Hoppy Birthday

Good Morning! Welcome to 2013! Where did 2012 go?!

 

Well, a new year is here and the first of my 2013 creations to share. This is just a quick birthday card for a friend of mine whose birthday is at the end of the week - I have 3 Birthday's this week! including my brother's which is today (I'll share his card later this week).

 

So I wanted to keep the design fresh and light hearted after all the dark colours that are associated with Christmas as I came up with this:

The images are from Bugaboo and this quirky little rabbit made me smile as soon as I saw him. I coloured the image with promarkers and but some glossy accents on the nose to make them shiny. I mounted the quartet onto plain blue card and then used up some scraps of design papers in to create a very simple and clean layout. I added a removable tag for some interest and a couple of white pips to finish.

 

I'm really pleased with how this card worked out in the end as I wasn't sure what I was going to create when I started colouring the images.

 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

The Pink Elephant - Anything Goes

Fussy and Fancy - Furry Friends

Stampin' for the weekend - Anything Goes

 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Happy New Year

 

Just a very quick message to wish all my followers and friends a very Happy New Year. May it be filled with much love, laughter and friendship and may you and yours be filled with peace and good health for the year to come.

 

Thank you to each and every one of you for all your love and support over the last year and I look forward to spending 365 more crafting days with each of you

 

 

Naomi

Crafty Catz DT - New Beginnings

Good morning everyone,

Well, it's that time of the week again for a new challenge over at Crafty Catz. This weeks theme is set by the lovely Nina, who would like to see New Beginnings - so new baby, new job, new home etc. Once again we are sponsored by the fabulous Crimson Cloud who are offering our lucky winner 3 packs of die cuts.

This weeks challenge is the last before the New Year and with that in mind I made a New Years card using this fabulous image from Whimsie Doodles which is called New Years Lush.

Isn't it just the most fun? lol! If I was a sheep I would want to be in a Martini glass! I kept it all very simple and used Black, Pink Mittens, Icicle, Ruby and Frosted Leaf promarkers, old oddments of papers, stickles on the sheep and the edge of the sentiment and a couple of candy pips and ribbon from stash to finish.

I hope you like it and please do drop by the other girls blogs for some fabulous inspiration.

I would like to also enter this card into the following competitions:
Passion for Promarkers - Include Happy in the sentiment
Everybody Art - Anything Goes
Simon Says - What's your favourite (easily has to be my stickles: star dust!)

Until next time, happy crafting!

Partridge in a Pear Tree

Evening all,

Well I finally got the vast majority of my christmas cards made and sent and this year I stuck with a simple design which was actually really fun to make using this fabulous image from Bugaboo Stamps.

The image is coloured with my beloved promarkers, accented with ruby and star dust stickles and finished with papers from Dovecraft Back to Basics Modern Christmas range. The whole lot was mounted and double mounted on Kraft card.

Well, the next 11 years are sorted as I think I might just do the whole series lol!

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Dream Valley - Christmas
Joanna Sheen - Christmas
Cupcake Challenges - Christmas
Pink Elephant - Photo Inspiration

Until next time, thanks for dropping by and happy crafting

Crafty Catz DT - Shaped Cards

Morning all,

Well here's to one less Friday before Christmas! I can't believe how fast this year is going. Scary really. Anyway, as it is Friday that means it's time for a new challenge over at Crafty Catz and this week our theme has been set by the lovely Beth, who would like to see shaped cards please - so no squares or rectangles at all.

We are sponsored this week by Stitchy Bear Digitals, who are offering our lucky winner $10 to spend in store

They were also kind enough to give us a couple of images to play with and I chose, like most of the team, this fabulous Christmas silhouette:

I decided to go with a star shaped card and actually once I'd worked out how to do this style of card realised how crazily simple they are. I cut the base card in heavy weight card stock and then covered it in snowflake paper that I've had for a couple of years. The snowflakes actually have a slight texture to them. Next I printed the digi and freehand cut around it, before mounting it onto a die cut circle which I'd coloured blue with chalk ink. I mounted the whole lot and finished by adding a fine layer of stickles around the circle of the image to give it a magical feel and a few gems in the centres of random snowflakes to add texture.

So that's it for me for this weeks challenge. I hope you all like it and don't forget to pop over to the blog to see the other girls fabulous creations.

Until next time, happy crafting!

Joy, Peace, Love

Afternoon all,

Well, I can't believe that it's already the 6th December and I still haven't posted any Christmas cards, actually until this morning, I'd only made 2! oops!  But today I have been on a mission to rectify this situation and I've run up half a dozen of the following cards:

The image is, of course, by the fabulous Mo Manning and is just  a dream to colour. I added the sentiment on the bottom before I printed it and then just used a really simple colour palette of promarkers to colour it in.

 

I double mounted the whole thing onto silver christmas card to finish the design and I left it at that. The image is just too lovely to make a fussy card, so CAS was the mantra.

 

I would like to enter this card into Everybody Art - Christmas Challenge and CRAFT - Christmas Challenge.

 

Until next time, thanks for your lovely comments, as always and happy crafting!

Peace

Afternoon all.

Just a quick card to share with you all today. I'm desperately trying to get my head around christmas cards and failing. I'm just not inspired! Nevermind. This is a quick idea I threw together, i'm not entirely happy with it, but I can see where it's going.

Sorry the pictures aren't great but I just can't seem to get white embossing to show up very well.

I just wanted a very clean and simple design, but I think this is just a bit bland - but I have an idea to improve it. But nevertheless, here we go.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Simon Says - Anything Goes
Fussy and Fancy - I Love Christmas
Stampin for the weekend  - Texture (embossed image)
Allsorts - Advent

Until next time, happy crafting!