Happy 18th Birthday!

Our second son was 18 yesterday. I made this card using a Mo Manning digi image and papers from the Very Fine Chap line from DoCrafts( I have had them for years!) I printed a greeting but the happy 18th came from a pack of cake toppers.

Vanilla cupcakes

White Chocolate and orange cake

Anyway we all had a great time. Especially him!

CHallenges:

•Di’s Digis Designs – 2 or More Patterned Papers •Mo’s Digital Pencil Challenge Blog – Use Mo’s Retiring Images •Dare 2B Artzy Challenges – Babies/Kids/Teens  •Dragonfly Dreams – Happy Birthday •Colour Crazy Challenge –  ANYTHING COLORING GOES •Crafty Catz – MASCULINE BIRTHDAY

Leona B

Creative Moments – Just for fun challenge

I am so deigghted with tnhis new paper from Stampin’Up!  combined with a hand-coloured image from Mo’s Digital Pencil – it is perfect for my sister’s birthday today.  She loves to wear orange and I love to wear red – though we carry a few more years than in Mo’s gorgeous digi image.  And our mother loved toadstools.  Summer might just have officially started but I love these autumnal colours together. I have used Promarkers to colour the girls.

The sentiment comes with the image too.  DO take a look at Creative Moments for more beautiful projects and to enter our challenge.

Challenges

• Colour Crazy Challenge – ANYTHING GOES 
• Polkadoodles – ANYTHING GOES
• QKR Stampede – ANYTHING GOES 
• As You Like It Challenge -Favourite Summer or Winter Colors (& why)
• Aud Sentiments Challenge -A Sentiment
• Cardz 4 Galz – Favorite Color Combo 
• I love Promarkers – More Than One Layer

Leona B

Gorgeous girl

Today is my baby girls’ 10th birthday.  I shred hre card a few weeks ago but am posting this one today made with a MO Manning image that reminds me of her; my daughter always seems to have her head in a book!  I think red and blue is my favourite colour combination on cards.

I’ll be entering these challenges today:

• Crafty Creations –  Red, White and/or Blue
• C.R.A.F.T. –  Inspired By A Book
• DL.ART Thankful Thursday Challenge – Red White & Blue 
• Creative Knockouts Buttons
• Crafty Gals Corner –  Anything Goes

Leona B x

My firstborn is 14!

Wishing a very happy birthday to my clever, hansome, kind firstborn son.

This is one of the cards I have made for him using a Mo Manning digistamp. I have used age numbers from Kanban, a self printed sentiment and 2 leaves from the little book of sentiments for men from Hunkydory.  They have been layered at rightangles behind the coloured image and placed onto a gignhambackground.

Challenges:

• Creative Corner – Spring Is In The Air
• Kitty Bee Designs  – In The Garden
• Cardz 4 Guyz  – Make Your Mark (use stitching, coloring, embossing..)
•  Incy Wincy Designs – Great Outdoors

Leona x x

My 2014 top 15

Thank you for following my blog this year and allowing me to share my creations.  I am planning to make fewer cards next year and concentrate on more sewing projects…well, we’ll see.

I have made approxiamately 200 cards this year and you can imagine how tricky it is to narrow it down to a few favourites, but here goes!  (In no particular order.)

Lili of the Valley stamped image and papers from the Bo Peep collection.

The papers are from American crafts and the digi from Kenny K.

Nitwits designs papers and a Polllycraft digistamp.

Saturated Canary digistamp.

Digistamp from Sassy Studio Designs backing papers from Nitwit designs.

Saturated Canary digistamp and papers from my stash.

CAS card using a Mo Manning digistamp

Mo Manning Digi stamp paired with free papers from Making Cards Magazine.

 

Digistamp from Just Inklined and backing papers fron Kanban.

Made for my sister’s wedding, this is a Mo Manning digi embellished with Spellbinders die cuts.

Digistamp from Oddball Arts and papers fron Kanban

Polkadoodles  made into a birthday card using DoCrafts papers

This is an Emma Canning digi, available from Polka doodles and the papers and embellishments are from Hot Off The Press.

