One, four and six

yes I can count!  but those are the ages of the children whose birthday party we are off to on Sunday afternoon.

Hello blogworld

My regular followers may remember a year ago a friend of mine having her 3rd child - two girls already and baby was a boy - well this Sunday we are off to their combined birthday party.  So it's a 1st birthday, 4th birthday and 6th birthday.

And that's the second birthday party we are going to on Sunday!  I've also a card for a 5 year old girl to make!

Aren't we the social butterflies - two parties in one day!!

I won't be showing the 4th or 6th birthday cards as I've run out of time to make so many cards.  So those will be from my old makes and I may have shown them (or may not I can't remember).  The only ones you are getting to see are the 1st - today - the 5th next week, probably.

Here we are with the 1st:

Front and arty shot combined - what do you think of the accessory? I is trying to be posh!

Close up of image:

I used:

Stamp:

Lili of the Valley - Patchwork Bunch of Balloons

coloured with my Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Dies:

Nesties

Memory Box - Simple Banner

Go-Kreate - tag

Papers:

First Edition - Up, Up and Away

Anything else?

Craftwork Cards - Kraft card

So I'm happier with this one and I'm very pleased with the colouring!  

A challenge, or two:

I love Promarkers - Challenge #133: Bunting

Totally Gorjuss: Challenge 147- A Sketch

My Mum's Craft Shop Challenges: Challenge #73 - Anything Goes

Finally a card!

Hi there all

Before I start, I've just realised I've got more followers - hello there and welcome, I hope you find something in my ramblings and cards that you like.  Please feel free to comment, I really do love getting comments and will come back and visit your blogs too (that is of course if you don't mind me leaving my rambling comments!).

Anyway, onto the important stuff - I've finally made a card (or two - can't show you the others until I post one and the other is for the new Divas by Design challenge that starts next Weds) - so here we go:

It was made for a challenge on the DoCrafts forum - a regular Lili of the Valley challenge (not joined in much lately as have been too busy to make cards).  The theme was Love and had to be White on White with a ribbon, 3 embelishments and a bow.

So this is another of the free LoTV images, coloured with my Promarkers and highlighted with stickles.  Die-cut onto nesties - mat is embossed with a cuttlebug folder.  The panel has been heat embossed and punched with a Martha Stewart border punch.  The ribbon and buttons are from my boxes.  Swirl is a Marianne die.  Card base is Craftwork cards.

So hope you are all keeping well and I'm off to mooch around your blogs now.

From blog-hopping I've found a challenge for the card.  So I'd like to enter it into:
Totally Gorjuss - Challenge 94 - cute and cuddly

Sarah

Lili of the Valley Challenge 95 - Animal Antics

I haven't played along with Lili of the Valleys' challenges for a few weeks, just haven't had time what with nursery holidays, bank holidays and life in general getting in the way.  I have still watched the blog (was one of the very first blogs I ever looked at) and this week I am back!

I was asked to make a card for a friends' mother-in-law, all I knew was her age and that she likes baking.  So I thought perfect opportunity to get out my new animal stamps and have a play (of course that this fitted in with the theme is just a bonus and had no bearing on my decision ;-) ).

I decided to keep the card fairly simple as I don't know the lady and I didn't want to put her age on it, some people can be a bit touchy about their ages - I know I am!

So this is my finished card, and I have to say it's simple but I'm really quite pleased with it.

All the papers are from Papermania 'Sweet Nothing' paper stack, the image is 'Cherry on Top' which I have coloured with my Prisma pencils and highlighted with some glitter and chalked the edges for definition.  The sentiment is computer generated and both image and sentiment have been cut with a nestie shape.  The ribbon is from my stuff and the border is an X-cut one.

Thanks for looking,

Sarah