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DCM – All Locked Up

It’s Rein’s turn to set the challenge this week at The Daring Cardmakers and she’s chosen

Lock(s) and key(s)

Here’s my card.  I stamped the little keys then heat embossed them with gold powder.  The little house die and stamps are from Papertrey.

DCM - Going Geek

It’s Lythan’s turn to set the challenge this week over at The Daring Cardmakers and this is what she’s chosen:

   I (Lythan) have a son who is 18 this week and he is a real Geek - loves computers, computer games, physics, obscure comics (mostly online), Big Bang Theory and did I mention computers? So I thought I would throw out a real challenge and see what we could come up with in terms of making cards that celebrate Geek- dom. So the dare is....

Going Geek

and as an extra reward this week there is a random prize draw

for a set of Imagine That alphabet stamps

Pop over to The Daring Cardmakers Blog for full details of the prize and what you need to do to qualify to enter the draw.

 

Here’s my card for the challenge.  I went a bit old skool geek for this one, as I’m really not very good an incorporating computer style stuff into my cards (no excuse really since my brother designs computer games *blush*).  Anyway, I remembered I had this lovely vintage style space theme paper, and I got the template for the specs from Papercrafts Magazine.  The greeting is another freebie, this time from Pumpkins and Posies (you should check out their blog, they have some gorgeous free mini-kits).  I suppose it also qualifies on another geek level in that everything I’ve used is all digi – all the papers are digital, and the specs and greeting.  I did use my Promarkers to colour the specs though :)

 

52 week challenge, week 20

Nat’s challenge this week for her 52 week challenge is the theme of Rainbows.

Pop over to her blog to see the gorgeous inspiration pics she’s chosen to give us all inspiration.  One photo in particular got me thinking – this gorgeous cake:

Source: pinterest

By coincidence, I did actually need to make a wedding card for one of the ladies from my Bromsgrove cardmaking class, and as she’s avoided a traditional theme for her invites, I thought it would be a great idea to make her wedding card to fit this theme.  I’d love a cake like this, it’s so beautiful.  Here’s my card:

And as an extra little personalised detail, I added some tags with their intitials, and more little pearls and hearts:

Thanks for a great challenge Nat, I’ve really enjoyed this one!

Weekend Prettiness

Thankfully the rain has stopped and the weather in London has been beautiful this weekend.  Andy came down on Friday and met me straight from work, and we spent a lovely evening with my brother and family.  After a lazy start to Saturday morning (Andy read the papers while I made a father’s day card for Andy to give his dad, but then forgot to take a pic), we decided that as it was such a nice day, we’d head for the river.

Andy suggested we get the tube to Victoria then walk down from there which was a great idea.  We stopped off at Westminster Cathedral, I always like to to pop in there to light a candle for my nan who died 10 years ago this August.  Even though he’s not really religious, Andy loves to look around churches with me.  After that we headed down past my old workplace, Channel 4 Television (not sure I like the big metal sculpture in front of the building), and down to Lambeth Bridge.  From there, we crossed over the river and walked all the way along past the Houses of Parliament, the London Eye, and along to our favourite spot, Gabriel’s Wharf.  We had a lovely lunch at the Wharf restaurant, and sat right on that balcony at the table you can see at the end, overlooking the river – life doesn’t get much better than that!

After some lovely fish and chips for me and a risotto for Andy, and a nice bottle of wine, we carried on our walk past the Tate Modern and the Globe Theatre down to Borough Market.  We stopped off there for coffee and dessert, before heading back.  It really was a wonderful day :)

Andy has headed back to the Midlands as he’s playing golf today, so I’ve got a nice day to myself to craft.  I’ve just finished a couple of cards that I started during the week, both cards for friends.

 

Hope the sun is shining wherever you are today :)

DCM - Fussy Cutting

It’s Jo’s turn to set the challenge this week at The Daring Cardmakers and she’s chosen the theme

‘Fussy Cutting’

Instead of using your paper "straight", this week it's all about using the designs on the paper as your inspiration and cutting bits from them to build up a background and/or to make an embellishment.

