Ahoy Matey (and a Proud Mum Moment!)

Evening! It's time for my second GDT post for Paper Cupcakes and this week, there's a fab freebie image to work with (it's only free til Wednesday though, so make sure you hop over and grab it quick!) and it's a recipe challenge - 1 embossing folder or dry embossing of some sort, 1 or more die or punch, 1 ribbon, twine, string or something of the like, 1 or more buttons and use glitter or some sort of sparkle. Here's my card:

Ingredients:

Image - 'Ahoy Mate' by Paper Cupcakes coloured with Spectrum Noirs.

Papers - Rusty Pickle.

Dies - Tim Holtz 'Weathered Clock' die and MFT die-namics 'Mini Flag' dies.

Other - Docrafts embossing folder, Vintage Photo distress ink, Eyelets, Crop-a-dile and Twine, Black card and Pirate coin buttons - all from stash. For the glitter part of the recipe, I also used my sakura stardust pen to highlight the writing on the flags but I don't think you can see it very well in the pic!?!

I'm also entering my card into the following challenges:

• The Crafty Pad - Challenge 188 Autumn Colours.
• Crazy 4 Challenges - C4C154 Anything Goes with an Autumn twist.
• Digi Design Challenges - Use more than 1 Die Cut or Punch.
• Crafty Ann's Challenge - Autumnal Colour Scheme.
• Fun with Shapes and More - Challenge 117 Cards with an Animal.
• Raise the Bar - Challenge 111 'I believe I can fly' Anything with Wings.
• Our Craft Lounge - Challenge 134 Use Twine.
• Digi Haven - Fins or Feathers Free digi challenge.

Phew! I think that's it. Don't forget to hop over to 'There's Magic in the Air' with Paper Cupcakes and join in!!
Before I go, I just wanted to share my 'proud Mum moment' with you - my son, Sam started secondary school today and of course, I couldn't let him leave this morning without the obligatory photo shoot! Here's my handsome boy in his new uniform:

(Sorry, I can't get it to appear the right way up - if anyone can tell me how, I'd love to know!) Just turn your head sideways for now ;-)
Hope you like my card and piccie. Thanks for visiting..............xxx

Life Doesn't Have to be Perfect....

How is everybody this evening? Thank you so much to all of you who have left such lovely comments about my last few cards, I've been round visiting blogland for the last few hours, so hopefully you'll have a comment back from me.
I'm so happy to be posting this card tonight - for those of you who have been following me for a while, you might remember that I used to be on the Paper Cupcakes DT. The lady who designs all the images, the lovely Nina, was the first person to give me a chance on a DT when I first started blogging and I noticed a couple of weeks ago that she was looking for a GDT for September, well, a couple of e-mails later and here I am!! This week's challenge over at 'There's Magic in the Air' is Things with Wings. Here's my card:

Ingredients:

Image - Paper Cupcakes coloured with Spectrum Noirs.

Papers - Glitz Design 'Cashmere Dame'.

Punch - MS Butterfly punch.

Other - Ribbon and Gems from stash.

A little bit different for me? I usually shy away from black and white papers but fell in love with this paper pad and because the image had quite bold black lines, I thought they might work!?
I'm also entering my card into the following challenges:

• My Time Made Easy - Pretty Patterns Sketch #70.
• Crafty Catz - Challenge #148 3-2-1. 3 embellishments (Ribbon, Gems, Punched Butterflies), 2 DPs, 1 image.
• Crafty Cardmakers - Challenge 74 Winged Things.
• Make it Monday - Anything Goes.
• Tammy's Scrapin' Corner - Challenge 26 Anything with Wings.
• The Cutie Pie Challenge - Challenge #26 No Flowers.
• Lia Stampz - Challenge #24 3 R's Red, Ribbon and Rhinestones.
• Natalie and Amy's Challenge - Challenge #1 Anything Goes.
• One Stitch at a Time - Challenge 129 Use a Digi.

Right, I think that'll do! Don't forget to join in with the challenge - I'm sure you can whip a wing on there somewhere ;-) Before I go, I just wanna ask you to please think of my poor little ka tomorrow, going through it's MOT, pppppppppllllllleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaassssseeeeee let it pass cos I don't know what I'd do without it!! TTFN...................xxx

Paper Cupcakes DT Card

Good Morning! And it's the start of another week.....it really is marching on now towards Christmas (and not forgetting my birthday ;-)) I'm so behind, I've done hardly any chrimbo shopping so I'll have to get a wriggle on in the next couple of weeks. Today's the day for a new challenge at Paper Cupcakes and this week, the lovely Nilla has set a colour challenge - she wants us to use any Paper Cupcakes image with only the colours Red and Cream. Here's my card:

I've coloured my Paper Cupcakes image with promarkers (and a bit of stickles!) and then layered it all up with Papermania paper and Bazzill Basics card. I've used ribbon and gems from my stash and I've finally got the chance to use my new Magnolia Doohickey's lace die - am lovin' it, will def be buying more of these dies!! (Although alot of styles are out of stock just about everywhere - unless anyone can tell me where I can get the tag and the flower dies?!?) You would've laughed if you'd seen me making this card - I didn't have any red and cream DPs, only red and white so there was me, colouring in all the dots with my vanilla promarker pen!!! LOL! That's dedication for ya!
I used the sketch for week #130 at Sketch Saturday for my card, so I'll be entering it over there. That's all for now, have a good day!