Time Flies

Well so much for updating that last post with more information about the card, I think its safe to say I failed at managing to do that. But what with Christmas and all that crafting had taken a bit of a back seat for me sadly.

Now though the festive period is over, and once new year is done with it won't be long and mum and me will be back to our regular crafting session with a couple of auntie's of mine. So roll on 2011 just so I can make time to craft.

Just A Quick One ...

It really is a quick one from me tonight as the fella aint well and I should really look after him, I will go in to more detail about this card made for one of the girls at work who is leaving at the end of the month :o(
Its being entered in to Simon Says Stamp Sketch Challenge

Another for Mum

Whats going on here I hear you ask? More than one post in a week, well thats because I well and truly had my blogging and crafting head on, oh and I was off work yesterday. As I am sat here now typing this blog (Friday morning, its my first scheduled post so I hope it works) its -8 degrees outside, which is not making me want to get out of bed to deliver this card.

This card is another one made for Mum's birthday, this time off my brothers, but made by me. Mum actually wanted me to make a different project for her card, but I said you can't pick your own card design and put my foot down with a firm hand. So this is one I decided to do for mum, being as we are having such a cold load of weather at the moment I figured why not reflect the weather with a card.

The scalloped edge card was very kindly given to me by Auntie Julie I think both Mum and me would be a little lost in the crafting world with out her. The rest of the papers and cardstock is once again from Kanban, meaning that this card literally cost pennies to make, just the way I like them!!!

Out came the Promarkers once again, this week and Tilda was coloured as follows:
Skin: Pale Pink and Satin
Hair: Caramel and Cinnamon
Pinnifore: Pale and Powder Blue
Dress: Artic and Sky Blue
Basket: Cinnamon and Coca
Wellies: Warm Grey 1, 3 and 5
I added a bit of warmth to the card by using canary yellow for the flowers.

I have used some papermania self adhesive gems in each corner of the card just to give it a more finished feel and to make it just that extra bit nicer for Mum. Now that the card is finished I have picked found the perfect challenge for this card, how lucky is that?
Cute Card Thursday The Blues
Paper Take Weekly Sketch - I set out with this challenge in mind but put my own little spin on it by ofsetting the layering of the image, so I hope its still ok!

Happy Birthday Mum!

So today is Mum's birthday,I very much doubt she will be checking up on the blog this morning before I manage to get over to hers and deliver her card, so I can say its safe to finally post the card for her. I made it quite a while ago over at Auntie Julie's House so hopefully I can remember what it was that I used for it which should be easy once I find my scrap of paper I scribbled all the information down on.

OK found it so here goes, I will start off with the colours used for Tilda I have used Promarkers were used for the skin: Pastel Pink and Blush. Though the rest of the colours may shock you having made the card at Auntie Julie's I couldn't use any more of my trusty Promarkers I had to be brave and use copic markers to colour in the rest of Tilda as follows:

Sleeves: RV34 and RV 85
Dress: YG11 and YG23
Shoes, Hair and Tag: E31, E33 and E35
Stem: G05
Flower: RV10, RV13, BV02
The flower also has a touch of glitter on it, I think it was on of the copic glitter pens which I used to do this.

The papers and matting and layering card are all from Kanban, yes even the pale green mirror board though it looks nothing like green on the pictures sorry! The 'Happy Birthday Mum' Sentiment is also from Kanban, along with the pink 'Best Wishes' sticky paper ribbon along the base of the card.

I borrowed one of Auntie Julie's many Martha Stuart punches to give the base of the card a bit more decoration and oomph by punching some of the green mirror board and running the sticky paper ribbon down the centre of it. I think it just takes the card to the next level slightly.

I have finished the card with 3 papermania henbury lane flowers layered up and fastened with a furry pink Dovecraft brad.

I have entered this card in to a couple of challenges:
Magnolia Stamp Lovers Punches
Magnolia Down Under Summer

Let it Snow

Yes the snow has arrived in the region of Manchester and if you ask me and Mum we think it totally sucks. Though as lovely as it looks I do wish it would go away, and thats just after 2 days of it!

Any way yesterday was Tuesday which means craft day, as mum had't attended the last two sessions it was wonderful to have her back with me this week so we could team up and create a card. We decided to make one using the projects we had put together a while ago, it will hopefully be the first of many once we get our butts in gear and do less arguing over what we should put where.


The black, white and red colour theme was so lovely to work with, even if we had been the worlds worst crafter I think with these monotone papers from Kanban I still think it would have looked fab! When we put the project together we decided we would look through the old embellishments we had purchased when we first started to craft that kept getting pushed further and further to the bottom of the pile. When we finally reached the bottom of the pile there was this chipboard flower, with button center, and that was it. It was like the papers were made for our flower which was bought that long ago neither of us remember where it was from.

Tilda is coloured with Promarkers, mum was in charge of this while I was cutting the papers to size. So as you well know mum doesn't like to write the colours she uses down. When will she learn? The answer is I have now given up trying to drill it in to her she has to note down which Promarkers she uses.

The card is finished with a bright red fabric 'Happy Birthday' though again we have had this for that long I couldn't even attempt a guess at where its from. The red bow is made from thin red ribbon which we got for about 50p from the Habberdashery stall on Ashton Market.