Simply Quick Anniversary Card

I can't believe how quick the weekend has flown by, is it just me or do you too find that the older you get, the faster the days fly past? I find it hard to believe that a year ago yesterday my lovely friend was married, in fact I only just remembered in time so had to make a super quick anniversary card.

I know I used the same shape for the card in my last post but I just love this set of Xcut dies, they make a lovely small card blank. I'm sure you can see what else was involved here,just a bit of embossing, inking, punching and a little scrim. I thought that a sentiment on the front just wasn't needed so just stamped Happy Anniversary on the inside instead.

 

 



 

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-

C4E3, Anything goes,

DVC41, Celebration,

NMWC2, Diecuts and punches,

Squirrel And Fox 26, Anything goes,

Di's Digis, 2 or more die cuts/punches.

 Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

 

 

Off-cut Quickie

I don't know about you but I've always got a little pile of off-cuts and remnants on my bench, I'm so indecisive that I generally cut several different sizes of flower before choosing which looks best. The scalloped edges are the surplus from my Xcut scalloped border punch, even the card blank is the remnant left over from cutting a square card from a sheet of A4. When I saw that this weeks LIM challenge is "Yellow" I thought I'd see what I could come up with by putting some of the left overs to good use.

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-
LIM66, Yellow,
MIM88, Anything goes.
Thanks for stopping by,
Have a good week,
Julie.x

A Sunday Quickie

Evening all, I used to regularly post a "Sunday Quickie"  don't know why they stopped but here's a quick card I made this afternoon.

A couple of die cuts, a bit of embossing, the quickest of colouring and a stamped and layered sentiment. Even cutting round Magnum and Lily took only a few minutes. I shaped the image slightly and popped it on my card with a squib of pinflair gel.

If you fancy a Magnum of your own (hic) you can find this image available in Digi form

 and in various poses in stamp form with a Brucey Bonus that  there's an Easter sale on at the moment!!!!.

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-

OSAAT108, Use a digi,

Pan Pastel13, Sweet Treats,

Crafty Pad 165, Dielicious,

CIC49,Green,

Crafty Catz 127,CAS,

CCEE1214, Embossing,

DYSU66, Friendly Critters (sometimes lol!)

DRSD19, Food for thought,

Forever Friends April, Embossing.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Just A Quickie

Just a quick post showing an ultra quick card,I've had this "Whispers" butterfly stamp for absolutely ages and have never used it to make a card before. I stamped the images using Momento Grape Jelly ink and coloured it using 2 shades of pink copics. I chalked around the edges of the stamped card and layered it onto white before mounting it onto the pearlecent pink card stock. The sentiment is from a Papermania Stamp set.

I'm using this for the following challenges:-
FBW 124,Use a butterfly or fairy,
Alphabet Challenge,W for wings,
OLLCB64,Nothing floral,
Cowgirl Stamp'en Sunday Challenge,Anything goes,
Paper Sundaes Challenge 38,Something from your stash.
Thanks for stopping by this evening,remember there's a new challenge tomorrow over at Scrapbook Sisters so please call back to check out the new theme and if you fancy making a very quick card you've still just under 3 hours to get an entry into this weeks challenge.
See you tomorrow,
Julie.x

Sunday Quickie

Just a quick reminder to all of you that love a challenge,there's still 9 days left for you to enter a Pink And Black card into Scrapbook Sisters first Card Challenge! With that in mind I thought I'd set about using those colours for my Sunday Quickie.
The hardest thing about putting this card together was how to place the flowers,I started with a pink card base measuring 14cm square. I then cut 9 squares measuring 4cm then 9 squares measuring 3.5 cm I had a strip of the spotty doodlebug paper and punched 9 flowers using the punch over the edge of the card at different angles so that a small part of each flower was missing,I still wanted to use large gems as centres so took this into consideration because if too much flower was missing the gem would overhang,spoiling the effect.


I stamped my greeting before placing the flower so that I could choose the flower that fitted the available space best. How easy is that? The only thing that I think would have made it easier would be to have nestie squares but alas I haven't so had to make do with my trusty fiskars paper trimmer.
I'm using this card for the following challenges:-
Two Sisters Challenge 6,Monochromatic,
Crafty Emma Challenge 2,Floral Frenzy,
Secret Crafter 99,Clean and simple,
AS24,Pretty in pink,
Cowgirls Sunday Challenge,Anything goes,
Karber Weekly 3,Thank you,
And that's it,Hope you've had a lovely weekend,go get crafting,
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

Sunday Quickie

HAPPY SUNDAY!!!!
Sorry that I've been neglecting everybody,I've been relying on some scheduled posts as I've been away for a few days. Now that I'm back I'll try to get around to visiting all of my lovely blogging buddies and pick up on a few challenges,thanks to everyone whose still be dropping by. I can't believe how two weeks without any challenges has affected my Crafty Blog rating,I was rather disappointed to see that it's now 460 when I was just over 200 before I went away :( Still now that I'm back I'm going to be get cracking entering as many as I can.



