

Sentiments printed on the computer

Liquid pearls

Coloured with Copics

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

Some Odd Girl Challenge - Pop It Up

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Brown Sugar - Anything Goes

CCC Digi Creations - Ribbon or Lace

Crafty Girls Creations - Anything Goes

Creatalicious Challenge - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

Lil patch of crafty friends - anything goes

love to scrap challenge - anything goes

Ribbon Girls Challenge - March Card Challenge

Thanks for looking

Tanya xx

Shabby Chic wedding card

Evening all

The weather is gorgeous here and I'm so excited it's summer! I have SAD and the winter is long and difficult for me, so when the sun starts shining properly, I know things are looking up :) Also Sparky is on the mend, she's doing SO well on her three legs, running around the place! It hasn't slowed her down one bit. The stitches are coming out on Saturday, so she'll be footloose and fancy free then :) Thank you to everyone who has passed on their sympathies and good wishes to her, we really appreciate them all!

Anyway, crafty stuff again. I made this card a while ago, it started as a card for an order but then I liked it too much to use for the order so I kept it hahahaha. I then put it in my "card box" where all the cards that I'm too attached to to let go go to haha.

I used this beautiful LOTV image, it's a retired image. I think it's so pretty.

Image - LOTV

Papers - Maja Design

Flowers and rose trim from Live and Love Crafts

Lace, birds, cheesecloth and corner from Ribbon Girl

Heart charm is a Prima charm from stash

Coloured with Copics

Liquid Pearls, Frantage, Gesso

Closeup of the flowers and heart locket

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

Noor Design Challenge - Spring Flowers

Deep Ocean Challenge - Flowers Everywhere

Fab n Funky - three or more layers

Copic Marker Deutschland - Wedding

Craft Your Passion Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafting From The Heart - Anything Goes

Crafting When We Can - Add Flowers

Live and Love Crafts - Blossoms/Butterflies

Ribbon Girls - May Card Challenge

Dream Valley Challenge - All Creatures Great and Small

Thanks for looking :)
Tanya xx

All Dressed Up New Release Inspiration

Good evening everyone!

There has been a wedding-themed release recently from All Dressed Up Stamps, and I made a card as DT Inspiration using one of the gorgeous images :)

I used the lovely image called "The Wedding Cake" - isn't it pretty? It was lovely to colour up.

Ingredients

Image - The Wedding Cake by All Dressed Up Stamps

Papers - Nitwit Collections

Flowers - from Live and Love Crafts and Ribbon Girl

Sweet Dixie fan die

White ribbon from Ribbon Girl

Charm and hessian bought on holidays

Coloured with Copics

Stickles, gold embossing powder, Liquid Pearls

Close up of my flowers 

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

Simon Says Stamp - Touchy Feely

Ribbon Girls Challenge - Spring or Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Crafty Girls Creations - Anything Goes

Digi Choosday Challenge - Easter or Flowers

Inky Chicks - Ribbon or Lace

Thanks for looking - and do head over to the All Dressed Up blog and Facebook page for heaps more inspiration :D

Tanya xx

Wedding card

Evening all

I should be in bed, but I'm catching up on Doctor Who and can't tear myself away from it :P So I'm sitting here with the cats and catching up on some blogging as well :) I have lots of unblogged cards, so I'm trying to get some of them up :)

I made this for a customer looking for a wedding card featuring the couple's son, so this is what I came up with.

Images - Some Odd Girl

Papers - Maja Design

Lace and charm from stash

Ribbon upcycled from a Pandora gift bag

Pearl string from Live and Love Crafts

Spellbinders Die

Liquid pearls, Stickles

Coloured with Copics

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

Live and Love Crafts - Make It Sparkle

Bunny Zoe's Challenge - Sparkle

Cute Card Thurs - Anything Goes

Deep Ocean Challenge - Anything Goes

Cutie Pie Challenge - Bingo

(Pearls/Cute stamp/Lace)

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Party

Penny Papercrafty Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking, night night!

