Commissoned cards

Good Morning everyone,

I have been busy over the last few days with a couple of commission cards, Still have another couple to finish but thought I would share the two that I have completed with you.

The first is a football for a man

I have used My Craft Studio to resize the image and then tiled it to make the backing paper for the border strip and the inisde of the card. I also used it to make the decoupage image for the front by just printing out the image 6 times and cutting it up into decoupage myself. 

I used My Craft Studio to create the sentiment too.

The name I cut out on my robo and the '70' are Crafters Companion number stamps which I have coloured with my promarkers.

This one is a 80th birthday card. I have used my 'favourites edition' Cd rom for the image and the backing papers. I have used my Crafters Companion spray and sparkle on my handmade paper roses. I used My Craft Studio to create the sentiment.

Better view of the actual card

This is a close up of the box I made using my new Crafters Companion boxer board. I have cut strips of the backing paper to go around the edges of the box so that it matches the card better.

Enjoy the rest of you Wednesday everyone, let me know what you think

Hugs

Marie xx

New blog challenge and Candy up for grabs

Good afternoon everyone,

Just thought i would share some exciting news with you all. There is a new challenge starting on 19th Spetemeber, make sure to mark this in your diaries.

It is called the Cutie Pie Challenge Blog.

To celebrate the launch of this fab new blog they are having a candy giveaway which just keeps on growing due to the amount of new followers, so why not pop on over and take a look at this new blog. I know I will be taking part come 19th.

Hugs

Marie xxx

Music saves my soul Saturday

This has got to be one of my all time fav songs so this is my choice for this weeks music saves my soul saturday.

No matter what mood im in this always makes me feel brighter.

Hope you guys like it and come and play along with Marcea here

Enjoy the rest of your weekend

Marie xx

I WON!!!!!! Look at my lovely Candy.......

Evening all, I just wanted to post a big THANK YOU to Kate over at Downright Crafty as I won her 300 blog follower candy.

I was at my friends house today and checked my blogs etc and I popped on over the Kates blog and I saw that I had won (my internet was down over the last 2 days so I havent been on to check) so you can imagine my suprise when I saw this.

I have never won a candy before so I am super excited and super gratful. Will be waiting for mr postie over the next few days now like its xmas lol.

This is the fabulous candy I have won. Canot wait to get creating with it.

Have a great weekend everyone

Hugs

Marie xxx

Popcorn commision card

Evening all, 

I just thought id pop on and show you the card I have made this afternoon for a commissioned card.

I was asked for an anniversary card but for 59 years so had no specific theme i.e. ruby or golden. I was looking through my CD's and decided to make a Popcorn card. I have the romance/love CD and all the stamps but decided to go with my favourite thing decoupage/pyrimage.

I have printed out the image at A4 size as I was making an 8x8 card I wanted the image to be the main focus.  I have also used the CD to print out 2 backing papers, I have used one on the front in the 1/2 circle and 1 on the inside.

I used My Craft Studio to create the sentiment as I didnt have one in my stamps etc that fitted the occassion.

Here is a close up view (its upside down and not to sure why but you get the idea) of my handmade roses sprayed with CC's spray and sparkle iridescent. This is the first time I have used this on one of my projects an im really pleased with the effect.

I think I will make a nice box/envelobox for this rather than just the normal envelope as I think with the decoupage and the paper roses its rather bulky. Ill post pics when Im finished.

Hope you guys like it and as always your comments are appreciated

Hugs

Marie 

xxx

P.S. welcome to all my new followers and thanks for all the wonderful comments ive been receiving over the last couple of weeks, it means a great deal to me xxx

Storage for Card Candi

Evening all, I just thought I would share with you some pics of the storage I have made for my card candi. I have used my ultimate boxer board to make this. I have created little match boxes using the tutorial on the advance techniques DVD. There is just 10 drawers in this set but I am already in the process of making another 10 and I will attch it to this set so that all my candi fits into it.

 I have used a backing paper from the forever friends CD and ribbon from my stash. I put chipboard down the 2 side and on top to make it a little more sterdy then just added the backing paper over the top.

 As you can see it holds the candi really well. Im really pleased with how its turned out.

Let me know what you think.

Hugs

Marie xxx

Birthday Card for my Dad

Good Evening everyone, I hope you have all had a lovely Sunday. I havent really been up to much as im having a bit of trouble with my knee today. It always plays up but due to some home decorating yesterday its bad today :(. So whilst I was out of action for more decorating I thought id crack on with this birthday card I need for me Dad's birthday tomorrow.

I have used the Forever Friends Retro Cd Rom to make the Pyramage for this card. My dad plays guitar and drums in the local pub band so thought this would be perfect for him.

I have used the sketch over at Pink Gem but im not sure that it actually fits into the challenge so I havent entered it as yet. If anyone can advise me on this I would really appreciate it.

My sentiment stamp is a Pink Gem stamp

Used a MS border punch (not sure on the name)

Dp's are from Pink Petticoat Ive had for ages and the mirror board and candy are from my stash

I used Silhouette Design Studio to create the 'Dad' and cut it out with my Robo.

Hope you like it and any comments really appreciated.

Thanks for popping by.

Hugs

Marie xx