Brother-in-law's birthday card and a few challenges.

Good afternoon all,

A nice wet Saturday over here, cold and windy. Just back from taking youngest to birthday party.

This morning I finished a birthday card for my brother-in-law, who lives in America. He is a manager in a large company and has very little time for hobbies. It is therefore difficult to find something to suit his interests.

This year, I created a digistamp especially with him in mind. I hope you like it.



Feel free to use the stamp if you like it, but please only use for personal use and leave the signature on when you use it.

And here are some more images of the card. The image has been coloured in using watercolour pencils.







The used background papers are from Funky Fairies I believe and the other one is my own one, scanned autumnleaves.



In case you are wondering, the white rectangles on the cards are the name plates. I have removed the name of my brother in law from it for privacy reasons. You could use this space to put the name of the intended birthday person as well.

I hope you like it (and most of all my brother in law does).

This card will also be entered in the following challenges:

1. Stamp Something, Sketch Something. I have used there sketch and adapted it a bit to fit better with the shape of the card and the image.

2. A Spoonfull of Sugarchallenge 77, Create a Scene. I believe my digistamp fits that bill well enough.

3. SPCC, there colourcombo this week is melon mambo, basic black, yoyo yellow and not quite navy. You should be able to find these colours somewhere in either the background papers or on the coloured in stamp.

4. Pile it on Challenge 23, Fall Challenge. For this challenge you needed to use one or more leaves. I have used autumnleaves scanned in to create the backing paper.

and

5. Trimcraft Challenge 37, Lots of Dots. The backing paper is quite dotty I believe.

I knew there was one missing...

Last but certainly not least, I also want to enter this one in Whimsy Stamps Challenge 27, watercolors. This one asks us to use watercolours in our card. I used watercolour pencils to colour in my digistamp. Sorry ladies, haven't got any Whimsy Stamps yet. May be in with winning some at some stage maybe?

Thank you all for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.

Challenge card for the Crafty Pad, 4th card this Saturday.

Another card made today to follow below. This one is a card made for the challenge at The Crafty Pad, the brief was a recipe, 2 circles, 1 rectangle, 3 brads or eyelets and some torn paper.

It also fits the challenge at My Time to Craft Challenge, which was 'in the garden'.

I hope you like my interpretation of both. Again it also fits in with the challenge at Pile it on Challenge. (like another few of the cards made over the last 2 days).

For this card, I used a Teddy with flower stamped imaged coloured in with watercolour pencils (the same I scanned and printed for multiple layers for a 3D image last week) from The Crafty Pad. I understand that Debbie is bringing some more stamps out this weekend as well, this is well worth a look on her blog as her stamps are fabulous. This was stuck onto 2 circles of handmade paper, one white with flower leaves and one purple and scalloped, both diecut with nestibilities. This was overlapping a scalloped rectangle of red handmade paper (another nestibility) embellished with 3 mini brads and a piece of blue torn handmade paper that carried the sentiment, a Happy Birthday peel off.

I like this card quite well and hope you will agree.

Thank you for looking, all comments are very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.

Third card on Saturday, 'Lady with Flower'

Another busy day, here is my third card made today. I really enjoyed myself getting ready for the fair in about a week's time. Just a few more cards to do and then I can start preparing some bags of diecut cardtoppers to sell at the fair. All proceeds obviously going to the school funds. They are still needing to pay back a lot of money following the recent extensions to the building.

For this card I used a sketch from Moving along with the times, this is a new challenge blog and they have their first challenge this week. As it uses downloads as well (the Lily Pickle 3D image), it also fits in with the Papertake Weekly delightful downloads challenge this week. The purple handmade paper used for the flower also makes it fit in with the challenge at Pile it on challenge.

For this challenge I used the 3D image mentioned earlier, a card diecut with scalloped rectangle from nestibilities, a Happy Birthday sentiment and a flower made using handmade paper and diecut with flower die from sizzix. It was great fun making this card.

Hope you like it.

Thank you for looking, all comments are very much appreciated and very welcome.

Love,

Jo.

Seventh card of Friday, 'Thank you for teaching'

The last card of a rather busy day crafting yesterday. This one is for a few challenges and is a card made for one of the teachers at my kids' school. I found the cute hegehog image on the net, ready to be coloured in.

Following colouring in the image using watercolour pencils, I scanned it and printed it off 8 times to form different layers to form a 3D image. This was stuck onto a purple piece of card cut out with nestibilities scalloped rectangle. A circle was cut out from purple paper already embossed with raindrops beforehand and a Thank you peel off was stuck onto this. I printed off some spotty paper, a download from Funky Fairies, and made this into a small paper ribbon. I then stuck a little bow onto it to finish off the card.

Finally I added some little gems on the left side of the card.

The sketch was from Cupcake Challenge.

This card is therefore intended for the following challenges:

1. Papertake Weekly delightful downloads

2. Creative Card Crew challenge 16 whatever the weather

3. Cupcake Craft Challenges challenge 45 sketch

4. Diecut dreams

5. pile it on challenge

When I initially did the card I forgot to put the little gems in place, these were added afterwards, the card before this minor transformation is shown below.

Hope you like my card.

Thank you for looking,

all comments are very welcome and much appreciated.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Love,

Jo.