Bond James Bond

Hello again,

So this month I had a big push to make a couple of 40th Birthday cards for my brother along with all the Christmas cards, after looking up some of the popular films, shows, toys and games of 1977 I settled on a suit card with a James Bond image for the first, James Bond The Spy who Loved me was first released in 1977 and can still be found in DVD format, which my parents gave him last weekend, a surprise for us that he intends on waiting to open his gifts and cards until his real birthday a few days before Christmas. Since he doesn't see my blog it is safe for me to share.

I was inspired by this card which I found on Pinterest but gave the card my own twist.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White Card blank 12.4x17.4
Black card stock
Patterned paper from Echo Park Style Essentials
Tiny James Bond sign from here
James Bond images are an old download from Papercraft Inspirations (no longer available)
Black bling from stash
Silver glitter card
Nesting circle die
Elizabeth Craft Happy Birthday die
Memory Box Parker Alphabet die
Buttons and Silver star brads
Signo White gel ink pen

I would like to enter this card in:-
Bizzy Becs Store Blog Challenge Anything goes
Love to Craft Challenge Blog
Seize the Birthday Monochrome
Crafts Galore Encore Anything goes


Thank you for looking in...
Have a wonderful week...
Megan

P.S. A huge Thank you to all the lovely visitors who take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Flowers and Whales

Hello again,

I have been busy off-line and made several cards during the last week or so including two cards for a friend, not getting an overly complex request, anything at all... I made two cards very similar using some tissue paper and my scalloped circle dies... the more you play with it the more fluffy the flowers become... better posted minus an envelope so the flowers don't get squashed

As a bonus I made these cards entirely off the card blank and even the back of the brad is hidden... but I wished I had added some veins to the leaves...

Here are my cards:-

What I used:-
White and cream card blanks (10.5 x 14.8cm)
Silver and gold paper scraps
First Edition Rose Garden
1 sheet of pink and yellow tissue paper
Scraps of green cardstock
Papercraft Inspirations leaf pattern
Butterfly Brads
Paper lace
Lace
Adhesive Pearls
Buttons (some thread)
Cocoa Colorbox inkpad
Pink inkpad
Stamps from magazine gifts
Poppycrafts nesting label die
MFT Flourish die
Adhesives:- Double sided tape, PVA glue

I would like to enter these cards in:-
Miss Di's 250th Challenge at Snippet's Playground- I do hope someone is hosting a great party in the playground... and everyone behaves!!!
Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #43 Anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge
Aud Sentiments #165 Anything goes 
Crafting by Design Anything goes October
Crafts Galore Encore Anything goes
Cute Card Thursday Anything goes

Here is a picture of one of the local gardens open for the local Hospital's Spring fundraiser, a street fair was also held last weekend... 

Thank you for looking in... 
Have a great week...
Megan

For the Chef

Hello again,

Today I am sharing another card I made for my Mum's friend who requested a card for her daughter in law who enjoys cooking, after thinking about things for awhile I decided to use a chef's hat as the focus with some great paper from my stash of Doodlebug designs. I have elongated a chef's hat pattern from an old Cards for Men mini magazine from Papercraft Inspirations.

I did not have to attach any sequins exactly where they ended up because of glue issues ;-) not at all!

Here is my Card:-

What I used:

White card blank 10.5cm x 14.7cm

Doodlebug Design Papers from stash

Iridescent yellow sequins

MFT stitched circle die

MFT pierced fishtail flag die

Various scrap papers to create hat and egg lift

Yellow Ochre Color box inkpad

Black fine line pen

Memento Tuxedo Black inkpad 

Lawn Fawn Riley’s Alphabet to create sentiment

Adhesives:- Double-sided tape, Diamond Glaze & foam tape

I would like to enter this card in

Snippets Playground week #241 Anything goes with snippets

Craft your passion #323 Anything goes

613 Avenue Create #188 Anything goes (now monthly challenge)

Bizzy Bec's Store Challenge August Anything goes

Lil Patch of Crafting Friends #39 Anything goes

Thank you for looking in...

enjoy your weekend

Megan

P.S. A huge Thank you to all the lovely ladies who leave me a message, I truly appreciate them all!

Camera Double 'z'

Hello again,

Well I'm still catching up on cards I made for some July Birthdays almost all male, now that they have all been received I can post them here.

This card was for my Dad's birthday, since taking up studying has become a family affair he likes to head to cemeteries taking photo's of headstones, some plain and simple others large ornate headstones. 

I made my first 'Double Z' card (at least I think that is what this fold is called) I did of course make a couple of errors, you know measure twice cut once... and if I'd thought of it I probably should have hidden the backs of the brads behind the silver card before attaching it to the card blank... never mind... and I could have made the lens into a shaker element if I'd thought of that at the time too...

