Floral Frenzy - Daring Cardmakers DT

Happy Friday!

It feels like a long time since I did one of my Friday posts!  A very frosty start to the day, in fact it's been freezing here all week but thankfully no snow.

I have set the challenge for the Daring Cardmakers this week to use florals of any sort on your cards - the more the merrier!  

I used a floral Hunkydory set for my Anniversary card, made a fancy fold and added some pearls to finish.

You can see lots more inspiration from the rest of the Design Team HERE and I hope you'll join in!  I also wanted to bring to your attention that we are after Guest DT members for our very friendly team so please do get in touch:

Stay warm and see you again tomorrow!

Shabneez

Products Used:

Hunkydory Floral Set

Dovecraft Pearls

Everything else from my stash

Chocolate Heaven - Daring Cardmakers DT

Happy Friday!

I hope you've had a good week - we've had lots of family time this week which has been good.  I can't believe the school holidays end next week!

As it's the Easter weekend, the Daring Cardmakers have decided to go with a chocolate theme due to the volume of chocolate that may be consumed!  

My creation is a fun one this week as I decided to create a bar of chocolate with card and I even added kitchen foil for part of the wrapping!!!  My images were stamped and coloured in using my Nuvo Alcohol pens.

You can see more inspiration from the rest of the Design Team HERE and I hope you'l join in!

Have a great long weekend and I'll see you again soon,

Shabneez 

Products Used:

Nuvo Alcohol Pens

Time for Tea Designs Bearing Gifts Stamp & Die Set

Time for Tea Designs Speech Bubbles Stamp & Die Set

Time for Tea Designs Brighter Days Paper Pad

Hiunkydory Minis - Birthday Wishes

Everything else from my stash

Vellum - Daring Cardmakers DT

Happy Friday!

Not sure where this week has gone but I've worked really hard and am looking forward to having a break over the long weekend. 

The Daring Cardmakers would like to see you use vellum this week.  I decided to make an little pocket for my bookmark out of vellum so that the wording on the bookmark still showed through.

I predominantly used a Hunkydory collection then added a Craftwork Cards sentiment and some die cut leaves.

The WRMK Envelope board punch came in handy to make my envelope and I used coloured vellum which I think goes well with the design.  I'm a fan of coloured vellum as it means you can still see through but with added colour.

You can see lots more inspiration on ways to use vellum from the Design Team HERE and I do hope that you'll join in.

Enjoy the long weekend!

Shabneez

Products Used:

WRMK Envelope Board Punch

Hunkydory All Of A Flutter Card Collection

Craftwork Cards Sentiment

First Edition Tropical Dies

Everything else from my stash

Big Celebrations - Daring Cardmakers DT

Happy Friday!

It's been a lovely week full of sunshine and I managed to plant my border up and the little one has sown some coriander seeds so we'll see how that goes.

The Daring Cardmakers theme is Big Celebrations today.  Whilst it may not be possible to celebrate with others in person in the current climate you can always send a card to help someone celebrate!  I've recently had a barrage of commissions and this one is a favourite of mine for a 70th birthday.

I used a lot of layers and predominantly an old Hunkydory Collection I had stashed away.  I made it bright and cheerful so it could take pride of place where ever the recipient chose to put it.

I added extra touches such as little Prima paper flowers and gems as they helped with the layering and giving additional texture.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend,

Shabneez

Products Used:

Hunkydory Butterly Collection (it's an old one so I don't know the actual name of it)

Prima flowers

Everything else from my stash

Wedding Season - Daring Cardmakers DT

Happy Friday!

The summer holidays have begun and it's wonderful not having to schedule my day around school runs!  I must tell you about my very emotional week though.  It is my eldest son's last year at his Primary School and this week saw me watching his last Sports Day and attending a wonderful Leavers Assembly where I shed some tears (but don't tell anyone!).  He is sad to leave his friends as he is going to a different school to them but he will of course keep in touch.  He is very excited to start Senior School in September.

On with what I'm supposed to be blogging about and that is the latest challenge over on the Daring Cardmakers which is wedding themed.  Surprisingly I haven't had to make a wedding card this year so far.  However, I did have a commission for a special anniversary card earlier in the week which will be winging its way to Hong Kong so I thought I'd share that!

I predominantly used an old Hunkydory kit I had in my stash that I won for having my card published in a magazine many years ago.  Of course, I couldn't make an anniversary card without using hearts so I used a mix of punched and die cut ones.

You can see a lot more inspiration from the Design Team HERE and I hope you'll join in!

I've another busy weekend - a presentation tomorrow morning for the boys and a family lunch to prepare for on Sunday.

I hope you have a great weekend whatever you do,

Shabneez 

Products Used:

Hunkydory Pack

Fiskars Medium Heart Punch

Everything else from my stash

A Sporting Chance - Daring Cardmakers DT

Happy Friday!

The Summer holidays have begun my end but not before a very memorable event to end the term.  My eldest's class held an Afternoon Tea for all the class parents and it really was an extremely well organised event.  The children went shopping for the ingredients, made sandwiches and served everyone with such big smiles.  It was truly wonderful.

Over on the Daring Cardmakers Kathy has set the challenge this week and what with the football and tennis being prevalent at the moment she's asked for a sport on our cards.  There are some brilliant cards on the blog HERE by my fellow DT members.

I decided to use this opportunity to make a card for a very good friend of my son's who is a competitive swimmer.  His birthday is coming up next month so I feel really good as I'm ahead of myself!

I've used a Hunkydory Kit that I bought with the recipient in mind.  It's decoupage although you can't tell so well from the photo although I did try!  I added card candi and the number 10.

Right, I am now off to visit my Aunt.  Boys love spending time there too and it'll be a break from the norm for me too.

Hope you'll join in with the challenge this week and have a great weekend!

Shabneez

Products Used:

Hunkydory Decoupage Kit

Card Candi

Dovecraft Number Dies

Everything else from my stash

Bohemian Birthday Card for Mum

Hello!

This is the card I made for my Mum's birthday last week. I used the Trimcraft Bohemian range which is definitely one of my all time favourite collections. 

I like collections because as well as paper pads they also contain embellishments, toppers, tags etc and it makes life easier as you don't need to find items to co-ordinate. 

Having said that, I did add a Hunkydory tag and a Papermania Tulip sentiment but only because I wanted specific sentiments!

Thank you for looking. Your comments are appreciated. 

Products used:

Trimcraft Bohemian range

Hunkydory Sentiments booklet

Papermania Tulip sentiments