A Card for Nathan

Evening everybody!!  I've eventually made a birthday card for Peter's cousin's son,  Nathan.  His birthday really is on Christmas Day though I forget how old he'll be - three or four I'm sure!  So for him, I didn't want a card that was too babyish!  I know he loves his cars, planes and trains etc!!  My original attempt at this card involved a rocket, a pop up card and a different image - until Peter's remarks put me right off the idea!!  Won't go into the details now but it sure did amuse my forum buddies!! Anyway, I copped out and went for the "safe" option of a more traditionally shaped card LOL!

I'm fairly pleased with the final result and will be entering five challenges with it:

Dotties World - Boy oh Boy!

C.R.A.F.T.  Challenge - Christmas Birthday

Cards for Men - Christmas

Crazy 4 Challenges - Punch Happy

PaperPlay Challenges - Christmas without Red or Green

I wanted something fairly seasonal but not overly traditional and screaming of Christmas so thought blue was a good choice.  I love the music script on the darker paper and the snowflakes on the panels!!  The image I thought fitted the bill perfectly, even for the time of year!!

I really wanted to use buttons on this but Peter really felt they wasn't working (don't know why I'm still listening to what HE thinks LOL!). So I went with Ethan's opinion - he liked the flowers!!!

RECIPE

Digi Image -Charmed Cards & Crafts

Papers - Anita's

Punch - Martha Stewart

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

Flowers and Bling Gems - stash 

Card Candy

I hope you like the finished result.  Enjoy the rest of your evening and thanks for stopping by.  Take care and happy crafting everyone!

Mel X

 

Fireman for Mo

Good evening everyone. Hope you all had a great weekend!! The children have been recovering from some kind of bug! Ethan in particular was quite poorly, very feverish and got sent home from school on Friday, it came on all of a sudden! Saturday morning I was expecting a retired fireman from the fire brigade to come round and fit smoke alarms. I had signed up for it in the summer. What a surprise when the whole watch from the local station turned up at 9am - complete with fire engine!! E was sooo excited (so was mummy!!LOL), he suddenly felt well enough to want to play outside - what a surprise!! The firemen were brilliant, showed him around the fire engine and let him sit inside. One even lent him his helmet. E was well chuffed and I quickly reached for the camera!!

Inspired by the scale of visit by the Brigade, I have done this card for Ethan's best friend who is seven today and had a fabulous party ten pin bowling!! I'm sure he'll love it and it's my first attempt at an easel card which seems to be all the rage at present!!

I'm also gonna submit this as my first card entry for

Mo's Digital Pencil Too Challenge

Mo has sooo many fabby images I've never known where to start but, after our morning with the firemen I KNEW I had to take this image from my rather long wish list and make him reality!!!

RECIPE

Fireman Image - Mo's Digital Pencil Too
Colouring Medium - Copics and watercolour pencils
Cardstock - Sizzix
Paper - DCWV
Star Brads - Papermania
Ribbon - Stash
Fleur de Lys stamp - Hero Arts
Stamp Lettering - Papermania
Card Candy

Thankyou for stopping by place in cyberspace. Please feel free to leave a comment. I really do appreciate and enjoy reading them!!

Take care and happy crafting everyone!!

Mel X

Another Two in One Card

I've been busy, in between work, catching up on some challenges. This card will be entered into two challenges:

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - (Wk 74) Song Title/Lyrics

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - #32 Sketch

I've quite a few friends with young sons whose birthdays are rapidly approaching! I thought the colours and image would be perfect for a little boy. My biggest problem now is which one to send it to LOL!!! PB Saturday Challenge this week would like to see cards based around a favourite song title or song lyrics. I opted for "Wild Thing", which was a hit for The Troggs in the 60's.

RECIPE

PB Stamp - Mice Treats (2248J)
Papers - K & Company
Colouring Medium - Copics and watercolour pencils
Card Candy

Thankyou for stopping by my place in cyberspace. Please feel free to leave me a comment as I love to read them. Am going for a sleep now as up early tomorrow - 3rd consequetive 12hr shift - tired now!! Never mind, at least I've a long weekend off to look forward to!!

Hapy crafting everyone and take care!

Mel X

Penny Black Saturday Challenge (Week 70)

This card is for my friends daughter who turns three tomorrow. She loves bright colours and sweets, so, as I've been dying to use these papers and set of teddies, I decided to combine it with the "Buttons and Bows Challenge" over on Penny Black Saturday. Again you can create a card.....altered art..bag..notebook or scrap layout...the only RULE being that you use at least one Penny Black image or sentiment. The background paper used here is textured and glittery. I've put little blue buttons in opposite corners to create button lollipops!

Recipe

Stamps - PB Bear Blanks 1 - 4
Card - Craftwork Cards
Background Papers - DCWV and Sizzix
White Ribbon - Doodlebug
Red Bows - from my stash
Buttons - Papermania
Colouring Medium - Copics and watercolour pencils
Lettering - DoCrafts stamps

Thankyou for stopping by and I look forward to seeing all your creations!

Hugs

Mel X

H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y E M I L Y !

This was Emily's birthday card as she loves these images by The Greeting Farm.
Perfect for a nine year old don't yer think? This card will be entered into Roses on Paper Challenge
having used the colours of orange, brown and green and using a sketch from another challenge. Mine is from Inspirational Card Sketches
and their Sketch No 37

RECIPE

Cardstock - craftwork cards
Papers - Basic Grey 'porcelain bloc'
Ribbon - papermania
Flowers - Prima
Card Candy

Thank you for stopping by

Mel X