Allsorts Challenge 7 - Acetate

Jackie has set the challenge to use acetate this week.

So I decided to make a card for my friend's 50th Birthday using the acetate Sheer Delights - Handbag from Craftwork Cards.

I made a little concertina card for the inside and decorated it using the new Lemonade Papers from Basic Grey. I used a variety of flower, border and other punches for the decorative elements.

Stamps used:-

Fabulous Birthday - Hero Arts

Conversation Dots - Hero Arts

Fabulous Friend - Stampin Up

Circle Alphas (50) - Polka Doodles Sugar Birdies CD

Other items used:-

Card Candy - Craftwork Cards

Gems and Ribbon from Stash

Rub-Ons - Papermania

Lynda xxx

Polka Doodles Challenge #6

This is the challenge at Polka Doodles this week:-

My card:-

I've almost kept to the sketch on this one so I hope I will be forgiven for that! The image is "Miss Ellie" from Butterfly Kisses stamped twice, coloured with copics and I've cut out her frilly skirt and bottom and attached with 3d foam. The card is landscape but the fold is on the left - hope this counts lol and I've made the rickrack paper ribbon using my scallop edge border punch. Background paper is the freebie download that Kirsty Wiseman has designed for Crafts Beautiful Magazine. It's only available for a month so if you want it go here. Other items used:- Swiss Dots Embosing Folder, Martha Stewart Cornflower Punch and Small Circle Scallop Punch.

Lynda xxx

Winter Wonderland - Christmas Crackers

As it's the last Sunday of the month the team at Winter Wonderland set a challenge to make something other than a card - so this month they have chosen Christmas Crackers!

I really enjoyed making my Cracker and even made my own template. I made it squared rather than rounded so that it would sit nicely on the table too. I used some black matt cardstock for the base, covered it with Allsorts paper from Craftwork Cards and decorated it with lace, fancy wool fibres and Prima Flowers.

Lynda xxx

Buddy's Challenge

There's a very handsome chap called Buddy who lives with his mum Kath here. Well it's Buddy's birthday tomorrow and he'll be 3 - that's 21 in doggy years - so a very special birthday to celebrate indeed. Buddy being the very clever boy that he is has sneaked onto his mum's computer and set us a challenge to make him a birthday card. Now I had a word with Queen Flossy and Little Lord Oscar and asked them if they cared to make a special card for this special occasion - well, they just rolled their eyes, turned around and showed me they're bottoms!!! It was worth a try I suppose - so I decided to make the card myself. Hope you like it.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUDDY"

Love from Lynda xxx

DCM Challenge - Make A Child Smile

A very special dare has been set by Sue this week as follows:-

I dare you to make a cheery card for a sick child and send it to one of the children featured on Post Pals to brighten their day.

Background Paper and Image are downloads from Kay Miller Designs (Wild About You and Jungle Boogie). The darker blue card is from an old folder that I have passed through a crimper. The turquoise is DCWV textured cardstock and Ive used Stampin Up's Spiral punch on the edge. Other items used:- Card Candy from Craftwork Cards, Circle Alphas from Polkadoodle Sugar Birdies CD topped with diamond glaze and ScrappyChic Letters from Me & My Big Ideas.

Lynda xxx

Just an update - I've decided that my card is going to Reuben D - After reading the profiles of many of the children it said that Reuben liked giraffes and as my card had a giraffe on it, I just had to pick him . He's also such a cutey and apparently the life and soul of the party. I really hope my card puts a huge smile on his beautiful little face.

ICSketches #22

Wow - another great sketch from Dawn and there's some amazing images on offer for this week's winner from Lily-Boo's Boutique.

My card:-

Ive also decorated the inside - something I don't do very often- but I kept the layout here similar to the sketch too.

Papers, image, flowers and Alpha circles are all from the Polka Doodles Sugar Birdies CD

"forever!" is computer generated

Bazzill Bling cardstock

Nestabilities

Glitter

Lynda xxx

Oh Happy Days!

Just a quick post to let you know my Sugar Birdies CD arrived this morning YEAH!!!. I made a card to sum up exactly how I feel - VERY happy. At last I've got my hands on those wonderful circle alphas and flowers that I have been drooling over for the past 4 or 5 weeks. The rest of the CD is pretty amazing too - there's loadsa great papers, embellies, sentiments, flowers, stampies, I could go on and on. If you want to see more pop over here and view what the amazing Polka Doodle DT have created.

Lynda xxx