Who would receive this one?

Good morning blogland,

I'm sure you will all be relieved to hear that TTT had a lovely weekend at her friends, and I have a huge pile of her washing to do! I do not understand how two nights at a friends' house generated a pile of washing, but there you go it did. If she was a bit older I would've guessed they'd snuck out to a club, but she's not older - her friend lives in an only slightly less isolated place than us and the friends parents kept an eye on them all weekend! Ho hum!

So onto this card, I made this in the quiet time I had while TTT was off enjoying herself - I showed herself when she came home and asked, so I'm told, a very silly question.  Said silly question was - "Would you like this card to give to your boyfriend for Valentines?" It would appear I'm the daftest person in the world - this is not a girl to boy card, as far as TTT is concerned it's a boy to girl, or girl to girl, or a birthday card - not a Valentine card for her.

If I'd like to make her a card - I was told - she'll let me know before the 14th if they are exchanging cards and what sort of card she'd like, but this one can go in my 'pile of them'.

Oh the critics! So I thought I'd share this card with my bloggy / crafting friends and ask the self same silly question - Valentines card or birthday card?

All opinions gratefully received!

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

Ching-chou Kuik Digital Stamps - Love Balloon

coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamp:

Taylored Expression - Simple Strips : Background

Dies:

Taylored Expression - Simple Strips : Asymmetrical

un-branded heart die

Anything else?

My Mind's Eye - Lucky in Love papers

What I did:

Re-sized and printed the digi onto Copic friendly paper, coloured it in and fussy cut out.

Die-cut the heart from white card and then again from a sheet of patterned paper.

Attached the white heart die-cut to the card blank with 3d foam, then glued the discarded inner heart from the die-cut patterned paper to the card blank in the middle of the white card die.

Attached a pre-stamped and die-cut sentiment to the top of the card with 3d foam.

Attached the digi stamp to the card blank also with 3d foam.

et voila, job done!

I don't know now what this card is! Teenagers are very confusing and I'm quite glad I've only the one (and occasional visiting one) to deal with.

Hope everyone else is getting better results with their Valentines' makes - if, of course, you are bothering. Not sure I will this year!!! :-)

Signing off now,

See you soon,

Sarah

Challenge /s:

Crafty Catz: Challenge #581 - Anything but square

CASology: Week 400: Affection

Addicted to CAS: Challenge #213 - Hearts

Cupcake Inspirations: Challenge #537 - Valentine Hearts

It's oh so quiet!

 Good morning blogland,

It's very quiet chez Sarah today - TTT's gone off for a sleepover with one of her school friends.  They've been friends for most of their lives, met when they were 2 and going into Nursery and now are in Year 10 in the same school, same class, same form! She went after school yesterday (Fri) and we go pick her up tomorrow (Sun) so two whole nights without her!! Poor thing it's been hard on her with the pandemic and not being allowed to go over friends, so this is very exciting for her.  You should have seen how much she crammed into two back-packs!!

There's my waffle for the day and now onto the point of the post - it's a new month and so a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar Challenge and the theme this month is Anything Goes.  We have a wonderful sponsor, Paper Nest Dolls, and prize for this challenge:

And the card I made with an image we were very kindly allowed to use:

Supplies used:

Digital image:

Paper Nest Dolls - Goth Ellie

coloured with my Copics

Rubber Stamp:

My Favorite Things - Totally Awesome!

Anything else?

Glitz Paper Pack - Pretty in Pink

Hobbyhouse - pearls

What I did:

Re-sized and printed the digital image on Copic friendly paper, then printed, coloured in with my Copics and fussy cut out.

Took two sheets of patterned paper and cut them to fit the 5x5 card blank bottom third.  Tore along the top edge of each, glued one on top of the other and glued both to the card base.

Popped some 3d foam onto the image and added that to the card base as shown.

Stamped the sentiment on the top of the card blank, added some gems for interest.

et voila, job done!

Really getting into this whole staging of cards thing - been fun looking through my old stash to see what I can use!!

My Teamies over at CCC have made some lovely inspiration cards as well and we would love to see what everyone else makes - so why not make something (doesn't have to be a card!) and pop it into the challenge!

Signing off for now,

See you soon,

Sarah

Challenge /s:

Watercooler Wednesday: WWC334 - Helen's Challenge: All About Occasions

Krafty Chicks Challenge: #597 - Stamp Act

Tic Tac Toe Challenge: TTTC 147 I've gone diagonally : Flowers - Purple or Pink - CAS

Polkadoodles Craft Challenge: Week 6 - Anything Goes

Gone floral

Good afternoon blogland

Still living on the edge and blogging at odd times! I'm sure I'll get back to early morning blogging soon, but at the minute it's all over the shop.

No interesting life to waffle on about at the minute - things seem very quiet, ooh except that TTT went back to school, yay! Only one day of disruptions! Also got some things ordered for her GCSE Geography trip to Iceland in September. Pleased about that. 

Now a question for UK people I've finally almost ran out of plain black card - I had a huge pile of A4 card now that's down to a couple of sheets.  Where does everyone buy their plain card (I tend to use either 300 / 340 gsm)? It's probably going to have to be brought on-line as there are no card shops near me, so postage needs to be taken into account.  Hit me with your recommendations!

Oooh and while I'm here, I might as well post the card I made! 😂

For some reason I went floral, not my usual thing at all! Here's the evidence:

Supplies used:

Digital stamp (image):

Alex Syberia Design - Spring Bouquet

coloured with Copics

Rubber stamp (sentiment):

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips: Birthday

Dies:

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips: Aysmmetrical

Un-branded rectangle stitched die

What I did:

Printed the digital image onto Copic friendly paper (re-sized to my 5x7 card blank) and printed out.

Coloured the image in with my Copics.

Die-cut out the image with the stitched dies, to create a base and frame.

Glued the inner panel to card blank, added 3d foam to the outer panel lined it up with the base panel and stuck it down.

Added 3d foam to previously stamped and die-cut sentiment and added it to the card over both the raised frame and flat image.

et voila, job done!

 So as I've waffled on (after saying there was nothing to waffle on about) at length above, I'll just say cheerio for now here, and see you later.

Signing off,

Sarah

Passion for Markers: Week 626 - Spring Colours

Crafty Catz: #580 - Anything Goes (optional twist add flowers) This is my second entry as I thought I could do better than flowers on the patterned paper, which was my previous entry! 

Cupcake Inspirations: Inspiration #536 - Pink and Mint.  I'm entering but I'm not sure if my 2nd flowers are more blue than mint.  No worries if I don't qualify for the prize.

Digi Chooseday Craft Challenge: Week 5 - Anything Goes