Sugar Bowl Challenge 25

Time to get back to something other than Christmas cards.

The challenge was the sketch plus favourite colour and there's no prizes for guessing mine's is blue.

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STAMP: Sugar Nellie - Daisy

CUTTLEBUG FOLDER: Houndstooth
NESTABILITIES: Plain Circle, Petite Scalloped Circle

Thinking of You

Copics Colour Challenge 42

Very quick post.

STAMP: Sugar Nellie - Daisy

PAPER: My Mind's Eye

NESTABILITIES: Labels One, Fancy Tags

PUNCH: MS Doily Lace

Mojo Monday

With the best intentions in the world I rarely seem to get a chance to do the Mojo Monday challenge. In fact I haven't been able to do any challenges lately.

For the first time I have made a card to fit two challenges at once - Mojo109 and - STVCC35.

Mojo 109 sketch

I set out to do the Mojo 109 in portrait form but at the last minute decided landscape suited me better.

To comply with the colour challenge I had to use blue, green and yellow/gold.

Thanks for looking and for any comments you might care to make.

STAMPS: Gina K Designs- Thanks a Million

PAPER: K and Co.

NESTABILITIES: Labels 4

RIBBON / BRAD: Making Memories

Sarah Kay Memories

Waltzingmouse Makes has a competition to make a card with a favourite stamp and use lots of green.

My choice is this stamp from Sarah Kay range and although I'm nominating it my favourite this is the first time it has been inked. I bought it because of the memories it holds. Our oldest child's first bedroom was wallpapered in this Sarah Kay design and when I saw the stamp that's what I thought of. C won't have any memory of it because we moved house only a few months later and she was too young to remember the room. I loved how that first bedroom for a child had been decorated and I enjoyed the process.

As for the green in my card - I was happily trying out my copics, just about to reach for the blue whenever I remembered something about green. Had to do a quick change and this is the result.

STAMPS: Sarah Kay - Best Friends Forever
NESTABILITIES: Labels 4

COPICS

PUNCHES: MS - Doily Lace

Wiper/Birthday Card

The problem with giving a handmade birthday card is that you never really get to go back to store bought. Each year you try to come up with a different idea or style. This is where SCS helps. You can go through past ideas and usually there is something that can be adapted to suit the recipient. You just try that little bit more to whenever the card is for a family member.

A couple of weeks ago SCS did a tutorial for a 'wiper' card. There is a great step by step written tutorial or at the end a video tutorial. These are really helpful. For my daughter's birthday I decided to make the wiper card. However I decided to make this one a double-wiper ie. back and front decorated. She could choose which side to display.

my choice for the front

the back

open views

upright view

I loved this designer paper from My Mind's Eye.

This was a fun card to make and could be used for many occasions. Worth giving it a go.

STAMPS: Gina K Designs, Lizzie Anne designs, HOTP

PAPER: My Mind's Eye Bloom and Grow

RIBBON: Making Memories

FLOWERS: Prima

NESTABILITIES: Classic Scalloped Rectangles, Classic Rectangles

Bouncing Boy card

I decided that a good way for me to increase my 'finished card'

stock would be to try some of the weekly challenges.
This card is for the stampTV Potluck Friday (stvpf22) challenge.

Any design, any colour except pink - a card for a young boy.
I think this fits the bill.

The folding of the card makes it bounce up when opened.

This rear view shows where you can sign or add a greeting.

These are quick to make, fun cards - always a hit with kids.

STAMPS: CHF For The Men, STAMPIN' UP Kids At Play

PAPER: K&Co Hopscotch

Sympathy Card

I chose not to use a 'With Sympathy' greeting because sometimes time elapses before we have a chance to respond to sad news but still want to let others know that we are thinking of them in their bereavement.

the front view

the inside view

the back view

The patterned paper is carried to the back of the card and the edge finished off with a 'peel-off' border.

The 'Toadily Handmade' stamp was a present from DH for me to use as my signature on my cards.

STAMPS: CHF_Thomas Kinkade Psalm 23, STAMPABILITIES - Toadily Handmade, HERO ARTS-Memories
PAPER/CARDSTOCK: HOTP

NESTABILITIES: Classic Oval Large, Classic Scalloped Oval Large

Making it Personal

Because I was a scrapbooker first I still lean towards the personal. Any card I have made has been with a particular person in mind and this determined the colour or style.

For example, here is a card for a very special young man's 1st birthday.

a daughter's 21st

And no, I didn't realise whenever I set about doing this card that you can actually buy candle-shaped blanks. Even if they only do stretch to 4 candles wide it would have helped.

Now I've decided to experiment more. Today I was playing with my nestabilities and trying to make a card that would suit more than one occasion.

I decided to have my frames interlocking from either side of this gate fold card and nestabilities made it easy to do this.

I also like to add something to the inside as well. This stamp is suitable for birthday, graduation, wedding or new job.

Playtime over for today although I think I would like to try this in black and white.