Crafting Musketeer's mid way post - Sketch Challenge

Afternoon Bloggers,

I am sharing with you today my post for the Crafting Musketeer's August challenge. This month we are sponsored by

 The prize is 

 To enter this month's challenge all you need to do is follow the below sketch and thn enter it onto the challenge blog over at Crating Musketeer's.

Here is my take on the sketch

Supplies:

Docrafts Digital designer - Black and Gold Forever Friends collection (papers and decoupage image)

Crafters Companion Bebunni Floral border die

Gold mirri card

Alphalicious Cricut cartridge

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you over at the challenge blog.

Favourite colour combo

Afternoon Bloggers,

Well over at Charisma Cardz this week it is Team B's turn and the theme this week is Your Favourite colour combo. Now although I am on team A I still wanted to take part as I thought this was a good challenge.

You can enter this weeks challenge HERE

I have chosen to use Pink,Black and Silver. I just love these colours together so much so that its the colours of my bedroom.

 I have created an 8x8 pocket fold card using papers and toper from the Crafters Companion Party Paws cd rom. I have then decoupaged the image and nested it inside a top note shape chut out on my Siluette.

 

The tag for the inside is 7x7 so that it fits nicely inside the pocket. This card is for my cousin so the sentiment has been tailored for her. 

I have printed the decoupage and the backing paper out onto a pearl paper and the picture doesnt do it justice it has a lovely sheen to it.

I cut the '60' out on my cricut using Alphalicious and the roses i inked up to matchthe colour theme.

Challenges:

Charisma Cardz - favourite colour combo

4 Crafty Girls - anything goes

Divas by design - anything goes

Nut crafters - favourite colour combo

Scrap creations - polka dots

throught the craftroom door - anything goes

Thanks for stopping by, all comments are truely appreciated

Just For Fun blog launch

Good morning everyone.

I have just popped on to tell you about a great new blog that is launching today. It is called Just For Fun.

It is a new challenge blog with great themes (in my opinion) and the first theme running for the month of August is 'Anything Goes'. I am super proud to be a part of this fab new challenge blog and look forward to seeing all the lovely entries. Please do pop along and have a look around and spread the word as it is a new blog and we need to get it out there into thre land of blog so everyone can join in.

There will be a prize for this month given by the faboulous Elaine who is the owner and creator of Just For Fun. You can see here fab blog HERE

I created a double 12x12 scrapbook layout for this months challenge as it was my daughter's birthday on 24th July and I have set myself a challenge to scrap her birthday photo's before her next birthday, seems like a long way off but believe me it will be a challenge lol.

Here is my entry

I have used papers from the Dovecraft 12x12 Princess Fairytale paper pack ( i LOVE this paper pack)

 As you can see I have left the spaces for the photo's to go as I have not had them developed yet, I love the colours in this paper pack and think its girly without being overly pink and frilly as this is SO not my daughter lol

I have added in hidden tags for journalling and added a nice big title to my layout using my cricut cartridge Allphalicious.

Please do pop along and check out the new blog the link is HERE for you again incase you missed it above.

Thanks for looking and please feel free to leave a comment.

Hugs

Marie 

xxxxx

Morning all,

I have been so bad with my blog posts lately that I have set myself a challenge to post more. I have been using my FB page to show my work and keep forgetting to post here :( Naughty me lol.

I have a quick card to show this morning, its my Sister's other half's birthday today and I totally foget until my neice remninded me this morning so I dropped the kids off at school and headed home to knock up a quick card for him. He is a big Everton fan so went with that.

I have used Alphalicious cricut cart for the letters and an old stamp I have for the sentiment. The badge and backing paper where both made in My Craft Studio.

Hope you like it

Hugs

Marie 

xxx

Hello 2012, ive been a bit absent lately

Morning everyone, i have been a very poor blogger of late as I got snowed under with all my xmas Tea light orders that I just never got around to blogging any of my pictures or cards. I am all caught up now so thought I would show you a few of the cards I have made for orders over the past few weeks.

