Oh Alice, Monday Mania and Simon Says

You know how some cards come together easy and some don't, well this was one of those cards that didn't come together easily! I think I was a little lost without my bows, ha ha ha!! Oh well, some take more work than others!! But the end result is that I am happy with it and my oldest Daughter Ella has just told me that she loves it and wants it for her birthday, which is in May, so that's one birthday card done.

I have a questionng for those of you that use copics. What do you store them in? At the moment I have them in a container laying flat, but I am wanting something to stand them up on my desk to make it easier to grab the one I want. I would love to hear what you store them in.

I have entered this card into the following challenges:

Oh Alice - Sketch Challenge

Simon Say's Stamp Challenge - Mothers Day/Girly

CA&F - Monday Mania - Seeing Spots

CA&F Sketchy Saturday and Monday Mania + Flutterby Wednesday

I was hoping to have this card finished yesterday, but when I dropped my Daughter off at Karate last night and went to Spotlight to buy some ribbon, I was very dissappointed to find that it had closed for the night. I thought for sure it would be open till 9pm, but no they close at 7pm! So I had to wait until today to buy the ribbon and then finish this card. I have entered this card into Sketchy Saturday, but I didn't have room for the 3 buttons at the top so I could only fit 2, hope that this is ok!! If not I understand. here is the sketch:

CA&F Monday Mania was to make a Valentines card without using pink or red. Now I love Pink so this was hard for me, but I managed to do it and you know what I am actually really happy with it. And last but not least Flutterby Wednesday's was a love theme with a butterfly, fairy or angel on your card, so I have an angel on mine. 

I have another couple of cards that I am hopping to finish tonight so I should have a couple more to show tomorrow.

I am very excited as my little Oscar who will be nine months next week has slept through the night for the last 2 nights. Hooray!! Now all I need to do is teach the twins how to do the same. They have been in a big bed for 12 months now and they had started to not come in as much over the last couple of months. They were coming in about 3 - 4 times a night, but we got them to give their dummies up about a month ago and they are back to coming in about 4 times a night. OMG it is driving me insane!! So just need to get Oscar to teach the girls and all will be great. Not too sure about my chances though!!

A Joint Effort!

When the postie came the other day he had some new Martha Stewart punches for me. I just love so many of her punches, which is never good for the credit card!! I saw this deep edge one on quite a few cards and knew I had to have it, isn't it just gorgeous!! Anyway couldn't wait to use it so here it is. 

The other day I was giging at some beautiful blogs and I came across this fantastic bow making tutorial on Cheryl Walker's Blog. Cheryl is a TFG Farmer and all her work is just stunning so is definitely worth a look. Thanks a lot Cheryl for the tutorial. There is no excuse for me not to have gorgeous looking bows from now on!! So of course when I saw the Monday Mania challenge was to include ribbon, I knew this was my chance to try out Cheryl's bow's and I am pretty happy with the way it turned out.

This Easel Card has been made to fit a number of challenges this week and they are:

CA&F Monday Mania - Easel Card with ribbon on it.

CA&F Wild Card Wednesday - Green and Purple

Flutterby Wednesday - Include a butterfly, fairy or Angel on your card

CA&F Sketch Saturday

Card Details:
Stamps - TGF Princess Ava
Ink - Black Momento and Touch and Copic Markers
Paper - Su Elegant Eggplant Cardstock, Green Sugar coated cardstock and purple cardstock. Green DSP from my stash
Tools - Nesties, Martha Stewart deep edge Punch, butterfly punch and corner rounder
Other - All flowers and Purple Rhinestones from Bizzy Becs, Ribbon from my stash and Kaisercraft Pearls

Club Anya & Friends Monday Mania & Flutterby Wednesdays

Club Anya & Friends Monday Mania this week was a color and photo inspiration challenge. The colors and photo below were to be used to create your card. I didn't have all the exact colors, but matched what I didn't have as close as I could. This photo looks so yummy. So when I saw this photo I knew exactly what paper I wanted to use. I have used Basic Greys Nook & Pantry collection - Cupcakes. Seeing all these cupcakes makes me want to start baking. If it wasn't so hot here I would jump into the kitchen and whip up a batch of cupcakes! But it is very hot and sticky here and the oven on would just make it even worse. Ah well, will have to wait till it cools down! Anyway here is my card using the colors and cupcake photo for inspiration.

