Welcome to March...

Hey,

The year seems to be whipping by!! March already?!

I have been feeling a bit stressed, so this weekend, I have been spending as much time as I can at my desk, which is lovely and I am also off to a 2 hour yoga marathon later on today..bliss.

Today, I wanted to share the Valentine's Day card I made for my President at work to give to his wife..

It was his request for it to be 50 shades-esque on the outside and smushy on the inside. Terry always comes up with some crazy briefs for me. This one I was a bit skeptical about, but he was right and it totally worked out.

I put the front image together on my computer using 2 individual images. I enlarged the handcuffs and cropped them off for a bit more drama.

I love the font, I spent about 2hrs on Font Squirrel, trying different ones until I finally went with Freebooter Script. I love fonts..

The inside cracked me up, it's so different from the outside..

Once again, the image was put together on my computer, same font and a pretty heart image.

I believe it was well received, so brief fulfilled..

Cx

The prodigal Husband returns...

..he was slightly delayed so got to our apartment at about 2am!! But it is lovely to have him back :)

He came bearing many many gifts, which proves he does actually listen to me...

In honour of his return, I thought I would enter a challenge!!

As you know I love Bugaboo stamps, but I have never ever entered a challenge on their blog, which is odd, so this little post will rectify that and hopefully be the first of many.

Bugaboo run a few challenges and my main photo is for the Stella Says Sketch July edition - here is the sketch -

I love the Monster Truck stamp, it's such fun and I used this great free font from FontSquirrel called 'Feast of the Flesh' it has a monster feel to it.

Instead of mounting the stamp onto a piece of card to create a border, I inked the edges using a Cranberry distress ink. The ribbon is by American Crafts, the star paper is by Bo Bunny and the spotty paper is by Pink Petticoat.

I am very pleased with the end result and I am now trying to think of someone to give it to..

Have a great Saturday.

Cx

Another taste of Spring..

Following on from yesterday's bright yellow card, I finished up the other card that was on my desk.  It is also has bright yellow elements.

I am entering it into the Retro Sketches #53 challenge this week. Here is their sketch -

As you can tell today's main photo is my card and I think it's a good interpretation of the sketch. I didn't want to use the flag style bottom of the strips of paper, it had been done a lot and I wanted to mix it up. So I dug deep through the punch box and voila! teeny tiny butterfly punch! Yes JT it is mine and it's really old.. Oh and the best bit is that it was made using only scraps!

It's another card that I think works for teenagers.

Last week I showed you an oops - well here is this week's one for this card - just how busy is that embossed background?? I'll figure out a use for it and show you once it's done...

Oops!

I'm off to purchase a few low budget necessities as I was playing with Fimo yesterday (which I love) and realised I need a few things to add the finishing touches to my items...which will be posted after Mother's Day so that my Ma doesn't see what she is getting :) I totally loved WOYWW this week, so much cool stuff going on, keeps me inspired.

Cx

I love playdates!

Saturday's playdate with JT was lots of fun, as you might have seen from her blog.

The main photo is one of my fave from the day and the one I am entering into the Simon Say's Stamp challenge this week - Anything Goes. I really like this card. I feel like I channeled my inner Mary Fish with this one! I used free paper for the background, scrap for the navy blue strip, JT's star punch and cool pearly / glue dot style things. The label dies are JT's and the sentiment was made using my new 3Dumb font from Fontsquirrel. Here is a close-up.

We made so many great things. I used lots of JT's tools :) so here are a few that mainly feature JT's stuff..that is the best bit of a playdate, playing with someone else's tools.

Birdy says..Just Because

This card is from JT's stash and her coral paper's co-ordinated beautifully with it. The label die and stamp belong to JT too.

Pink Cameo

JT bought these cute Xcut cameo's die's last weekend when we were together, so we had a little play, along with her new label die's by Sizzix. We both wanted a Nana's wallpaper feel to the cards - these free papers work well. I layed up the die cut's using foam tape for more depth, here is a close-up.

I am loving layering right now. Here is another card using layering - my 3rd one this post :) I managed to use my own bicycle stamp/die set and tag punch..

Bicycle birthday

This final card is one of my fave's and uses none of JT's kit surprisingly!! I used a nice plain piece of card, with a hand drawn border, the butterfly clothespin is from the Range and the Hello! arrow was made once again using the 3Dumb font from Fontsquirrel and a die cut arrow.

Hello Butterfly

There are a couple more cards, but I'm thinking they might be challenge worthy, so keeping them up my sleeve :)

Playdate's totally rock, I do hope you all have someone to playdate with.

Cx