Valentine 2017

This is for CAS(E) this Sketch, a clean and simple card sketch challenge blog that I've only just found. I suspect I'm going to be a big fan of it very quickly. This is Challenge #205.

It is also for the SJ Card Kit Club, using Claudia's lovely kit.

Valentine 2016

This is for my hubby, for CASology's and for Cute Card Thursday's challenges which are both Valentine this week.

Valentine's card 2014

I'm not sure whether I've bent the rules too much with this card or not!

Less Is More's challenge this week is an "anything goes" one layer card. Well this doesn't look like one layer, but it IS. I cut the heart out of the kraft card and then cut another one out of red card. I embossed both, and fitted the red part into the kraft part - still one layer. Well OK, there may be a bit of tape on the back holding them together, but that doesn't count, does it? Pretty please?!

I also hope that it is not too busy for a CAS card. I think it still counts as clean and simple even though it it covered, because the embossing and inking is quite subtle and plain. Actually this photo makes the inking stand out more than it does in the cold, grey, miserable half-light of a flooded British February afternoon.

On that hope, I'm entering it into CASology's "bold" challenge for the bright red, Cute Card Thursday's "clever cutting", and Simon Says Stamp's "kraft", and Papertake Weekly's "heart" challenges.

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

Valentine

I'm using up strips, just scraps, but isn't this classy? I love it! And I love my man of course.

This is for:
CAS-ual Fridays "love song" challenge. The song that's been going round my head all day is Something Stupid, with the line "and then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like I Love You"
Charisma Cardz: love
Cute Card Thursday: love struck
ETA: I've been surfing some lovely people's blogs and have come across this little gem of a challenge, Pixie's Crafty Snippets Playground at Pixie's Crafty Workshop. It's all about using up scraps, which is me all over. So I'm entering my card into this too. Thanks for the welcome Di!

King for a day

CASology's challenge this week is "games", CAS-ual Friday's is "markers", and Less Is More's is a deceptively simple sketch. ScrapJazz 's monthly card challenge is to trace or draw your own image. Here is my entry for all four.

I've had this idea going round my head for several years, but it is only recently that I've had the stamps to do it. Each word comes from a different stamp set, from the phrases: Thinking of you, Thank you for being my friend, Just a note to say and Happy birthday. I copied the image from a pack of playing cards (took me all afternoon - my neck is killing me!) and coloured it with Copic markers. I think that covers it all neatly.

Get well card

When I'm busy I tend to prefer making clean and simple cards, but when I have a day to play, I love working on busy ones. Today has been lazy so here you go!

Charisma Cardz: flowers and animals
Cute Card Thursday: tags
Simon Says Stamp: bingo (punches, glitter, blooms and also I just realised ribbon, die cut, buttons!)
Sketch Saturday: sketch
Stampavie: buttons and bows
Whiff of Joy: hearts and kraft

Less Is More - Gold

Bird: brand new Marianne Creations die - love it!
Hero Arts cling music stamp with black gold ink.
Kanban flourish stamped in Galaxy Gold.
Spellbinders deckled edge oval die.

OK I admit it, this is combining the last 3 challenges from Less Is More (flourish, logo and gold) all into one card, because this is the last 3 weeks worth of crafting stuffed into exactly 45 minutes. {Sigh} I'm simply not getting enough time to play these days.

Is that cheating? Or super-special creative? ;-)

Ambitious!

I saw this concertina card on a blog and just had to work out how to make my own. Once I'd started, I was hooked. I just love the perfusion of colour!

The first is for the new next-door neighbour at our church. He has single-handedly taken on the church's garden as well as his own, and he keeps it looking quite magnificent - roses are his speciality. I made the card to give to him from the whole congregation. The other is for a cyber-friend who sent me a RAK. I'll be including it in a package of goodies that I've got for her.

These cards are for the following challenges:

Charisma Cardz: cutesy
Creative Card Crew: thankful
Stampavie: anything goes
Simon Says Stamp: photo inspiration
Truly Scrumptious: bingo (flowers, gems, punch/die cuts)

May flowers

This week at House Mouse the challenge is May flowers, and it is the same at Creative Card Crew. Basic Grey want charms, Colour Create want aqua, green, purple and white with the added option of glitter, which I've very definitely opted to add, using a Sketch Saturday sketch turned upside-down.

For this inspirational card for a dear friend, I've used scraps of Bo Bunny (the purple polka dot), Basic Grey (the aqua) from the Lemonade collection pack, and the striped scrap is so old that I have no idea what it is now. I've Sticklesed it using Star Dust and a paint brush to get that delicate edge instead of the blobby look that often comes straight out of the bottle. The charm came from Bizzy Becs on-line store and the flowers, brads, photo corners and fibre from my stash. The image of course is from House Mouse, coloured with Copic markers.

Pink'n'purple

For Friday Sketchers, House Mouse and Friends, and Creative Card Crew challenges.

I bought a little crafting gift for a friend, and needed a Hi card to slip the package into. I hope she likes this. I'm completely hooked on HM&F, and this one in particular. It's the cutest.

Dots & spots

Some cool challenges this week, for my thank you card for W for an unexpected crafty Christmas present. Basic Grey want spots and dots, AND they're having a DT call (YAYAY!), Spoonful of Sugar want a thank you card,  Bizzy Becs have a recipe: 3 flowers, 2 buttons and 1 ribbon, Cute Card Thursday have suggested we use up our old stash, and Friday Sketchers have this sketch:

 

And here's my card:

I used up some scraps of Basic Grey Lime Rickey and Lemonade for the spots and dots. Pretty cute, isn't it?

All new easel card

Today's card is all about newness - from Creative Card Crew and Simon Says, as well as Colour Create's challenge of pink, red and white with the option of hearts. With this sketch from Truly Scrumptious which I rotated and flipped, I think my easel card for a special new baby has it all covered: