That's Mister Old Fart to you!

Hi Everyone

Look at me doing a Mid-week post - Can't promise that it will happen too often! It's mean to be the hottest day of the year today (we'll see!) - although I work in an air-conditioned office so still have to go to work dressed for winter lol!

Today is our friend's 60th birthday and I thought that Gus from Bugaboo Stamps would make a good image to use. I'm also making a gift card for his present (this will follow at the weekend after his party). So here's the card...................

What do you think - I hope you all like it!

Watch out for my next post at the weekend - will the nice weather manage to last that long?????

See you all again soon!

Lisa xx

Card Ingredients
Square card blank
Papers from Bazill, Family Ties from First Edition and Bo Bunny
Dies from Spellbinders, X-cut and Whimsy Corner
Gems and ribbons from stash
60 foiletti
Image - Gus Old Fart from Bugaboo coloured with Spectrum Noir (BT1 FS2 FS4 FS6 TB3 CT2 DG2 DR2 and IG3)
Glossy Accents

Father's Day Part Two

Hello Me again!

Sad I know, but I always make a card for Brent from Woodi & Saren - last year he had James Bond and this year I found an appropiate Teddy Bo image as they do just 'love their dad' lol!

Here it is

 

Now they say that Blue and Green should never be seen but I quite like this colour combo - what do you think??

 

Hopefully Brent likes this and his book and chocolate that the girls spent their 'pocket money' on!

 

See you again soon hopefully - off to do parent visiting today.

 

Lisa xx

 

Card Ingredients:-

Square card blank

Papers - Up & Away paperpad from First Edition

Kraft from stash

Dies - Spellbinders and X-cut

Candi from stash

Ribbons from local cake decorating store

Image from Teddy Bo coloured with Spectrum Noir and Promarkers (Spectrum DG1 EB2 TB1 BT1 and IG1 - Promarkers Vanilla, Ivory, Sandstone and Caramel)

 

Entered into the ANything Goes/For a Male challenge at http://avenue613.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Entered into the For the Boys challenge at http://cateredcrop.com/

 

Entered into the Anything Goes challenge at http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Entered into the Fathers Day/male challenge at http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/

Father's Day Part One.......

Hi Everyone

Hope you are enjoying your weekend and Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there!

I managed to get these two cards finished for My Dad and Brent's Dad just in the nick of time - I don't know where all my crafting time goes at the minute! Somehow I have got to get a birthday card done by Tuesday and another one by Saturday - going to be tight!

Anyway back to today's cards and here they are:-

 

I've used the lovely Teddy Bo again this time - the blue one is for my dad and the gardening themed one is for Brent's dad.

 

I hope you (and the dad's) them.

 

Look out for another posting a bit later

 

Lisa xx

 

Card Ingredients:-

 

Blue Card

Square card blank

Papers Bear Necessities from LOTV

Kraft from stash

Image teddy bo coloured with Spectrum Noir and Promarkers (Spectrum TB3 TB4 IG3 IG4 BT1 EB1 and EB2 - Promarkers Ivory, Vanilla, Sandstone and Caramel)

Ribbons from stash

Dies - Spellbinders, X-cut and Whimsy corner

pearls from stash

 

Gardening Card

Square card blank

Red card from stash, green from Stampin' Up

Dies - Spellbinders, X-cut

Watering can & Leaves peeloff

Ribbons from stash

Image Teddy Bo coloured with Spectrum Noir and Promarkers (Spectrum IG1 IG3 IG4 DR2 DR4 LG2 LG3 - Promarkers Sandstone Caramel Ivory and Vanilla)

 

Entered into the Anything Goes/For a Male challenge at http://avenue613.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Entered into the For the Boys challenge at http://cateredcrop.com/

 

Entered into the Anything Goes challenge at http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Entered into the Father's day/Male challenge at http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/

 



Crafty Friends Challenge No 2 - Bingo!

Hi Everyone

Hope you are all well and enjoying your weekend so far. We popped to the beach this afternoon as it is a nice bright sunny day, but it was so windy it was freezing. Felt more like October rather than June! We did see tons of kitesurfers though - they must be mad! Woodi and Saren had a nice time though - Woodi does love the beach, it's her most favourite place to go.

 

Brent and I have also been engaged for 22 years today - where did that time go!

 

Anyway, back to the important Crafty stuff and today sees the start of Challenge No 2 at the newly reformed Crafty Friends Challenge Blog (Previously the Forever Friends Challenge Blog) and as I am in Team 2 this is my first challenge. The theme this time is Bingo! and here is the Bingo card that we have used:-

 

 

and this challenge is sponsored by:-

 





For full details of the prizes on offer for the winners and to join in the challenge pop over to the Crafty Friends Challenge Blog.

Here is my DT card for team 2 and from the Bingo board I've used Flowers, Blue and Buttons

 

Cute little bear (not quite the same as our Forever Friends bear though)!!

 

I hope you like the card and don't forget to join in our challenge at Crafty Friends.

 

Hope to see you all again soon - now off to get ready to watch the BGT final.