I dug out all my patterened paper to see what I could come up with, and found several Crate paper Kaitlin papers that I decided would be nice together.  From one sheet I cut out the flowers and leaf, then from a different sheet I cut out the border.  To go with the flower theme I decided to use Papertrey greeting from the 'Green Thumbs' set, which is stamped in Colorbox chalk ink.

There are some gorgeous cards for inspiration on the Daring Cardmakers blog, so pop over to see what my teamies have come up with this week x

Scrapbook Stamp Society Blog Hop

Today at the Scrapbook Stamp Society we are having a blog hop called

" Mother’s Day Tea Party”

If you have arrived here from Nataliya then you are on the right track to continue but if you have just arrived here from blogger land and would like to hop along with us then please start back at the Scrapbook Stamp Society blog

Here’s my card for this hop:

I decided to do something a bit different and rather than feature tea cups or cakes, I thought I’d just choose some pretty pastel party colours, and the little flourish at the top made me think of a grand tea room, like afternoon tea at The Ritz!  The ‘Mom’ text is a Papertrey ink stamp.

Thanks for hopping and now please hop on over to Bee.

Bank Holiday crafting

Today is my catching up day.  I’ve had a lovely weekend with Andy – we spent most of it in the Midlands, and luckily the weather was nice while we were out and about.  We went to our favourite pub on Saturday, The Round of Gras.  It’s become an annual event for us to go there throughout the asparagus season as they have the best asparagus menu in our opinion.  This was our first taste of this years asparagus, and we had a lovely meal.  Andy and his son David came back down to London yesterday with me, and the three of us had a lovely day shopping and eating chinese food in Chinatown.  David wanted to go to the National Gallery, so we also had a lovely wander around there before they headed off for the train and I came back to the flat in London.  So, I’ve got the day to myself today, and after doing a bit of long overdue housework, I’m now catching up with my crafty to do list – while it pours down outside, oh I love crafting when it’s raining and I don’t have to go out!  The card above is for one of Andy’s clients who has invited us to his wedding this summer. 

Next up is a birthday card for a friend:

DCM Colour combo

This week at The Daring Cardmakers it's the fifth of our 'First Friday of the Month' Colour Combo Challenges and this time it's Keilly’s turn to give us our May Colour Combo...

For some reason I struggled with this one.  I started by going through my stash to see what I had that matched the lovely colours.  The hardest was the dark teal colour, but I found a button in that shade, then it was easy to print off some papers that matched the rest.  This week on the Papertrey blog they were revisiting the Button stamp sets, so that inspired me to use this lovely flower stamp and tie it in with the colours.

 

In the pink

I seem to have a bit of a thing for pink and green today, without thinking about it I’ve used the same colour scheme for both these cards.

Whilst out with my sis in Beaconsfield yesterday I picked up some really pretty doilies from the cookshop.  They look lovely teamed with kraft card and this pink flower made with the Papertrey Bloom builder die.

 

The next card is made using some of my new goodies from My Favorite Things.  How sweet is this little tree.  I think this is going to get a lot of use :)   The doily on this card is another Papertrey die.

Summery wishes

Well the summery feel to this cute strawberry card doesn’t quite go with the weather at the moment.  It hasn’t stopped all week and I’ve managed to get drenched several times.

I’ve had quite a hectic weekend.  Andy has gone to Spain with a couple of friends to play golf, so I made the most of being on my own to get round and visit all my family.  I had a lovely time on Friday night at my sisters, and my parents came over to join us for a takeaway and lots of wine.  My little nephew, Toby, was hilarious, and just SO cute.  He’s two and a half, and has just started chatting lots – it didn’t take him long to start bossing me about while I helped him with his new sticker book!

Then last night was spent with my brother and sister in law.  We went to see Bombay Bicycle Club play – it was a great gig, and they were brilliant. 

So today’s my catching up day.  I hope to catch up on my design team work, and get some more cards photographed to share with you.  I’m just hoping my summery projects might inspire the weather to pick up!