Fairy Happy Birthday!

After making the monochrome card, I went for a cute one. The stamped fairy is a stamp by The Greeting Farm called Fairy Chloe. I cut it out with a Circle Nestabilities die and mounted it onto lilac card cut with a Scalloped Circle Nestabilities Die. The background papers are from a Making Memories 6x6" pad, the gemstones are from The Hobby House and the sentiment is from a Whiff of Joy set called Fairy Useful Sayings.

Now I'm up to date with last weeks cards, I will have to take a photo of the card I made yesterday and bring my blog right up to date. Maybe I'll try and squeeze in another card tonight too!

Three charity cards

Sorry it has been so long since I posted anything on my blog. I have been really busy but have made a few cards so I just need to get round to uploading the photos.

A couple of weeks ago I made some cards to take to take to my local hospital as they have a charity table in the physio department raising money for the local hospice. I took them on the Wednesday when I had an appointment and when I went back last Wednesday, the bottom two had sold which I was really pleased about. Maybe the Nurse one didn't sell as everyone who goes there is ill rather than visiting ill people!

I will keep this brief as there are three cards! They are all on small 5" square cards and I tried to keep them quite simple. The Nurse is a stamp from The Greeting Farm called Nurse Anya. I also used a paper printed from Pink Petticoat. The bear on the bottom two is from Elzybells. On the green and pink card, the paper is from Papermania and the border punch is Fiskars Apron Lace. On the white and purple card, the background cardstock is DCWV and the border punch used was Martha Stewart Valentines Lace.

Lets hope tomorrow brings more time to update my blog!

Anyone for Anya Challenge!

I am still a bit of a beginner when it comes to blogging. I don't do a lot of blog-hopping or entering competitions, but I do subscribe by email to some. One of the blogs I get updates from is Marceas blog http://marceascraftingcorner.blogspot.com/ as I really love her work. Yesterday I followed Marceas link to the Anyone for Anya challenge blog (here: http://anyoneforanya.blogspot.com/) and this week the challenge is a sketch so I decided to make sure I got round to doing it for a change! I have had this intention before so to save me forgetting, I made it yesterday afternoon. This is the card sketch:

This is my card:

I started with the image and decided I wanted to go with an orange colour scheme so coloured in Anya with my Copics. I thought it would be quicker than with my pencils, but I'm sure it wasn't! The papers are My Minds Eye 'Bloom & Grow', I love them, they are such good value for money and the assortment is great! The orange cardstock is Bazzill, which I also used for the Quickutz Photo Corners. The ribbon was from Hobbycraft (I was so relieved to find orange in my collection!) and the flowers are Prima (I think I should have gone for bigger flowers). The tag is also a Quickutz Die and the sentiment is from an Elzybells clear tag set.