My daughter Charlotte who is 10 challenged me to making a card using craft supplies that she chose for me, so I challenged her back.... We both used Dreamees stamps, unfortunately the stamp packaging doesn't have a name on them so I can't publish their names :(   We were both given a 6x6 card and envelope from my stash,  we could chose any inks and any Spectrum Noir alcohol ink pens and any embellishments that we wished...

Here are the cards:- The first challenge card is Charlotte's....

  
I adore what she has done with the flowers, plus popping in the butterflies and drawing the little lines as though they are flying around the flowers... Just love her card its gorgeous!! To embellish her flowers Charlotte used Nuvo Crystal drops -Violet Galaxy 678N. Charlotte had some leaves left over and didn't want to throw them away so she used them inside of  her card to decorate it.  I am so proud of Charlotte :)

This is my challenge card :-

Here is my challenge card,  I also used Dreemees stamps.  I stamped them and cut them all out by hand using some new scissors from Stampin Up, boy are they sharp!! Didn't take me long,  I coloured the flowers in using my Spectrum Noir's and then I used my tweezers to put some definition into the petals.  I glued several layers together making sure I overlapped the petals....  I used the Nuvo Crystal drops - Violet  Galaxy 678N and also the Pale gold 676N, I used a needle and swirled the pale gold into the Violet Galaxy. I was really pleased how it turned out.

Now I have a confession to make I accidentally dropped the needle that had been in the crystal drops and it fell onto my card front... Looking back I think it was a happy accident... Because the accident was big and long I couldn't really cover it up as I didn't have any other card left over from the challenge so....  I sat and thought about it and decided to chop of half of the front of the card and use it as a feature... I then cut two thin strips off the piece of card I had removed from my 6 x 6 card.  I coloured the strips in with the same Spectrum Noir Pens  I had used in the flowers, for it to co-ordinate. I stuck down the strips using my Tonic Nuvo - deluxe adhesive - 200N.  

I then added some Tonic Nuvo - Morning Dew to the flowers and leaves to make it look like there was  water droplets on them etc..

I put 3 drops of Nuvo Crystal drops - Galaxy Violet 678N down the shortened flap on the front of the card on the top and bottom as shown on the first photo.

Looking at the envelope it looked awfully plain so I stamped a flower on the flap and coloured it in with the same Spectrum Noir's to co-ordinate with my flowers on my card.

Thank you for catching up with me

Crafty hugs

Cal :)

Hi sorry I have been away for a while,  I haven't been able to do an awful lot in the last year or so but I feel I am now getting to a place where I can share my crafting with you...  I've still been crafting to help with my pain management but I've not been blogging... I think I lost my confidence a lot so I have given myself a good talking to and off I go with updating you all in what I do with myself on a day to day basis....

So last weekend my daughter was going to a friends 11th birthday party.  I never know what to get her friends so I decided to give the little girl some money so they can go and spoil herself... I just didn't want to put the money into the birthday card (my daughter made the card), so I decided to make a box gift card, I got the idea from a wonderful lady,  Linda Parker on YouTube.... I made the box out of Stampin up card Tempting Turquoise and here is what I made:-

I used the  retired 'En francais' stamp from Stampin up to stamp onto the whisper white card in the Tempting Turquiose ink and decorated the box.  I recently purchased the 'Detailed Dragonfly Dreams' and 'Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits Dies' from Linda Parker who is a Stampin Up Demonstrator in the UK.  I stamped the Dragon fly twice, on my Tonic Tim Holtz Platform, again in the same ink and die cut them both out.   I glued one of the dragonfly body to the top of the box leaving the wings free.... The sentiment came from the 'Dragonfly Dreams' stamp set, its a lovely sentiment. I stamped it with VersaMark ink and used my Nuvo Embossing Powder - Glacier White Embossing Powder 602N.  I popped the sentiment up with foam tape.

I used the second Dragonfly for the card section on the back of the box gift card and used another sentiment from the same stamp set. The box opens from the top...

Like so.... I thought if I put the envelope inside it would look odd so I brought out my tissue paper and Tonic stamping platform and stamped the dragonfly all over it like so....

 
I added the tissue paper into the box and I thought it looked very beautiful... Next was to make the envelope to put the money into,  I used Tonic Sweet Nothings -  Treasured Token Die Set 1317e. I cut the envelope out in the same Stampin Up - Whisper White card.   It looked a little bit plain so I used some of the verso dies that comes in the Treasured Token die set on the front of the envelope, I added a piece of the Tempting Turquoise card inside of the envelope to bring out the beautiful decorative piece as shown here....

