Little Birdie

A little birdie told me there were more downloadable images by Lou and available from Charmed. So I had to go and take a peak and wow, they were amazing. Pop over to Dotties World for a look at more cards and images than I have to offer you here. I have made one card with these images so far and used the pre-coloured image titled 'little birdie'.


I have put a vellum envelope inside so that some money can be added. The tag is there so that the envelope will still have something in it once the money's been spent.

I used Stazon to stamp the image onto the vellum and back of the tag.

These are great to work with. Little Birdie is printed on photo paper and 3D'd onto brown paper. The card is covered with PP from Poundland.

Thanks for looking.

Love and hugs

Sangria

Last June, my friend and her DH had a b-b-q for his 30th birthday. His birthday was on the Friday, so they had the party on the Saturday which just so happened to be my birthday. Their neighbours came and us ladies were kept topped up with Sangria all night. It was so lovely, but I didn't realise how much I'd drunk until the next day when I saw some of the photos I'd taken.

When I saw the UKS weekly challenge I decided that this would be the perfect opportunity to scrap it. The challenge was:

1) To celebrate the birthdays of three of our members, we challenge you to scrap a celebration theme (5 points)

2) Because you cannot have a celebration without some bling, add some bling to your layout (5 points)

3) To practise your creativity, add some stamping (10 points)

4) And finally we challenge you to use the sketch designed by our teamie Marie (10 points): (http://www.ukscrappers.co.uk/photopo...0&ppuser=12276)

1) birthday b-b-q ~ 5pts

2) stickles on the circle frame and on the journalling and sakura glitter pen on the stamp ~ 5pts

3) stamp on the bottom left corner ~ 10pts

4) sketch ~ turned 180 degrees ~ 10pts

Full marks for The Ruby Snippers

I used Bazzill Card for the base, chipboard circles to highlight the date, PP for the blue circle (can't for the life of me remember what the PP is though), vellum and silver eyeletts.

Joined By Love

UKS's challenge for March week 4 is:

Use ovals on your lo 10pts
Use pastel colours 5pts
Use flowery pp or blooms 5pts
Use only B&W photos 5pts
Add a bit of bling to your lo 5pts

Photos and matting are cut into ovals - 10pts
Pastel blue, green, yellow - 5pts
Flowery paper (DCWV Glitter Posies - Pocket Full of Turquoise) and Blooms (Imaginisce - For Peep's Sake - Butterfly Blooms) Both from Charmed Cards and Crafts - 5pts
Printed all 3 colour photos of my Father-In-Law and his new wife in B & W - 5pts
Bling - Paper and Blooms are both glittery/shiney - 5pts

Full marks again - 30pts

Title is from www.elegantwordart2.blogspot.com and printed on vellum
Brads are Dovecraft Mini Pastels

Elsie Flannigan #3

UKS have the Elsie Flannigan 52 scrapbooking challenge going strong. They're on #13 and I'm playing catch up as I joined late. I've managed to do my 3rd now. I've used a photo of my youngest nephew, so I'm afraid it won't be on here in it's entirety.

The challenge is:

Customize a Ribbon Border

"No matter how you turn it or what you add to it (think buttons, lace, eyelets and embroidery floss), ribbon is a terrific page border that can be attatched in so many creative ways - with eyelets, brads, staples, embroidery floss and more." Elsie Flannigan
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I'm hoping the LO qualifies for the challenge. I've got a ribbon border at the top of the LO and have embellished it with a chipboard ribbon tag and buttons.

Phrases (printed onto vellum) are from elegantwordart2.blogspot.com and say:"While they don't stay little for long, they will always stay in your heart" and "A baby fills a place in your heart you never knew was empty"

Paper is Three Bugs In A Rug - Seeing Stripes - Brilliant and Superstar from Charmed Cards and Crafts

Giraffe is Me And My Big Idea Mini Oh Baby sticker sheet

Brads are Dovecraft Mini Pastels

"The Boss" is a rub-on from the E-Z Mother pack

My Scrapping

Hi everyone, as you know I've been busy scrapping. I've done a couple of LO's of my niece and eldest nephew and here are some others I've done.

This one is for the Elsie Flannigan Challenge #1 on UKS. Challenge was to cut up a phrase.

Paper is Center City - Astor Place from Charmed Cards and Crafts

Phrase is Rusty Pickle Mayflower Cardstock Coupons also from Charmed Cards and Crafts

I've also used buttons and fibres to embellish the LO.

This LO is for the Elsie Flannigan Challenge #2 on UKS. Challenge was to take your favourite photo and change it to B & W for the LO.

I used my favourite photo of my mum on our girls holiday in Somerset last year. It was nice seeing her take a quiet moment beside the stream in Cheddar as she was always so busy at work and home.

The papers and sayings that I mounted onto chipboard (a picture is worth a thousand words / memories last forever / serene) are from K & Co's Hannah Scrap Pad To Go from Charmed Cards and Crafts as is the Prima flower.

I used the Ellison Tootsie Die Cut Alphabet for the large lettering and the phrase on vellum is "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart - Helen Keller"

3C's Sketch Challenge ~ March

Over on Charmed, Karen's given us another sketch challenge

Heree's my take on it. I used: Pearlised dark red card for the base, Doodlebug papers (from Karen's shop), Dovecraft stamps, Black Stazon ink, Black embossing powder, Vellum, Deep red/gold ribbon from stash.I decide to cut the centre circle out and place vellum behind to give another dimension. Sentiments are heat embossed and mounted on foam pads. Not forgetting that I turned the sketch around too.

I had great fun doing this and can see myself using the sketch to do more cards in the future.

Completed Lizzie's Challenge

Here's my completed efforts for Lizzie's challenge.

Framed LO

David very kindly cut a large frame down for me for this. I painted it cream, sanded to give a slightly distressed look and added embellishments (cut using my Xyron Personal Cutting System) and buttons to match the ones on my LO. Description of the Lo is here. I'm going to do another framed LO of myself and my other sister and hang them both above my craft desk.

Screen

To make this I used 4 pieces of A5 card and vellum for the panels and butterflies. I dry-embossed the panels and cut the butterflies using my Xyron Personal Cutting System. I'm using this to help hide some of the 'bits' I have on my craft desk.

My Mum

I made this card for Mother's Day and didn't realise until I'd finished it that it fits with Karen's sketch challenge. I must like this sketch LOL I used urban kiwi download papers from shabby princess, and covered the background paper with vellum held on by Dovecraft square neutral brads. I stamped floral images (free with a magazine) using Stazon onto shrink plastic and held in place with Dovecraft round neutral brads. E-Z rub-ons for the sentiments and black satin ribbon from stash.