Tanya xx

Wedding card

Evening all

Here's another card for you :) This card was made for a friend to give to a special couple. I posted it to my friend, and for some reason, it never got delivered and got sent back to me. So during this time I made another card for her really quick and sent that one off to her. This one came back to me with a big tear in it, but I really liked how I'd coloured the image and didn't want to waste it. It had been personalised, so I ripped the personalised sentiments off, and...improvised :P 

The giant bow covers up the tear that the postal system added, and the dewdrops cover up the blemishes where the personalised sentiments were popped up on foam squares. I was pretty happy with how it turned out :) 

Ingredients

Image and Sentiment - LOTV 

Ribbons, dewdrops and gem from Ribbon Girl

Embossalicious embossing folders

Doohickey heart border die

Spellbinders oval die

Coloured with Copics

Stickles, Frantage and Glossy Accents

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

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Love This Technique (mine is dry embossing...and hiding mistakes haha)

Ribbon Girls Challenge - Any image

As You Like It - Favourite Die (one of a few favourites, the spellbinders oval is great for adding some fanciness to occasion cards)

Craft Your Passion Challenges - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Favourite Occasions (I love making wedding cards, not so sure on how much I actually like weddings though :P )

Thanks for looking :) 

Tanya x

All things LOTV wedding card

Hi everyone, I'm back!

Long time no see! 

In the run-up to Christmas, I was SO BUSY! I had 160 cards to make - in the space of three weeks. I don't know how many all-nighters I pulled, and no matter how many times I publicly broke down crying, the orders still came and kept coming. 

I guess it's a nice thing that so many people want my cards, but when it's not making my any money because I don't charge enough, and some of the people (not many, just a very small handful) just don't seem to care, the cost to me is my mental health and all of a sudden then, it's not worth it. I have had no time for anything except card-making, and it became a chore instead of fun. I was churning out cards I wasn't happy with and didn't have time to make them as good as I wanted to, it was awful. I went on holidays for 2 weeks in December as well, and ended up having to pack half an hour before leaving for the airport - and let me tell you as a list maker and huge planner - this is like my worst nightmare!!! 

So I'm taking a break from making cards for anyone but family and close friends for the next little while, and even putting this in no uncertain terms on my facebook page (I literally wrote "I'm not making cards or taking orders til March, thanks for the custom and maybe see you all again for orders then") the orders are still coming and I'm not good at saying no so I'm having to think about putting on my big-girl panties and saying no...not sure if I can do that though haha! I started making cards as I found it helps with my anxiety and self-esteem issues, but when it's causing more problems than it's helping with...I need re-evaluate things. 

Also my beloved cat Whitey is gone. She went missing on Christmas Eve and hasn't been seen since. Can't type to much more about it because I'll cry. I miss her :(

So here's one of the many cards I made during my hugely busy 2014 :)

Ingredients

LOTV Bonnets and Bowties Paper Pack

LOTV Quotables - Love

LOTV Wedding Couple Stamp

LOTV Vintage Sentiments - Occasions

Pink ribbon I bought in America

Silver embossing powder

Liquid Pearls

Diamanté embellishment

Stickles

Coloured with Copics

Frantage powder

It seems like so many of the challenge blogs I used to enter have closed since I blogged last - makes me so sad :(

I'd like to enter this into the following:

Ribbon Girl DT Call

ABC Challenge - Anything Goes

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Something New (wedding is a start of a new life, right?)

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Use something old/new (new start with a wedding, all old products) :)

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking, and happy to be back!

Tags xx

Divas By Design GDT - Pretty in Glitter

Afternoon everybody :)

This week over at Divas By Design, the challenge theme is

Pretty In Glitter

and we're sponsored by Sir Stampalot who are providing a mystery prize for the winner :)

This is what I made, and this is the best pic to show off my sparkles :) I made a wedding easel card.

