It's Hot Hot Hot!

...and believe it or not, it is, all be it a little breezy! I made this card for Pikes PlayGround Challenge, (with a few other's in mind too!) and as usual I forgot to get it posted! but!! as I've said before, luckily it's still yesterday over in USA so there's just a few hours left to join in.

I've used two of Dustin's images with my own background and coloured with Promarkers, fixed it onto a pearl card and coloured round that too. (ProMarkers don't bleed through pearl card) Added three bright buttons and a sentiment, made on the computer. The font is called Gretoon Highlight and you can download it for free HERE where you'll get two fonts, one without the white detail.
That's it for now, thank you for stopping by!

Challenges
Pikes PlayGround-Hot and Bothered
Pile it on-time to relax
My time to craft-la-carte (marshmallows)
Card Mad Fairy- to include an animal
Deep ocean challenge-a card
Crazy 4 challenges-Summer Themed card
One stop craft challenge-summer time
Crafty purple frog-summer fun
Dutchdare-summer fun
Totallypapercrafts-The beach
Stampin b's design- beach scene with sand
Digis with attitude-anything goes
BearlyMine-anything goes
Anything challenge The letter D (Dustin's Digi's, drink and reinDeer!)

A Flash Back For Friday

Flash back Friday's Challenge this time round is 'First Non-Traditional Shaped Card'
Well, I've had a look out the back, and hope this one counts. It was first posted here in February 2009. No comments as not a soul came visiting back then! Bad pictures, I'm afraid, as I hadn't been blogging long, I'd never heard of challenges!
I used a Penny Black stamped image (a r.a.k image) and Pink Petticoat Papers, cut the card into an odd shape, layered it up with other odd shapes, coloured the 3D hedgehog pink with...Whispers! (only had two Promarkers back then! magenta and red!) then added acetate to 'square' the card up again. The tiny little swirly dots are from peel-off waste bits.
The Freebie font is called 215000Euro and you can down load it here. It looks like it's on a slight curve so I may have done it in WordArt and coloured it pink on the computer.

Challenge

Flash Back Friday-First Non-Traditional Card
Featured HERE

More Football Crazy Cards

Last week I was asked to make a football card for a neighbour, her instructions were, "It has to have a football on it!" Ohooo, what shall I do!?? thought me. I'm not a football fan, hubby's not, (but son in law Tom, is) so I didn't have anything foot-bally up my sleeve or on my computer!
The card I made first with the stuff that I did have and the card the lady bought, is HERE with links to the freebie papers and freebie fonts if you missed them.
Just to give my neighbour a choice I decided to downloaded some football decoupage sheets from CraftsUprint, and here are three of them.
Very easy cards to make, very reasonable and I got a freebie too! (well, one came via email, I'm not sure why!) I printed all these cards onto glossy Photo paper, cut them out, suck all the pieces where they should go and added them to my own card stock and hey-presto...some nice cards. Not my normal thing, but hey, it's nice to know there's always something somewhere that will fill the gap if you need to make something very quickly!
So now I've got three football cards going spare! (and four more sheets) Looks like Tom's birthday is all fixed up for at least the next three years!!
New Followers! Hi and a big (((wave))) to Teresa Arsenault from Tickell Expressions and out the back and in the dark is Ellen Bennet with no link.
Thanks for stopping by!

Challenge
I've entered the top card into CraftsUprint,-July- card for a male

It's Time For WoYwW Again.

Welcome to WOYWW. And to those who still have no idea what this is, where have you been!?! It's the master mind of Julia and her Stamping Ground, hop over and join in!!

Here's my desk this Wednesday... not as messy as it usually is, as I've taken great care to disguise the clutter!

For those of you who saw my Iceland map the other week, it raised £75 for charity. (Yay!) I now have to make another one, exactly the same, for the people who didn't win it, which is why I'm sorting out some of the doodles I did before.
Also on my desk are a few cards I made for someone who wanted a football card, not my normal style, but nice and quick to make and no thinking involved!! (The card they loved and bought, is here)
A long shot of my other desk...nothing much going on there! (I've hidden the first freebie doodle I did as it looked a bit...odd) **Added just for just for Doon, "it was a Teddy, dressed as a Santa...with a sleigh that looked like a very bent shopping trolley!!")
As usual, I'm not here, so this is on timer, and I will call in and see you as soon as I can!!
I've added this weeks freebie to this post again as I'm very lazy and it's very late!! Hope you like it....Bye for now!!!

This Week's Wednesday Freebie.
Sorry You missed this one...please click on the new side bar Picture for the latest freebie!

I'm rubbish at drawing people ever since my finger bent and stayed bent and has developed a mind of it's own, which you'd think, with my small brain, would be very useful!! I might swap her later in the week for something else! (an old tire, a bad banana)
Please don't share my digi's send people here to download them.

Foot Ball Crazy...with Freebie Papers.

I was asked last week by a neighbour, Monica, to make a football card for her nephew. "Anything with a football on it, he's football mad." she told me. Of course my small brain immediately, for some reason, saw Monica's nephew as a child, not thinking at all that Monica is in her nineties and her nephew is no way a child!

