Funky Fairy #20 Sketch Challenge

This weeks Funky Fairy challenge is a sketch set by Jozza. I've rotated the sketch for my first prom card. This is the last on my little red dresses & the flowers I've made myself .

Phew - Thank goodness that's over !!!!

Well my card sale is over for another year!!! How much hard work was that for a 2 hour sale !!

I took a good selection of cards but as always there were one or two I didn't have. A 90th birthday card for (as the lady wanting it rather flipantly said) a woman who wasn't expected to live past Christmas!! so she didn't want anything cheerful. I would have thought it was a celebration that the lovely lady was still with us LOL!! and a male card for someone who didn't drink, didn't 'do' sport & she didn't know what his job was . . . . . . give me strength!!

This is the only sale I do as the rest of my cards are sold via hairdressers, staffrooms & friends workplace so that is enough to keep me going at the moment.

I took £92 in the 2 hours & have orders worth £35.00 so I was well chuffed as most of the cards were £1.75/£2.00.

Just glad I don't have to do one every week.
Thank you so much to everyone who wished me luck with the sale. It's very much appreciated.

Cute Card Thursday Challenge 9 - Gems & Jewels

This weeks challenge is to use gems or jewels on your card. I must have had a premonition LOL!! as I made a batch of these cards yesterday for birthdays & this one for a prom night.

Gina's Blog Candy Challenge

Gina at The Card Kabin is offering some fab blog candy to celebrate 10,000 visits WOW!!

"The challenge to win the blog candy is simple, as you can see there is a stamp, pretty paper, flowers and ribbon.......that is the challenge to make a card with all of those ingredients, see, how simple is that :). Just leave me a comment and I will add your blog to the list.The closing date will be Saturday May 10th to give everyone a chance, and the winner will be picked randomly.Good luck to everyone. I will leave this post at the top until the finish, xxx"

Here is my card for the challenge. I was sent the stamped image as a RAK by the lovely Vikki & have coloured it using Whispers. I have highlighted the rain drops & splash with Anita's 3D Glaze. The flower, ribbons & button are from Poppicrafts & the wire is from my stash

Trina & Ila

Trina & Ila are both giving away blog candy to celebrate Ila's birthday. Please visit both blogs & follow the instructions to be in with a chance of winning.
Thank you to both of you for putting up this fab blog candy.

Blog Candy

Kitty is giving away some fantastic Blog Candy & you have until tomorrow to enter.

Arty Girlz & Funky Fairy Challenge's

I try not to double up on cards for challenges but I have a card sale on Saturday & at the moment I'm trying to get as many cards made as possible. I'm trying to do a cheap & cheerful selection as these seem to be the ones that sell. As we all know, people don't appreciate how much time & effort goes in to some of the cards we make & we could never charge an hourly rate LOL!!!

I'm using this card for the Arty Girlz challenge which is '3D' as I have decoupaged Maggie's dress. I'm also using it for the Funky Fairy Challenge which is 'Going Dotty' as I've used Papermania dotty paper both for the background & Maggie's dress.

I only got the Sugar Nellie stamp this morning but couldn't wait to use it. I think it's my new favorite, until the next purchase!!lol!!

You'll Never Guess . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . what I just did !!!
I received 4 Sugar Nellie stamps in the post this morning . . . . excitement . . . . as this takes my stamp collection up to 6 LOL!!
I had been tidying up in my craft room at the weekend & found the spare clingy strips from my See D stamp set I bought 2 years ago & have never used & decided to save some money & use these on the Sugar Nellies.

I've just spent an hour this morning cutting & positioning the clingy strips & settling my lovely new Nellies in to their carefully prepared CD case.

I've just set my stall out to stamp & colour my new beauties & every bit of clingy strip is stuck fast to the CD case & nothing to the back of the stamp !!!!

Looks like I should have stuck (pardon the pun) to Pritt LOL!!!

I'm still learning all about this stamping lark!!

Mojo Monda Week #36

As soon as I saw this weeks sketch this card popped in to my head but it was alot easier thinking up the design than putting it on to the card. I always find piecing sections on a card very difficult as I can never get the gaps the same distance apart on all the sections. It took 3 attempts before I was happy with this one.

There must be an easy way to do it . . . . . . . . any tips gratefully received!!

Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 8

This week, a nice easy theme, anything to do with gardens. Could be people gardening, having fun in the garden, a garden scene or perhaps some little animals you might find in the garden.
Make it cute and have loads of fun!

I enjoyed making this card as I haven't used my sizzix & quickutz garden dies for a long time. I was in such a hurry to get it finished that I used a Tilda I had already coloured but think now I should have stamped another & coloured it in orange tones! but would that have been too much orange ??