Ingredients

Image - Stamping Bella Uptown Girls

Sentiments made on the computer

First Edition papers

Memory Box butterfly

MS butterfly punch

Shabby Pink frantage

Coloured with Copics

Stickles, Glossy Accents, Liquid Pearls, sequin strands, pink canvas ribbon, pink satin ribbon, purple pom-pom strand, pink diamanté gem all from Ribbon Girl

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

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations - Things with Wings

Ribbon Girls Challenge - Pastels

Live and Love Crafts - Things with Wings

Inky Chicks - Anything Goes

Dream Valley Challenges - Lace/ribbon

Cute Card Thursday - Dies/Punches

Crafty Little Fairies - Sparkle/Bling

My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge - Dies/Punches

Thanks for looking!
Tanya xx

White wedding card

Hi everyone :) 

HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! :D :D

This week over at Papertake Weekly there's a Pick of the Year challenge - you can choose ANY challenge theme from during the year and make a card to go with that :)

Please don't use the same card though me darlins, it has to be a new one!!

The challenge will close at 8am on January 7th so you have 2 weeks cos we are having a Papertake week off  :)

We are sponsored by the lovely peeps across the pond at Simon Says Stamp so we have a fabulous $20 voucher to give away !!

Woo Hoo !! :-)

I chose the theme from August - Occasionally :) 

I made a wedding card for a friend, and here it is :)

The groom is big into music so it had to include something to do with music on it.

Ingredients

LOTV I Do

Embossilicious Petit Dots and Spellbinders Music embossing folders

LOTV Simply Sophisticated sentiment in silver embossing 

Pink gems and lace from Ribbon Girl

Coloured with Copics and Promarkers

Ribbon from stash

MS border punch

Stickles

I'm going to bed now but I'll add my list of challenges to add it to in the morning :)

Sweet dreams and have a lovely christmas :)

Tags xx

Wedding card for a husband

Evening all

I was asked by a lady last month if I could make her a wedding card for her husband-to-be, so this is what I made :) 

Closeup of the image

The pics of the overall card didn't come out so well, but you get the idea!

Ingredients

Image - LOTV I Do

Sentiment - Computer generated

Papers - Papermania/Doodlebug

Lace and charm - Ribbon girl

Spellbinders hearts and scalloped hearts

Cuttlebug Divine Swirls Embossing Folder

Coloured with Promarkers

Ribbon from stash

Aged Black and Aged Scarlet Frantage

Stickles Stardust

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

Lili of the Valley Challenge - Ribbon and Lace

Divas By Design - Weddings/Anniversaries

Totally Papercrafts - Red/Black/White

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Heat/Dry Embossing (I did dry embossing)

My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge - Boys Only

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Embossing

The Squirrel and the Fox - It's Raining Men

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Goodbye Summer

Creative Inspirations Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking :)

Tags xx

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 :)

Tags xx

Wedding card

Evening all

I made this card for my neighbour to give someone, she seemed to like it, so hopefully the happy couple will too :)

Ingredients

Image - MilkCoffee - Just Married Couple

Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug Divine Swirls

Paper - Wild Rose Studio Gingham pack

Sentiments - Printed off computer

Ribbon - Wild Orchid Crafts

Charm - Ribbon Girl

Gems - Ribbon Girl

Medium - Promarkers

Everything else - Glossy Accents, Stickles, Glamour Dust

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

Dream Valley Challenges - Ribbon and Bling

Whimsy Stamps Challenge - Add some metal

Papertake Weekly - Hearts and Flowers

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Letter B (bride/bow/balloons/blue pearls)

Digital Tuesday Challenge - Up, Up and Away (balloons)

Paper Crafting Journey - Love

Thanks for looking :)

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My Mum's Craft Shop DT Card

Evening everyone

Today over at My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge Blog, this week's challenge theme is

Love is all around 

and we are sponsored this time by

The Paper Shelter

My card for this time round is actually a Wedding Invitation from a set of 80 that I made for one of my friends who got married a while ago. Obviously I didn't want to post them on my blog til after the wedding lol. She liked them, and I saw on her Facebook page a few comments from people she'd invited saying they were lovely, so I think everyone was happy :)

The image is from Lili of the Valley, the ribbon, flowers and gems are from Wild Orchid Crafts and this isn't the sentiment I used on the actual invitations but I can't find a photo of any of them lol, this one was printed out on the computer.

A closeup of the image, coloured with Promarkers and I put Stickles on there too, on the hearts, headdress, veil and on the trim on the dress.

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

Divas By Design - use texture (ribbon, flowers, stickles)

Simon Says Stamp - Glimmer and Sparkle

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Sentimental Sundays - Recipe 3,2,1 (3 flowers, 2 sets of gems, 1 image)

Thanks for looking :)

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MMCS DT Card - hearts and flowers

Evening all :)

I had a lovely day today, I took my wonderful mum to the cinema - we saw Anna Karenina. It's really good! The presentation of it is a little strange - it's done in a sort of theatrical way, it mimics being at the theatre with stage changes and whatnot, but it's done really well. Keira Knightley was amazing in it - she is so talented. Not one of my favourite actresses personally (possibly due to being envious of how ridiculously good-looking she is! haha), but she did a fantastic job in this. Well worth the watch, and Mum enjoyed it too.

Anyway, over at MMCS Challenge Blog today, we have the theme of 

Hearts and Flowers

and we're sponsored by the always wonderful

Bugaboo Stamps

who are providing our lucky winner with 7 digis of the winner's choice from their store.

So here's the card I made for it, I'm mad into monochrome at the minute for some reason, and I've had a few wedding cards to make lately and I think B&W works so well for them.

The image and sentiment are from LOTV, the flowers and gems are from Wild Orchid Crafts, the ribbon I got from my local sewing shop, the swirl is a Marianne D flourish, the papers are Papermania and the heart charm is from Ribbon Girl.

A closeup of the image, coloured with Promarkers and Stickled up. Stardust was out of stock when I was making my order and I ordered a different one that I don't like as much :( 

A closeup of my flowers

My sentiment, bow and charm

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

Divas By Design - Lovely Layers

Dream Valley Challenges - Celebration

That Craft Place Challenge Blog - Bling it on

Milk Coffee Challenge - Two Different Shapes (circle, heart)

Thanks for looking :)

Tags xx

Monochrome wedding card

Evening again :)

My beloved cat Scraps has perfect timing, she decided she wanted some real attention just after I'd finished this, so she came and snuggled up on my lap and we watched Pirates of the Caribbean together hehe :P

Here's the card I made, my parents are going to a wedding next week, so I'm on a wedding card buzz now, I've made another two as well that I'll put up another day. This first one is monochrome but with pink as well. I think I like how it turned out, it's not too bad anyway.

The image and sentiment are from Lili of the Valley, the ribbon, flowers and gems are from Wild Orchid Crafts, the lace and charm are from Ribbon Girl, the papers are from a Papermania capsule collection pack, the leaves are a MS punch and I made the pins myself.

A closeup of the image, coloured with Promarkers and the usual dose of Stickles, not very clear in the pic though.

A closeup of the charm, ribbon and my homemade pins. 

A closeup of my flowers, covered with Stickles too.

My sentiment, from the Love Sentiments sentiment sheet.

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

Lili's Little Fairies Thursday Challenge - Black Magic

Simon Says Stamp - Put A Stamp On It

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Dream Valley Challenges - Something Old Something New (Old: Stamp; New: Papers)

Allsorts Challenge Blog - Layers

Pile It On - Patterened Paper

Thanks for looking :)

Nighty night!

Tags xx

Wedding Card

My sis needed a wedding card, so this is what I made for her. I got a new Bo Bunny paper pack in the post, so I was mad to use it! :D So this is what I came up with :) This is my first try at anything with a vintage feel, I'm pretty happy with the result!

The sentiment is from a Forever Friends pack of sentiments. The ribbon, twine, pearls and button (I used another button!) are from Ribbon Girl, the image is LOTV and as previously mentioned the paper is Bo Bunny. I don't have any distress inks, so i used tea instead! :D that was fun. The gems were in my stash. As usual, I used my Stickles as well :)

A close up of my button!

The image was coloured with Promarkers, I added Stickles and little gems to her veil and the bouquet.

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

CRAFT Challenge - Wedding/Anniversary

Stampin for the Weekend - Sparkle and Shine

Totally Papercrafts - All Buttoned Up

Sketch Saturday - Week 203

Allsorts Challenge - Buttons and Thread

Lili's Little Fairies - Diamonds and Pearls

That's me, thanks for looking :) 

Tags xx