Grandma's 100th Birthday

We have had a milestone birthday and a half this week as Paul’s Grandma was 100 on Monday. This is the card I made for her in celebration of this most special of birthdays.

Grandma always hates it when her birthday is on a card but I figured that if your reach 100 there is no way you are going to keep that secret is there?

The image is from Digstamps 4 Joy. In September I was very lucky to have won $10 to spend in their store from a draw of their followers on Facebook and as soon as I saw this I knew it had to go in my shopping basket in preparation for this auspicious occasion.

I selected some papers and flowers from 2 different pads by Craftwork Cards that I got in the recent sale. From this I then coloured the image in Promarkers & Flexmarkers adding lots of glitter with Stickles glue, boy was I happy that it has such a fine nozzle as some of the areas were tiny, even with the large size I printed it out.

I used a sketch from the last challenge at Wags n Whiskers for the layout, fully intending to get this posted on my blog earlier in the week but to be completely honest I was pooped out from running around after 40 oldies, serving drinks and cleaning up for over 5 hours after being at work earlier in the day. It was however completely worthwhile as Grandma had the most wonderful time and was proudly showing off her telegram from the Queen J

I added a doily which was from a magazine freebie and I punched a heart using my favourite Martha Stewart punch. The lattice got lost on the doily so I added it to some gold card and cut around it. A little bit of stickles and a green gem on the large flower and the front was finished.

I don’t normally decorate the inside but felt this occasion called for it. I used some more of the papers adding punched borders by Fiskars and Martha, another lattice heart, some layered flowers and some patterned Candi, lots of Craftwork Cards goodies on this little beauty.

Grandma absolutely loved it. She likes my cards anyway so I wanted to make this more special for her adding lots of flowers and using her favourite colours. We took lots of photos and are working on a special scrapbook style photo album for her which incorporates memorabilia from the 2 day celebration along with lots of the images. 

This is the message I put together in her album so we gave it to her and then literally took it back with us. It's a standing joke that in this age of technology she doesn't get to 'hold real photos' anymore as you rarely print out digital photos.

The love Frame is from Daisy’s Digi Doodles and the extra heart is a PNG brush  from a set called Aunt Elizabeth which is a current freebie from Scrap n Fonts

Here is a photo of Grandma with the telegram from The Queen, 

both ladies look bloody good for their ages! 

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – 8” Square

Image/Sentiment – 100 Years Old by Digistamps For Joy

Love Frame - With Love by Daisy’s Digi Doodles

Heart Brush - Aunt Elizabeth Freebie from Scrap n Fonts

Papers, Flowers & Candi – Craftwork Cards

Embellishments – Stickles Glitter glue, Paperchase gems, Dovecraft Gems & Pearl

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Fiskars punch, Martha Stewart punches, god gel pen

Techniques - Punching

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

613 Avenue Create – #5 Anything Goes (Twist Love)

Addicted To Stamps - #49 Pearls & Swirls

Cards & More - #75 Love or Valentine

Catch The Bug – Affairs of the Heart

Catered Crop – Polka Dots

CDAC Anything Goes – Any Handmade Craft

Corrosive Challenge - #167 Hearts & Flowers

Crafting Café – Anything Goes

Crafty Blogger’s Network - #8 Anything Goes

Crazy Amigo Challenge – Hearts

Crazy Challenge - #138 Birthday

Creative Stamp Friends - #70 Hearts or Valentine

Di’s Digi Designs – Valentines/Love

Digistamps 4Joy - #60 Love or Romance ~~ Store Digi ~~

Diva’s By Design – Winged Things

Eureka Stamps  – #25 Sweet Hearts

Everybody Art – #222 Hearts

Forever Friends Monthly – Animals/Butterflies/Birds

Freshly Brewed Designs - #2 Hearts & Dots

Gingerloft - #56 Love Is In The Air

Great Impressions Stamps – Include a Heart

Heck of A Challenge – Love & Flowers

Hybrid Chick Card Caravan - #37 Hearts

Incy Wincy Designs – Love is In The Air

Jen’s Digi Stamps – Love

Lady Anne’s Stamp Challenge – Anything Goes

Ladybug Crafts – Valentines or Love

Lexi’s Creations - #83 Valentines/Love

Love To Create – #51 Celebrate

Loves Rubber Stamps - #38 Anything Goes

Mema’s Crafts – Hello Doily

Nana Vic’s – Anything Goes

Natalie & Amy’s Challenge - #6 Something Old (punch & digi) & New (flowers & paper)

