Finally - a card ...

Good grief, considering that I am on holiday there is a lack of craftyness going on in this house but here I am with a card to share, I might even share two!

My first card us made with my new favourite Nitwit kit, From The Sea and is for the current Papertake Weekly challenge - to use dies. Last week I spent ages sorting out all of my nestabilities and other dies, some I had forgotten about and some that had ended up in the wrong drawer but now they are all neat, tidy and organised.  On this card I used MFT and Papertrey border dies

My second card was made for The Ribbon Girl using the new super sparkly and gorgeous glitter organza as well as a Lori Boyd digi stamp and a few other Ribbon Girl goodies

It's Tuesday so it's Papertake day again and this week the challenge is to play 3-in-a-row from the gameboard Dawny had created. I chose to play on the diagnol and picked lace, ribbon and a free square which I turned into charm.  All my papery stuff came from a gorgeous Nitwit Collections kit called Thimbles n' Threads. I love all things Nitwit and have done for a long time, Mary Fran is so creative and always comes up with ideas that are just perfect for cards and hybrid papercrafts

The silk ribbon, pompom trim, cluny lace, pin and charm all came from Ribbon Girl

Exciting, exciting news ...

Today I was up bright and early because I was so excited.  A few weeks ago I was asked by Darcy Baldwin who designs for Sweet Shoppe Designs, to work with her to create a set of card and alphabet templates. She loves my doodles that I often put on the edges of my cards so I created two different doodled alphabets and Darcy turned my scribbly doodles in to two sets of fantastic alphabet templates. She also worked her magic and used my cards in the Sweet Shoppe gallery to create 6 card templates.  This is what I saw when I went into the Sweet Shoppe store this morning - my stuff on the front page!

And these are what Darcy created, I am so excited to see my name on them

 I managed to spend some time this week playing with the card templates and a few other Sweet Shoppe goodies

This card is a flat digital card using one of the templates, simply printed and adhered to a card blank ...

(Love Me Some Andrea Templates, Rule The School digital kit, DJB Geordie Girl font)

... and for this card I printed all the layers seperatley and reassembled, adding cardstock, machine stitching, bakers twine and an owl charm

(Love Me Some Andrea templates, Rule The School digital kit, DJB Geordie Girl font, Bakers Twine, owl charm, cardstock)

This is another flat digital card using the templates and doodled alphabet ...

(Love Me Some Andrea templates, Bake Me A Cake digital kit)

... and this is the same template but again printed seperately and layered with cardstock, dimensional foam pads and a ribbon bow

(Love Me Some Andrea templates, Bake Me A Cake digital kit, cardstock, saddlestitch ribbon)

I LOVE what Darcy did with my stuff and they can all be bought here!

Blog Hop Winner ...

The winner of my prize for the Ribbon Girl Birthday Blog Hop is ...

Sid

Sid, email the Ribbon Girl and give them your address so we can send out your prize :)

Baby Box ...

... No, not a box of babies - how sweet would that be? - but the gift box I made for the friend whose card I showed yesterday. It is becoming a bit of a tradition at the school where I work for me to make a pretty gift box for the presents I give. It started last Christmas with our staff Secret Santa, mine wasn't so secret because everyone guessed that it was from me  hee-hee! and now it's becoming expected - which is nice but something to live up to.

Anyway, this is the box I decorated, it started out life as a yucky floral pastel box but I just changed it by adding papers and embellishments - and sparkle of course :)

 

Papers from this gorgeous digital kit

Ribbon, lace, twine, sparkly button and crystals from Ribbon Girl

Stickles glitter glue

Font from here

Tag die from Papertrey

Baby cards ...

My lovely work colleague left us to have a baby last week and this is the card I made her - I need to make another card now as I had a text from her this moring to say she'd had a baby boy today so I will be getting the blue ribbons out :) This is also my Papertake Weekly challenge for this week which is an anything goes challenge with the option of using something metal on your cards - I use pretty pins and baby charms

Papers are from this pretty digital kit

Ribbon, charms and pins from The Ribbon Girl

Fonts from here

... did you join in with the Ribbon Girl birthday blog hop - there is still time to leave a comment on this post to win a prize :)

Ribbon Girl Birthday Blog Hop

Today the Ribbon Girl is celebrating it's birthday with a fantastic prize filled blog hop!

