Craft Rocket Challenges - Add a Bow

Hello Everyone

Is everyone back to reality now following all of the festive celebrations!

Today starts a new challenge at Craft Rocket Challenges and this fortnight, the challenge is "Add a Bow" Now! I don't do bows very often!
But I have made this card before and decided to make another one and this time I used my new Birthday/Christmas present - ScanNcut to cut the decoupage pieces again.I think it's also a little different from the interpretation I would expect to see. Why not join in. It's for fun.I love to see everyone's interpretation of the theme. The photo doesn't show up all of the decoupaged pieces, ie the hat, glasses and moustache which is a shame because it does look so effective in real life

Ingredients

5x7 card blank

Background from Serif

Images from a free Serif digikit all resized and manipulated by me

Sue Wilson - Itty Bitty Bows and 3D dotty bows

My oldie for Saturday

Hello Everyone and thank you for visiting. It is very cold here but we're very lucky that we have had hardly any snow (yet!)
I know Erika is taking a break from blogging but I thought I would keep posting oldies, whether already blogged or not. I entered this project into a competition and made the top 3!
Have a great week end. Hoping to have a play with Oscar. He is such a character and we'll be going dancing at some point

Ingredients

Bar of chocolate

Lilac card stock

Sue Wilson Pierced tags with printed sentiment

Spellbinder D-Lites, Filigree vase, Asters and a Medallion (can't remember which number)

Ribbon and a pearl!

Another HAPPY card

Hello All

So far, so good! No snow (yet!) I hope you are not suffering too much with bad weather. We're well into the New Year now aren't we. I had a couple of New Year resolutions that got broken more or less straight away. One was, if I wasn't out dancing that I will go to bed before 11pm. That lasted less than 24 hours and the other was tomke a Christmas card every time I made a card - that hasn't happened either.
 Today's card follows on from Saturday's in that I have used one of my favourite die sets. I saw a version of this somewhere and thought how pretty it was. I wish I could remember where I saw it, to say thank you. So,very feminine cards can be made too.

Ingredients

5x7 card blank

Topsy Turvey card in lilac/purple

Sue Wilson Perspective dies - HAPPY

Sue Wilson - Delicate Daisies - open petal

Free Sue Wilson - Configuration die from a magazine

Britannia - Birhtdy die

lilac pearl bling

A sort of Oldie

Dear All

Well it's certainly turned cold but I do appreciate we are lucky that it is not as cold as other parts of the country/world

My card today may be an oldie BUT I needed to make a birthday card for a work colleague who recently joined the team for next week. I do not know very much about his likes, hobbies, etc. So I decided to make a card similar to ones I have made previously.

Off to my craft room now, a young friend cam to "play" yesterday afternoon and announce she became engaged at Christmas, so I'm going to go and make an Engagement card!

Ingredients

7x7 card blank

Coloured card stock

Sue Wilson Perspective dies - HAPPY

Sue Wilson Pierced tags

Craft Rocket Challenge Number 30 - Something New

Happy New Year everyone. I do hope 2017 is a happy, healthy and peaceful one.I hope you all had a lovely Christmas. It seem so long ago now, doesn't it. I had a lovely day with my family and Oscar was the star of the show, not that he knew what was going on!

The start of a new year and so the challenge for this next fortnight from Craft Rocket Challenges is Something New (Year, Baby, Home etc). Take a look at the other designers projects and I would love to see you take part
Mine is a New Baby card. Last year at Ally Pally I treated myself to some of Sue Wilson's New Arrival Collection and this is the first time I have used any of them. All of the items I used are from the Shadow Box in its basic form

Ingredients
6x4 card blank
Various shades of CE Foundation card, bbay blue, Blush, Peach, Custard (and green from my own stash)
Sentiment sized and printed using Serif as a guide

My oldie for Fffriday

Hello Everyone
If any of you visited on Thursday I am sorry I didn't post anything. I was having huge problems with internet access
Today's oldie is not one of my projects but an "old" genuine Banksy which I saw on the walking tour of street art I did last Saturday in Shoreditch. It was absolutely brilliant. Our guide Daphne was superb. I cannot praise her enough. It lasted four hours - some mid week ones are only two hours long. See Erika blog for details on showing off your oldies

I took hundreds of photos. Here are a few more. Most Street Art is illegal, so it was really beneficial to hear the struggles they went to do do some of their pieces. The No Entry sign is tape. If the council don't like it they can just peel it off. The same with the chewing gum. A few of the "famous artists are now commissioned to do pieces

A piece of altered chewing gum. 

I am going to take a break from blogging now. So I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a healthy, prosperous 2017 and see you then

Karen

xxxx

My oldie for FFFriday

Hello Everyone

Thank you again for your lovely comments. Gary truly was outstanding in every way. I hope your week end will be a good one. I have a very busy one. Today I am going into London to the Street Art Walking Tour with a couple of friends. I'm really looking forward to it, we always have a good laugh when we meet up. Tonight I am going dancing with OH,, daughter and future son-in-law and tomorrow afternoon we're all going dancing again including Oscar!

So,Saturday is my day to show an oldie as inspired by Erika at Snappycrafts. It is your chance to show an old project whether blogged or not. Sometimes it's good to have a giggle at our first "makes" Or be proud of an achievement.
My card is probably one of the first ones I made when I bought Spellbinders Les Papillion die set. I have friends that like this style of card. I have made several versions of this card and have never made the same one twice. I usually have a couple of them in my stash for emergencies. It was inspired by Sue Wilson at particraft. It is quite an economical card to make as the butterflies are cut to leave the "negative" and can be done with scraps

Hee hee! The first photo shows I was probably in a rush to give it to somebody and quickly took a photo. It looks like I was looking for fancy dress ideas too!

Ingredients

6x6 card blank

Serif background and one created with That Special Touch mask on Core'dination card (is that still made?

Spellbinders - Les Papillion die

Spellbinders - Marvellous Squares

Tiny bling!