Welcome to the Weekend, I'm only a week late with CCM&More

Evening Everyone,
Are you having a good weekend? I'm sorry that it has taken me so long to get this card posted, but everything seems to be taking me such a long time to do. Even simple tasks seem to take forever.

Monday saw the start of a new challenge over at CCM&More where our lovely new Teamie Pamellia has chosen the Triple 'B' for her challenge. You need to pick at least 3 of the 5 options below and use them on your project. Not 3 butterflies for example, but butterflies, birthday and buttons would be 3 and so on. 

Butterflies
Blue
Birthday
Banners
Buttons

 

I chose a fabulous butterfly stamp from Stampendous for my first B, stamped and embossed onto a piece of handmade background paper created using dye based inks and the Creative Palette.

My second B is Blue and I have used more of the dye based ink to colour my butterfly, along with a little clear Wink of Stella for a little sparkle.

It is hard to see in the picture I'm afraid, although it is perhaps a little more obvious in this one.

My third B is Birthday which I have used in both the background,

and also the Banner above the Butterfly.

This Hobby Art sentiment is so useful and is part of a fabulous clear stamp set called  Birthday Collection.

I so enjoyed this challenge that I actually got a little bit carried away, and made another couple of cards.

This one fits all the criteria for the challenge - Butterfly, Birthday and Blue.

While this one would be deleted as it only has two of the required elements - Butterfly and Blue.
I hope that you will join us in our challenge. You still have a week to go, but PLEASE, PLEASE read the challenge rules properly, and don't forget to stop by and show the rest of the team some love. There are some truly stunning creations from my fellow Teamies.
Off to bed now, my arm is really aching from all this typing so I think that I had better rest it. Although sleeping is always a challenge when you can't get comfortable.
I'll try and post again tomorrow as I have so many cards to share with you, but I make no promises, just in case lol.
Hugs and sleep well.
Kimx

Best Friends

Evening Everyone,
I am currently writing this post at the lovely Sylvie’s, aka ‘Granny London’, as my phone/Internet connection has gone again.
I wouldn’t have bothered, but I set up a scheduled post for tomorrow full of gobbledygook when I was showing Sylvie how to do things on the blog last week.
I’m not sure that Dorothy would appreciate a post full of rubbish as my contribution to the Woodware challenge this week so I needed to get on line to change things.
So I figured that I might as well post something for tonight as well.

This card was made for my eldest daughter’s best friend who is 40 today. She decided that as you are only 40 once she is having a birthday WEEK so there has been lots of celebrating.

I chose the LOTV topper as it makes me think of the two of them having a girly chat over coffee. I’m not sure that they ever get the chance what with the kids and everything, but a girl can dream lol.

The background papers are from my stash and I used my favourite Hobby Art stamp on the left hand side of the main element. This was cut out using a large Go Create die and my E-Bosser.
I also added a DooHickey heart, greeting and some girly charms.

I added a bit of medical gauze under the topper and used the frayed threads to tie on the charms.

The flowers and leaves are cut from background paper and card using assorted dies.
I also added a little bit of glitz to the flowers with a Wink of Stella brush pen.
I thought that I would enter this into the challenge over at Feeling Crafty where they are looking for 'One for the Girls.'
My Girls will be having a fun filled weekend, and in some very pleasant weather too.
Better get my scheduled post sorted out before I outstay my welcome.
Hugs Kimx

A new Baby Girl

Evening Everyone,
It's nearly Friday again, and I can see that I will be spending the weekend writing Christmas cards. I really can't put it off any longer.
As there will be no time for any crafting, I decided to make the most of my time tonight.
I have had to make another Baby Congrats card, there seem to be so many babies arriving on the scenes just lately.

I made this for a customer at the garage. She used to come in every day for her coffee, until she found out that she was expecting and put a stop to drinking caffeine.
I promised that I would treat her to a large cappuccino, her favourite drink. as soon as the baby was born and she brought it in to show us.
Her little girl arrived a few weeks ago but I finally got to meet her yesterday. I was true to my word and treated Mum to a very large drink lol.

The central image is a Lili of the Valley diecut which I have mounted onto a piece of pink background paper from my stash.
The kraft panel to the left hand side of the card has been stamped and embossed using several different baby sentiments.

I found the stork in a box of buttons that I bought years ago, and I also added some pearls.

I painted over the image with a Wink of Steller glitter brush and then added some white dots to her dress.

I would like to enter my card into the challenge at Addicted to stamps where I have followed their lovely sketch.
Thanks for stopping by.
hugs Kimx