I've done this before, when working as a riding instructor many years ago, a lady phoned to book a ride for her two grandchildren, so two little ponies where put by called Trigger and Daisy, only when the 'grandchildren' arrived (two strapping 6 footers in their forties) we had to quickly swap them for two much larger hunters called Cherokee and Tomahawk!
Anyway, while still 'thinking child' I made this card, using these fun freebie download papers and toppers from PaperCraft Inspirations Magazine.
I cut the card down slightly, so the papers would fit and so that I could add acetate to the front to show off both the patterned papers.
Then, suddenly realising Monica's nephew would be 60 this birthday. I didn't have anything else 'football-ish' so I downloaded a few football printables from CardsUPrint, to give Monica a choice. (I'll show you those later)
The little footballer guy on the front I fixed on using my X-shaped create a sticker thingy (no longer available from Create and Craft it appears) so I didn't have to use wet glue or double sided tape that might show on the other side of the acetate.
The font I used inside the card is a freebie too. It's called Candy Buzz BTN. Download it free HERE, but some sites do charge for it.
In the end Monica did choose this card, she said it was such fun and that her nephew would love it! and guess what? She also chose one other card~the FISHING card from last Sunday's post, "Because he loves fishing too" which is odd, and very physic, coz I'd already added the sentiments 'Another Big One', meaning a big 0 birthday and put the fishing card into a challenge as a 60th birthday card... Hmmm, very strange... but don't ask me for this weeks lottery numbers!!
**Update. Monica's nephew loved the card and he will most likely frame it! And...I've made the card again but with a slightly different inside. The free font this time is called IdolWild and you can download it HERE
Thank you for stopping by!

Challenges
digi doodle-anything goes
Stamp Something-digi day
Allsortschallenge-free and easy
Paper-craftingjourney-anything goes
Craft your passion-anything goes
Ccmonthlychallenge-one for the boys

No Paper? That's gotta be Quirky!

There's another Quirky Craft's Challenge starting over on the Quirky Blog as I type, not really, I typed this,yesterday! after doing my very sneaky peek, as I'm out in the sunshine and doing other things, like, bungee jumping and sky diving... actually no, just dog sitting and gardening... Anyway!! It's now Sunday!! It's our first challenge for July and our 14th Challenge of the year. Our sponsor is... STITCHY BEAR DIGITAL STAMPS which means the design team winner will win a $10 gift voucher to spend in the Stitchy Bear Store.

It's Caro's turn to set the challenge and seeing Caro just louves messing about with inks and stamps she thought it would be a great idea to make...

"...Your own backgrounds!"

This means you are NOT allowed to use any shop bought patterned papers or the ones you can download etc. Your own background papers can be as simple as dry embossed plain card or made using inks, stamps, paints, a mosaic of other plain papers, or anything else you can think of! Okay, what have I done? (well, at the time of typing this, nothing at all! ahhhh!! So your guess is as good as mine!)
So...fast forward to Sunday again.... I started with some green leather look card and using a punched out fish shape as a stencil, I dabbed on clear embossing ink and then clear powder and heat set. Wasn't sure I liked that, so covered one side with... the stuff they use on rugs to stop them from slipping, (only it doesn't work, but makes a great addition to my crafty stash!!) I used the 'The Big One' digi from our sponsors, printed out twice, 3D-ed and coloured with ProMarkers. I don't have any of those fancy inks and dabber thingies but I do have a couple of the Tim Holtz distress inks and a make-up sponge, so this is what I did... after embossing one image and cutting it out with a deckled-edged Nestie, I smudged over it with my make-up sponge (pretty awful but better than nothing!) cut out the second image (minus fish, pocket, and part of the fishing rod reel and fixed it over the top with silicone glue, then attached the whole thing to some black card. Rubbed over a yellow piece of card with the same ink (TH Vintage Photo) and punched out the fish with a Woodware punch. The little dangley chain is a real thingy used in fishing. (very cheep! loads for about £1!) Added card candi and white gel pen faux stitching.
The font is a freebie, it's called Mother Whale and you can download it HERE (along with some other usual fonts!!) or even HERE. Thanks for stopping by!!

Challenges.
One stitch at a time-use digi (Won Top Three!)
Ccmonthlychallenge-one for the boys
digi doodle-anything goes
4craftychicks-stitching
Stamp Something-digi day
aud sentimentschallenge-food and drink (fish!?!)
Papercreatorscrafts-special occasion (60th Birthday)
Allsortschallenge-free and easy
Paper-craftingjourney-anything goes
Craft your Passion- anything goes

Plainly or Not, it's a Quirky Peek

Very quick, coz it's hot hot hot outside and I wanna go and play!! The Quirky Craft's Challenge starts round about 6ish tomorrow evening. Caro is setting the challenge this time, so it could be anything!! Here's my sneaky peek just to get you guessing!
New Follower Hi and a big {{wave}}} to Kathleen Saunders but no link, yet! Oh yes I have!! Through Twitter!! Kathteabellys !! (I reconized that tea mug! Thanks for popping by!

Iceland Map

July1st!! It's not just the hours, days and weeks that are zooming by, it's the months as well! It'll be Christmas this time next week!! I've just popped in, coz I'm a tiny bit chuffed. The Iceland Map I made a few weeks ago was sold at auction today to raise money for a charity, and the final bid was £75 pounds!
New Followers (Out the back and in the dark!) Big {{{wave}}} The Sergent@frontier dot com, BunnyzBae and AnkeE, all with no links.