I have heard a few people talking about glimmermist over the last month and I decided to get some myself, little did I know how many different colors there were to choose from. Needless to say I spent a long time trying to decide. I ended up getting the Cherry Blossom one and I sprayed the whole cupcake paper with it. it is a bit hard to see in the top photo so I have added a close up sp you can see the slight pink glimmer across the cupcakes. 

Card Details:

Stamps - TGF Miss Anya Dressy and SU Sincere Salutations

Paper - Pink Pirouette cardstock SU, Basic Grey's Cupcake DSP, all other paper from my stash

Ink - Black Momento, Brown Momento and Touch and Copic Markers

Other - Scalloped oval Nesties, Kaisercraft pearls, glimmer mist, butterfly punch and Diamond Dust on butterflys.

I have also entered this card into Flutterby Wednesdays. There challenge this week is an open challenge, you just had to have a butterfly, fairy or angel on your creation!

Well tomorrow is back to school day for my older two and I can tell you that both them and myself are looking forward to it. My girls are also starting 3year old Kinder tomorrow, they are very excited. Although I not too sure how they are going to go. I'm pretty sure that Miss Charlotte will be fine, but I think that Miss Lily might get a little worried next week when I have to go. Tomorrows group I stay with them, so I guess we will find out soon enough. 

Hope everyone is having a great Sunday!

Club Anya & Friends Wild Card Wednesday & Sketchy Saturday

I just love this Prince Ian image from TGF, isn't he just so cute! I decided to make this card for my Hubby for Valentines. Now we haven't celebrated Valentines Day since we had kids, which was just over 10 years now, so I thought it was about time we did. So I made this card using Prince Ian and Princess Anya. I even made Ian with blonde hair and Anya with red hair, which matches myself and my wonderful Hubby. Although he has gone a bit darker over the last few years. Isn't age a wonderful thing! Anyway have entered this card into the following challenges:

Anyone for Anya - To include hearts on your card

Club Anya Wild Card Wednesday - To use metal on your card

A spoonful of sugar - Freestyle

Club Anya Sketch Saturday - Sketch is below

Card Details:

Stamps - TGF Princess Anya and Digi Prince Ian, Bizzy Becs Digi Ticket Sentiment

Paper - Cardstock from my stash and DSP from my stash

Ink - Black Momento and touch and Copic Markers

Other - Metal heart and heart brad from my stash, Red Rinestone and flower from Bizzy Becs and kindy glitz on Anya's Wand and crown.

Club Anya & Friends Monday Mania

This card is my entry into CA&F's Monday Mania. This week there was a recipe which had to include Olive green, Pink, Dark Brown and Sparkle. Now I have to admit that I wasn't too keen on the color scheme, but figured it was a great way to challenge myself and you know what, I am really happy with the way this one turned out. Although the pink is a lot brighter in real life. One can never have enough Pink!!

Card Details:

Stamps - TGF 80's Anya and Bizzy Bec's Digi ticket sentiment

Paper - Brown Cardstock, SU Raspberry Tart DSP, SU Always Artichoke & Pink Passion Cardstock

Ink - Black Momento and Copic and Touch Markers

Tools - Eyelets Borderbilities

Other - Kindy Glitz and Chipboard from my stash

This next card was for a friends sons birthday. I do struggle a little bit with boys cards and as I was making this one I kept looking at it thinking that it needed something, but of course the flowers and bling were out as it was a boys card. In the end I decided that it was fine the way it was and that being that it was a boys card that it could be a little bit more simple than the usually blinged up girls cards.

Card Details:

Stamps - TGF Twinkle Tots Max and Bizzy Becs digi ticket sentiment

Paper - SU Tangerine Tango and SU DSP (sorry can't remember the name of it)

Ink - Black Momento Ink, Brown Momento Ink, Copic and Touch Markers

Other - Green Pearls, SU Spiral Punch and SU Choc Chip Ribbon

The postie left me a little something special in my letterbox yesterday, yes it was my next stash of Greeting Farm stamps. I can't wait to play with my new additions. Although I have since decided on more TGF stamps that I have have to have!! Ah well, will just have to add them to my list for next time!! I have decided that if they just stopped making such gorgeous stamps then I wouldn't have to keep buying them! LOL  Like that is going to happen! LOL!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!