One Crazy Stamper – Love

One Stop Crafts - #215 Love is In the Air

Order of the Opus Gluei - #149 Bring on the Bling

Paper Playtime - #3 Border Punches

Platypus Creek - #25 Pretty Feminine Birthday card

Sandy’s Crafty Creations – Anything Goes for a Birthday

Scrapper’s Delight – Love With Red & Pink

Scrappy Frogs – Red or Pink

Simon Says Stamp – Have a Heart

Stamp Your Life - #3 Love

Sweet Pea Stampers – Use a Digi

Totally Gorjuss  – #170 Love

Visible Image - Love

Word Art Wednesday - #66 Anything Goes

Polyanthus - Janey's Digi Designs

 For my second card using digi’s from Janey’sDigi Designs I have used the beautiful Polyanthus  image. I knew what this flower was and I love it in happy red and yellow combinations so knew straight away what colours I was using. I love how bright and bold it is, you know me I don’t do subtle very often…. LOL

I have used my Promarkers and Flexmarkers to shade them in. Love the new Chilli colour in my Flexmarkers, think this is my new go to red, it is so lovely and bright J I matted the image onto some black card and added a punched border and some self adhesive ribbon.

I have used sketch #4 by I {Heart} Card Sketches for the layout which I have rotated to better accommodate the image.

The spotty paper is from the Licorice Sherbet pad from Papermania and I used my gorgeous lace edged spotty ribbon. The sentiment is Craftwork Cards mounted onto some black cardstock and raised on 3d foam. I used the large flower bottom right to print out as a single embellishment and teamed this up with some self adhesive Prima swirls bling. Finally I added a small amount of stickles glitter glue to highlight the flower centres

The Polyanthus image can be purchased from the Etsy store. For inspiration please pop over to the blog and Facebook page where our very talented designers will be regularly showcasing these amazing images.

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – A5

Images – Polyanthus by Janey’s Digi Designs

Paper – Licorice Sherbet pad by Papermania

Sentimet - Craftwork Cards

Tools - Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Martha Stewart punch, 3d foam squares

Embellishments – Prima bling swirls, Lace edge ribbon, Stickles glitter glue, Papermania self adhesive ribbon

Techniques – Punching

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

365 Cards - Day 38 Girly Swirly

613 Avenue Create – #5 Anything Goes

Catch The Bug – Anything Goes

Catered Crop – Polka Dots

CDAC Anything Goes – Any Handmade Craft

Challenges 4 Everybody  – #13 Anything Goes

Crafty Blogger’s Network - #8 Anything Goes

Crazy Challenge - #138 Birthday

Creative Belli Challenge - #162 Rhinestones (ribbon had for 5 years)

Hiding In My Craftroom - #83 Reds
House That Stamps Built – DCC130 Bright Colours & Vibrant Prints

I {Heart} Card Sketches – Sketch 004

Lady Anne’s Stamp Challenge – Anything Goes

Love To Create – #51 Celebrate

Loves Rubber Stamps - #38 Anything Goes

Mayzyart Challenge – #10 Anything Goes

Nana Vic’s – Anything Goes

Natalie & Amy’s Challenge - #6 Something Old (Ribbon) & New (Image & paper)

Paper Makeup Stamps Digi Makeover – #74 Red Black & White

Paper Playtime - #3 Border Punches

Platypus Creek - #25 Pretty Feminine Birthday card

Sandy’s Crafty Creations – Anything Goes for a Birthday

Scrappy Frogs – Red or Pink

Sweet Pea Stampers – Use a Digi

Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Totally Gorjuss  – #169 Anything Goes With Lace (lace edge ribbon)

Unique Crafters Challenge – Lace or Fabric

Whoopsi Daisy – Ribbon and/or Lace

Word Art Wednesday - #66 Anything Goes

Daisy Doodles #77

Welcome to a new challenge over at Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges

I Love You

We want to see something for a man showing your love

  

For my card I have combined one of the frames from With Love set. You get five different frames in PNG format for $3. I have also used the ‘Earth’ planet from the Blast Off set which has 4 images in JPG, PNG and TIFF format for $5 There are some great images for men of all ages who are into space and science fiction.

Head over to the Daisy Doodles Store to check it out and all the other great digi’s that are available !

                                                                                               

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I’d had this idea to make quite a simple card for a guy using the With Love Frame and wanted to incorporate the planet to symbolise someone meaning the world to you. I typed the words in my computer program and played about with the positioning until it looked right, emphasising the words You & Me.

Once happy I printed out an extra planet and then 2 layers of hearts so I could decoupage them. I used Promarkers and Flexmarkers to colour adding some pearlescent chalk to the frame’s border and lots and lots of red glitter to the uppermost heart. I added this whole panel onto a sheet of black cardstock, trimming the hearts so they overhang the frame.

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I hope you will pop over to the blog to see the lovely creations on there from my team mates and we look forward to seeing your entries in for our Challenge.

I'll see you again next time with another lovely Daisy Doodles design.