 

Bye for now

 

Lisa xx

 

Card Ingredients:-

Square card blank

White card from stash, blue paper from First Edition and patterned daisy paper a freebie from one of the card magazines



Ribbon from local cake decorating store
Gems and buttons from stash
Dies from Spellbinders and flower die from ???
Image from Cupids Clear Stamps coloured with Promarkers Vanilla, Sandstone, Caramel, Pastel Blue, Apple, Rose Pink and Buttercup and IG1 from Spectrum Noir

Commissioned 30th Wedding Anniversary (Pearl) card

Hello Everyone!

How the devil are you? I'm so sorry I've not been here for a while but I've not had a chance to pop into Crafty Corner lately - mainly due to having to exercise (weight loss is still going OK!), holibobs over Bank Holiday and the 'mo-jo' seemed to have a disappeared for a while.

However, a friend of mine asked me to make a 30th Wedding Anniversary card for her Mum from her Dad - pearl is theme for this anniversary. The only thing I had to include was the name so I opted for using Teddy Bo & Bea as I've not made one of these for a while and here it is:-

 

Thought I would use pink and blue as a theme as these are the main colours in the 'pearl'escent card.

 

What do you think? - Mojo still intact? I must admit I have quite enjoyed making this over the last few days. Hopefully my friend's Mum & Dad will both like it as well. I even managed to finish of one of three Father's Day cards I need to make - watch this space for that one.

 

Have a good weekend everyone - fingers crossed the weather forecast is right and we can have a couple of BBQ's!

 

See you soon (hopefully!)

 

Lisa xx

 

Card Ingredients:-

Square card blank

Blue card from Stampin' Up

Pearlescent card from stash

Glittered paper - Mr & Mrs from Best Creations

Dies - X-cut and Spellbinders

Image - Teddy Bea & Bo (no 60) coloured with Spectrum Noir pens (PP2 PP1 PP3 BT1 TB3 TB1) and Promarkers (Vanilla, Sandstone, Caramel and Ivory)

Ribbons  - Blue and Pearl Lace from local haberdashery store

Flowers from stash

Pearls, gems and hearts from stash

 

Entered into the Anything Goes challenge at http://asimplefive.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Entered into the Anything Goes challenge at http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Entered into the Anything Goes challenge at http://totallypapercrafts.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Entered into the Anything Goes with Ribbons challenge at http://craftyribbonschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/



oooo.......Look what's new............

More details to follow very soon :-

I will be on Team Two and my first posting will be on 08 June2013

 

Here is the link to the new Crafty Friends Challenge Blog http://craftyfriendschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/

 

 

Have a good weekend everyone!

 

Lisa xx

Happy BIrthday to my Crafty Buddy Karen

Hi Everyone

Hope you all had a lovely weekend - back to work now though :0(. I was home alone on Saturday as Brent had to go into work so after my 54 lengths of the swimming pool I spent the rest of the day in Crafty Corner - how nice! Fingers crossed that my efforts in the pool help me lose a bit of weight for weigh in at Slimming World on Tuesday!

It was my Crafty Buddy Karen's birthday yesterday and I am sorry to say that I didn't manage to get her birthday card to her on time - how rude! I did give her a card to open so that she had something (as well as her pressie of course!) but the card was awful! So awful that it looked like a two year old had made it, so I've made it up to her with her proper card that I've given her today - I hope she likes it! And here it is:-

 

And she does know too much - especially how much I spend on crafting goodies!!

 

For the inside of the card I used the new Fabric paper from the Forever Friends Kraft range - beware the edges do fray a bit......

 



Here is a close up of the image:-

 

However, this is the second attempt at colouring - my first is below. The colouring was fine - in fact I think the blonde/light hair is actually better on this first attempt, but the greeting stamp fell off of the block and so I couldn't use it - I did swear a bit!!

 

 

Now I know why I use more digi-stamps than normal stamps!

 

I hope you all like the card too!

 

Fingers crossed for Weigh-in day on Tuesday and hopefully I'll be able to blog some more cards soon!

 

Bye for now and of course Happy Birthday Karen!

 

Lisa xx

 

Card Ingredients:-

 

Kraft square card blank and Kraft card

Patterned papers and fabric paper from Forever Friends Kraft range

Pink ribbon and bow from FF Kraft range

Beige ribbon from stash

Flowers from stash

Gems from Papermania

Pearls from stash (actually donated from my Brother's wedding - they were on the tables!)

Stickles

Image - SWALK Best Friends stamp from Crafter's Companion coloured with Spectrum Noir pens (HB1 HB2 BG2 BG3 BG4 BG5 FS2 FS4 FS6 EB1 EB2 BT1 BT2 TB1 TN4 TN5 TN7 TN8 GG1 DG1 and DG2, Blender pen)

Dies - Butterflies from Memory Box, Spellbinders and X-cut

 

Entered into the Flower Power challenge at http://cardmaniachallenges.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Entered into the Lots of Layers challenge at http://www.cupcakecraftchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Entered into the ANything Goes challenge at http://lovetoscrapchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Entered into the Anything Goes challenge at http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Entered into the Anything Goes/May Flowers challenge at http://memascrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/may-challenge.html

 

Entered into the card with flowers challenge at http://dustinpike.blogspot.ca/

 

Entered into the flowers challenge at http://threescrappygals.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Entered into the Focus on Flowers challenge at http://useyourstuff.blogspot.co.uk/