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I made this card using the Lindsay Mason set of stamps, they are all so cute.

Image from Lindsay Mason Designs
Ribbon and bow from Lili of the Valley
Promarkers
Paper from stash 

Painting kitten

These are my two cards for the Friday Sketch Challenge.  Both images are from 2 Cute Ink, they are sponsoring us this challenge.   Really worth checking out their really cute images.

 

For the two cards I used the following:

Images from 2 Cute Ink
Promarkers
Baby girl sentiment from Lili of the Valley
Flowers from stash
Baby mini die cuts from Cuttlebug die
Handmade flowers
Flowers from stash

Childhood Memories

Hello everyone,  my hand  feels a little better now and I am hoping it will be okay, I think keeping it straped and trying to protect it for a few days has made the difference.

I hope everyone is enjoying our few days of sunshine.  I have managed to get quite a lot of washing done, nothing like be able to dry your washing outside. 

My latest card is featuring a Lili of the Valley image, all their images are just lovely.   I must buy myself at least one of the little boys playing with their toys, these remind me of my childhood when everything was different.  In those days you would be sent off for the day, no one worried about health and safety and I can never remember anyone getting hurt except for the odd skinned knee.  We would all dash off on our bikes which were frequently made up of old bikes put together, I remember mine was an old frame found on waste land near where I lived in Tilbury (local dumping ground for things people didn't want) and then we picked up various wheels etc, painted them in what ever colours we could find at home and the only expense was new tyres and brakes.  Mine was a drop handle bike and I would go tearing off with several of my siblings and friends.  I was one of eight children so there was always someone to go with.

We would take bottles of water and jam sandwiches and that was us set for the day.  We would often go to the moat which surrounds Tilbury Fort and swim in that, of course there were signs saying "No Swimming" but no one took any notice and the place was packed on warm days.  You could meet all your friends and have a lovely day out for nothing.  Now it is completely cut off and you can no longer go and sit by the water and eat sandwiches or jump in if you feel like it.   I suppose if you pay to go in you can have your sandwiches there, but as a child it was fun and I have some great pictures of people sitting there by the moat.  I remember the hand knitted swimsuit episode which was disastrous, once in the water and it would be down by your knees.

Anyway, back to the present.

For this card I have used:

Lili of the Valley image

Promarkers

Cherry Lynn corner die

Crafts Too square die

Orange card from stash from Papermill

Printed card from DCWV called "Pocket full of Posies"

Flowers from stash which I distressed slightly with Whispers "Straw Matt" ink pad

Glitz glitter glue

I'd like to enter this card in for the following challenge:

Fussy and Fancy Friday - Fairies

Even more Cupcakes

Last night  I sat happily colouring in digi stamps and when I came to look at papers to use, nothing I had matched in any way.  So my big tip for me today is look first at your papers and then do your colouring, I am sure all you excellent cardmakers have found this out already and are shaking your heads at me.

Well I decided in the end to use the spare image I had done the day before of the Lili of the Valley cupcake stamp, the same as my last card. This time I decided to add a cupcake recipe which I aged so that it looked like it had been used many times; I used my Tim Holtz blending tool which is really excellent for this.  I found that the boxes of cards that you buy often have a thick sheet of card in them and the reverse side is white so you can place your picture on this and distress it without using good paper or having to clean off your craft mat.  I have been using the same piece of card for about two months now.

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For this card I used:

Lili of the Valley stamp

Sentiment and small cupcake stamp from Papermania

Ticket stamp from Die-namics blank outline and die - words typed on computer

Cupcake recipe from internet

Stripe paper from Craftworkcards Vintage Rose Paper Pack

Blue card from Papermill





You Can Never Have Too Many Cupcakes

I decided to make my card for my sister using my new goodies Lili of the Valley stamp and Marianne die.  At first the stamp was driving me mad because I couldn’t seem to get a complete image, first it was the middle missing and then the bottom.  I seem to have trouble with new stamps, I think it does need that stamping out a few times before it seems to work – or is that just me being bad at stamping.  

Finally had a good image, I went for pastel shades and pink papers because I have a complete 12 x 12 pad of pink called Rose Colored Glasses from G.C.D. Studios.

Small heart charm came from one of those sets you see for about £1.50, I think this was from the Works about 18 months ago.  I remember buying several just for the charms and ribbon.

I used Ranger Glossy Accents to highlight the cherries, you can just about see it on this picture, but trust me it's there.  The whole image was coloured in using the usual Promarkers.
For the card I used:
Rose Colored Glasses card from G.C.D. Studios
Dark Pink card from Papermill
Lili of the Valley stamp
Promarkers
Marianne die
Kars pearl gems
Twine
Small heart charm

I'd like to enter this card for the following challenges:
Ladybug Crafts Ink - Pink and Girly
Crafty Catz - Challenge 122 Punches and Dies