BIRTHDAY WISHES

 Good afternoon and welcome to my blog.  Stunning Autumn day here in New Zealand so we're making the most of this beautiful weather before daylight savings finishes on the 6th April.

I'm sharing a birthday card I made for a very good friend and ex-PA for my husband. She said she's kept every card I've made for her for the last 23 years for birthdays and Christmases. 

A quick peek at the inside of the card.  It's nice to do something different for a change.

I'm going to enter this card in the following challenges.

Challenges I'm Entering:

1. 613 Avenue Create March 2025 Twist Any Occasion

2. A Place To Start Challenge March 2025 

3. A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge March 2025

4. Triple B Challenge March 2025

5. The Crafting Challenge Waiting for Spring March 2025

6. Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge March 2025

7. Creative Inspirations Challenge  Anything Goes March 2025

8. Little Red Wagon Challenge #797 B is for Birthday

9. Krafty Chicks Challenge #758 Birthday

10. The Neglected Stuff Challenge March 2025

* Paper Flowers

* Brads

* Martha Stewart Leaf Punch 

Card Recipe:

1. Base: White French Linen card stock.

2. Coloured Card: Kaisercraft Card colour Sage.

3. Design Papers: Crafters Choice Pale Garden

4. Sentiment: PC generated using Typewriter

5. Tools Used:

 6. Dies Used: Lace Circle Unbranded, Spellbinders Large Classic Circles,  Butterflies Unbranded, Happy Birthday Unbranded and a Martha Stewart Leaf Punch, With Love Embossing folder by Cuttlebug.

 

7. Embellishments:

Gems, Brad, Purple Flower, Leaves

 

8. Inside and the back of the card.

Wishing everyone a wonderful week

 and happy crafting.

Baby Elephant Nell

 Good morning and welcome to my blog.  March is here, which means over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 we have two new sketches for you to play with and one retro sketch from 2017.

All the sketches are easy, so we would love you to join us and see your creations.

Today I have one of my sketches for March 

Sketch # 298

I made this card for a child who is turning 3 very soon.

I'm pleased how it turned out and kept true to my colours used. 

Here's a quick peek of the inside of the card.

Don't forget to drop by Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 and check out what the design team have created.

Challenges I Entering:

1. 613 Avenue Create March Challenge Twist Any Occasion 

2. The Neglected Stuff Challenge March 2025

Not only is the image old, so are the design papers.  They're some of the first I ever purchased and I had a tiny piece left of each of them.

3. A Place To Start Challenge March 2025 Anything Goes Twist Fairy Tales

4. A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge March  #03 2025 

5. Moving Along With The Times Challenge #176 Pets March 25

6. Crafts Galore Encore Challenge March 2025 Anything Goes

7. Die-Cut Divia's Challenge # March 25 Critters

8. Unicorn Challenge # March 2025 Boys/Men

9. Love To Scrap Challenge #172 Anything Goes

10. Mix It Up Challenge #76 Anything Goes

Card Recipe:

1. Base: White French Linen card stock.

2. Coloured Card: Sky by American Crafts

3. Design Papers: Plaid so old I can't remember and gingham was a digital download.

4. Image: Birthday Nell by Digi Stamp Boutique

4. Colour Medium: Copics and Glossy Accents for the balloons and gift.

5. Embellishments: Coloured gems, blue, yellow and orange from my stash and coloured buttons I've had for years from my stash.

6. Tools Used:

7. Dies Used:

Spellbinders Classic Large & Small Circles and Lace Doilly unbranded.

  

8. Inside and the back of the card:

Take care, everyone, have a great month and happy crafting.

DECONSTRUCTED TULIP

Good morning and welcome to my blog.  I can't believe we are in the middle of February already. Don't you feel that as the years pass by, they become shorter or it's me getting older?  I hope everyone is over the silly season and we are now on the road to new beginnings for the start of 2025.

Today I have one of my sketches for February and Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2. 

 Sketch #296

 This sketch is rather simple and I'm really pleased with how my card turned out especially adding that touch of lace which I haven't done for a long time.

Again this is another easy sketch to make.

A quick peak of the inside of the card.

Don't forget to visit Sweet Sketch on Wednesday 2 and check out the design team's creations.

Challenges I'm Entering:

1. 613 Avenue Create Challenge February 2025 TOP ROCKER AWARD + FRONT PORCH WINNER FEBRUARY 2025

2. A Perfect Time To Craft Challenge February 2025

3. Daisy Chain Challenge #93 Layer It Up *

4. Digi Choosday Challenge 2 Week 1 Anything Goes

5. Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge February 2025 *

6. Triple B Challenge February 2025 *

7. Pattie's Creations Design Challenge # 227 Anything Goes *

8. The Neglected Stuff Challenge 2 2025 Anything Goes*

Lace, I haven't used lace from my stash for over a year, and this wonderful Bugaboo image of the Deconstructed Tulip

9. A Place To Start Challenge #020325 Anything Goes A RISING STAR AWARD

10. As You Like It Challenge Favourite Digi Stamp  TOP 3 AWARD

This Bugaboo stamp is one of my very favourites because it's a long image rather than a square.  I've split it up sometimes and used an individual image from the three for a square panel and being a Tulip the colours can vary because of the selection of coloured Tulips.

Card Recipe:

1. Base: White French Linen card stock.

2. Coloured card: Bazzill Velvet 

3. Design paper: Pale Garden by Crafters Choice

4. Image: Floral Trio by Bugaboo Stamps

5. Colour Medium: Copics

6. Tools Used:

7. Dies Used: Spellbinders Classic large circles and Lacey Circle unbranded for the back of the card.

8. Embellishments: Lace, ribbon insert, and mauve gems from my stash.

9. Inside and the back of the card.

HAPPY 40th BIRTHDAY

Good morning I'm sharing a card with you today that I made for a customer for her daughter's 40th birthday.

My instructions were she loves nature, especially butterflies.

This card was A4 size which is 21x20.7 cm or 8.3 x11.7 inches and I also made an envelope to match it.

Her name is ANITA which hopefully you can see.

There are so many added embellishments with gems, extra butterflies, silver corners pearls and brads.

Challenges I'm Entering:

1. Triple B Challenge February Anything Goes *

2. A Perfect Time To Craft Challenge February Anything Goes

3. 613 Avenue Create February Anything Goes TOP ROCKER AWARD

4. A Place To Start Challenge # 020325 Twist Things In The Sky *

5. Daisy Chain Challenge # 93 Layer It Up * 

6. Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge February  TOP 3

7. Crafter's Cafe Challenge #315 15 January Twist Birthday's *

8. Creative Inspirations February Challenge Love Is In The Air *

9. Krafty Chicks Challenge #754 Birthdays *

10. Moving Along With The Times February Challenge # 175 Things With Wings *

Card Recipe:

1. Base: Cream French Linen card stock.

2. Coloured Cards: Silver Mirror Uniti and American Craft Card Taffy 

3. Design Paper: Botanical Notes by Trim Craft

These papers are just beautiful and you don't want to use them.  This particular paper has a sheen and lustre to it.

4. Tools Used:

5. Dies Used:

5. Dies Used: Medium size letters, Happy Birthday, Butterflies, Silver Butterflies from, Ali Express or Temu, Purple Dies and Joy Craft and the 4 colourful are Cuttlebug dies, Spellbinders Classic Large Circle and Hearts dies for the back of the card.

   

  

6. Embellishments:

 Silver corners, silver buckle, cream ribbon, assortment of gems for the butterflies, silver gems, mauve brad and silver spacer, pearl flourish.

    

     

7. Inside and the back of the card:

Sentiment PC generated using Californian FB font.