Friends of Speedy TV Challenge 87 – Use Metal

Today's challenge over at FOSTV is to include metal on your card. It is challenge 87 which can be found on the FOSTV challenge page. My card has brads so that is a metal element but I decided to make it a bit more challenging and added some die cut Coke can flowers.  I used a Cuttlebug die to cut the flowers, embossing folder to add some texture and alcohol inks to add some colour.  The background panel is also embossed with an embossing folder. The sentiment and one butterfly are from the set called Daffodil Greetings and I also used Scenic Selections and Dragonflies.  The panel with the butterflies was made using embossing powder resist for the butterflies and then Gelatos used to add the colours.

I have included a close up picture of the flowers and you can see the embossing and colours.  One flower has a card-candi centre as the metal centre went "walking"!

Thank you for dropping by.  My nephew has a Birthday today so "Happy Birthday Ryan".
Have a great week everyone.

Laura & James Wedding

Here are a few photos of yesterday's wedding.  There were no photos during the service other than the official ones so all the one we took were snaps taken at moments afterwards.  As you would expect from San Francisco it was windy so hats, veils and hair did not stay in place.  The reception was lovely and the photo booth proved very popular especially as the evening wore on and groups of people piled in!

Laura & James

Laura with her Dad Chris, Mum Julia and sister Kerry.

Sisterly Love

James & Laura with family

 

James & Laura with family

Laura with Katie (flower girl) and Jack (ring bearer)

Dad Chris giving a speech

Brother David giving a speech

First Dance

Photo booth fun - Jack

Photo Booth Fun - Katie

Hubby Dave - ready to go!

At least the hat travelled well!

Bridesmaids Beth and Maura

Nicole (chief bridesmaid) speech

Georgina, Mike, Anne and Charlie

Bridesmaid Jess

Paula & Phil

Thanks for looking - been a fun few days.

Laura & James Wedding Name Tags

Way back Laura asked me if I would mind doing something creative as one of the elements for their wedding.  Well 24th August 5pm saw Laura married to James. The little bit I added to the occasion was name tags for the reception made in keeping with their city theme.  She has tried to get hand made items for several elements of her wedding making it special and unique.

It took me quite a while to work out how to get the bridge, the houses, the hills and the names onto these tags. I made almost 90 but the reception numbers are now about 65 so I had spares!

The first photo shows them all packed for transit.

 

The second and third photos show one of the guests name tags

 

The last photo shows the extra elements I added for the bride and groom.

I will share photos of the day soon.

Laura & James Wedding Day

Today is a very special day in the lives of a young couple Laura & James who cement their love for each other by getting married today.  We are privileged to be at the celebrations and to share in this happy occasion. 

In keeping with the theme of the city and the colours of the wedding I made them this card.  I have used dies, my Cricut and some stamps from Marks Finest Papers.

Here are some views of my card

I have also made the name tags for the wedding reception and I will post some pictures of those tomorrow.

High Hopes, One Layer Wednesday and CCC13

This is a cute and quick one.  Don't you just love this camel from High Hopes? I stamped him in Memento Peanut Brittle along with a sentiment from Kraftin Kimmie and then gave him a quick and rough colour wash and added some regal stickles to his "shaggy bits" as he is worshipping the king!

I had three challenges in my head
CCC13 for August - monochrome
One Layer Wednesday - 1 ink, 1 stamp, 1 sentiment and 1 layer
High Hopes 183 - make it sparkle

Thanks for looking and enjoy the rest of the week.

CCC13 - August Monochrome Cards

The month is flying by and those of you who dropped into my blog yesterday know that I have only just finished my CCC13 cards for June.  August needed to be short and sweet so here are my quick cards for August.  Stamps used are from Marks Finest Papers and snowflakes were cut with the Cricut. They do all have glitter on them but doesn't show too well.  The colours were chosen because of this weeks Jugs challenge.

CCC13 for June

Yes you are reading the title correctly these are my rather late cards for the CCC13 monthly challenge for June.  Having made these I now know why I never did my quilt!  I did get CCC13 for July done but wanted to do this challenge following the theme.  Here are my quilt style cards - not very fancy but they are done.

The first six fit with this weeks FOSTV theme of sentiment only.

The second set of 7 cards are also for the High Hopes red and green challenge.

I will be back tomorrow with the August cards which are mega simple as I have little crafting time right now. I hope you have a good week.