  

I die cut a sentiment -  'a gift'  from the same Tonic die set and glued it to the front of the envelope...
I do hope you enjoyed my first attempt of coming back to blogging :) :)

My daughter when she saw the box didn't want to give it away, she wanted to keep it herself...  Lol. After the party my daughter came home and thanked me for making her the box gift card.  She said when she gave it to her friend she said she was amazed with it, she liked the box more than the money!!! It's the little things in life that matter...

Thank you for reading

Crafty Hugs

Cal :)  

Christmas Card

Hello,  thank you for stopping by here today to read my blog post, I haven't been able to get to my craft table in a while so I have been crafting from my hospital bed. It keeps me busy but I have been very slow but the positive news is, I have finished a little Christmas card, and I must say I am very happy with it!!  I posted it onto Facebook onto one of the closed groups and I could not believe my eyes when I looked the following morning and I'd had 350+ Likes... OMGosh!! I was blown away by all of the lovely comments that people had left, crafters are such a friendly bunch!!! :)
Here is my little Christmas Card

Thank you again for looking, please leave a comment.

Happy Crafting

Cally :)

End of term teacher card.

My daughter who is 8 years old asked me this morning if we could make her teacher a 'Thank you card' for this term... She asked me 10 minutes before leaving the house :-/  I looked at her and said but sweetheart this is your last day today, you break up for the October holidays at 3:15 today!!!

She grinned at me and asked if she could be a homer for lunch today because she could pick up the card and take it back to school in the afternoon!! :-/   Nothing like putting me on the spot Hey!!

I did carefully warn her that I would see what I could do but I wasn't promising, she said 'You can do it Momma, I know you can'  Lol :D

Unfortunately I am bed bound today so all my crafty stash is outwith my reach, I asked my Carer's to help retreive items for me before they left. This is the card I came up with, it's a very clean and simple card.

Hope you like it, my daughter loved it which was brilliant, so I am a happy Momma :)

Hope you like the thank you card.

Thank you for looking Cally xx

Bebunni Birthday card for a special friend.

I adore this little bunny he is just so cute so when Crafters Companion released the first CDROM it slipped into my shopping basket :)  I normally don't do CDROM crafting but this little fella changed my mind. I really enjoyed printing him out then fussy cutting, I found it very relaxing....

I brought out the good old Pinflair and did a little bit of decoupage with this little bunny, I was delighted with the outcome.  I had to do some stamping (I love stamping!!) I knew the Clearly Besotted stamp with the sprig of leaves would be perfect above his gorgeous floppy ears.

I used a Tonic punch to make my little handmade flowers, I had a pink envelope from one of our birthdays that had past this year that matched the envelope in BeBunni's hand, so I set about making some little flowers. I do like making my own flowers :) Then I added a spellbinders tag to the flowers to incorporate a sentiment.

 Thank you for stopping by today to visit, I hope you like the card

Happy crafting Cally x

 

   

My first Wedding Card

Hi I was asked to make a Wedding Card...... Eeeeeeek!!! But I was up for the challenge :)  and I must admit I am very happy with it, but I do feel there is something missing!! Please let me know honestly what you think.

Thank you in advance Cally :)

I would like to enter my card into the Polkadoodles Week 38 Sketch Challenge.

Finished Aurora Wings digi with Spectrum Noir's

Well the school holidays have come to an end here in Scotland, it's a shame :(
I always love the school holidays, having my 2 girlies and their friends in and out of our home, you hear lots of laughter the occasional cry with a skint knee, we have been very lucky this summer with the weather here in Bonny Scotland and because we stayed at home this summer we have had good quality time together. Hence why no posts from me while they have been off.

Well, all good things come to an end, back to alarm clocks!! Lol, the hustle and bustle of getting my little one off to primary school, my older daughter goes to high school so she gets herself organised and leaves early, hubby will be next off to work, it's when they all say bye, see you later, the door closes and the house sounds so quiet :(

But that means I have to keep myself busy.....

So I pulled out my half coloured Aurora Wings digi and a few hours later she was finished. I must admit I am very proud of her, it's the first big project that I have done with my Spectrum Noir's.

I have to work out what I am going to do next..... 

I have been asked to make some children's wedding labels to hang on their favour bags, so after finishing them today I will take photos and give you a peek. How exciting (although a little daunting).

I also have been asked to make a birthday card featuring ducks and skulls, now this one I am struggling a little to be honest, but I will get the children's wedding labels out of the way first I then I will put my thinking cap on! 

Thank you for stopping by today

Happy Crafting

Cally :)