How time flies, I have been so busy I am only just managing to get around to blogging the card I made for a friend who has recently given birth to a beautiful litte baby girl. I had a cuddle with her and she is so tiny I could have easily forgotten she was in my arms, needless to say though once she started to cry it was straight back to her mum she went. 
So today is the launch of brand new challenge blog
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?
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. 
Dress: YG11 and YG23
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. 
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!
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.
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.
Yesterday we got some beads and some really sweet looking charms which we hope to get to show you soon on a creation. On the return from shopping we were well and truly in the crafting mood. Until we realised that we had no embellishments which would fit with the colours of the card we decided upon. So instead we decided lets make things easier for us when we come to make a card next. Instead of having to flick through boxes full papers to find ones that work well together we would do all the hard work first and put together papers, images, embellishments and even ribbons that would work well together. 
Anyway enough of the waffling now on to the card Mum created while I was slaving away working her job. The papers used I think are all from Kanban. This is really all I can tell you about this card because Mum doesn't seem to write anything down that she has used for making a card. I know that Tilda is coloured with Promarkers as for which ones that's a whole other question. 
Simon Says Stamp Challenge Sparkle Challenge, hope the pictures picked the glittery matting and layering up well enough for this to be seen. 
The papers used are from Kanban, which was very very busy when we went last week Saturday. I really should keep my fingers from typing about how fantastic it is for papers and card stock but I can't help it! The 'Happy Birthday Mum' sentiment is also from Kanban.
As for the challenges this card is being entered in to well with not having much time to challenge hunt it's just being entered in to the one today. Magnolia Stamp Lovers with their wonderful sketch. Though as much as I thought Mum 'got' sketches I have totally done a U-turn on that and have realised she doesn't have the feintest idea on how they work. Which means when we follow any sketch on a Tuesday at our crafting session, its me and mum that provide the entertainment with Noooooo Mum you can't do that! and the Why not! reply which I get from Mum.
Me and Mum decided that we might just be showing a tiny bit more love to Tilda and poor Edwin was feeling all neglected. So when having a look through all the stamped images Auntie Julie had done for us it was time to blow off a little of the dust that Edwin had been gathering whilst patiently awaiting his turn to be brought to life and used on a card. 
So here we have it our very first Edwin card coloured with the same love and care which would usually be towards Tilda at this point with the promarkers.
All the papers used for the card are all from Kanban, the trip that mum missed out on yesterday, and she was brave enough to trust my judgement on what to and what not to get. I don't think I picked so badly do you?
Well, after being very busy crafting this afternoon making Mum's birthday card (even though it isn't untill 3rd December), I figured it was time to begin the hunt for challenges for this weekend. 
Skin: Satin and Soft Peach
I can't be sure what papers were used as the patterned ones and the sentiments are from a free paper pack received with one of the many magazines we have. I would however put my best guess at the plain black being from one of our trips to Kanban, really looking forward to going soon. Poor Mum has to work though and is gutted at the fact she will miss out, but it gets her out of going halves of anything spent so I guess that's a bonus for her, though my poor bank account will be rather empty by the time I am done. 
Yes its back to work tomorrow after what seems like such a short weekend, its flown by, yet neither of us have done much crafting at all. I got on my favourites pages which are ever so nicely organised in to the days that new challenges are set and found a few which looked wonderful, yet very difficult. We know, crafting hard?! We must sound mad, well have you ever tried to make a card using just one colour, no neither have we not until today, and that's down to the challenge set this week by C.R.A.F.T. with the theme of Monotone. We did however sneak a little bit of yellow in, but that's ok. There is also a challenge over at CES Challenges which is Chocolate Caramel, so we decided to combine the two and use the stated colour(s) for our monotone card.
As far as I can remember some of the flowers used are from The Range as for the rest they are from Miss Fancy Pants Crafts, the best stall on Bury Market by miles, well it is in our opinion and probably many other crafters who know of it.
Friday Sketchers again with a wonderful sketch for us all.
Wow,I can't believe it Thursday already and I haven't posted a thing, work is such an inconvinence! Hopefully I will be able to get some crafting done this weekend, but for now I will show you what I made on Tuesday in my weekly crafting get together.
The red patterned paper is from DCWV Christmas wishes paper pack. The adheasive gems in the centre of the snowflakes are yet again Papermania Capsule Collection.I have used the scraps of gold and red that I had left to make a snowflake using 2 different Die Cuts and Cuttlebug. The green card is from the Papermill at the Lowry Outlet, which makes it the newest in my stash as I only got it on Saturday. 
Today I took myself off to my Mum's for a little while, I have a feeling she is starting to get in to the whole challenge thing too, which is great, however there is no way she will start a blog. So we decided that we would do this one together, in other words, we work together on the challenge cards and I then sit at the PC and blog to my hearts content. 
But we did stick to something we know in using Promarkers, which is brilliant because I stumbled across Moving Along With The Times and their challenge this week is sponsored by Letraset with a theme of Anything Goes but you MUST use Promarkers.
Now on to the card, as you know yesterday I was off craft shopping, which is how nearly all these papers came to be on the card. The plain cream, burgundy and blue are all from The Papermill at the Lowery Outlet Mall. The gold paper which Tilda is matted on to is from the good old trust stash from Kanban. Now the patterned paper, yes you guessed it, Papermania, though this time its from their Persimmon Collection again purchased from The Range.
The card for today features another Tilda stamp I just can't help that I find her so cute!!! As always she is coloured with Promarkers:
The plain card used for matting and layering in both the pink and the green was from Kanban, as is the pink glitter card. If you haven't been its definitely worth a trip up there. As for the patterned and dotted paper that is from the My Minds Eye Quite Contrary paper pack. In my opinion these papers are stunning!
The stunning layout came from Friday Sketchers as I enjoyed using their layout so much last week I decided to give this weeks sketch a go as well!
