Anything Goes at LMM

It's time for a new challenge over at Little Miss Muffet. This time we have an easy peasy lemon squeezy one for you. Anything Goes!

For my card this week, i've used this cute little Monster Birthday Balloon, available in rubber in the store HERE.
I wanted to use a bright colour palette to urge Spring to hurry up a bit. My favourite flowers are daffodils (and are my birthday flowers too) so I chose the main colours of yellow and orange.
The patterned paper is by Provocraft, from the 'tags, bags, boxes & more' paper pad.
The flowers were die cut using Die-namics flower and leaf trio. The big brads in the centre of the flowers? i've had those almost as long as I have been making cards! They are by Dovecraft, and are all pastel colours, but I do wish i'd had a couple of big orange brads so that my flowers looked a little more daff-like.
The orange felt ribbon was from my stash and was just the right length to go across my card. Love it when that happens! lol
There's more loveliness from the Little Misses over on the challenge blog.

I'm entering this card at:
I {heart} Promarkers - use dies not punches
Crafting By Designs - colours of spring
Crafty Creations - keep it simple

Thanks for stopping by today. xx

Birthday Brew

This is this week's sketch over at I {heart} sketches on the From The Heart blog :)

Isn't it lovely? I had to have a play.
To me, this sketch looks feminine (must be the scallops), but I wanted to do something different and go masculine with it...

I've used Birthday Brew by From The Heart Stamps.
The zig-zag paper is by Bazzill Basics (Nordic Pines), and the woodgrain paper is by Basic Grey (Life of the Party). I popped up both the top zig-zag piece and the image with foam pads.
The sentiments came with the image, this is one of the great things about buying an image from FTH, you get great sentiments with them too! :)

I'd like to enter this card at:
From The Heart - sketch 55
Craft Your Passion - black, white, red & kraft
Creative Inspirations - it's a boy thing

Thanks for looking ;) xx

Grumps' Budgie

Grumps is the nickname my kids call my Dad (a play on Gramps).
Now, Grumps doesn't have a budgie, i'm guessing he did as a child though, my great aunt bred them, but it's a standing joke in the family that the only thing that he can draw is a budgie, lol.
So as his birthday is coming up and Jake needed a card to give his Grandad, I decided to colour up FTH's Birthday Candle Birdbrain again (can't get enough of these little dudes), this time, I coloured him especially for Dad...

I used this pic off of google for reference...

Well, it's close enough I suppose! lol

The sentiment came with the image, and there's another inside the card, Jake chose "it's just another birdday".
The striped paper is by EK Success, designed by Stacy Claire Boyd, although i'm not sure what the actual 12x12 sheet is named as the strip at the bottom with the info has already been cut off years ago, this paper is at least 7 or 8 years old.
Grumps is cut with die-namics By the Letter dies using a brown wood effect paper from Basic Grey, Life of the Party pad.

I'd like to enter this card at:
From The Heart Stamps - February stamp of the month challenge.
Crafting By Designs - just for boys
Crafty Little Fairies - one for the boys
Crafty Cardmakers - come fly with me (use a bird)

Thanks for stopping by today :) xx

FTH sketch challenge

You may realise by now that I am a fan of the Birdbrains by From The Heart Stamps.
Well I coloured another up today :)
I wanted to join in with the I {heart} Sketches challenge, here's the sketch...

This time I've used an image from FTH's Football Fanatics collection.

This particular image has a blank sign option, so I added the text on my pc.
I wanted to make a card for my friend's husband who is a Baggies' fan (West Bromwich Albion).
WBA's colours are blue and white stripes, and is why I thought this sketch would work so well.
Now, here's where I made a bad decision. I decided to use blue and silver mirror card, but now I wish I hadn't. I should have used blue and white card stock for the stripes on the right instead of the mirror, because it just doesn't look right to me. I like the embossed blue piece on the left though (tiny bubbles folder).

I used a quickutz football die for my embellishment. The little scraps of patterned paper are Bazzill Basics, from the Dino-mite pad.

