Easel Card for Granddaughter's 8th Birthday

Good Evening,

My youngest grandchild, Shari-Ann will be eight years old tomorrow and I do not know where the years have gone and how she got to be so old! It seems like just yesterday she was born, but she is still our little pride and joy : )

For a birthday treat we took her to the biggest book shop in Ayr town where she had her pick of the books. We had a lovely time browsing there and here she is in the coffee-shop afterwards. Shari-Ann loves animals, her ambition is to be a zoo-keeper when she grows up, so not surprisingly her final choice of  books featured animals, one is about two kittens and another is about a dog called Best Mate.

After the visit to the bookshop it was on up the coast to Largs to enjoy her first experience of tea at Nardini's.  Here she is with her dessert - a horn of plenty filled with all sorts of luscious things including black cherries. The weather was a bit miserable but we had a most enjoyable day.

And here's the card I made for her. At one time everything had to be pink but her taste in colour is developing so I thought I could be daring and give her yellow and lilac. Because her birthday comes shortly after the longest day I went for a really summery theme. The Tildas came from my stock of images coloured on holiday and the gorgeous design papers are digitals from Bearly Mine Designs.

The toppers with the birthday greeting and her name were computer generated - the number 8 and alphas are from a freebie set from Scrappy Bug at Free 2 Scrap - a wonderful digital resource if you have not already discovered it.

I made the flowers using yet another freebie, a button flower stamp given away with a magazine. After stamping, using a purple ink pad, on to the leftover DP, I cut the flowers out, pinched the petals, layered them and adhered a button to the centre - a simple and inexpensive way to make flowers.

Shari-Ann loved the card and plans to keep it out on display in her bedroom forever!

I'm submitting this card to the following:

Bearly Mine Challenge No.13 - Summer is Here
Deep Ocean Challenge Blog #2 - Flowers
Magnolia Stamp Lovers Challenge - Buttons

Materials used:

Papermania textured card, lilac (base),; pearlescent card, yellow (layering); Bearly Mine Design digital papers, Spring Blossoms lilac floral & Simply Dots yellow dotted; Scrappy Bug Digital Kits (free) Alpha from Sky's the Limit set; Stamped images, Tilda with Cute Skirt & Cherry Tilda; ProMarkers; Flower stamp (free with a magazine); Whispers ink pad, Rio Purple; Anita's Christmas Ribbon, lilac; Yellow & lilac buttons from stash.

So that's it - after a lovely day I'm off to plan what to do next and find some time to check out a few of your blogs. I hope you have all had a lovely weekend whatever you've been up to and that the week ahead is a good one for you.

Happy Crafting to you All,

Wings for Week 25 - Blue Christmas Fairy and Bob the Robin

Afternoon Everyone,

Well, that's the house vacuumed, mopped, dusted and polished ready for the weekend. It's a job we do every Friday morning so you'd think The Boss would be used to it by now, wouldn't you? But, no, she gets into quite a feline tizz and stalks off in high dudgeon every time the vacuum is switched on or a squirt of  polish is spritzed in her vicinity. She'll be back, when she judges the coast is clear, to settle down in the sunniest spot, but only after she has given me quite a telling off  - just another weekly ritual : ) Anyhow, I can now get down to posting the last two cards I've made.

Blue Christmas Fairy

This card developed from the theme for Craft Hazelnut's Christmas Card Challenge this week, which is 'wings'. It's a very girly card - loads of gems, glitter and gleam. All that shiny stuff makes it very difficult to photograph so apologies for the quality of the pics ... blame the photographer - she's such an amateur.

It wasn't planned but much of the materials for this card came free. The card was won and the paper and stamps were free with magazines last year.

Taking my colouring box on holiday has certainly paid off because this little fairy is another that I coloured then. I thought she looked quite a sad little  figure so dressed her in blue. I left her wings to be sprayed with Cosmic Shimmer and have the gems added. The diamante corner flourishes were the devil to fix - not only were they very sticky but it also took a bit of manoeuvring to place them.

Materials used:
Papering textured card, mid blue (base); smooth white card (topper & greeting); holographic card (matting & layering); Design papers, Scrapbook Magazine's free scrapbook kit; Fairy, snowflake & greeting stamps,Cardmaking & Papercraft Magazine free set; ProMarkers; Adirondack Earthtones ink pad, Stonewashed; VersaMark; Heat It Up embossing powder, Silver; Cosmic Shimmer Mist, Pearl Mist; Diamante corner flourishes and blue gems from stash


Bob the Robin

Still on the 'wings' theme I thought Bob the Robin (another image from my colouring box) fitted the bill even though he has only one wing in view. I have to thank Lyn (Spyder) of Spyders Corner for this great digital stamp. Having made one ribbon flower this week I just had to make another.

The little worm doesn't look as though he is in any kind of danger from cheerful Bob.

The DP with foiling has been wrapped round to the back of the card.

Leftover strips of DP has been used to decorate the inside.

Materials used:
Papermania's textured cardstock, dark red for the base, mid green for matting, smooth white card for embossed topper & digital stamp; Papermania's A Silent Night paper, 2 sheets (one foiled); Cuttlebug embossing folder, Ice Crystals; Spyder's Corner digital stamp, Bob the Robin; Promarkers - caramel, blush, ivory, ruby, ice grey; Fluffy Stuff; Martha Stewart decorative edge punch; Anita's Christmas Ribbon, dark green; Papermania Special Brad from green set; Card candy, red.

Both cards are being submitted to the Crafty Hazelnut Challenge - Week 25 - Wings

This has been a mammoth post - for some reason my screen keeps freezing -  so I'm giving in gracefully and calling it a day. At least blogger is letting me upload photographs ... today's silver lining : )

Happy crafting,

WOYWW 107 - What's On My Desk ...?

Good Morning to you All

Blogger is playing up today and won't let me load the photograph this morning. Pity, because for once I have loads on it ... proving I can do clutter occasionally. After playing around with gilding flakes yesterday - the card I produced can be seen in my Midsummer Day post here - I took out the materials to try making an 'Out of Africa' scene (another Barbara Gray inspiration). However, before I could start on this I was reminded (Outlook reminders work to keep me organised!) that I have a birthday coming up on 27th of this month and there's a New Home card to make too. So I got out the Cuttlebug, various embossing folders to sift through, and some of the images I coloured whilst on holiday that I'll be using this week. So my desk is looking very cluttered - not it's usually pristine self at all.  And you can't see any of it!!!! Another gremlin has hit the works and stopped play.

I'll try again later to add today's desk piccie but in the meantime I leave it to your very fertile imaginations to picture the mess that is my desk today ;)

Yippee: I can upload photographs again!!!
For anyone still wondering what I blethering on about and what WOYWW is all about, please pop over to Julia's place, Stamping Ground, and join in the weekly, and now mammoth, blog hop around the crafty desks of the world. I'm off to do the same and hopefully blogger will have been kinder to all you WOYWWers out there.

Happy Crafting,

Elizabeth

Boohoo - can't even add my signature today ;(