The extra special enamel dots you can see behind the camera has nothing to do with hiding anything like glue from dropping the blue rhinestone on the card either ;-)

Here's my card:-

from a different angle...

What I used:-

White 14cm square card blank

Metallic pinstripe cardstock colour- let’s call it Keyboard beige…

Amy Tangerine paper ‘Ready Set Go’

Silver and black card paper scraps
Circle and scalloped circle dies

Square black brads

Enameled red brad

Acetate (from packaging)

X-Press it Glitter deco tape silver

Star shaped paper clip

8mm blue rhinestone

Bella! Droplets black circles and white triangles

Paper Smooches Sentiment sampler stamps

Memento tuxedo black ink pad

I would like to enter this card in:-

Craft your Passion- #323 Anything goes

Crafting by Design August Anything goes

Crafting with Dragonflies Card Challenge #62 Anything goes

Crafty Sentiments Anything goes

Crafty Friends Challenge I love using brads and have a huge stash of them you understand, too nice to use!

Polkadoodles Crafting challenge week 30 Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge Anything goes

613 Avenue Create #187 Anything goes or Create your own Challenge

Thank you for looking in...

Have a great weekend (it's almost here!)

Megan

P.S. A huge THANK YOU to all the lovely ladies who visit my blog and take the time to leave a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Seal of Approval

Hello again,

Well I'm still a day behind on this weeks Bugaboo 6^th birthday celebration challenge week with the theme Jungle or Zoo, so today I am sharing day three’s card which needed to follow a colour palette (below). Which I hope you can all see, I have used an old magazine pattern to cut out a cute little seal and his stool, I have again raided my stash of scraps and used many small pieces up and added to my recycle bag. Whenever we went to the zoo the seal show had always just finished and they were chilling out in their pool or laying on the rocky shore.

Here’s my card:-

What I used:-

Template from Papercraft inspirations issue 125 (seal and stand)

Blue/green water colour paper (generic)

Yellow paper ‘sand’ from Papercraft Pad Sweet Party

Scraps of varying colours

Sentiment sticker from collected & Co.

Fine line black pen for seal features

Sequins from stash

Adhesives:- Double-sided tape and PVA glue

I would like to enter this card in:-

Bugaboo Day 3 Colour Challenge

Snippet's playground week 212:- Must use snippets

Crafting by design January anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned paper Challenge:-Anything goes with patterned paper

Thank you for looking in...

Hope you enjoy the rest of the week...

Megan

P.S. A huge thank you to all the lovely ladies who take their time to leave me a little message I truly appreciate them all!

90th Birthday wishes

Hello again... 

I made this card for a friend’s father-in-law’s 90^th birthday celebration, her husband and his siblings were all heading home for a planned surprise birthday night out to celebrate their Dad’s milestone birthday. I was asked to make a card for a 90 year old man who was once a builder, this is what I came up with…

Here is my card:-

After passing the card along to my friend she said that her husband was so impressed by my card that he had shown all his children and grand-children via Skype as their sons and their families both live and work overseas at the present time. 

At the surprise party all gathered were equally surprised when card and cake had managed to co-ordinate!!! The card was only shown to my friends children and grand children, the cake was arranged by another daughter-in-law with no knowledge of the card I made, spooky how that can happen sometimes...

What I used:-

White 10.5cm x 14.8cm card blank

Reverse side of Core-dinations card in orange-y colour

Darice Embossing folder ‘Brick’

Various card scraps-White, brown, blue, silver, red, Kraft

Woodgrain paper from Merci (Big W in Australia)

Grass and tree border papers from Korea

Xyron Create a sticker

Tool patterns from Papercraft inspirations mini booklet-

          Cards for Men and issue 107

Round silver and black square brads

Printed sentiments from Word

Various colours of liquid pearls

Black ink

I would like to enter this card in:-

Beccy's Place- October Challenge Anything goes

Bizzy Becs Store Challenge Blog- October Anything goes

Catch the Bug October Anything goes challenge

Craft your Passion Challenge #282- Anything goes

QKR Stampede- Challenge #159- Anything goes

Thank you for looking in…

Have a great week

Megan

 P.S. A huge thank you to all the lovely ladies who take the time to leave me a message, I truly appreciate each of them!!

Quilted Card

Hello again...

Well this is my second birthday card in two days (the other will be posted after it has been received), this one is going to another family history friend who has also taken up quilting in recent months. 

