Mother's Day/Special Lady and some Exciting News!

Morning everyone, hope your all well and enjoying the upturn in the weather!!   I sooo hope spring is finally on its way!

I've a card for you today and some news that I've been BURSTING to tell - I so hate keeping secrets, it nearly kills me lol!  I've been invited by the lovely ladies at Totally Papercrafts Challenge to join their design team - OMG, OMG, OMG!!!  These girls are so very talented and I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to working with them!

Also joining the team are some well known faces in blogland;

Joey, Janneke and Elaine

The challenge this week at Totally Papercrafts, set by the lovely Lorraine, is

MOTHER'S DAY / SPECIAL LADY

 Paula at Pollycrafts is sponsoring and she will be giving away the brand new and totally gorgeous ''Sweet Dreams Springtime Retro'' set plus you will find another little surprise on the challenge blog for ALL our readers - HAPPY DAYS!!!

Here is my first DT card for the Challenge........

RECIPE

Image - Pollycraft (LilyBean Fairy)

Colouring Mediums - Copics and Promarkers

Papers - Basic Grey ( Origins)

Cardstock - Stash

Lettering - Basic Grey

Flowers - Prima

Yellow flower sticker - Basic Grey

Bumble Bee Brad - Basic Grey (Porcelain)

Spacer and Pearl Brad - Stash

Card Candy

Be sure to check out the cracking makes from all my teamies here and we'd love it if you could join in the fun with us too.

I'm going to enter this card into the following challenges:

Simon Says - Mother's Day/Girly
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Mothers Day/Flowers
Crafty Calendar - Flower Power
My Time to Craft - Just for Mum
Cute Card Thursday - Lucky Green

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I have some other exciting news I'm still sitting on cos and are "Secret" lol, but within the next few days I will hopefully have a few "sneak peaks" to tease you with lol!

Thanks for stopping by.  Take care and happy crafting!

Mel X

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

 

Four in One Challenge

Hello everybody.  Well the weather's certainly beginning to turn wintery.  We had hailstone earlier today, and very cold it was too.  I've made my second tree ornament this week.  This was requested by my work colleague Diane, for her grand daughter's first Christmas.  I'm also entering it into four challenges.

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

Crafty Catz - Angels and Fairies

Dare You To Digi Stamp - Glitter

Everybody-Art-Challenge  - Christmas

I've used one of my favourite Charmed download, resized it to fit the card bubble and used photoshop on the lappy to include text as per Diane's instruction!!

The card is mounted onto a cork coaster mat which also needed trimming to fit the bubble.  The reverse is the same image. The edges of the mats create the side of the ornament and were covered with white ribbon. The card bubble, ribbon and lace is from Hobbycraft.  The image is coloured with watercolour pencils and glitter applied to her wings, flower centres and hairpiece.

I think she's beautiful, I hope Diane feels the same way!!

Thankyou for stopping by.  Please feel free to leave a comment as I love to read them.  Take care and happy crafting everyone!! 

Mel X