This challenge was perfect for a Sunday Quickie,a technique that I've never heard of before called Spotlighting,Challenge 12 at Tuesday Throwdown, you just highlight an area of the card that you want to emphasise. in the case of this card it was the Forget-me-knots that the bear is watering. I then just added some flat backed self adhesive gems and a peel off greeting,in fact it was several words that I doctored with a craft knife to make it say Forget-me-knot. I couldn't make up my mind whether to make a play on words and spell it not instead.
Thanks for dropping by,I'm off to catch up with some birthday cards I need for this week and hopefully do a few challenges at the same time.
Catch you later,
Julie.x

Quick Post

Just a quick post as I've lots to do today. I just love these Prima flowers for a quick card,here I've layered 3 to compliment the papers. I love this button,it looks just like a Werthers Origional lol! I've used some of the peel off corners from my long forgotten stash and also used some scrummie self adhesive flat backed gems.



Thanks for stopping by,I said I'd be quick,
Julie.x

Thursday Already!

I can't believe it's Thursday already,you'd think I'd get plenty of time during the summer break but instead the hours are just racing by. I think I may have to resort to showing you some of my previous Scrapbook class layouts over the next few weeks at this rate.





Anyway,I made this card this afternoon, as I didn't have much time to play I resorted to my lovely Prima flowers,I just love them,they certainly make it easy to knock up a quick card.
The papers came free on a magazine as did the stamp which was with the Christmas Forever friends bear, the one which was wearing the party hat and came with a robin and stars last year if you know the one. I used this card for the following challenges:-
CPS 177,sketch,
Paper Play,anything goes.
Hope you are having a great week,
thanks for taking the time to visit,
Julie.x

Sunday Quickie

I made this quick card for one of my nephews who turned 16 this week,looking at it now I wish that I'd got Nestability Stars as these Sizzix stars look too random in shape. Have any of you got the Nestie stars if you have, do you get much use out of them or do you find them an unnecessary purchase? Anyway,I layered up the black and white card,cut out 3 stars in black then stuck them onto white card stock and cut around them leaving a white border.I stamped and matted the greeting hand trimming it and shaping the card placing 3d pads under some areas and using glue in others so that the greeting formed a wave shape.


It doesn't show in the photo but I used stickles around the white edge of the stars but I did,honest!

That's it for now,another quick easy card,challenge less at the moment unless you know of any I could use it for.

Thanks for stopping by,have a great day,

Julie.x

Sunday Quickie

Quick card,quick post,have spent far longer than I ever ment to today making a mini book and a 70th birthday card for a friend to give her mum. I almost wasn't going to post a card today but the snippets of paper on the floor and table inspired me to make another Sunday quickie. I roughly cut off cut strips of paper into triangles then inked around the edges with a charcoal chalk eye. before when I've made bunting I have mucked around sticking it onto ribbon but a quickie was in order so this time I just placed a tiny drop of glue onto the top right corner of a triangle and placed the next flag on top.


To be honest this was just so easy as the shape of the drape just seemed to happen. I then stuck a tiny off cut of ribbon to each end of the bunting and then gently shaped each flag over the edge of my scoring bone. I then trickled a tiny thread of glue around the top of the bunting and glued it in place. I rubbed a pink chalk eye around the edges of the card and stamped my greeting using brown Stazon. The recipient of this card will appreciate the no fuss design.
Sweet Stamping challenge,Spring chick photo inspiration,
Thanks for stopping by,Julie

Sunday Quickie

Thought I'd share a really quick card idea for an Engagement card Wedding card or even Anniversary, The card used just 1 piece of A4 card, I made it to fit one of the long envelopes (sorry I'm hopeless at remembering the names that they're given) so I needed to trim a section off before folding the card in half. I used a sizzix die to cut 2 pink hearts which I threaded onto a length of pink ribbon which I ran a tape runner along to secure it to the trimmed section of the card securing the ends behind I ran a pink chalk eye around the edges of the section before securing it to the front of the card.


because the tape runner isn't permanent at first I was able to arrange the hearts in the correct position before firming the ribbon down, I added a drip of glue behind each heart just to be sure it wouldn't slide then added a toning flat back gem to each heart and added 3 to the edge of the right hand side also. These are by Papermania and can be purchased at Scrapbook Sisters they come in lots of lovely colours. The greeting is Jane's Script by Woodware I stamped this using my pink chalk eye.

How quick was that! took me longer to write this post.

I can only find one challenge that I can use this for,if anyone knows of any others please let me know.

Allsorts Challenge 60, July love.
I'm off to start the ironing now :(

Thanks for stopping by

Julie.x

Just a Quickie

As I told you last night,I haven't had any time for card making this week but tonight was my evening for Scrapbooking class at Scrapbook Sisters and it was one of my Scrapping friend's birthday this week so a super quick card was needed.

Ok, I know that it's very similar to an earlier post but this time it's in blue. It really was super quick too,I'd stamped and coloured several strips of these flowers last week,they are just so lovely to colour using the copics and if you're stamping one strip,you just might as well stamp a few that way it cuts down on time working out the spaces between each bloom. The greeting is Jane's Script by Woodware and the flowers are also part of the same stamp set which consists mainly of greetings with a few of these lovely simple flowers.I just added a strip of toning paper,a dob of stickles to the centre of the flowers and a few flat backed gems. Took me almost as long to write the card and find an envelope as it did to put the elements together,simple.
Hope to get my coursework finished by the weekend so I'll be back to my happy place,making cards.

Am using this card for the following challenges:-

A Pocket Full Of Posies 1,One for the girls,

Corrosive Challenge 70,Flowers,

Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x