Get Well Soon Beth

Good evening all, it's a late one from me!I hope you're all keeping well.  It feels like Thursday for me as Jon and I have Friday off work so my brain is telling me that, in a work sense anyway, tomorrow is Friday.  I hope that makes sense!!

The lovely Cathy put out a plea for some get well soon cards for her young daughter, Beth, who is going into hospital on Thursday to have gromits.  Having had these myself, I just had to make a card for her.

I have used this adorable stamp that I've had for ages from Whipper Snapper Designs and has only been used once!  I do love these stamps but, unfortunately, the Angel Policy is that you're unable to sell any cards you make with these these stamps, so I have stopped buying them.

Supplies:

Stamps: Morgan - Whipper Snapper Designs; Medium: Copics

CS: Bazzill Basics; Tools: Oval & Scallop Nesties, Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, MS Valentine Lace Punch

Embellishments: Sentiment - Craftwork Cards, Ribbon & Gems - Stash

As I'm usually cuddling bears or animals this has shown that I really need to get my Tilda's out and practise my shading of hair.  As I didn't want to ruin the image, I'm afraid that I just stuck to one colour!  I'm not so sure on the white highlight I put across the middle now, but it's too late now!  Do you know what though, I'm so enjoying making cards again and just colouring in.

 

Anyway, enough waffle!  I must get ready for bed as I'm shattered and my back is still giving me a lot of pain so I need to rest.  I am behind on my blog hopping so I hope to have a catch-up tomorrow when I get home from work to see what you've all been up to.

Thank you for stopping by and for any comments you may leave, they are greatly appreciated.

xx :0)

Papertake Weekly - Cutie Pie!

Thanks for every one's kind wishes for Jon's operation. Yesterday turned into pretty much a nightmare for us. We got to the hospital at 7.15am but Jon didn't end up going for surgery until 4pm and had to stay the overnight. The poor thing hadn't eaten since 8:30pm the night before or had a drink since 10:30pm!

Obviously I had to make him a card to wish him well and Boo Boo Bear from Whipper Snappers was the perfect stamp for me to use as it was Jon's right arm that was operated on. He's been coloured with Copics and cut out with rectangle nestabilities before mounting using the scalloped nestabilities. The base is made up of pale blue CS, white CS and Bashful Blue DP from SU!. The white CS has been punched with my MS Valentine Lace punch and finished off with some ribbon. The sentiment is a PB stamp.
I would like to enter this into this weeks Papertake Weekly Challenge which is Cutie Pie. He is most definitely cute!

I'm pleased to say that Jon is now home and is taking things easy (which he finds difficult). I'm sorry I've not yet get round to commenting on those of your who have entered this weeks Just Cute Bears Challenge. I will do it before the weekend, I promise.

Thank you for stopping by and for any comments you may leave, they are greatly appreciated.

xx :0)

Purrfect Valentine

I've been having one of those days today where nothing seems to go right and that includes this card! Don't get me wrong, I LOVE this card but I thought the layout I was using was for this weeks Mojo Monday Challenge. However, on checking again just now, it would appear that I'd had a go at last weeks sketch! What an idiot!

I want to apologise in advance for the photo. As you all know, it's a nightmare taking photos during the winter and, like most of you, I spend all my daylight hours at work so never get the chance to take decent photos.

Enough of my whinging, onto my card! I thought for a bit of elegance, I would use red and black together and this would also compliment the cute image I've used. I'm in a bit of a romantic frame of mind at the moment, so am creating plenty of Valentines cards. The stamp is from Whipper Snappers and is adorable. I could just see my little Bozzy dressed in a tuxedo! I've also taken the opportunity to use my MS Valentines punch again. I'm really loving this and it was well worth the wait!

Supplies:

Stamps: Tuxedo Kitten - Whipper Snapper; Inks: Copics, Memento Tuxedo Black;

CS & Paper : Core'dinations, Bristol Board ;

Tools: Love Language CB Folder Nestabilities,MS Valentine Lace Punch, ribbon slider, CWC Oval

Don't you just think he's cute?! I don't know what it is, but I just love everything about this card. Isn't it great when that happens!

I hope you're all having a lovely evening. Thank you for stopping by and any comments you may leave. They are greatly appreciated.

xx :0)

Mojo Monday #76

I loved this weeks Mojo Monday sketch and couldn't wait to have a go, but my card has sort of deviated from it slightly. I hope that's okay and that it's still eligible.

I've made this Get Well Soon card for someone who's been feeling slightly under the weather. I used the cute Boo Boo Bear from Whipper Snapper Designs and coloured him with Copics and mounting onto dark purple bazzill basics cs. The base is simply to pieces of purple bazzill layered onto a white card blank. The middle strip has been embossed with the D'vine Swirls folder, mounted on bazzill cs. I have then wrapped some satin ribbon round the middle before adding a bow. The finishing touches are the obligatory gemstones!

The centre strip ended up being too long as the sentiment was meant to be along the bottom!! Also, the square panels are larger than stated, but I was worried there would be too much white showing. I just hope the changes are acceptable as I really love this card.

Jon loved the card that I had hidden in his bag, said it was really sweet! I was so worried that he wouldn't find it so was happy when he rang me last night! I have to admit that I've not got as much crafting done as I would've liked in his absence. I've been doing little jobs when I get home from work that have been eating into my time, but I wouldn't be able to concentrate knowing they needed doing.

Thanks for stopping by and your comments, they are greatly appreciated.

xx :0)

Sorry it's been so long!

I'm sorry I've not been around much recently. I've been busy working on a job application (horrible things) for a promotion at work and also my mum is still not well so haven't felt overly-inspired on the card making front.

However, a friend in Jon's team asked if I could make a card for his housemate's birthday on Monday so it got me back going again! All I knew about her was she likes dogs and pinks her favourite colour! Dogs and pink......hmmmm!

I decided that I would make a selection of cards for him to choose from so then he wouldn't feel obliged to take the one that I made. Anyway, this is what I came up with.

I used a combination of Little Claire's, Whipper Snappers and Penny Black stamps (yes, I know the hedgehog isn't a dog!), cuttlebug folders and Craftwork Card sentiments.

Thank you to everyone who helped with my sticky stamp problem. I got myself a versafine ink pad and, as you can see, was able to get my little scottie's to stamp!!

I took the cards into work today and he loved them. He ended up taking both the scottie cards as he remembered another friends birthday was coming up. He has also mentioned the possibility of getting me to make his mum's birthday card in June, so I might have a regular customer here!

Cute Card Thursday Challenge 2

All Creatures Great and Small

This week we would like to see creatures on your cards, they can be animals, birds, fish even dinosaurs or dragons. Absolutely any creature imaginable!

This is my entry for this weeks challenge. I love this cute bear from Whipper Snappers! I have a confession to make........! I put the white cs in the swiss dots embossing folder the wrong way, so the dots are debossed as I'd already embossed the sentiment!! I don't think it looks too bad!!

Raining Good Easter!

I can't believe the weather we're having at the moment considering it's the second day of spring! The strong wind outside kept waking me up last night, an hour ago we had a massive downpour and now the sun is back out again!!

It seems quite apt then that the two cards I've made today tie in with the weather and the Easter break!

The first card I've used my new Rainin' Daises Penny Black Stamp along with the Swiss Dots embossing folder and finished it off with a Craftwork Cards sentiment and some Prima flowers. I cut the image using my circle nestabilities




The second card is an Easter card for my mum to try and cheer her up a bit as she's been feeling down again the last few days. I've used one of my new Whipper Snapper stamps, the Swiss Dots embossing folder again and finished off with one of the new Prima Esprite flowers I got at the NEC. The stamped sentiment is from a See D's set that I'd forgotten I had!!

In the doghouse

No, not me, but the image I have used for my latest card!! I love this image from Whipper Snapper Designs, how could anyone not forgive you if you received a card with this on.

I stamped and watercoloured the image before mounting the image onto some blue bazzill card. The card blank has been covered with the same card and some pastel blue papermania paper. I also embossed a strip of pale blue card with the d'vine swirls cuttlebug folder and finished off with a Craftwork Cards sentiment and some blue heart gemstones.

Kimmie's Challenge #4

The object of this challenge was to create a card with a romantic theme.

I made this card a couple of weeks ago, but it's not been entered into any previous challenges (only started doing this the past couple of days!!)

I love this stamp from Whipper Snappers, the border stamp is also a WS stamp. I used the hearts embossing folder for the cuttlebug and yet another Craftwork Cards sentiment Love these!)