It's Paperplay Challenge time again folks!  This week we're kindly sponsored by Simon Says Stamp with a $15 store voucher.

Thanks to everyone who joined us last week, you were all amazing and oh, so talented!

Our theme this week is Shabby/Vintage, so I made this card for friends who moved house recently.

I tore the edge of the pink spotty paper agains the edge of a Fiskars Paper Shapers ruler that I've had for an absolute age.  I then lightly inked the edges and rolled 3 corners around the handle of  small paint brush for some dimension.  The striped flower is simply cut using a Tonic flower punch 3 times and embossed on the back using a large embossing tool to give it shape before layering it up with dimensional dots. I've added 3 words under the curled paper to signify what their new home will be centred around... to cherish and love their family!  The butterfly has left a gem trail on her journey flying to the top of the card.

I personally love the style of shabby chic come vintage look and was pleased at how this turned out.

Creative Ingredients:
Cream 5 1/4" cream cardstock - Pink spotty paper; Papertrail - Journalling spot: DelishDesigns - Butterfly punch; XCut - Flowers; Prima and punched at home - Leaves; Woodware punch - Brads - Gems - Alpha stamps; StudioG - Alpha stickers; Making Memories - Inkpads;  QuickQuotes & Versafine

Birthday card for an old person!

I'm not good at making cards for old people, but a friend of ours is celebrating a birthday today, so I thought I'd make the effort!!!!!

Happy Birthday Kevan ;-)  (Wish me luck when we deliver this cheeky little creation later, won't you?)

The images are freebies from Create with TLC that I've combined together to make my greeting.

Creative Ingredients:
Cream A5 Card - Backing paper: BasicGrey 'Max & Whiskers' - Image; Create with TLC - Promarkers - Patty's Pretties from Kirsty Wiseman - String - Glossy Accents

3rd Birthday wishes to Lily

My neighbour's grandaughter is 3 today.  Can't believe that the years have gone by so quickly.  One year they were parents to 2 grown up daughters and within the space of 12 months were grandparents to TWO grandchildren.

Well, today it's Michelle's daughter, Lily's 3rd birthday.  I knew the date was coming up soon, but when Michelle answered my question on Facebook that it was TODAY I had to get my carcass out of bed and make a card for a gorgeous little girl.

And this is what I came up with while drinking my coffee whilst enjoying the peace of the rest of the family having a lay in.

The dragon digi image is from Doodle Palace and I've printed him onto photographic paper then coloured him in using Promarkers.  Now, I've found that Promarkers dry pretty darned quickly on photo paper, but I still got to show high and low lights on him.  The icing that he's got smeared round his greedy chops is glittered, because we all know that EVERY little girl loves sparkle, don't we?

Wishing Lily a wonderful 3rd birthday! xxx

Creative ingredients:
15cmx15cm pearlescent white cardstock - Doodle Palace digi image - Promarkers - Stickles - Thickers letters & number - Ribbon - Papertrail paper

Happy (belatedly blogged) Birthday, Susan

Only a few days late posting this card for our lovely friend Susan.  It was made and hand delivered on time (I promise!) but I never got round to tweaking the pic and uploading it through the week.

I'd like to enter this into the Ribbon Girl Challenge to make a project using the colours Cream, Pink and Brown.

Creative Ingredients:

Brown checked paper: BasicGrey - Pink & Cream paper/cardstock; scraps - Photograph; I took that! - Alphas; Making Memories - Flowers: Prima - Leaves; Woodware punch - Brads - Ribbon - Gems

Tweaked cards R us!

I made a quick card a week or so ago (at VERY SHORT NOTICE... GARY!!!) but couldn't get it across to Guernsey in time for Valentines Day (ordered Friday, needed by Monday) so I've changed and tweaked it a bit to become a for a card for his wife's birthday instead.

Hopefully Jules will love it. If she doesn't then it wasn't me that made it! ;-)

Creative Ingredients:
Cream A5 Cardstock - Paper; BasicGrey - Punch; Stampin' Up Bird/branch & Martha Stewart Butterfly - Flower; Prima - Stamp - Tim Holtz - Brad - Pins - Ribbon - White pen; Inkssentials

Daring Cardmakers

Daring Cardmakers challenge this week is around the subject of 'Steampunk"; a term I'd never heard of until Friday when it popped up in my blogwatch.  So I had to Google the term to find out how to interpret it 'Rosie Stylee'.

Well it seems that there are lots of free images out there in the Steampunk era so I nabbed two and printed them out on to some cream cardstock which I inked the edges of to add a little vintage look.  The greeting I created myself in PS using two different fonts to go with the lady holding her binoculars 'seeing the bright future ahead' that the light bulb invention in the other image would bring.  Clever eh? HAHA!

This card is available for sale.  Please see my "Cards for Sale" page for details.


Creative Ingredients:
Cream 5"x7" cardstock - BasicGrey Capella papers - Images free from the internet - Ribbon - Glossy Accents - Inkpad; QuickQuotes