I had a plan in mind for this card of a general plain repeated pattern quilt but Papercraft Inspirations magazine templates came to the rescue with a lovely pattern to create in just nine squares. Living across the world has its benefits, the patterns are released online to coincide with the UK release of the magazine, by the time the magazine makes it across the world and into our newsagencies it could be three or four months later (unless you subscribe), so using the patterns completely unaided by full colour images leaves you free to envisage your own end product.

Here's my card

I remember seeing this pattern during high school textiles while we were studying quilt making for our final exams, including creating our very own quilts as a major project. The tulips are very pretty as quilted squares and I was impressed at how well they worked in miniature for the card. I used my pierced square dies and so that the piercing continues across the triangles I used a larger square to add the piercing where required, only missing the corner piece.

What I used:-

A4 white card to create square easel card blank

White card

Wild rose studio paper pack

MFT Pierced square die

Button from stash

Lily of the valley Birthday stamp

Black ink pad

Craft Mat, Stanley knife & steel ruler

Kaisercraft 2mm bling (on sentiment)

Jute cord

Mini pegs from stash

Adhesives- P.V.A. glue, Double-sided adhesive paper, double-sided tape, Foam tape

I would like to enter this card in:

Polka Doodles-2 or more patterned papers

Eureka Stamps- Anything Goes

Craft your Passion #272- Anything goes

Creative Craft Cottage #44- Anything Goes

Crafting by the Heart #70- Anything goes

Simply Papercraft #9- Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper- Use your Patterned papers- July

Thank you for looking in…

Have a good one…

Megan

P.S. A huge thank you to all the kind ladies who leave me a little message, I truly appreciate each and every one of them ;-) 

Run, Run as fast as you can...

Hello again...

Well as promised I have again made a card for this weeks Case-ing Christmas Challenge, we are already up to week 22 and  I plan on continuing for the whole year...

This week it was Mynn who provided the initial card for inspiration and was joined by a combined group of ladies from both teams. You can see Mynn's gorgeous card here at Case-ing Christmas

I was inspired by the gingerbread man on Mynn's card and used an old template from the Papercraft Inspirations Magazine team, which was an bonus extra on their website several years ago. I increased the gingerbread man in size before hand cutting him out. 

I have made my card a square one this week to play along with the final Completely Christmas Challenge...

I also decided to play with my Sew Easy tool for the first time, so go easy on the wonky stitching ;-)

Here's my Card:-

What I used:-
White 14cm Card blank
Template from Papercraft Inspirations
Scrap of kraft card
Scrap of green card
White Gel ink pen
Bella! Droplets
Bow from my stash
Sequins from Lawn Fawn 
MFT Pierced Fishtail
Sentiment from TLC Creations
Sew Easy tool/floss
Polka Doodles Patterned paper
Brown Card
Brown Glitter paper
Silver Sentiment Peel-off
Adhesives- plenty of Double-sided tape and P.V.A. glue

I would like to enter this card in:-
Case-ing Christmas #22
Completely Christmas- Make it Square
Holly Jolly Christmas- Use Kraft
ABC Christmas- Keep it Simple
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Extra- Anything goes
Sparkle Creation- Christmas Challenge #26-Anything Goes
Crimbo Crackers #81- Anything Goes

Thank you for looking in...
have a good one...
Megan

p.s. Thank you to each and all of the lovely ladies who take the time to leave me a message. I love them all...

Birthday Wishes...

Hello again...

I was wandering around blog-land checking out a few of the latest challenges on offer and discovered over at Trimmie's C.R.A.F.T challenge they are celebrating their 6th Birthday. Congratulations on your milestone ladies!

I have decided to join in their challenge and made this card for a friend...

What I used
White 15cm x 10.5cm card blank
White card
Pink Petticoat digi image 
Coloured with Derwent Pencils
Digi button card from Papercraft Inspirations #91
Kraft Card
Digi Happy birthday from Scrap-a-licious-times
Hand cut cotton reels from Kraft card
Washi tape
Double loop lace
Lifestyle Crafts Nesting Lace circles
M-Press circle die
Rich Cocoa colorbox ink pad
Scraps of DMC Cotton
Buttons from Stash
Paper from First Edition -Rose Garden & Magazine Cover gift
Adhesives- P.V.A. Glue, double sided tape, pink thread

I would like to enter this card in
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge 311- Happy Birthday to Us 6th Birthday blog-hop
Abby's- Sweet Pea Prize draw
Brenda's- Di's Digital Stamp Prize draw
Helen's- Dee Dee's Digitals Prize draw
Iona's- Milk Coffee Prize draw
Maggie's- Digital Delights Prize draw
Monica's- Sami Stamps Prize draw
Myrna's- Bugaboo Prize draw
Shona's- Lacey Sunshine Prize draw
Ruth's- Dr. Digi Prize draw
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge-May-Use those patterned papers
Hiding in my Craftroom- Button Up- At least One Button
Crafts Galore Encore Challenge- #17 Anything goes
Crafting by Designs- Anything goes May



Thank you for looking in...
have a good one...
Megan

p.s. I would like to say thank you to all the lovely ladies who take the time to leave me a message. I read them all and appreciate them so very much. Megan

Noel

Hello again...

