Take 3 Cards

I made an ATC the other day and decided to turn it into a birthday card for a friend. I've made it in advance, so have covered the sentiment or it would have given the game away somewhat! I cut an arched window aperture and stuck an ATC sleeve behind it to hold the ATC.

As some of you are aware, I have a wedding to go to on Saturday. After 20 months of planning, my little sister's getting married. I made this card for her which should arrive tomorrow (Friday). I've used a pre-coloured image from the back-to-front Dottie and George collection by Lou and available only from Charmed and printed it onto watercolour paper. I cut an arched aperture so that I could back the images and it would look like she really is looking out of the window. The open frames have been backed with acetate.

This card fits with My Time To Craft's latest challenge 'WOMAN'

Inside the front

The wording inside follows on from the front and reads: to go before your prince sweeps you off your feet and you become ..... Mrs Norman

Here's their wedding card. I've once again used pre-coloured images from the back-to-front Dottie and George collection by Lou, available from Charmed and printed onto watercolour paper. I wanted the card to be fun as that's what they're all about (as well as love of course!). And yes, I am safe putting these last 2 cards on here early as she doesn't have internet access at the moment and he's staying at his brother's.

Thanks for looking

Take care,  love and hugs to your all

Sarah C xoxo

UKS Whodunnit Cybercrop - Day 11

Thanks to the UKS Whodunnit Cybercrop, I shall go to the wedding. The final date for getting replies in is 29th January and as it's my youngest sister's wedding, you'd think mine would be one of the first to be sent back. How wrong you are as it's still sitting on my craft desk. But, it is one step nearer to being sent. I really must envelope it and take it with me when I go out tomorrow.

So, on to the Whodunnit Day 11 pre-crop challenge. We were challenged to use our decorative scissors. I used mine to cut the edges of the base card before I inked them. I also used corner scissors to cut the PP. The off-cuts from that, I used inside the card.

Dottie and George are pre-coloured and exclusively from Charmed


Thanks for looking
Take care, love and hugs

Dottie's World - Pure and Simple

Adele has challenged us on Dottie's World to keep it Pure and Simple. She said "No patterned papers, just clean, fresh and simple. I don't want any fuss on our creations this week."

So, heres what I did using builder George from Charmed.

My sister's O/H (Gav) is well known for his non-existent DIY skills, (if you're reading this Gav, you know you're great at lots, just not DIY), so the wording reads:

D.I.Y. - destroy it yourself

From the dictionary courtesy of Gav

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Tip#1 - Step away from the toolbox

Thanks for looking

Take care. Love and hugs,

Sarah C xoxo

Friday Sketchers Card Challenge

I came across another card challenge blog this week - Friday Sketchers. The latest challenge on there is to make a card following the sketch provided.

My Card

Close up of Punk George

I water-coloured George (from the Rock & Roll Collection and available from Charmed) using my brush markers before sticking him onto the card with foam pads and adding doodled musical notes and some ribbon. I've distressed the edges of the card plus George's guitar. Well, he is a hard rocking punk after all.

Thanks for looking

Love and hugs

Spotty Dottie

Karen set the Sunday challenge on Dottie's World titled 'Spotty Dottie' and said:

No I am not asking for a pubescent Dotty in need of a tube of Clearasil, but I would like to see some spots. Yep, today I am setting the challenge here on Dottie's World, and this is what I would like you to do:

SPOTTY DOTTIE

I want to see SPOTS. It doesn't have to be Dottie, you can of course use any of the downloads. BUT I don't just want to see a circle or two.

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So, what did I do? This:

In a Word document, I took Dottie and George from the Love and Marriage collection and the stage from the Christmas Collection and overlapped them before printing it as a whole picture onto safmat. I mounted this onto white cardstock, inked the edges and matted it onto some PP. I made the wording using Word Art and printed on SafMat, mounted on white cardstock and inked the edges. I covered a piece of white card in dotty paper, added 2 dotty brads and some ribbon. The main image and words are mounted using foam pads.

So, the dotty elements are: dotty background, dotty brads and George going dotty over Dottie.

Thanks for looking.

Love and hugs

Love Is ............. Dottie and George

Love most certainly is Dottie and George. And that is the theme to this week's challenge on Dottie's Wonderful World set by Juliet. Here's what she said:

"This week, I'd like you to create something on the theme 'Love is......' and I would like to see a message or journalling on the FRONT of your card. As usual, you must include one of the Dottie downloads too and we are all really looking forward to seeing your fabulous creations."

So, heres my creation (images available from Charmed and are from the love and marriage collection):

Front

Inside

Front showing acetate aperture that I've drawn a scallop border around

I've used SafMat for the wording and front image and I've used photo paper for the inside image. The hearts are holagraphic stickers that I've drawn scalloop borders round.

Thanks for looking. Take care, love

xxx

Hippie Anniversary

Anyone would think I like the Dottie & George images wouldn't they? Well, they'd be so wrong. I LUUUUUUUUURVE them.