As well as the I {heart} sketches challenge, i'd also like to enter this card at:

Crafting By Designs - just for boys
Crafty Little Fairies - one for the boys
Crafty Cardmakers - come fly with me (use a bird)

Feline lead balloon

This image makes me smile. I just had to colour it up for today's inspiration post for Little Miss Muffet.

This is Feline Lead Balloon, and is available as a digi in store now.
I was originally going to go monochromatic for this card but decided it would look better (to me anyways) with a pop of colour, and it's not often I use orange.
The image is coloured with promarkers, then I used a white gel pen and a pencil to create the scratches on the balloon.
The paw prints around the edge of the base card were stamped using an inchie stamp from a company called Tanda Stamps - unfortunately, they aren't in business anymore. I deliberately stamped the prints lightly, I didn't want solid paw prints.
I did however, want to add silver brads to the corners, but I don't have any silver ones in my stash anymore - something i'll have to rectify ;) - so I used gold ones instead.

I'd like to enter this card at:
Allsorts Challenge - use brads
Crafty Creations - keep it simple

Ooo, there's a few wonderful things I want to tell you while you're here :)

Little Miss Muffet Stamps now sells Make it Crafty rubber stamps! :)
Not only that, if you buy any MiC stamps from the store before Sunday, 23rd Feb you'll automatically get 15% off them, as well as a surprise freebie too.
To celebrate, there's a fun blog hop, where you could win a $20 Gift Certificate to spend in the Little Miss Muffet Stamps Store.

Also regarding the store, we'd like you to leave reviews on the products you've bought please, in return, you could win a $25 gift voucher ;)

Are you a member of our Facebook Group?
Post any new LMMS project in the group for a chance to win a $10 gift voucher.
Also, there's a tagging party going on right now, tag your friends (and ask them to tag you) for a chance to win $20 EACH to spend at LMMS, but you'll have to be quick! the tagging party ends tomorrow.

Remember, throughout February, you can grab a Lucky Dip Daily Deal : $10 for a surprise selection of Digis, or $15 for a surprise selection of rubber stamps. There's a new deal every day with each day's package being different.
 
All this, as well as our current challenge too, where you could be a winner if you enter using any Little Miss Muffet, Pollycraft or Bugaboo image :)

It's all going on eh?! ;)

Another Birdbrain...

...I'm loving colouring up these Birdbrain images by From The Heart Stamps.

This one is Birthday Candle Birdbrain, I bought it so that I could join in with this months Stamp of the Month challenge.

I've coloured Birdbrain with promarkers as is usual for me.
I shall be adding the name of the recipient of this card at the top before sending it out.
I've teamed him up with that lovely starry paper again from the Dino-mite pad by Bazzill Basics.
The sentiment came with the image, along with lots of others to choose from. I decided on this on the inside...

I'm entering this card at:
From The Heart Stamps - February stamp of the month challenge.

Cute Chicklets

I bought myself the Cute Chicklet Love Collection from Digistamp Boutique last month. So today, I thought it's about time I coloured one of the images in, and with my parents anniversary coming up next month, I decided on this adorable image...

Lovely isn't it? and a dream to colour too.
After colouring and distressing the edges, I played about with different layout ideas, moving papers around etc. Then I thought it would be nice to make an easel card, which I haven't done for a while.

I've used a few dies and punches on this card, Marianne's scalloped heart set, Marianne's stencil leaves, Lea'bilities ornate frame, 2 different sized heart punches, and SU's eyelet border punch.
The papers used are from MME's life of the party pad (stripes) and First Editions Nordic Christmas (hearts).
The sentiment is by All Night Media.
As you can see, I embossed the large dusky pink heart with a paisley folder, and added a bit of bling with some pale blue crystal gems.

I'm entering this card at:
DigiStamp Boutique - February challenge
Crafting By Designs - Anything for love
Creative Inspirations - Love
Cute Card Thursday - Clever Cutting.
Crafty Catz - Love is in the air
Papertake Weekly - With a heart
Passion for Promarkers - have a heart

I haven't decided yet whether to put 'Mom & Dad' or 'Nan & Grandad' on the bottom of the base beneath the greeting, that will depend on which card my son wants to give them after i've made the other card.

EDIT 18/02 :  woohoooo!