Well I had two surprises in two days, my card for the last challenge for Jingle belles was lucky enough to be selected as one of the top three. I must say I was extremely happy as Stef, Lauren and the Jingle Belles crew was the first card blog I visited frequently, playing along at home not game enough to enter my cards for close to four years. Thank you ladies you truly made my day!

Okay bragging over...;-)

On to this weeks challenge over at Case-ing Christmas, this week I took my inspiration purely from Ellen's sentiment, you can see her beautiful creation here. I was going to use silver and white and handcut noel from mirror board but this weeks time constraints won't allow, I will save that for another card. 

I previously posted a gift box with a cute little penguin image from one of my favourite designers, whom has passed away, I have used a second digi image from Shirley Toogood, which was from the Papercraft inspirations website, changes to their site no longer provides access to the digi I used, but Shirley's blog is still up and has a few digi images available.

I coloured my image with Derwent pencils and fussy cut it out

What I used:
DL card blank
Pink polka dot paper
White glitter card
Pink Card
Pink linen paper
Noel Digi from Papercraft Inspirations
Peace Digi from ?? (if you own the Peace on earth digi- let me know)
Fiskars Circle Punch
Mpress Scalloped circle die
Derwent Pencils


I would like to enter this card in
Case-ing Christmas #15
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra- Always Christmas April
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge April
Crafty Calendar Challenge Add a Sentiment 
The Pink Elephant Use pastel colours
ABC Challenge G is for Go digital 

Thank you for stopping by...
have a good one
Megan

p.s. Thank you so very much for all the lovely comments you have been leaving me!

Second gift box...

Hello again...

Well I decided to play along with the lovely ladies over at Christmas Stampin' all year long and this week the challenge was 'Anything but a card' and I have combined this challenge with Sparkles Forum Christmas Challenge 'Make it Green'.

I love these little boxes and a few years ago created a set which were gifts for my colleagues and contained a few chocolates and a hand beaded Christmas Spider. I printed and rolled up the legend of the Christmas Spider to go with it. 



I downloaded a box template from fun stuff to do and printed it out directly on to A4 card. The digital stamp was a part of a Papercraft Inspirations set. The stamps were from Shirley Toogood who has since passed away. She was my favourite contributor to the magazine. If anyone is interested there are still some of the penguin digi's available on her blog found here but not the one I have used here. 

For the photo I have closed the box with a mini bull-dog clip but will use a coordinating ribbon when the time comes to package a present up.






What I used:
A4 Green cardboard
Doodlebug Design paper
Large scalloped oval punch
Scalloped circle die (for sides)
Embossing folder-Spellbinders m-bossabilities Trendy Folder 
Gold scrap paper from stash
Green Checked Washi
Mini Star punch
Scoring board
Green Ink
Pencils
Black fine-line pen
Marrianne Creatable 'Merry Christmas'



I am entering this in

Christmas Stampin' All year long- Anything but a Card
Sparkles Christmas Challenges- Make it Green
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Extra- Always Christmas
Melonheadz Friends- Green 
Craftin Desert Divas- Use lots of Green
Ruby's Rainbow- Anything but a Card
Crafting by Design- Get ready for Christmas
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge 302 March 12th- Christmas

Thanks for looking in
have a good one...
Megan

Two Cards...

I was asked to create a birthday card for a young teenage girl who liked sewing, netball and academics. I decided to go down the sewing lane for the basis for the card, after creating the first I decided it looked to grown up for a thirteen year old and opted to make a second card which was gratefully received...

 I folded the dress from a pattern in the Papercraft Inspirations Magazine issue 129 (September 2014) and printed a dress-makers mannequin digi from Carmen at beyondthefringecrafts the background papers are from Amy Tangerine ready set go pack which I picked up at Spotlight on special for $10 sometime last year, the shelf was a scrap of paper leftover from a magazine and the dress was made with Echo Park Dots essentials.

This card was created using up many different papers from many different sets, some bought like the larger heart shape others are from various papercraft magazines. I have made friends with one of the local newsagents and he regularly supplies me with leftover cover gifts rather than them going to waste, I keep some and share the others. The canvas heart was blanket stitched with blue thread both kindly donated to  my stash by my local newsagent.

Thanks for looking in...

Megan