I think this is my favourite.  The papers were from a Tattered Lace magazine and the digi is by Jellypark.

But this is a very close second!  Made entirely using a Polkadoodles CD, I did a lot of fussy cutting to make this circular card.

Wishing you all a happy and blessed new year.

Leona x x

Challenges:

 

• Bronte and Bella’s Challenge (Mo’s Digital Pencil) –  Your Fave Mo Make of 2014
• Clear It Out -Upload Your Favorite Card from 2014

 

Choir Tree

Today’s card is made from a Mo Manning digi.  I have made it into a card using some Kanban paper and this will be for the leader of my choir.

Qualifying for lots of challenges today:

• Brown Sugar –  Winter
• Delicious Doodles -Non-traditional Christmas
• Fussy and Fancy – Happy Holidays
• Crafting With The Dragon – Christmas TIme
• C.R.A.F.T. –  Christmas
• A song in your He{ART}– Have yourself a merry little Christmas
• Crafting By Designs – Christmas
• Crafting for all Seasons –  Tis the Season 
• Divas by Design – Festive
• Creative Craft Cottage Digi Creations – Digi/Christmas
• ABC Challenge – Y is for Yuletide’
• A girl who crafts -CHRISTMAS
• Always Something Creative – Christmas

Leona x x

Christmas stocking

I have used a Mo Manning image to make today’s card.  It is called Timmy’s Stocking  and is available in girl images and afro-caribean styling too.  I have coloured the image using Promarkers and have mounted the image simply with papers and a sentiment free in  magazine this month.  I hav added a bit of sparkle with Debbi Moore extra fine chameleon glitter on each tree bauble.

• Crafty Sentiment Designs  Make It Sparkle
• Creative Card Crew Christmas Joy
• Craft Your Passion – Bright & Sparkly
• Cardz 4 Guyz – Toys for the Boys
• A Random Fan Challenge Red, White & Green
• Sparkles Forum Christmas – Christmas Candy
• A girl who crafts – ANYTHING GOES

Leona x x

New baby

I am using a lovely Mo Manning imge on today’s card.  This is a digistamp, coloured with Promarkers and mounted onto a backing paper which came free with a magazine. The pearls and ribbons are from my stash.

Today’s challenges:

• A Gem of a Challenge – CLEAN and SIMPLE
• The Stamping Boutique –  Baby Cards
• http://mosdigitalchallenge.blogspot.com/ – CAS
• Crafty Bloggers Network – Anything Goes
• Craft-Dee BowZ – Handmade Bow
• Cutie Pie Challenge – Three of something (children)
• Love to Create – Ribbon

Leona x x

Best Friend

This pre coloured topper came from The Hobby House.

Here are today’s challenges:
http://mosdigitalchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ – summer flowers
http://paulaholifieldcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/ – childs play
http://audsentimentschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ – 2 word sentiment
http://craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper.blogspot.co.uk/ – patterned paper
http://www.charismacardz.blogspot.co.uk/ – sparkle and shine
http://delightfulsketches.blogspot.co.uk/ – hello friend
http://creativecornerchallenges.blogspot.de/ – summertime
http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.co.uk/ – circles

Yours in crafting,

Leona x x

Decorate a plate

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you

John 14:26

This weeks is Arts Week at my children’s school and they are running a school wide project to decorate paper plates.  This includes parents so here is my contribution:

 

Challenges:

http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ – anythng but a card
http://www.2creativechicks.com/ – popcicle sticks or any tpe of food conatiner
http://liastampz.blogspot.co.uk/ – not a card
http://handmadeharbour.blogspot.co.uk/- cute
http://digichoosday.blogspot.co.uk/ – for the kids
http://www.sparklingblackrose-craftmylife.blogspot.co.uk/ – not a card
http://www.throughthepurplehazechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ – anything but square
http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/ – anything goes

The plate is for display purposes only!

Yours in crafting,

Leona x x