Just for you Sweet Friend

One of my friends is going through a bit of a rough patch - they say it hits in 3's and for her it has.  She recently lost two old friends close together and she is now facing a health issue herself.  

I feel there is not a lot I can do, but I can let her know she is in my thoughts and I am here if she needs me.

I am still experimenting making my own backgrounds and on the CAS Colour & Sketches challenge blog, the colours for the current challenge really appealed to me.

It's not exact colours, but close ... sort of .. Stampin'Up Creamy Caramel, Close to Cocoa Candied Coral

The background was made using 3 colours with a wide stroke of a paint brush giving them an 'ombre blend'.  The Dandelion and sentiment have been stamped in Ganache by StazOn.  Mounted with 3d foam onto a black cardbase, with just a touch of bling added.

I kind of like it :)  

Linking with:

CAS Colour & Sketches - #468

Happy Little Stampers - Blend (Ombre Blend)

Addicted to CAS - #219 Friendship

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Thank You

Regular readers may remember we celebrated our 40th Wedding Anniversary recently.

Here is the card I made for hubby 

and here is the card he made an extra effort to get out amongst 'all the people' and get me 

and here is the card he picked for Valentines Day

I think I will keep him ..... what do you think?

His family thoroughly surprised us with some beautiful gifts & flowers

Anyway, I thought that the extra effort his family went to for our Anniversary deserved an extra special 'Thank You' so I made two cards for them - one for the Sister-in-Law & Family and one for the Brother-in-Law & family

I had another go at making my own watercolour backgrounds - smooshing 3 different colour inks and then running through Cuttlebug embossing folders and inking raised bits and around edges.  'Thank You' die cut three times and sentiment stamped in Staz On Ganache.  Cardfront mounted to Blue Cardstock.

Quite please with the way these turned out.

Linking with:

Cut it up - #250 - April Showers bring May Flowers

Make the Cards Challenge - #53 ink blended background 

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Happy Birthday Peter

Another birthday card, for nephew, Peter.   I had a bit of fun with this image from PNG Mart, as the nephew is into music

I first printed the image in colour, then foiled some parts of it 

then added a birthday sentiment from Clipart Fairy which was also foiled.

Cardfront was trimmed, then mounted onto black cardstock, black corner stickers added, kindy glitz added to the 'microphone'

All in all, a fun card for a guy!

Linking with:

Try it on Tuesday - I can hear music

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Happy Birthday - Pop Art Style

Hi everyone

I have another swap card for you today with another technique which has been inspired by a video from Natasha Foote 

Inkadinkado Cupcake stamp was stamped using Black Staz On onto four different scraps of patterned paper and then fussy cut.  Four squares were die cut, then mounted onto front of card with 3d foam.  Hand drawn crooked black borders added to squares.  Centre square die cut & stamp with 'Happy Birthday' from Stampin' Up Voila set.

Square Cardstock & patterned papers from Blue Edge Crafts. 

Quite a different card for me, but I think I like it  LOL

linking with:

Addicted to Stamps - #428 birthdays

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

A Touch of Red

Here are 2 cards from my recent swaps with my Card Swap Group - A Touch of Red and an Open Swap.

I didn't read the brief correctly for the 'A Touch of Red' and made just a 'Red & White' card   DOH!

But then I realised that it would be OK, as I could use it for the 'Open Theme' swap - winner winner!

So here are my cards.

CARD #1

White cardfront embossed with Provo Craft 'birthday' folder (one of the first embossing folders I got when I bought the Cuttlebug back in 2008!)  'happy' & 'birthday' sponged red to highlight.  Balloon die cut 3 times from red cardstock, layered then attached to cardfront.  Red gems to finish off, then cardfront mounted to Red Leathergrain card base.

CARD #2

White cardfront, run through Cuttlebug with Spellbinders M-bossabilities folder ES-014.  'hello' die cut 3 times from red cardstock & layered and added to cardfront.  Gem brad used to attached red paper flower, then cardfront mounted to white cardbase.

Linking with:

CARD#2 - Perfectly CAS: #25 - Die Cuts

CARD#1 - Make the Cards Challenge: #50 - Embossing Folder

Stay safe everyone!  Tell your family & friends you love them!