It's Christmas. Simples!

Here is the card I have just finished making, and I thoroughly enjoyed colouring him in with my new ProMarkers!

This card will be intended for my son this year, and it also fits the bill for the first Challenge at Cards for Men.

As always, click on the image to enlarge and view in better detail.
You might not be able to tell but that little lighter colour on his nose is dusky pink! Also I coloured him in twice and popped him up onto foam pads to make him stand out some more!
It looks a lot better in real life!

Recipe:

• Red Cardstock
• Christmas Simples Digital Stamp from Sandra Dry
• ProMarkers (I will edit the colours in later)
• La Pashe Acetate & Peel-off pens
• Laura Ashley Designer Paper
• S O N silver stickers (coloured in green La Pashe pens)
  
• Whispers Brush Pens
• Diamond Stickles
  
• Scrap Card
• Computer Generated Sentiments
• Double sided sticky tape
  

MAJOR Update Part II - Son's Birthday

Okay, a major even happened whilst I was away.
My wonderful son turned 11 at the end of September, so here are a few piccies, along with some other pics of cards I made for other September birthdays!

William's Card. Details can be found at the bottom of the page. As always, click on the image to enlarge and view in better detail.

Tags I made for his birthday pressies.

Opening one of his pressies.

William's cake, which was yummy BTW. And YES I did save that ribbon and add it to my stash! I DARE you to tell me that you don't do that!!

I have just realised that I already posted the other cards here lol, so no need for me to post them!


Recipe for William's Card:

• Plain white card, pre-folded with matching envelope from a local craft store.
• 'Tyler and Piper - Rock Stars' (set of 2 images) Digital Image from Pollycraft.co.uk
  
• 'Birthday' Wire Word by Papermania from madaboutcards.co.uk
• Backing Paper is 'Looney Tunes Hop n Bop' from madaboutcards.co.uk
• Self-Adhesive Foam Numbers from stamps.co.uk
• Music Metal Charms from madaboutcards.co.uk (just £1 for a pack of 9 different charms).
• Daisy and Dandelion Stick on Sentiment from madaboutcards.co.uk (just 50p for a pack of different sentiments, at the time of writing this)
• Various papers from Claire Curd's signature range on the inside of the card (Not Shown)
• Whisper Brush Markers used to colour in the image
• Double sided sticky tape
• Anita's Tacky Glue
• 3D Foam Pads (you might not be able to tell but I stamped and coloured the image several times and découpage'd it)

Recipe for the Tags:

• White card stock
• 'William - Where's the Party' Clear Stamp from PollyCraft.co.uk (This is to be retired as soon as it is sold out)
• Whispers Brush Markers
• Double sided sticky tape
  

Catch Up

Time for a bit of a catch up, firstly a card that I just finished making, I did make a matching envelope too but I forgot to take pics before I put it inside the envelope to be posted lol
I used my own sketch for the layout.
The card itself is for my younger brother who has just moved out of home and into his own flat with his girlfriend.

The front, I used all new goodies (see below), on this card.

The inside with one of the new papers I got :)

A side view (before I put the flowers on it, because I only just remembered about them after I took this picture lol
As you can see I printed out the digital stamp 4 times (it has 1 dog and the house, but as it was for a couple I thought it would be a nice touch to add a second dog). I popped up the original dog and the ladybird then I also popped up the second dog along with the sentiment, which I hand-wrote and then I finally popped up the whole image from the card. I also drew a little bow for the second dog
I coloured with Whispers brush markers and chalked the sky and added a little chalk to the grass also, so it blended a little above the 'grass lines' and around the flower heads.

The sketch I made and used for this card.

And finally, some more goodies that arrived in the post a few days ago all from madaboutcards.co.uk
6x6 'Secret Garden' papers by Papermania (£1), 4x Fabric Flowers (40 per pack @ 50p each!), 4x Duo Snag 'Em stamps (50p each!), 3x Sticky Ribbons, 1x Black Ink, x2 ATC Backgrounds, Kimono Decoupage sheet, 2x Double sided tape, 2x Music Embellishments, Miniture Oriental Postcard embellishments

What a bargain too, everything was either 50p or £1 and the sale is still on so get yourself over there!


