Spring or Easter at Fab'n' Funky

Good morning, the lovely spring weather seems to have abandoned us at the moment, back to jumpers and coats but at least it isn't raining all the time so could be worse! I'm hoping that the sun will make an appearance again, the sooner the better.

Our challenge theme for this fortnight over at Fab'n'Funky is 

SPRING OR EASTER.

I've been making cards for my granddaughters so I can put some money inside them they will get some chocolate too but I don't like to spend too much on over-priced eggs so they will be fairly modest! 

This is Ruby's card- she may be bigger than me now (ok quite a lot taller! ) but she'll always be my little Ruby Rabbit. The image is from LOTV, coloured up with Copics, DP from stash. The die cut flowers are Memory Box. The tiny die cut tag is  a Sissix die.

The inside has a pocket to hold the cash. 

I've a busy weekend ahead, not only is it Easter but also my eldest granddaughter's birthday and one of my brothers' birthday immediately after. Two family meals out planned so lucky me- not a lot of cooking and lots of family time.

I hope you enjoy the Easter break whatever your plans are.

Thanks for stopping by and please don't forget to check out the F'n'F blog.

Chris

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Challenge entries:

TIOT make it cute

allsorts #846

PFM #831

Bored Bunny

 

Good morning, another Easter card, my DT make for this fortnight's challenge over at Crafty Catz. 

The bunny is a digi from QKR Stampede, I think they've now closed their doors. I've printed it fairly large, coloured with Copics and fussy cut him. I've given him some die cut grass to hide his eggs in - not very good is he ? I think he looks a bit bored and hasn't made any effort at all. The eggs and sentiment stamps and the grass die cut are from Lawn Fawn. The card is for my friend's 8 year old grandson, there's a little pocket inside to hold some cash but I forgot to photograph it.

Thanks for visiting, don't forget to check out the rest of the DT's lovely cards over at Crafty Catz, would be great to see you join in this time, our challenges are now always 

ANYTHING GOES.

Have a good weekend

Chris

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Challenge entries:

cardz4galz #272

Creative Moments #280

SAS4kids Animal cards

craftingfromtheart March Challenge

Double D

Relax...

  Hi. I'm back with a second card today- this one is for the new challenge at

 Fab'n' Funky, 

the theme is FOUR LEGGED FRIENDS chosen by our lovely Pat K.

Another CAS card, just one layer, a stencil and a couple of stamps. Just love this cute Anita Jeram doggy  (Colorado Stamps). He's doing what every dog I've ever owned has loved to do- rolling on the grass in the sunshine! I've used pencils to colour him to look like our Marvin. The card is for my son's birthday and he's besotted by our dog! He would love to have his own dog but the house is empty most days as both he and his wife are at work and the girls at school so it wouldn't be fair on the animal. It's ok- we let them share our boy for now until their circumstances allow them to get one of their own.

Thanks for visiting my blog today, please check out the Fab'n' Funky blog for more inspiration from the rest of the ladies, I do hope you can join in this fortnight.

Chris

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Challenge entries:

paperfunday #85

stencilfun March Challenge

scscards March Challenge

craftyanimals. #103

crittercrazy#108

Spring flowers

 Good morning, a quick reminder of our March Challenge at Stamping Sensations, 

the theme is Spring or Anything Goes.

I made a CAS card using a large stamp from Pink Ink, coloured it with Copic markers, stamped the sentiment (magazine gift) and that's about it! I know it's a bit early for lilacs yet but hopefully won't be long. 

Please check out the main challenge blog for lots of inspiration and full details of how to join in -

 thanks for stopping by

Chris

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Challenge entries:

I spy... #35/6

simonsays CAS

addictedtostamps #513

TIOT Spring

PFM #829

creativeinspiration #36

beautifulblossoms #39

thefourseasons March Challenge

daisychain #105

Santa is coming (but not for a while...)

 Good afternoon, a little late but here's my DT card for the new challenge at Sweet Stampin',  I seem to have totally lost the plot this week and forgot all about it. 

The theme for this fortnight is GINGHAM/ TARTAN/PLAID. 

Tartan always makes me think of Christmas so I decided on a Christmas card- then picked gingham paper! The image is of course one of Mo's cute digis, which I've coloured using copic markers. 2 different papers from my left overs box which matched the colours, the gingham piece quite large and smaller strip of the the one with the red hearts which I cut with a scalloped border die to allow the gingham pattern to show through. I added the red die cut frame and tiny heart buttons to finish and stamped the sentiment combining stamps from 2 sets. 

Thanks for stopping by

Chris

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Challenge entries:

kraftychicks #811

addictedtostamps #512

ConBC #18 (I-Christmas/ Free/Stamping)

MLCCB #67

hollyandivy #200

Birthday Girl

 Good morning, once again it's time for a new challenge at Crafty Catz, the theme is, as always -ANYTHING GOES.

March is rushing past at a fair old pace and my eldest granddaughter's birthday is coming up at the beginning of April so I thought I'd get ahead and make her card now. I'm finding it hard to believe that our sweet little Livvy is almost 19! She's away at uni at present but will be home for her birthday as it will be the Easter break, I know she is happy and doing well but I miss seeing her regularly so I'm looking forward to catching up with her adventures.

The image I've used is from Mirtillamente, I've coloured her to look like our girl with dark brown hair  and grey/green eyes. Both of the background panels are stencilled, the pink one using an A&C stencil and one from Uniko for the grey panel. The two sentiments are from LOTV. I've added some little die cut embellishments (I love the paperclip, it looks so realistic!) and tiny glossy dots. 

There's some lovely inspiration makes from the rest of the ladies over at Crafty Catz, so do check them out- hope to see you play along this fortnight.

Thanks for visiting, have a good weekend.

Chris

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Challenge entries:

craftrocket #134

creativeknockouts #566

TIOT feminine

digichoosday #3

ilovepromarkers #602

aplacetostart -no squares

mirtillamente #53

Daisy tag

 Hello, some time to play and I finally managed to make something that isn't for a DT! I haven't managed to make anything for the ATC and Tag Along Challenge for a while and really wanted to join in this month. Walking back from the woods with Marvin, enjoying the sunshine and pogging into the neighbouring gardens (as you do ) I spied a lovely lush green lawn- covered with daisies, it was so pretty and inspired me to make this tag. The die cut tag is Studio Light, 2 layers cut from white card, the middle layer is a green striped cardstock. The daisy die and stamp set is Polkadoodles- I used the die to cut the daisy flower but fussy cut the leaf and stem as I really don't like the white borders the die leaves around the stamped image. I used a Visible Image stamp from a set called drag and drip to stamp the green strips behind the daisy in 3 shades of green Dioxides. The sentiment is a TH stamp. Sorry about the photo but the light wasn't great and it's the best I could get. 

thanks for visiting.

Chris

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Challenge entries:

tag-alongandatc #March Challenge

mmmchallenge #273

colorfuloptions March Challenge

daisychain #105

craftrocket #134

craftygalscorner #275