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/