A sketch @ Cards und More

Good morning, hope you had a fab BHM (UK) and the kids aren't driving you too mad over half term  holiday (UK).

For the latest challenge over at Cards und More we are asking you to use a sketch to make your projects. Here is my card based on it.

and this is the sketch

My son is off to a wedding soon so I thought I would make another wedding card so he can choose!

As I said before I've not got a lot of wedding sentiments so I ended up doing a bit of freehand printing. The image is my go to wedding stamp from LOTV coloured with Copics and then fussy cut. The ribbons are from the sketch as are the puffy hearts which were left over from making my daughter's wedding invites 10 years ago! The panel behind the couple was embossed using a Cuttlebug ef and the spotty layer was also embossed with a EF from Couture Creations. The central aperture and frame were cut with MFT pierced circle stax.

OK, that's about it, be inspired by the sketch and join in.

I'm joining in at -

Creative Inspirations - AG 

Penny Black and More - Dies and Punches

Hearts n Flowers

Morning peeps.

This is a scheduled post as I am entertaining a few friends for a couple of days.

Hope all you teachers in England are ready for the new term ahead, and all parents are ready to see their little ones back at school. 

My Grandson is starting school on Tuesday, I can't believe it he's only just 4!

Anyway, it's time for another challenge at Fantasy Stampers.

This time we would like to see your projects which combine:-

HEARTS and FLOWERS

This was an easy one for me as I had to make a wedding card for Nich for her friend Maria's wedding so here it is.

Nich isn't one for lots of flowers but Maria's theme was English Country gardens so I kept it pretty plain and added touches of NitWits papers.

The stamp is from LOTV as is the sentiment and the heart shapes were cut using my NBUS Little B heart dies.

The white background was embossed using a Cuttlebug Swiss dot embossing folder after cutting the aperture. The green swirls were die cut using a Marianne die and flowers were from the stash. I used Copics to colour the bride and groom. The whole lot is on a 6 x 6 white base card.

Please pop over to see what the rest of the DT have been up to then why not join in. Just remember there must be some form of traditional stamping on your project.

I shall enter this card into the following challenges:-

Creative Inspirations - Flower Power
Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes
Penny Black and More - Anything Goes
Simply Create Too - Something new (My Little B hearts)

My favourite stamp

Hi, and thanks for dropping in.

The weather here has been frightful but not as bad as some of the coastal regions. Hope everyone is safe and sound.

In the strange time twixt Christmas and New Year, I was blog surfing, as you do and came across another new challenge blog, Fantasy Stampers Challenge. Their first challenge was to use your favourite stamp. Well if you looked at my Favourite 5 post you can probably guess what mine is, yep its my LOTV wedding stamp!

This time I used a pink theme and had the chance to use my new Marianne swirly leaf flourish I got for Christmas.

This is a close up of the stamp, which I cut out and mounted on pads onto a plain white rectangle mounted on silver mirry. The pink ribbon across the bottom is white satin which I coloured with Copic RV 14, because I hadn't got any that matched!

I shall enter it in the following challenges:-

Fantasy stampers:- your favourite stamp

Crafty Little Fairies:- Starting over

Heck of a challenge:- new

Creative Romance:- new

Penny Black and more - Love is in the Air

Well that's it for now, don't forget to stop by our new blog Cards4Guys challenge next week for a great new challenge.

Another wedding

It's strange isn't it , that when your children get to a certain age there are quite a few weddings in the offing. This time it was a work colleague of my son, "Could you do me a card for this wedding I'm going to." So here it is using my very favourite LOTV wedding couple.

I wasn't sure what the colours were for the wedding so kept it pretty neutral, just some pin striped paper in grey and some white embossed card. The swirls were from a Marianne die and roses from the stash. All the card used was the same plain white. I didn't use any ribbons as it was from a bloke and  I liked the clean lines. 

Anyway must dash as Strictly is now recording.

I will enter the following challenges:-

LOTV - Anything goes

ABC - Extra Special

A card for my daughter's friend's wedding

Thought I would share this card with you. I am struggling to use this blogging thing so its taken me a while to sort out how to down load this from my phone.

Lili of the Valley - Wedding Couple Stamp

Her friend has made all her own flowers out of manuscript paper so she wanted to have a card to reflect this. Not wishing to boast but I am rather proud of the effort. If you are interested the image is from Lili of the Valley, the background paper I found in an old unused scrapbook but I stamped the manuscript paper using a stamp from Kaisercraft. The flowers were die cut using a sizzix die. The background papers were distressed and then inked with Tim Holtz Milled Lavender distress ink. The swirls were cut using a Marianne die.

Now I've broken the ice with this download thingy I might post some more!
Cheers