Forever Friends Black & White Aperture Card

Hi all,

How are you? Have you had a good week? It's Friday tomorrow woohoo! 2 more shifts left for me as a student nurse too :-) Can't believe it's nearly over.

I have made this card today inspired by the Forever Friends Monthly Challenge.

All elements on this card were made using the Do Crafts CD Rom (still a favourite of mine).

I used some ice stickles on the sentiment and made by own paper rose for the flower centre, flower die by cheery lynn. The black ribbon was cut from a new top and the gem was from my stash.

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges:

Paper Play Challenges - Recycle

Stampin For The Weekend - Monochromatic

Forever Friends Challenge - Something New (new sentiment from new cd rom)

Forever Friends Challenge - Black and White

Love to Create Challenge - Sparkle

All Sorts Challenge - Going Round in Circles

Charisma Cardz - Monochrome

Thanks for looking!

My God Daughter

Hi All,

No card from me today, hopefully I will get chance to make one and show you tomorrow :-)

Just thought I would share with you some photos from Sunday, my God Daughter's Christening.

It was a lovely day and I felt very special to be part of it...

Having a cuddle...

Sucking icing from her cupcakes off my finger!

Thanks for stopping by.

LOTV get well soon

Hi everyone,

How has your week been? Mine has been a bit all over the place! I have been on nights so I don't even know what day it is today! Haha.

I have made this get well card today, the card blank had all the papers stuck on from a previous card attempt however I was not happy and abandoned it so it has been sat in my drawer for a while waiting for some inspiration to strike! As soon as I saw the LOTV Get Well Bunny image I knew the orange and green would look really suit the papers.

I was lucky enough to win The Stamp Baskets blog candy recently so have used the ribbon, twine and gems from my lovely goodies! Thanks again The Stamp Basket!!

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges:

Ribbon Girls - Image, Buttons, Twine

Pixies Crafty Workshop - Snippets Challenge (green card)

Forever Friends - Something New (stamp)

Cutie Pie Challenge - Spots and Stripes

Do You Stack Up - Four Legged Friends

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking :-)

Laura xx

A CAS Christmas

Hi Everyone,

How are you all?

Sorry I haven't posted much this week, it's been a bit full on! My partner Sean and I have some exciting news that we have been planning and arranging but I can't announce just yet... sorry to leave you hanging!

I have made these 6 cards this morning, I downloaded the images from Pink Petticoat and punched them out of white card then put them on to some green cardstock and stuck them on to these diddy cards. I coloured the images with promarker and glitz them up with some stickles in various colours!

I would like to enter these cards in the following challenges:

Cutie Pie Challenge - Christmas in July

Cute Card Thursday - Clean and Simple

Wild Orchid Challenges - Circles

Crazy Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - Favourite Colours (silver and red)

J and C Creations Challenge - Anything Goes

Sparkles Forum Christmas Challenge - Punch It

The Paper Shelter - Glitz and Glamour

2 Sisters Challenge Blog - Anything Goes

Pixies Crafty Workshop - Snippets Challenge (green card)

Thanks for looking :)

Dissertation Results

Hi everyone,

No card from me today as I have been working and I am working again tomorrow, hopefully I will be able to get something made over the weekend.

I thought I would share with you all that I got my dissertation result today and I passed with 70% which is an A!! 

I am over the moon and it means I have passed my degree and will be qualifying in 3 and a half weeks as a children's nurse.

Thank you for all your lovely comments recently and your fab support with all my university posts!

Hope you are all well,

Laura xx

A day for daisies freebie

Hi all, Happy Sunday!

Hope you have had a lovely day in the sunshine, I am shortly off out to my friends to have a bbq :-)

Hope you like the card, it is for my Mum's Birthday next weekend (so I hope she doesn't snoop at my blog!)

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges:

Stampin For The Weekend - Photo Inspiration

Digital Tuesday Challenge - All Tied Up

Card Makin Mamas - 3,2,1

Moving Along With The Times - Pink, Pearly and Pretty

Pixies Crafty Workshop - Snippets Challenge

Thanks for looking,

Laura xx

Sparkle and Pink!