I was asked to commission a card for a friends little boy who was 5 on Xmas day. He loves Superman and Spiderman so I made these 2 cards. I apologise the pictures arent great as I took them at night.

The Superman badge is a google image that I resized in my craft studio and printed out a number of times ( it was a black and white image) I coloured it in using my promarkers and decoupaged the image. I used cricut cart Alphalicious for the number and the words, and my craft studio for the sentiment.

I used make the cut with my cricut to cut out the 'web'. The spiderman image is just from google and resized etc in my craft studio. I used my cricut cart alphalicious to cut the '5' and the 'brother'.

I was also asked for a cute ladies card for an 80th birthday and this is what I came up with, it needed to be quick as the lady only ordered it the day before she needed it so I used my A4 card kit from the Me to You collection to make the above card. I used letter stickers and flowers from my stash to add the extra detail, and the alphalicious cart for the numbers.

I get asked alot to make these types of cards for men usually and I do enjoy making them. One of my regular customers asked me for 2 Everton cards as you can see but because they where for the same customer I tried to make them slightly different whilst sticking to the same theme.

I used a google image in my craft studio and printed it out several times so I could decoupage the image. I used my craft studio again for the sentiments and then (am sure you can guess whats coming next lol)  I used my cricut cart Alphalicious for the number and word. I also created the backing paper for the insides using my craft studio and tiled the image.

Thanks for looking if you got this far, any feedback is always greatly received.

Marie xxx

Retro Forever Friends CD Rom

 Hi everyone I recently got the FF retro collection CD Rom and I wanted to share my 1st project using it.

I was asked to create a 50th birthday card by my brother for a colleague he works with as she was turning 50 today. I made an 8x8in card so that there was enough space for everyone to sign it in work.

Recipe:

DP is from the daisy and dandelion A5 paper collection - pinic patch

CB embossing folder - D'vine swirls

MS doily lace punch

Cricut cart = alphalicious

FF retro cd rom collection

Peper roses made using video tutorial by Stephanie Weightman - click HERE to view video. I used Silhouette design studio to cut my 8 petal flower.

I am entering this into the following challenege:

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by and any comments are much appreciated

Hugs

Marie xx

Unusual Wedding card

Hey Everyone,

I was asked to make a wedding card with a twist and wanted to show you what I came up with.
A friend (another child's mum from school) asked me to make a card for her sister's wedding in two weeks, but she had an unusual request - she wanted a 'Jedward' wedding card. Her sister is called Jade and is about to become Jade Ward so they winde her up by calling her Mrs Jedward.
Here is what I came up with.

I used My Craft Studio to resize the wedding image I got from Papercraft inspirations magazine.

I used Alphalicious Cricut Cartridge to cut the Mr & Mrs and Jedward but then glittered them.

I cut the flowers on my Robo/Silluette and then cut them and shaped them into the paper roses following a video tuturial made by Stephanie Weightman from C&C.

The border punch is a MS doily lace

this is the inside view of the card, the picture of jedward is attached to a small 6x6 square card so that she can write inside it.

This is a close up of my paper roses I did glitter them too but the pic is not very clear.

Hope you like it and comments are really appreciated as always

Marie xx

Some cards ive made over the last few weeks

Hello Everyone, Sorry I have been a bit absent lately but just wanted to share these 2 cards I made with you guys.

The 1st one is an order for a Winnie the Pooh 1st birthday card for a set of twin boys.

I got the winnie the pooh images off google and used My Craft Studio to resize them and also to tile the image so I was able to make the backing paper used on the inside for the pop outs.

The next one is also for an order but its a football card for a girl, 21st birthday.

Again I used my craft studio to alter the image from google and make the backing papers for the pop outs.

I used my cricut and Alphalicious cart to cut out the names for both cards.

Hope you like them and comments are much appreciated
Hugs

marie xx