Card Recipe:

• Card Stock
• 6x6 'Secret Garden' paper pack by Papermania
• 'Welcome to my Home' digital stamp by Elizabeth, available here from Softpencil on Etsy
• Butterflies & Flowers Sticky Ribbon by Papermania from stamps.co.uk
• Fabric Flowers
• 3d Foam Squares
• Whispers Brush Markers
• Faber-Castell Chalks for the sky, grass and her cheeks. Colours used were; 146 (sky blue), 101 (white), 141 (delft blue), 171 (light green), 280 (burnt umber), 188 (sanguine) and 182 (brown ochre)
  
• Double sided tape
• Scoreboard
• Bone folder
  

Thank You Card made by my Son :)

I thought I would share this card that I helped my 10 year old son to make for his Great-Auntie Sandra, to say 'Thank You' for the watch she gave him, which belonged to my Uncle Steve before he died last month.

As always click on the images to enlarge :)

The card along with the matching envelope that I made.

Close up of the card.

A better shot?

And the envelope.


Recipe:

• White card stock
• White paper stock
• 'Girl with Flowers' digital stamp by Elizabeth Pujalka from Softpencil on Etsy
• Papers including the paper to make the envelope from The Big One by Clare Curd available from Stamps.co.uk
• Tags from Papermania's Designer Shapes from madaboutcards.co.uk
• Brown Ribbon from the Papermania Couture Brown Ribbon pack
• Green Ribbon from the 'Naughty but Nice' Smirk Embellishment Tote from madaboutcards.co.uk
• Butterflies from a 'Butterflies and Hearts' pack I picked up from a local craft store
• Standard colouring pencils
• Faber-Castell Chalks for the sky and her cheeks. Colours used were; 152 (middle phthalo blue), 146 (sky blue) and 119 (magenta hell)
• Diamond Stickles from madaboutcards.co.uk from edirectory.co.uk

Also I received my latest bacth of goodies that I ordered a few days ago, which I can't wait to get using :)

A5 Watercolour Pad (from artdiscount.co.uk), Reeves Watercolour Tube Set (Just £4.49 from artdiscount.co.uk) and a Fiskars Paper Crimper from (Amazon.co.uk) which I specifically got for next years birthday cards after seeing this tutorial from splitcoaststampers.com

On Track...

Well, I can happily report that I am on track with my new year resolutions.

I read a chapter of the 'current' book I am reading. I say current, because well, as I said in an earlier blog, I had gotten so far with it, about a year ago, and have not picked up a book since!
Anyways, in case you are interested the book I am reading is A Lesser Evil by Lesley Pearse, which you can find out about by clicking the link :)

I have also kept to my other promise, of doing more cross-stitching with the hope of completing one mini kit per month. And maybe if I can get a mini kit done way before the month is up then I will treat myself and work on some of the larger projects I have! Anywhow, I did a little stitching today for a couple of hours on a mini kit of Lumpy, from Pooh, which I got free with a magazine.

Also, I am about to go and print off some healthy recipes so that I can plan the next couple of weeks worth of meals. Go me!

Finally, new goodies!!!
I ordered a bunch of new goodies to help me with my quest to get in to stamping.
So over the next few days I should be expecting the following items to grace my doorstep:
A Buncha See D's Stamps & A See D's Kit, Brush Markers, A WaterBrush set, Stickles and some Quilling Papers plus some Funky Foam sheets & Letters that I needed.

I got some of these goodies from stamps.co.uk where you can get your FREE Marie Curie Create a Card for Cancer Appeal Bags 2009. So if you are planning on making any cards for this years appeal, go ahead and get your free bags to put them in by clicking on the link. There is also a neat little stamp set you can buy to use on your cards for just £4.99, which includes a £2 donation to MC Cancer Care.

I have also just this minute bought a couple of digital stamps. One was Pretty Head Lily from thegreetingfarm.com. I also got the Lola Rose kit, Twinkle kit and a Sentiment collection kit from pinkpetticoat.co.uk and as I don't have my markers yet I might go ahead and have a try with some of my chalks, and if they turn out ok I will post some piccies later!

Right I gotta go print out these recipes, catch up on some blogs and print out my new printable kits!

'Till tomorrow! (When hopefully some of my goodies will have arrived!)