Inspiration Monday over at Crafty Bloggers Network

Good morning friends, followers and passers by,  Here is my DT card for the Crafty Bloggers Network Challenge Inspirtion Monday.  There is still just over a week left for the challenge to run so pop over and check it out, this month the theme is "My Favourite Things" and is sponsored by Sarah Hurley, the prize for the winner is the Bookworm Kit myself and the DT have been showcasing throughout the month.  

The DT have been very busy and you can find their fabulous cards, and the challenge details HERE.   As you can see I have used papers and elements from the "Bookworm" digi kit, there are papers, embellishments and digi images and I tried to use some of each in my cards, my favourite things at the moment are Kraft card, distress inks and bakers twine, all of which I used on the card. 

I matted and layered papers and images from the kit onto a kraft card, finished with a LOTV sentiment, Papermania button and bakers string.

The next card is a plain and simple card made with matted and layered patterned papers, decorated with the stars from the kit and a banner to which I had added the sentiment digitally before printing.  I printed off a few of the stars and glued them together to make the button, punched two holes and threaded it onto bakers string which was tied with a bow.

I added two brown rhinestuds to the banner to finish and added an insert with the dotty patterned paper.

A little Gift Just For You

Good morning all you crafty ladies out there, hope the weather in July was not too hot for you to get into your craft rooms, I find my work was being done in the evening when the sun went down.  Well into August already, where does the year go, and I am here with my DT card for the Crafty Bloggers Network Challenge and this month it is "My Favourite Things", you can use your favourite technique, embellishment, stamp etc. so lets see lots of your cards and find out what you all like best.  The DT have been busy and you can find their fabulous cards, and the challenge details HERE.  This month's sponsor is Sarah Hurley and as you can see we have been playing around with one of her digi kits "Bookworm", there are papers, embelishments and digi images in the kit so plenty to work with.

I chose a gift card for my DT sample, the card was cut out using my Silhouette Cameo, made up and then covered with the fabulous Sarah Hurley papers back and front.  The quote was computer generated and printed onto the shaped panel, a bit tricky but I stuck it to a piece of copy paper (just the top edge with repositioning glue), lined up the verse to print where I wanted it and sent it through the printer, job done!  One of my favourite things is distress inks and these were used to edge the panel and colour the images before they were attached to the card.  I attached a shaped panel to the back of the card for the greeting.

I placed 8 Marvey Markers in the box because they were to hand, but depending on the recipient a variety of items could be placed in the box.  My grandchildren love reading and this card would be ideal for them, three of them will be staying over the holidays I will make up all three with a book to read, a colouring/drawing book and some pens to colour with and hope it keeps them busy for a short time lol.

Let your Dreams Soar Birthday Boy

Today I have a card I made last night for my son who's birthday is next wek.  This year I have been so behind with my birthday cards most of them are being made a few days before the event so ideas that pop into my head not pre-designed cards adapted for the recipient.   

This is a no frills card, my boys do not like fussy.  I embossed my card blank with a Papermania tri-bosser folder and coloured with broken china and scattered straw distress inks.  The indigo blue balloon stamp was stamped in brown Stazon and clear embossed on kraft card, the top of the balloon was bleached out and coloured with the distress inks.  The trees were stamped in brown Stazon onto a strip of cream card and added to the card with the image at an angle over it.  Happy birthdy was stmped on the watch (didn't quite manage to gt it on the rim) and the computer generated tag was attached with sticky pads and embellished with brown rhinestuds.  The cream insert was edged with distress ink and a tag  printed on it with the words Happy Birthday. 

Here is another quick card  for my nephew who is eleven.  I used a digi image from Pollycraft ,  the wording and image were printed directly onto the card and coloured with Promarkers, greeting and image printed on the insert too.  Very simple and quick card.

The card for my son uses some of my favourite colours, I am using kraft and cream a lot recently must think of Christmas cards next, maybe cream, kraft and red, we will have to see.