Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Sketch Saturday vs Anyone for Anya

I always love the Sketch Saturday sketches, here is this week's...


...which I rotated and turned into a birthday card for my sister in law to be (lots of birthdays this week!)

She's a shopaholic so this Miss Anya image was perfect. This week's Anyone for Anya challenge was 'Make a Fake' so I did some fake paper piercing by using a dotted line stamp down the edge of my image


Thanks for stopping by x

Monday, 23 November 2009

Friday Sketchers

Great sketch over at Friday Sketchers this week...


...and I needed to make a birthday card for my Mother in Law to be so it was the perfect opportunity to try out my new Garden Whimsy set and Whimsy wheel


I love this effect of raising up the butterfly but I'm a bit concerned about how it will survive the post!


Thanks for looking x

Sunday, 22 November 2009

New Home

There was a sketch this week at Charisma Cardz...


...and I needed to make a New Home card for my lovely secretary, so here it is



Thanks for looking x

Sunday, 15 November 2009

Wedding Fever has struck!!!

I'm getting married next year in July and I have been busy preparing...in the last few weeks I have found and bought my dress (no photos sorry!), found and bought the bridesmaids' dresses, had a hair trial, had a make up trial, sorted out our wedding rings and booked a load of other stuff! Phew, I've been busy, hence the disappearance from Blogland!

Most importantly, I have finished designing my wedding invitations which I have been agonizing over for months!


The fabulous Steph helped me out and lent me some of her lovely crafty goodies and at long last I finished the front...

...then I had to move on to the inside which I am now really happy with


the little cards come out (as you can see below) and have directions, a map, info about hotels, taxis & gifts as well as a little RSVP card so that people have no excuse not to respond!

And then I moved on to confetti cones (which for some reason my other half does not seem to think are a necessity?!) and cake boxes, both of which I cut out on my Cricut

These will all go in a lovely wicker basket and be given out by my little flower girl

and these I'm going to circle up and put on plates, which I think will look really cool on the day!

And finally (phew, I bet you're thinking!) here are a couple of hair pictures, just because I think I look quite nice!



I am going to enter this lot into this week's Cute Card Thursday challenge which is ''Glitter me silly" because the whole lot has sparkle on it, whether it's little diamontes or full on glitter, even my hair has glittery things in it!!!

Thanks for looking!!!

Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Sketch Anya

Over at Anyone for Anya this week there was a sketch to follow...

so I thought I'd make my first Christmas card of the season with it


I just love Anya, she is sooo pretty!

Thanks for looking!

Monday, 19 October 2009

Autumn Glory

After messing up last week's Anyone for Anya challenge by doing paper piercing instead of paper piecing, I thought I'd have a go at this week's challenge which is Autumn Colours, so I went for pinks, purples, greens, blues...only joking!

I've used this week's Truly Scrumptious sketch
(whose theme this week also happens to be Autumn)...


...and here is my card!



Thanks for stopping by x

Sunday, 18 October 2009

Snow White & Prince Charming

Fancy dress party last night and we went as Snow White and Prince Charming! What do you think?!


Back later with some crafting hopefully!!!

Saturday, 17 October 2009

Scary Sweeties

This week's Papertake Weekly Challenge is 'The Dark Side' and as we're off to see some friends tomorrow who have two children I thought I'd put them together some little scary goodie bags! They have a selection of treats including a cookie, magic stars, haribo halloween mix, fake fangs, balloons and a glow stick, hopefully they will like!


I used a Lauren Meader template and made the pumpkin from the SU oval punches!



Thanks for looking!

Wednesday, 14 October 2009

3 Challenges in 1!

Great sketch this week over at Sketch Saturday which I combined with two other challenges, Penny Black's this week was 'Buttons & Bows', and Cute Card Thursday's which was 'So Charming'

Here is the sketch...

...and this is my card. I love this image, it's so cute!



Thanks for stopping by x

Tuesday, 13 October 2009

I love Anya!

I've been after some Miss Anya stamps for ages and haven't managed to find anywhere in the UK who actually has them in stock so to tide me over I used Sarah B's who had hers with her at the Jems Weekend. I just LOVE them and will definitely be buying them soon!

I also love this week's Truly Scrumptious sketch..


This week's Anyone for Anya's challenge was to use paper piercing which hasn't come out too well on the photo but it is there I promise!

Thanks for looking x