Hi all, 

I have got a few Lili of the Valley stamps that I haven't really inked up until now and I am in love <3 with this one! 

I got results from my last but one assignment that I handed in about a month ago today and I passed :-) One more to go and that's my big one (dissertation) which I should get the first of August. Keeping all toes and fingers crossed until then. One of my friends failed the assignment we received today so it really is a tense time for all of my nursing buddies at the moment! Nice to have a bit of time off to craft though...

Ingredients:

- 6x6 card from craftwork cards

- Not sure where my papers are from as they are in a drawer and I lost the front sheet :-(

- Lili of the Valley stamp

- WHSmith Flowers

- Pearls, Gems and Ribbon from stash

Challenges I'd like to enter this card in to:

Divas By Design - Anything Goes

Just Inspirational Challenges Week 37

Lilis Little Fairies - Pretty In Pink

Papertake Weekly - All things girlie

I Love Promarkers - Sparkle

That Craft Place - Anything Goes

The Cutie Pie Challenge - Glitter and Bling

Pixies Crafty Workshop - Snippets Challenge

Thanks so much for looking :-)

Laura xx

Christening Card

Hi all,

I felt a little bit better today so managed to make a few cards, I started off with a couple of small ones which I will post up tomorrow but really enjoyed doing this one so thought I would post this one first.

My lifelong childhood friend had a baby girl a few months ago and he phoned me the other day when I was in the queue for the cinema asking if I would like to be his daughters God-Mother.

I was so overwhelmed and ended up crying in the cinema queue! Bit of a drama and I think the guy behind the counter was slightly freaked out but none the less it was a very special moment. It means a lot to me as his parents are my God Parents and mine are his :-)

I have made this card for my God-Daughters Christening in a few weeks time.

Ingredients

6x6 craftwork cards scalloped card

Forever Friends Christening Rubber Stamp coloured with ProMarkers

Papermania basics pink paper

Pink docrafts ribbons

Pearls from stash

Teahouse papers

Ice Stickles

Challenges I would like to enter this card in to

Crafty Creations Challenges - Free For All

Card Makin Mamas - Use Rubber

Southern Girls Challenge - Pearls

Love To Create Challenge - 3 of Something (Papers)

Cutie Pie Challenge - Glitter and Bling

Pixies Crafty Workshop - Snippets (Papers)

Thanks for looking,

Laura xx

Apologies

Hi all, 

Just thought I better let you know that I haven't disappeared off the face of the planet! I have been off work the last few days with the flu, it doesn't seem to be getting any better so I have spent most of my time in bed so haven't felt much up to crafting.

Hopefully this weekend I will feel better and will start to get my mojo back!

Take care,

Laura 

xx

Rudolph Day!

Hi everyone,

Today I am posting my six Christmas cards that I have made for Sarn's 

June Rudolph Day Challenge

Sarn hosts a challenge every 25th of the month to make one Christmas card to add to your collection so that when the 'C word' day approaches we have at least a few cards made in preparation! I must admit I have been pretty slack with my C word card making this year but will definitely be joining in with this challenge every month now I have the time. 

The challenge this month was to make six cards as it is the sixth month of the year... when I read this my face probably looked something like this...

but I rose to the challenge and now I have six lovely Christmas cards made. Thanks Sarn!!

Just to prove I have made six I thought I would post a photo of the individual cards.

You might have noticed one of the stars is slightly different on one of the cards... that's because I ran out before I got to number 6 :-( nevermind.

Ingredients:

- card stock from hobbycraft

- blue backing papers forever friends christmas pack

- sentiment by papermania

- trees snippets from leftover christmas card making last year! I think these were downloaded from clipart!

- stars from an accessorize card making set

I would like to enter these in to the following challenges:

Sarns Rudolph Day Challenge

Thanks for looking :-)

Laura xx