Blast from the past! #6

 Every Monday I'm going to (or try to!) add a card, or creation that I made waaay back, as I've noticed a lot of my pictures from years ago have disappeared. So...here we go with something from either the 1st of the month, first time I'd used or done something or... made on a Monday or made in the same month as now! These cards were added as my favourite cards of 2012 and posted on the 1st January 2013

 Tuesday, 1 January 2013

My Favourite cards of 2012

2012 was a really bad year for us, except of course the birth of baby Niamh!! But I wanted to join in with Debby's usual annual post of picking her five favourite cards for 2012 (All her cards are fantastic!) and what a great way to end the year....Here's mine, starting with... January... and you'll notice I can't count!!!! There's so much more than five!

  This card was actually a birthday card for my s-i-l the year before, but I posted it again when it appeared in the Trimcraft Newsletter... (I won goodies!)

February I made this card using one of my own digi's. The card was double sided and had a secret place to add money or a  token.

March you saw this Birthday card as a Quirky Craft DT card, my challenge and sketch. I just love Bugaboo!

April you saw the first one of two...birthday cards from my two dog sitting dogs to their 'daddy' The inside folds out. I made the papers using Promarkers.

 So, when May came along I did another card from the 'boys' to their 'mummy'. It was nice to see both cards stayed up long after the birthdays had been forgotten!!

By June, Lady Pam was a true member of our family and I sent her this card for her 81st birthday

July sees another Bugaboo card and some more of my Promarker made freebie papers. And I....

 had to add the Bugaboo Fridge magnet too and of course this Quirky Christmas in July card...

and seeing I love Santa...I gave it to Hubby John! And still in July....

  

Another Quirky DT Card

August and September I was a Guest designer with Bugaboo 

so I made quite a few...

and added their little bug badge...

          to my DT cards...

 This one I think is my favourite! Love that wired ribbon!

  October brought us Halloween another Bugaboo

  and this SteamPunk fairy image from Stitchy won a few times and...

    My Bugaboo shaker  tutorial card won a few challenges too

In November I was making a few Christmas cards, another Bugaboo card

as well as thank you cards....and last but not least...

You saw this Christmas card using a  Dustin Pike's image, which I sent to my daughter in USA...
Yep, I know I've added too many....but never mind!

Wishing everyone who calls in a very Happy New Year! Big Hugs All Round!!

 

Have a Puurrfect Birthday Deb!

Evening everyone, Hope you're all well! It's my Sister-in-law's birthday today. Happy Birthday Deb! She loves cats, (she has two) so of course her card had to have a cat on it!

I've actually followed I ♥ ProMarkers sketch for this very quick and easy card. I've used a blank Craft Creations card and a stamped, heat embossed image by DoveCraft/TrimCraft Pepper & Friends. Coloured with Promarkers, (with a bit of added red gel pen on the heart to make it glitter) and a tiny butterfly charm, to go with the butterflies on the papers and image. All the papers came from the 6x6 paper pack Forever Friends, 'For You'.

The Fonts. The sentiment on the front of the card (Just Puurrfect) is called Linda's Lament, you probably already have it on your computer if not, Google the name.
The little butterfly on the sentiment is really the capital letter K from the font Sloneczko, (download HERE) which I've also used inside the card. It's all capital letters, so if you press for a capital, instead you get a little bee, fly, car, pencil, happy or sad faced sun, star or moon, etc.
I thought the butterfly font went well with the butterfly papers, charm and the butterfly on the image too.
I've also used Woodware punches, Martha Stewart fern punch and a Xcut punch for the front part of the flowers. It was the first punch I ever bought! It tore the paper the first time I used it and it still tears it now! Sharpening it the usual way doesn't seem to make any difference. Shame really, as I like that flower shape, but I'm really reluctant to buy another one as my other Xcut punch is rubbish too, but, my border Xcut punch is really good, and I'm very happy with that. But, on saying that, I do like the way it sort of 'tears' the paper, and makes the gingham paper look like cloth. Hopefully you won't notice the blue brads are slightly different blues, don't think that really matters!
That's it for now, oh except I did add some eye-lash wool...not sure if that will stay though. I thought it looked a bit cat whiskery! Thank you for stopping by.

Challenges
I ♥ ProMarkers-sketch
C.R.A.F.T-cute
stamptacularsunday-punch it
Make it Monday
*Update! Was picked as Trimcraft's card of the month!

Penny Black Red White and Blue!

Penny Black Saturday Challenge have a red white and blue challenge this week and I thought, why not enter this card. My favourite snowman. I used him loads of times last Christmas and will probably use him again this Christmas and many Christmas's to come! Thinking about it, maybe I should've given him a red hat and scarf, but I like the blue. I used my Whisper Pens this time. The blue spotty paper was a freebie I downloaded sometime ago. Using my Nestabilities I cut a rectangle 'window' into the covered card, cut it to shape, then replaced the cut out card with acetate, sticking it down on the inside with double sided tape. Added white peel-off dots, which are edged with silver, to the acetate to look like more 'snow' falling around the two snowmen, and a red sticky ribbon (TrimCraft) with a snowflake, from stash, and a red peel off, 'Merry Christmas' Here's a link to another one...almost the same, the poor snowman inside the card, didn't have any snow to stand on though ( aw shame!)
There you go... now, that's two Christmas Cards I've finished ... another 70 odd to go!
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Back again! (thought you'd got rid of me didn't you!) Just a quick hi and (((wave))) to a New Follower!! Alcjmiller, better know as Carolyn, pop over to Creative Card Corner You'll find some lovely Penny Black, Tilda and a brilliant card made of shells! It's well worth a visit!
Thanks for stopping by!

Woobly Eyes: Inches

A 100 inches in a 100 days...Yes I did them, only I couldn't do them on chipboard. I hunted it out, only to find one square that I probably could make nine of the little devils from, if I could cut them out without making any mistakes, for £1.99...so decided it would just cost too much, and my craft knife is pretty blunt. (They still try to keep me away from sharp things) By that time I'd already made at least thirty of them so thought, I'll still continue and make them the way I was going to make them, out of whatever I could find and my Woodware square inch punch. They didn't take as long as I thought they would! Little tiny Inches... Here's the first three.. 97 to go! (There were four of these but one appears to be off somewhere doing something. Blue stamped cat images, (Hobby Craft) fixed to a shiny dark blue mirri card, all with a wobbly eye, a couple of tiny holographic peel offs, a paw mark and a word made on the computer. I called them, "I spy" "CatsEyes" and "Eye'm purr-fect" I think I'll call the other one, "Eye'm Missing!"
Now, somewhere down in the depths of my Blog are a couple of Awards waiting for some forum friends to hurry up and start their Blogs and at last Toni44 has taken the plunge into BlogLand! Anne has some wonderful makes on the TrimCraft forum so I'm hoping she'll soon be posting them on her new blog Anne's Creative Moments too. I've decided to let her choose which one she'd like. (I love the teddy bear!) and when she's ready, she too can pass it on to five other blogs!
Oh yes! there's one more thing before I go! I've won a prize!! Whooopppeee!! I was blog-hopping earlier today and saw my name at the top of the prize winners list over on Dustin Pike's Blog, for my Card For Charlie. Ten first prizes to get two of his lovely digital images and a grand prize of a Dino Rubber Stamp from Papermakeup.com. So, while I nip over and choose which two images I'd love, (it's soooooo hard coz they're all fantastic) you can go and put the kettle on and have a bit of a break..on second thoughts, leave the kettle off, you'd just look silly....catch you tomorrow with a card for a challenge, more Blog Awards or maybe a few more Inches!