Summer Lovin'

Supplies:  Whiff of Joy - Sweet Cake stamp, pp - Let's Fly Away paper 
stack free with Quick Cards, copics - C3 Y11 Y38 Y00 0 Y15 YG11, 
Touch marker RP7, yellow vellum - Papermania, buttons from stash, 
Mini alpha stickers - Kaisercraft, pop dots, embroidery floss, 
machine stitching and tombow roller adhesive.

This week's challenge on Paperplay is "Summer Lovin'" (Summer/or make a card for a couple).  I decided to pair this fun cake image by Whiff of Joy with a mini alpha "Congrats" sentiment.  The perfect card for a summer wedding.

Lots of machine stitching (and hand stitched the buttons)

Love the banners and dots on the patterned paper - it was a free stack from Quick Cards magazine a few months ago - which I won on Jane Millard's blog (thanks again Jane).

Thanks so much for stopping by - hope you have a great week.

Turning Ten ...

Supplies: Sailing boat stamp - Lili of the Valley, blue cardstock - 

Canson, Outline Alphabet stamp set - PTI, glossy accents, 

pop dots, tombow roller adhesive, copics, paintbrush, 

Viridian - Aquamarine - French Ultramarine Archival inks - 

Ranger, faded jeans distress ink - Ranger, Pearl Acrylic 

Paint - docrafts, detail scissors and guillotine - purple cows.

Made this splattered card for my son's 10th Birthday today.  

I decided to create a splatter effect background with various shades of ink that I mixed with some water and got splatting with a paintbrush!  So much fun!  I then added the image which I coloured with copics on top with pop dots for some dimension.

The white acrylic paint is a pearl medium so there is a little bit of shine and I added glossy accents to the hull of the boat.

I am entering this into the Card Creations Week: Splatter Technique Challenge 

over on Moxie Fab World.

Challenges

Simon Says Stamp - Father's Day/For a special male

Here's the birthday boy! (obviously when he was a lot younger!)

Where did the time go?  

Think I may have shared this cutie photo before - just adore the colours in it!  and those chocolate brown button eyes!

Taking time this morning to arrange Birthday celebrations 

- will be back to share a card later!  

Thanks for stopping by.

Good Luck!

Supplies:  pp - Basic Grey, pp - Pina Colada collection - Kaisercraft,

 orange cardstock - Canson, Butterfly die - 

Stampin Up, kraft cardstock - Bazzill Basics, Baby Bowser font - 

computer generated sentiment, machine stitching, button 

from stash and tombow roller adhesive.

Wanted to make some bright and cheery good luck cards as it is that time of the year - Leaving Certificate exams.  These are the final exams you take in Ireland before you start the next chapter - college/job etc.

I had the tiniest scrap of the Kaisercraft paper left and ran it through my Big Shot with my favourite butterfly die.  I love this paper and you can see other cards using it here and here.

I layered up the butterfly and machine stitched to the card.  The base paper is from a Basic Grey 6x6 paper stack called basics manilla and is an off white colour (not very evident from the photo!).

Challenges

Simon Says Stamp - Clean and Simple

Crafty Boots - Good Luck

CAS-ual Fridays - Punchy

Thanks for peeking - hope you are having a great day.

Make a wish!

Supplies:  Tiddly Inks mushroom house digi, textured cardstock - 

Papermania, SRM Sticker, copics, pop dots, ribbon - paperchase, 

machine stitching, 6x6 Card Blank, Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug

Quick share of a card I made recently using a fun digi - "Fairy Fae House" from Christy Croll (Tiddly Inks).  Added sentiment sticker by SRM and ribbon by Paperchase.

Challenges

Crazy 4 Challenges - Birthdays

Delightful Challenges - Add ribbon

Thanks for peeking.

You're in my thoughts

Supplies:  Sentimental Birds - Sweet Stamp Shop, Tuxedo Black ink - 

memento, Black Cardstock, White cardstock, Kraft Card blank - 

Anita's, cork board, Purple cows guillotine, pop dots and adhesive.

A very quick and easy "thinking of you" card to cover a variety of occasions.  It's not my DT week on Paperplay Challenges but this card fits the Challenge this week of "Destruction!" - I tore the cork and cardstock to give a distressed look to this card.

Used the stamp set called "Sentimental Birds" by Sweet Stamp Shop and created layers with cork and cardstock.

Challenges
Simon Says Stamp - Clean and Simple

Thanks for peeking, Deirdre

New Shoes!

I was lucky enough to be asked to capture the First Holy Communion photos of a friend's daughter last Saturday.  While I was waiting for the beautiful little girl to get dressed into her amazing dress I chatted with her little brothers who were sitting watching a Spiderman cartoon.  They were chatting whilst having one eye on the tv!  So adorable.

I then spotted their cool and trendy new runners for the occasion and got down to floor level to capture their little feet.  That was where their Father found me! - what must he have thought!  She's nuts would definitely have been my thought!

Just wanted to share why I'm not creating cards - busy post processing photos!  Hope you have a great Tuesday.

A puff of wind and sunshine!

Most of you will know that I love sailing and photography and sometimes I combine the two!  

I wasn't sailing yesterday but managed to get out on the water to capture a few of the 1720 sportsboats racing in a nice stiff breeze!  The sun was shining which really helped with a beautiful sky and a fabulous blue water colour.

Some boats had interesting crew onboard!!

and then a cloud passed by overhead

and then the sun shone again!

 All in all a fun day on the water.

Thanks for peeking - hope you had a great weekend too.