Friends of Speedy TV Challenge 86 – Sentiment Only

This week's challenge at Friends of Speedy TV (FOSTV86) is to make a Sentiment Only card. I decided to add to my Christmas card collection (CCC13) so I went with the August CCC13 theme of monochrome. I used some pearlescent card and the polished stone technique with alcohol inks onto it.  4 brads in the corners and some sticky ribbon were my embellishments. The sentiment is from the newly released set called Joyous Season and having stamped it I went over it with a glitter pen.

We would love you to play along with our challenge this week so please check out challenge 86 at FOSTV.  Have a great week.
Janine

MFP August Blog Hop (Day 4) - Wealthy Fish

August Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

   Featured Aug 13th - Pocket Watches
Featured Aug 14th - Joyous Season 

Featured Aug 15th - Country Charm
 

Featured TODAY Aug 16th - Wealthy Fish

I am not at all happy with this card.  I was pleased with the glittery bamboo panel but I am not happy with the overall card layout.  I didn't have time to remake it but will try again with the same image on another occasion.

This one is stamped on some paper I found in my scrap tray and I quite like the subtle bamboo and other oriental images.  I grabbed a couple of elements from last months set "Be Virtuous"

I have one further oriental card to show you today made with elements from Lucky You and an old Spellbinders die I have had in my collection since I don't know when! I used a gold rub on paste to bring out the embossing.

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the following blogs (don't forget this one), each day for more chances to win! (You do NOT have to comment on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly!) All four winners will be announced on Aug 17, 2013 on the Mark's Finest Papers blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. (HINT: The more you comment, the more chances you have to win and comments on the MFP blog count twice!) The deadline for commenting is 10 PM EST on Friday Aug 16, 2013.

 The special stamp set we have for you this month is:

"Lucky You"

 The mini stamp set we have for you this month is

"Take Time Mini"
                                                      

Here's the Design Team:

Patty
Lois
Jane C
Debbie
Pam
Pat G
Thrfity Stamper
Marilynn

Karen K

Bonnie

Kathy
Angela
Cathy C
Toni
Sue W
Janine
An'Jenic

Shirley Q
Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

Thanks for joining us this week and good luck in the prize draw.

MFP August Blog Hop (Day 3) - Country Charm

August Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Aug 13th - Pocket Watches

Featured Aug 14th - Joyous Season

Featured TODAY Aug 15th - Country Charm
 

 I combined the new set with the set called Oopsy Daisy for this card.

On this one I used some stencils to add creativity rather than mess, but to be honest I am a messy creator!

Please come back tomorrow for our last day of the hop and don't forget to check out the rest of the team's work.

Featured Aug 16th - Wealthy Fish

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the following blogs (don't forget this one), each day for more chances to win! (You do NOT have to comment on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly!) All four winners will be announced on Aug 17, 2013 on the Mark's Finest Papers blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. (HINT: The more you comment, the more chances you have to win and comments on the MFP blog count twice!) The deadline for commenting is 10 PM EST on Friday Aug 16, 2013.

 The special stamp set we have for you this month is:

"Lucky You"

 The mini stamp set we have for you this month is

"Take Time Mini"
                                                      

Here's the Design Team:

Patty
Lois
Jane C
Debbie
Pam
Pat G
Thrfity Stamper
Marilynn

Karen K

Bonnie

Kathy
Angela
Cathy C
Toni
Sue W
Janine
An'Jenic (go here next!)

Shirley Q
Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

MFP August Blog Hop (Day 2) - Joyous Season

August Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Aug 13th - Pocket Watches

Featured TODAY - Aug 14th - Joyous Season

This one uses the sentiment and the pine branch from the set for a very simple Christmas card

For this card I stamped the fawn twice and off set them to remove the cardinal as that is not a bird we get in the UK and it therefore has no association with Christmas here.  Young deer often seem to huddle together so I think this works well.

Featured Aug 15th - Country Charm 

Featured Aug 16th - Wealthy Fish

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the following blogs (don't forget this one), each day for more chances to win! (You do NOT have to comment on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly!) All four winners will be announced on Aug 17, 2013 on the Mark's Finest Papers blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. (HINT: The more you comment, the more chances you have to win and comments on the MFP blog count twice!) The deadline for commenting is 10 PM EST on Friday Aug 16, 2013.

 The special stamp set we have for you this month is:

"Lucky You"

 The mini stamp set we have for you this month is

"Take Time Mini"
                                                      

Here's the Design Team:

Patty
Lois
Jane C
Debbie
Pam
Pat G
Thrfity Stamper
Marilynn

Karen K

Bonnie

Kathy
Angela
Cathy C
Toni
Sue W
Janine
***An'Jenic*** This is your next stop on the hop!

Shirley Q
Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.