There is a prize to be won on each blog simply by leaving a comment on every blog that you visit, each prize has a rainbow selection of ribbons, pins, buttons and charms. All the blog hop giveaways will end on the 7th August

If you joined the blop hop at the start you should be visiting me from The Ribbon Girl blog and after you've left me a comment then hop on to Nicole and her wonderful blog, leave her a comment and continue on your journey.

If you get lost off here is the full list of all the Ribbon Girl DT members who are joining in with the blog hop

Ribbon Girl

Andrea - that's me!

Nicole

Tiets

Dawny

Vicky

Kath

Gail

Jane

Jo

Mandy

Jacqui

Mary

Thanks for joining in with the Ribbon Girl birthday celebrations, keep checking on the Ribbon Girl blog this month for lots of giveaways and prizes as we continue to celebrate for the whole of August!!

Cute Cards at Papertake Weekly Challenge

The challenge this week at Papertake Weekly is to create a cute card and this is mine :)

I used one of my favourite little Hanglar boy stamps from my huge stamped image pile, the papers are some of the new My Minds Eye 6x6 paper pads from 3D Jean and the button twine and polka dot button are from the Ribbon Girl. The sentiment was in my latest Hanglar kit but I wanted to use a different font so printed it on my computer onto Safmat

I am also entering my card into:

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Allsorts - Free and Easy

Ribbon Girl Colour Challenge ...

Today sees the start of the latest colour challenge over at the Ribbon Girl blog and this month the colour is shades of aqua.

I made two cards for this challenge

Sheer ruffle ribbon, Zva crystal swirl, small heart charm and fancy pins all from Ribbon Girl

Stickles glitter glue from 3DJean

Papers from this digital kit at Sweet Shoppe Designs

Martha Stewart border punch

PomPom trim, spotty organza ribbon, fancy pins all from Ribbon Girl

Digital crown image from this digital kit at Sweet Shoppe Designs

There are two fabulous prizes for this challenge, an Aqua Mini Kit from Ribbon Girl

and a £10 voucher to spend in the Lili Of The Valley online shop

Friends ...

There is a new Papertake Weekly challenge today and it's an easy-peasy challenge of Anything Goes with the option of using buttons. I used a new Lili Of The Valley stamp for my card, lovely red polka dot buttons from Ribbon Girl and my new Prismacolor pencils :)

A Molly Bloom Challenge ...

There is a new challenge blog and their first challenge is 'anything but a square' and you must use a Molly Bloom image. Well that bit is easy as I love my Molly's and have a few quite a lot okay I have a lot of them!

I used 3 new stamps on this card, I've never made a step card and it was so fiddly I'll be going straight back to my square cards!! Anyway, there it is. Now it's finished I'm not sure about it but one thing I do love - those beach huts :)

Molly Bloom Stamps

Copics

Papertrey kraft card

I am entering this card into The Paperlane Challenge

Papertake Weekly Challenge ...

Better late than never I say - so here is my Papertake Weekly challenge card. This week the challenge is 'Here Comes The Sun' basically a card that reminds you of the sunny summer or has a summery feel to it.

I made my card using papers and images from Crafters Companion  and the ribbons and starfish charm came from Ribbon Girl who just happen to be sponsoring the PTW challenge this week with a choice of a ribbon kit

The challenge runs until Tuesday

Glug Glug Glug ...

I love this little submarine. It's an element from Traci Reed's Rub A Dub digital kit and the paper is fab too! I think I will be using this kit a lot for boy cards

(Papers and submarine from this digital kit, ribbon, crystals and dewdrops from Ribbon Girl)

(Submarine from this digital kit, crystals, dewdrops, twine ande button from Ribbon Girl)

Happy Birthday Hannah ...

It was my friend and fellow pink lover Hannah's birthday last week. I couldn't go to her party so sent her present and card through the post.  I decorated a square gift box to house her birthday gift as well as the coordinating birthday card so that it didn't get squashed whilst in the post. As well as the overload of pinkness the card even had a flamingo on it because Hannah loves flamingo's, it took me a while to track down the perfect pink flamingo but I eventually found it :)

I used papers from this digital kit and the flamingo from this digital kit and of course all the ribbons and lace were from the Ribbon Girl

A Boy Card ...

I love these Teddy Bo stamps that look like pencil sketches - makes shading an absolute doddle!

Stamp - Teddy Bo

Colour medium - Copics

Paper - My Minds Eye

Ribbon - Ribbon Girl

Sentiment - LOTV

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Teddy Bo Challenge - shaped card

St Lukes Hospice Charity Cards Challenge - things that fly

Simon Says Stamp - masculine