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – A5

Images – With Love and Blast Off by Daisy’s Digi Doodles

Tools - Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers,

Embellishments – foam pads and lots of glitter

Techniques - Decoupage

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

365 Cards - Day 33 Colour Like Crazy

613 Avenue Create – #5 Anything Goes Love Twist

Allways Something Creative - #47 Love

Cards For Men - #3 All My Love

Cards Galore – One For The Men

Catch The Bug – Anything Goes

CDAC Seasonal Fun – Valentine’s Day

Challenges 4 Everybody  – #13 Anything Goes

Crafty Blogger’s Network - #8 Anything Goes

Crafty Calendar Challenge – Love and Marriage

Creative Stamp Friends - #70 Valentine

Desert Island Crafters – #47  1, 2, 4, 6,

Di’s Digi Designs – Valentines/Love

Dream Valley Challenges - #50 Valentines

Eureka Stamps  – #25 Sweet Hearts

Gingerloft - #56 Love Is In The Air

Glitter & Sparkle - #18 Valentines/Love

Go Fish - #34 I Love You

Going Grey With Scrap Creations – Valentines

Great Impressions Stamps – Include a Heart

Hybrid Chick Card Caravan - #37 Hearts

Incy Wincy Designs – Love is In The Air
Jen’s Digi Stamps – Love

Lady Anne’s Stamp Challenge – Anything Goes

Ladybug Crafts – Valentines or Love

Lexi’s Creations - #83 Valentines/Love

Lia Stampz - #34 Valentines

Mayzyart Challenge – #10 Anything Goes

Melonheadz Friends – Valentine’s

My Sheri Crafts - #103 Valentines

My Time To Craft - #207 Love Is In The Air

One Crazy Stamper – Love

One Stop Crafts - #214 Anything Goes

Ooh La La Creations  – #123 Love Story

Order of the Opus Gluei - #149 Bring on the Bling

Outlawz Saturday Paper A La Mode – PAM2022013 Love or Hearts

Pumpkin Spice - #5 Hearts

Scrappy Frogs – Red or Pink

Songbird Challenge - #13 Hopelessly Devoted To You

Stamp Your Life - #3 Love

Sweet Stampin’ – Love Is All Around

Tammy Scrapin’ Corner - #48 Valentine’s

The Cupboard Trilogy - #8 Red & Romance

The Stamping Chef – Love

The Stamping Shack - #5 Love Is In The Air

Visible Image - Love

OSAAT #149 Not Square

We have a new challenge at One Stitch At  A Time and the theme this week is

Not Square

We would like to see a shaped project this time.

Our sponsor this week has a fabulous prize for the lucky winner who uses a Store image

Please head on over to the Stitchy Bear Store to check out all the lovely digis on offer from our great designers. There are some freebies available and there is a selection of cut price Monthly Specials that change often, there really is so much to choose from thanks to our very talented designers.

Also, to keep ahead of all the latest news you can become a follower at the

Stitchy Bear Store Blog

You must use a store image to win the main prizes and all other entries will be in a draw to win $3 to spend in the store

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In the effort to get ahead on my Christmas cards this week I have used Holly by Hope Jacare Doodles and made my first centre step card. I have made side step ones before but never a centre one. I am very pleased with how it turned out, made a rough template in paper and it worked so I am sure I will be using this design again J

The image has been coloured with Promarkers and boy was I glad I had the fine tips on these colours as the tips of the holly leaves, necklace and hair tendrils are all so intricate. I created a decoupage layer with the skirt and that was some fiddly cutting out but the results were worth it.

The papers are from a Craftwork Cards magazine freebie. I was careful to cut the patterned paper so that it was symmetrical, it seemed important as the whole focus is in the middle.

The holly on the sentiment strip is from a sheet of paper that is in a Forever Friends pad which I have added some red stickles berries to. Simple gems and a sentiment complete this card. I do love the intricacy of the image, there is so much detail in the designs from Hope Jacare and they are a pleasure to work with.

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 Please pop over to OSAAT to see the fab cards from my colleagues on the DT. I look forward to seeing your entries for this challenge

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Card Size – 5 ½” Centre Step Card

Image – Holly by Hope Jacare Doodles

Papers – Craftwork Cards & Forever Friends

Embellishments – small gems, Stickles Glitter Glue

Tools – Tiny Fiskars scissors

Techniques – Decoupage and shaped cards

I would like to enter this project into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

613 Avenue Create – #5 Anything Goes

Artistic Inspirations – #26 Anything Goes

Catch The Bug – Anything Goes

Catered Crop – Polka Dots

CDAC Anything Goes – Any Handmade Craft

Challenges 4 Everybody  – #13 Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnut’s Monthly Christmas Challenge – Anything Goes

Creative Belli Challenge - #162 Rhinestones (sentiments had for 3 years)

Creative Craft World BTCR – Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations Paint – Anything Goes

Love To Create – #50 Anything Goes With Sentiment

Mayzyart Challenge – #10 Anything Goes

My Graphico – #144 Anything Goes

One Stop Crafts - #214 Anything Goes

Order of the Opus Gluei - #149 Bring on the Bling

Pile It On – #5 Fancy Folds

Sparkles Christmas Challenge - #25 Anything Goes