Crafty Catz Challenge blog - Anything Goes with the optional twist of Baby Cards

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

Welcome to my second post of the day. You all know that on a Friday a new challenge starts on the Crafty Catz Challenge blog. The theme is Anything Goes with the optional twist of making a Baby Card. The Design team have done a great job using their own images. The sponsor is Di's Digi Stamps.

I decided to make a baby card for my stash so I didn't want it to be gender specific. 

There are many wonderful images in the store if you click on the logo you will be taken there. 

I stamped this image with Watering Can archival and then coloured it with my Spectrum Noir sparkle pens. The stamp is by Penny Black and is called Baby Hammock. I have had this stamp for a while. 

I cut the sentiment with a small die. 

I hope that you have a great weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Unicorn Challenge Blog Happy Birthday!

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope your week is going well. I am back at work now but just mornings. The issues I had with my job have been resolved. So I won't be retiring just yet.

Can you believe that the Unicorn Challenge blog has been going for a whole year and this is its first birthday. This is a special challenge we have sponsors and there will be prizes.

The card I have made uses an image from one of the sponsors Di's Digis. My husband and I have been invited to the wedding of one of his work colleagues and I have made a card for everyone at his office to sign. The wedding is in October not so far away now. I am planning to make a little gift as well.

This is an 8" x 8" card. To create the background I used the Heart Lattice embossing folder this is so useful. 

This image is called First Dance by Di's Digis. The happy couple were coloured with Promarkers. 

Click on the logo and you should be taken to the store. 

The sentiment was cut with a Tattered Lace die. 

I used the Sue Wilson ivy dies to make the frame. The flowers were made with a punch. 

I do like the couple like this card. Don't forget to enter our challenge there are lots of prizes and something special if you used a unicorn in your design. 

I would like to enter the Anything Goes challenge at the Cuttlebug Mania Challenge Blog. 

Have a great week. 

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

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Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are enjoying the weekend and some of us have an extra day to look forward to tomorrow. We are off to see my parents to celebrate our birthdays. I share a birthday with my mother and my father's is five days later. My mum isn't too well and doesn't want to go out so we are going to take afternoon tea with us all bought from M&S.

Being the first of the month the new challenge starts today on the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge blog and the theme is Anything Goes. I am sharing a frame that I made as a wedding gift for a wedding we are going to in July.

I made a frame like this for the family wedding that was earlier in the year. This one is for another niece and her fiancé I know she will be carrying sunflowers at her wedding. 

The Sponsor for this challenge is Di's Digis

Click on the image to be taken to the store. 

I have a lovely set of sunflower stamps and I used it to create this background. 

Part of the set creates a layered sunflower. I made one for the frame. 

We had a few goes at laying out the words. 

This is the wedding card I created I used the same sunflower stamp set for the background just this time I stamped it in grey ink. 

The big plus about this wedding is that we will be staying 10 minutes drive from the Harry Potter Studio Tour, we have our tickets already, we are going on the Sunday after the wedding on the Saturday. It will make a very nice weekend. 

I would like to enter Challenge 19 at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge blog. 

I hope that you enjoy the rest of the weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are having a good day. I have been back to work this morning it was a training day so no children not until tomorrow.

I don't usually post twice in one day. Two of the Design Teams I am on their challenges start today. This is my inspiration card for the Crafts Galore Encore challenge blog. The theme of the challenge is Anything Goes and it really can be anything, any craft you like. I make a lot of cards so that is what I stuck to.

I have had the Sizzix accordion die for a very long time and I decided this was finally time to use it.  The die cuts the card with flaps to attach one piece to another piece and the score lines for folding. 

In my stash I had a very old Hunkydory kit with pre-made card blanks I decided to cut them up to make this card. That way everything toned together. 

The kit came with vintage toppers that fitted the die cuts so well. 

This is not a particularly easy card to photograph. I do like how it folds out. I thought the use of pearls and the corners were a nice finishing touch.  

This is the front of the card and would be what someone would see when it is first opened.  Now I have used this die once I have lots of ideas for what to do next. I would like to make a mini album for the grandparents with photos of all the grandchildren and their partners. 

We have a Sponsor this month Di's Digis and the prize it three images of the winners choice from the store. The Design Team didn't get any images to use but I have looked at the store and the images are very cute. 

Don't forget the theme is Anything Goes so there is lots of scope and the entry doesn't have to be a card. 

I would like to enter the challenge at Try it on a Tuesday - try something new. 

I would also like to enter the challenge at Cuttlebug Mania - Anything Goes.

I hope that you have a good week.

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie