Friday Sketchers 2nd Year Anniversary

Happy 2nd Birthday to Friday Sketchers Challenge Blog. Congratulations on such a successful challenge blog and welldone to all the team for all their hard work every week. To celebrate their birthday and add to the fun the team have organised a blog hop. So, make a creation following the wonderful Jacques sketch, post it on your blog, link it to the Friday Sketchers blog and then hop your way along all the teams blogs, leaving a comment on each along the way, to check out all their fab creations.

This is the list for the blog hop:

Jacque
Jeanette
Janneke
Claudia
Aud
Inge
Carole
Tanja

And, this is my card for the challenge and since it's such a special occasion, I am not combining this with any other challenges AND...I bought some new papers from Pink Petticoat (any excuse for a craft purchase, lol).

Ingredients:
Image: Guardian Angel by Sugar Nellie;
Medium: Watercolour Pencils;
Papers: Little Big Dots and Stripes (Blossom) - Pink Petticoat;
Flowers: Retro Flower Punch with Paper and Card Candy from Craftwork Cards;
Tools: Cuttlebug, Oval and Scalloped Square Nestie;
Others: Frosted Lace and Pink Stickles (flowers and wings on image).

Thanks for taking the time to look and any comments you may leave are really appreciated - I love to read them.

Hugs

Friday Sketchers #65

Hi everyone. Hope you are all well. Still got that awful weather here today...one minute it's chucking it down and the next the sun is scorching us...can't win, ehh!

This one is to send to a friend of Steven's. His partner has just had a baby girl and would you believe it...all the design papers I have and, all the cards I have already made and nothing to suit a wee girl! Well, not strictly true...I had one sheet of pink paper so thank goodness for pink CS and the Bug, lol!

I have followed the fantastic sketch over at Friday Sketchers...loved it! The image is from Dimension Forth and is coloured with Twinkling H2Os and Cosmic Shimmer watercolour paints. The design paper is Imaginisce - Baby Powder. Used the Baby embossing folder in the Bug. Punched a strip of card along both edges with the Martha Stewart Doily Lace punch, added a wee strip of the dp to it and some pink ribbon flowery stuff on top of this. The flowers are Craftwork Cards paper strips punched with a Retro flower punch and have a spacer and wee brad in the centre of them. The wee charm is a pair of feet and has been added with jump rings which means I can also enter this one into Lili of the Valley Challenge where the theme this week is Charms.
Hope you like it. If you take the time to stop by my blog please leave me a comment to let me know so I can come and visit yours.

Hugs

Terrible Blogger Does Friday Sketchers

Hello everyone! I have been a very bad blogger recently My mum has been off work for a fortnight and we have been enjoying the gorgeous weather this second week. Back to normal now, ehh! We have been all over the place. Started off with Berwick-upon-Tweed for the day on Sunday. Then, on Monday, off to Stonehaven for a visit to the most gorgeous castle - Dunnottar Castle. On Tuesday, off to Bo'ness Motor Museum. Then... On Wednesday, my wonderful children decided that they wanted to go camping so...off we went to Lauder for an overnight camping trip. Great fun...Blooming freezing during the night, lol! And we spent the day in Melrose on Thursday.Been quite nice really though. Then, on Sunday, our Jack dragged us off to Jedburgh to visit the Mary Queen of Scots museum and the Castle Jail.

Now, normality has returned. And, I have finally managed to make a card.

This one is for Friday Sketchers. I have used a new clear stamp which I bought from my favourite shop, Craft at Home. Cut the circles on my Bug with Nesties and ran the back semi-circle through the Bug also with my new embossing folder - Baby. The paper is Frances Meyer - It's a Boy. The blue ribbon says - It's a boy and have added a wee pair of feet to it with jump rings. The CS is from my stash. The flowers are paper from Craftwork Cards and retro flower punches with a wee sticky backed gem in the centre.

Hope you like it. I am quite pleased with it.

Friday Sketchers #55

Good morning all! How bad is the weather today! UGGHH! Oh well, an excuse to stay in and craft, lol! I have made this card for the challenge over at Friday Sketchers. It is a lovely sketch to follow by Jacque.

I got this wee image at the Artstamps Scotland Exhibition at the weekend. He is by Little Claire Designs. I think he is lovely although I am not sure of him on this card. But, that's just too bad because he is staying! I have had enough messing about with this one without changing the image now as well. The papers are the 'Baby Powder' range by Imaginisce. They are 'Fuzzy Jammies' and 'Bubble Bath'. I love them! I have coloured the image with watercolour pencils. The ribbon is from the 'Smirk' range. The flower is 'Mulberry Street by Petaloo'. I have added a spacer and brad to the centre. The charm is from my stash and attached with jump rings ('borrowed' from Mum) to the ribbon. The strip along the bottom is 'Papermania Ribbon Collection - Baby'.

I thought I'd give the charm and the spacers a wee shot seeing as they look absolutely gorgeous on everyone else's cards. Ha! No one told me that I would be fiddling for ages! So, after messing about with the ribbon and charm and jump rings - and making poor Steven 'stand there and put your finger on that' - it was time to start on the spacer! This took three attempts before I gave up! I got in the car and nipped down to my mums and handed the blooming thing to her! Of course, she done it first time, lol!!! I obviously need a bit more practise. But, I think it was worth it in the end!

Hope you like it!
Hugs