Papertake

The Papertake challenge is Anything Goes so here is my card. A large square cream card with backing paper from my Desert Blooms pad and yellow card from Papermill. The House Mouse Design has been stamped in Memento ink and coloured with Promarkers before being cut with a Spellbinders oval nestie and backed with a scalloped nestie. The edge was distressed with Ranger's Distress Ink. The LOTV sentiment was backed with a Fleur De Lis motif. WOC pearls are dotted over the Desert Blooms paper as flower centres. I've added both photos as one is darker than the other but it seems to show the true colours.

Father's Day and CD

Today I'm on a roll and have made two cards, this is my second. It's a large scalloped card from Craft UK. The navy blue card is from Papermill. The backing paper is from Joanna Sheen's House Mouse Inserts CD. The free digi is stamped on to a Spellbinders label die cut and is coloured with Promarkers and is edged with Distress Inks. Three blue buttons are from Create and Craft and the blue and silver cord is from Hobbycraft.

I'm entering it in to two challenges:
Crafting for All Seasons Challenge 2 - Father's Day I think this is a card from a teenager!!
CD Sunday Challenge - a digi with a CD element

Challenge 13

Crafter's Companion Challenge 13 is Here Comes Summer. My card is a large scalloped Craft UK card. The yellow cardstock is by Papermill and the backing paper is from Crafter's Companion Guys and Gals CD. The Sarah Kay image was stamped with Memento ink and coloured with Promarkers and set on a Spellbinders label diecut. The wooden sun and butterfly are from Create and Craft and are coloured with Promarkers. The sentiment is LOTV and is set on a Spellbinders Fleur De Lis Motif. The flowers are from WOC and the leaves are cut with a Crealies die.

A Real Challenge

The Less is More challenge this week is monochrome so I chose my favourite colour - green. It's a small square Craft UK card. I used a freebie stamp that I got with a craft magazine last week and coloured him and his lily pad with Promarkers in Forest Green, Pear Green and Lime Green. The words were stamped in Versacolor Emerald. He was cut with a Spellbinders nestie and backed with a Papermill green card scalloped nestie. I drew three lines with the three Promarker greens and yes, you've guessed it, two of them splodged on the left. I drew them quickly to stop this happening so I'm blaming the pens this time!!

Eric's not feeling too good today - whether it's because of the infusion he had on Wednesday or not we don't know but he's resting downstairs. If I get the chance I might attempt another card but it all depends on how many times I have to trudge up and downstairs.

Second Card Today

Today I've felt more like crafting and this is the second card I've made so things are looking up. It's a large square white card by Craft UK. The backing paper is from my Desert Blooms pad. The card panel is embossed with Creative Expressions' Lattice folder and the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder and the seam binding and pearls are from  WOC. The image is LOTV and is stamped with Memento and coloured with Promarkers before being set on my new Spellbinders Fleur De Lis Motifs. The sentiment is also LOTV and is set on another of the motifs with a third in the top left. I'm going to have fun tonight playing with the other dies that I bought today.

This card is being entered in:
The Lili of the Valley Challenge 99 - Punch It up (punches and dies)
Crafty Sentiments - Neutral Colours

Father's Day/For a Male

Simon Says Stamp's challenge is Father's Day or For a Male. I've made a grungy male card for my nephew's birthday so killing two birds with one stone. Thanks for these challenges, I'm well ahead with my birthday cards now. It's a large white square card by Craft UK. The backing paper is from Costco and the Creative Expressions embossed panel is a piece of packing cardboard. It was distressed with three of Rangers' Distress Inks. The lock and Dream panel are from Create and Craft. The tag is from our local Post Office! I distressed that as well - I was in a grungy mood seeing that you mentioned Tim Holtz. I've used a Tim Holtz sentiment tag and one of his ornate book plates.  James can take the card to pieces if he doesn't want to keep it and he can use the book plate and then the tag as a key ring.

Busy Thursday

We've had a busy day today as usual. Thursday is the day we go to visit my sister in her Care Home. After that we usually go for lunch and then come home for an afternoon rest. Today we came home and I decided I would try to cut the grass in the back garden. I thought that because my daughter in law had used the petrol mower a couple of weeks ago it might be easier to start today. Big mistake. I huffed and puffed to get it out of the garage and on to the grass and then couldn't get the handle fastened. Eric struggled to help and managed to get it fastened. There was no way I could pull the cord and so the machine had to be humped back into the garage and the grass still needs to be cut. Since then I've started on one challenge card and got half way through before hitting a brick wall. Nothing I'm doing seems to work out so I've put it to one side and I'm not going to finish a card this evening. I'm going to sit and colour in some stamped images. I hope you're all enjoying this lovely weather. It's been beautiful today and I'm hoping that it will be just as nice for the weekend. Whatever you're doing I hope you have fun.

Jan - if you're reading this - I haven't forgotten about the PC problem I'm still making enquiries.