So much so, that when Karen on 3C's reminded us about the June card sketch challenge she gave us, I immediately looked at the pre-coloured images I printed out on Sunday to decide which one to use. One??? Only one??? Take a look at the sketch again Sarah, there's room for 2!

I had Hippie Dottie & Hippie George available, so went with those, but I still had no idea what else I was going to do on the card. After deliberating, I flipped the paper over that I'd printed the sketch on and traced it on the reverse to give me a different take on it. Still not happy, I turned my paper upside down. Hmmm......... could that work? Probably.

I hunted for the right papers and remembered I had a Papermania pack with funky patterns in it. Flicking through about 170 papers is not an easy feat, but I got there and decided to go for the same pattern in 3 different colours. We are talking the 60's so psychedelic works I think. I also found my bright floral ribbon that I got in a dumper bin at a local haberdashery store (go check out yours, you may be surprised what you can pick up for pennies).

The red buttons (that I've stitched on) came off a jacket I used to have to wear for work eons ago, smiley and floral buttons are Dress It Up and were from Charmed. I printed the greeting out onto vellum and did it in a circly way inspired by a tutorial from Charmed.

The card's made in time for an anniversary in just over a week. All I've got to do is remember where I put it.

Scrapped and Carded

I've actually managed to find my craft table and have a LO and card to show you.

UKS Challenge last week was:

Use something American: 5 points
Stars or stripes: 5 points

Use glitter: 5 points

Use quotation marks: 5 points
Use the sketch: 10 points

Here's my take on the challenge:

My Dad was a huge Elvis fan and hated impersonators. He'd always say something like "nobody does it ike Elvis does it".

So, for the points:

American ~ Elvis, what more do you need? LOL
Stars and stripes both used
Stickles Glitter on Elvis' buttons
Quotation Marks on the phrase
Sketch used as it is for a change and not turned round and flipped over

Pleased to claim full marks for my team The Ruby Snippers

Base card is Bazzill and the patterned and green card is Three Bugs in a Rug ~ Seeing Stars from Charmed. The Elvis picture is a bonus coloured image from the downloadable Rock & Roll Dottie and George collection by the talented Lou and also available from Charmed.

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For my card, I have had most of it made for a little while, I just needed to add the image as the first attempt went wrong. My cousin's DH turned 60, so I made this for him using the bonus coloured image from the downloadable Rock & Roll Dottie and George collection by Lou and once again available from Charmed.

Father's Day

I thought I would be nice and make my ex's Dad a Father' Day card as we're still close. He used to have a gardening business, so this George image by Lou and available from Charmed was perfect. I used Paint.net to colour him and add the wording.

Gardener George and a Magnetic Peg

It's my friends DHs birthday today so, I made a card for him using one of the George at Work downloads by Lou and available from Charmed.

I coloured him in using Paint.net and printed him onto photo paper. I also printed extra boots and wheelbarrow bucket. I stuck strips of PP onto blue card and layered a piece of blue dotty paper on top, then stuck George down. I 3D'd the extra boots and wheelbarrow and added dirt and plants with a brush marker. As a final touch, I added a co-ordinating chipboard shape and a birthday greeting peel-off that I'd coloured blue using a permanent pen.



I also made my friend's DH one of my magnetic pegs. I cut chipboard to size and covered both sides of it inking all the edges with brown versacolor ink. I glued the peg inside the hole I'd made and decorated it using co-ordinating chipboard shapes and a blue button. These are so handy for being a different way to give money as the peg hold it nicely.

Dottie's Challenge Helps Me Make A Birthday Card

I saw the Sunday challenge on Dottie's blog for which Karen said:

This week’s challenge is a sketch challenge. Now interpret this sketch as you please, there are no rigid rules, just let your imaginations flow. Two simple specifications:

• Your interpretation must contain at least one of our downloads.
• I would like to see at least one brad or button.

My cousin's son's birthday is tomorrow and I needed to make him a card today, so raided my George downloads to see if one was right for him. As he's at uni studying to become a scientific teacher, the Teacher George was perfect. I coloured him and the background in using a programme called Paint.net before printing onto photo paper and writing the equation on with a white Sakura pen. I also coloured a box in the same background colour so I would have some for the rest of the card. To assemble this, I used grey mottled card and matted the image and extra yellow piece onto black paper. I cuct a scalloped circle out of the same black, writing on it with the white Sakura pen. I layered the pieces and added black ribbon. I drew scallops around the edge with a black brush marker and added black buttons as required. I just hope he likes it.

George

I'm so pleased for Lou and Dottie. Dottie's boyfriend George made an appearance tonight over on Charmed. If you love Dottie, you're sure to love sporty George. They are both available to buy as GIF or JPeg downloads. George is fantastic to help put the fun element into men's cards which a lot of us struggle with. I intend getting him to keep Dottie company, do you?