Bah Humbug Want Some Peel Offs

It's challenge #11 over on the Bah Humbug challenge blog already and this week they want to see some peel offs. This is my third attempt at making a card starting with the peel off element. They usually go on as a last ditch effort to finish something off. The first two ideas ended up in the bin and even now I'm not impressed with the result - but it's the sort of neat card my daughter-in-law likes, so I expect I'll be giving it to her to send someone. I've coloured the candles and flowers with Sakura Silver/Gold shadow pens and edged the square matt with a purple ink pad. (This was done with the second card in mind but I still decided to use it for this one.) It's then backed onto a piece of gold mirri. The black layer is some matt card from Crafters Companion. Then it's finished off with peel off corners.

I have managed to do some blog hopping - last night and a little today. I'm trying to get back into the swing of things - it's not good when I know I'm missing so many lovely creations in blogland.

Thanks very much for visiting today.

Beryl xx

Frogs in My Garden too....

Rainbow Lady's challenge this week 'In my Garden I See' gives me the chance to show you this gorgeous frog stamp that I got from my visit to the Stamp Addicts shop last year. At this time of year we are lucky enough to be surrounded by frogs and toads all coming to visit our fish pond. Each year there seem to be more and more - I guess the ones who manage to survive each year come back to their hatching place. While they are spawning we have to watch where we walk and at night time have to take a torch so as not to stomp any. When the young leave the pond they are like flies hopping all round the house. I love it.
The image is coloured with Promarkers and the background with chalks. The text stamp is by Serendipity.
Thanks very much for visiting.
Beryl xx

Crafty Ann's Challenge #11

As I'll be in Stoke on Trent staying with my daughter when Crafty Ann's challenge #11 starts I've scheduled this post. I'm leaving for Stoke on Thursday, visiting the NEC on Saturday and heading home on Sunday - a nice little break methinks.

This latest challenge is to make a card, gift or memento for a someone special to you. The card above was made for my daughter's birthday this week. The cupcake image is from Crafty Ann - coloured with Promarkers and the pink bp is actually from Crafty Ann's Embossed hearts paper collection but the sun was shining full on the card and in the piccie the embossing doesn't show up. By the time I realised it was too late as the card had already gone in the post. The border across the bottom was made using a Martha Stewart border punch and the flowers are a mixture of Prima and Nellie Snellen punched. The corners are a Cuttlebug corner die and the hearts a small heart punch (make unknown). The sentiment is a clear stamp by DewDrop Craftz. I hope you'll come and join in the challenge. As usual Ann will be giving away some of her digis as a prize. 

Thanks very much for visiting.

Two More Christmas cards

 

The first card is for Rainbow Lady's challenge - which this week is to use an acetate overlay and a Christmas theme if preferred. The Christmas tree was printed from MCS NSR Snowflakes and Sparkles - once onto a variegated background and again onto acetate this time using the outline image. Then I attached the overlay with brads. The bp is Funky Fairies and the swirl is a U Mount stamp - stamped with Versafine and clear embossed.

The second card is the Bah Humbug challenge - Vintage. The bp is from a Crafters Companion cd and the floral vine and brown strips are made from some shimmery copper paper although the shimmer doesn't show up. The main image is made with a stamped image kindly sent to me by Irene - so how apt that I'm using it for her challenge. It's coloured with inktense pencils and distressed a bit round the edge to give it a vintage feel - hopefully.

Busy decorating at the moment and just grabbed a few minutes to post these before it's too late.

Thanks very much for visiting.

Beryl xx

Sketch and Stash #31

I followed the sketch for the Sketch and Stash challenge #31 but I had to tweak it a bit to make things fit. I've coloured the Tilda image with Promarkers and punched the flowers with a Nellie Snellen punch and a small daisy punch. The punched border strip was amongst some goodies sent to me by my stateside friend - Martha and the ribbon is from my stash. The new element is the rabbit - which is a Clarity stamp - again coloured with Promarkers. The bp is from Funky Fairies Cherish collection.

Thanks very much for visiting today.

Beryl xx

Crafty Ann's Challenge #10

Challenge #10 from Crafty Ann is a colour challenge. Your project must include lemon, link and lilac. You can use other colours too but must include these three. I have used the Rosebud Posy from Crafty Ann's digi shop and have printed it in MCS with a background of paper from the Pastel Polished Stone Collection. I printed the rosebud out again and after colouring with Inktense pencils and Cosmic Shimmer (for the bow) - decoupaged it onto the main piece. The striped background is from a Graphicus Guild paper pack and the border across the centre is some lemon card punched with a Martha Stewart punch. The flowers were punched from my Nellie Snellen flower punches and then spritzed with glimmer mist. The little punched butterfly was part of a loads of punched shapes sent to me by my friend Martha - who lives in the States.
Sentiment - computer generated and both mats were cut from Nestie dies.
I do hope you'll come and join in this time - as usual Ann will be giving away some of her digis as a prize to some lucky entrant.
Thank you for visiting today. I did have one evening this week playing catch up on the latest on the blogs but sadly didn't get all the way round. Will try to do better this week.
Beryl xx