Critter Crazy Challenge #110

Hello and welcome to my blog.

This is my Design Team card for the May Critter Crazy Challenge. Challenges start on the 1st of the month and are anything goes. but you must include an animal of some sort as the main focus. This is in the broadest sense of the word and can be furry, feather or insect etc. 

The main focus of my card is a Hunkydory Moonstone die called Pretty Petals Dog. I made this birthday card for a dear friend who loves dogs! She loved it  😊

I also used the following:
8x8 Black card blank
Card/paper: Black Glossy, White Shimmer, White Textured, American Crafts Bones paper
Dies: Maximum Crafts 8x8 Easy Frame die, Happy Birthday sentiment die
Stamps: Paw Prints, John Next Door Amusing Sentiments stamp

I hope you like the card I've made. If you've got time it would be great if you could leave me a comment to let me know what you think of it. I would really appreciate it.

I'd like to enter this card for the following challenges: 

Classic Design Challenge #03 ATG
Crafter's Café April ATG
Crafty Catz #172
Creative Crafters Challenge #99
Creative Fingers Challenge Blog #321
Crafts Galore Encore #147
Die Cut Divas May 
Love To Craft Challenge Blog #92

Please also join us at the Critter Crazy Challenge this month. We'd love to see your Critter makes 

  

Unicorn in the woods

Hello,

It's Challenge time again over at the Heart's Quest Fantasy Challenge Blog.  As always it starts the first Saturday of the month, and  lasts for about a month. I do hope that you'll join us there. 

The theme of the Challenge, as always, is Fantasy, however as long as it's Fantasy pretty much anything goes. If you're not sure what we mean by that just check out the Challenge Rules, or in the side bar on the Challenge blog. We also have a monthly optional theme, this month it's Unicorns. I had to come up with something with limited resources this month as  I'm still in the process of setting up a new PC, plus my printer's playing up! So my craft room is a mess, and my main die cutting machines aren't accessible at the moment!

Fortunately I remembered a Hunkydory kit from which I'd got some bits left over. So I chose a unicorn image from the Little Book of Twilight Kingdom.

Card recipe

7 x 7 black card blank

Hunkydory Little Book of Twilight Kingdom

Maximum Crafts 5x7 Easy frame die set

John Next Door Flags dies

White card

Pink paper from Anna Marie Garden Blooms paper pad

Stamps free with magazines

Glamour Dust glitter to highlight the stars and for dots on the frame

I'd like to enter this card for the following challenges:

A Perfect Time to Craft Open Challenge April #4 2025

Classic Design Challenge #03 2025 Mar/Apr
Crafts Galore Encore #134 April 2025

Crafty Catz #691
Creative Crafters Challenge #86
Creative Fingers Challenge Blog #298
Creative Inspirations Challenge #25
Love To Craft Challenge Blog #85

I hope you like the card I've made, please leave a comment to let me know what you think if you've got time. I do appreciate them and like to read them.

Please also join us over at the Heart's Quest Fantasy Challenge Blog this month, we'd love to see you.

Hark the herald angels ...

Hello,

Welcome to another Challenge over at the Heart's Quest Fantasy Challenge Blog.  As always it starts the first Saturday of the month, and as usual it lasts for about a month. I do hope that you'll join us. 

The theme of the Challenge, as always, is Fantasy, however as long as it's Fantasy pretty much anything goes. If you're not sure what we mean by that just check out the guidance in the Challenge Rules, and in the side bar on the Challenge blog. 

We also have a monthly optional theme now, this month, as we're approaching Christmas, it's Angels. I've chosen to create a card this month using a Hunkydory image.

Card recipe

8 x 8 Kraft card blank

Gold Mirri card

White embossedcard

Maximumcrafts EasyFrames 1 7 x 7 and 8 x 8 die sets

Hunkydory Peace on Earth angel image and sentiment

Craft Artist Mica Magic - gold used on the frames

Gold brads from my stash 

I hope you like the card I've made, please leave a comment to let me know what you think if you've got time. I do appreciate them and like to read them.

Please also join us over at the Heart's Quest Fantasy Challenge Blog this month, we'd love to see you.

Let it snow

Hello there, 

It's time for a new Pearly Sparkles challenge which, as always, starts on the 1st of the month, over at the Pearly Sparkles Challenge Blog. Our theme this month is Christmas or Winter, as it's November the festive season is nearly on us! I decided to make a wintery Christmas card.

I do hope you'll join us over at the Pearly Sparkles Challenge Blog this month and share your makes with us.   

Card recipe

8 x 8 white card blank

Navy card, White card, Silver matt mirri card

Hunkydory Snowfall acetate 

Crafter's Companion Snowflakes embossing folder

John Next Door dies: Let it Snow and snowflakes, Sam's Snowflakes die set

Craft Artist Silver Festive Stamens and silver Mica Magic

Silver brads and snowflake brad from my stash

I hope you like the card I've made, please leave a comment to let me know what you think if you've got time. I do appreciate them and like to read them.

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

A Perfect Time to Craft Open Challenge #11
Classic Design Challenge #10

Crafts Galore Encore #117 November

Creative Inspirations Challenge #8

Love To Craft Challenge Blog #77

Please also join us over at the Pearly Sparkles Challenge Blog this month, we'd love to see your makes.

P is for poppies

 Hello there,

First of all I'd like to wish you a happy New Year, let's hope 2021 is better for us all than 2020 has been.

Its been a while since I posted as I've had a lot going on, but I'm back with the first Pearly Sparkles challenge of this year, which is to create something with a P. So I've made a card with poppies on it, it's for my mother-in-law who loves poppies. As usual the challenge lasts for around a month. I do hope you'll join us. 

Card recipe

8 x 8 white card blank
Gold mirri card
Hunkydory poppies kit
Red card
Tattered Lace alphabet die
Sizzix heart dies


I hope you like the card I've made, please leave me a comment if you've time, I love reading them. 

Please also join us over at the Pearly Sparkles challenge this month, we'd love to see you.

Engagement card and box

Hello,

One of my nieces announced her engagement a few days ago so I thought I'd make a special card for her, and a box for it too.

I started with a white 8 x 8 card blank and cut 2.5 inches off the right side of the front. I decorated the front with a purple mat and then cream card which had been embossed with the Tonic Amelia embossing folder. I chose a Hunkydory Engagement verse from the Second Little Book of Poetry and put it on a purple mat. I put this on the front with foam pads.

The inside of the card was decorated with embossed cream card on a periwinkle mat, and hearts decorated with the couple's initials cut using the Tonic Clarice die and Affections hearts. I created an area to write with cream paper on a purple mat and added the Celebrate Tonic Miniature Moments die.

To make the box I used the Hunkydory Adorable Scoreboard. I created a double mat using purple and cream card, and decorated it with cream card embossed using the Amelia embossing folder, the Affections heart and the couple's initials.

I hope you like this project, thanks for stopping by, if you've time to leave a comment I'd really appreciate it.

Fairy birthday card

Hello,

I made this birthday card for my niece who was a bit like Agnes from the Minions movies when she was little, and likes unicorns!

I used an 8 x 8 black card blank and the Hunkydory Twilight Kingdom kit, plus some marble Adorable Scorable card as a mat for the topper. Then I added some lilac pearls to finish it off.

I forgot to take a photo of the inside and have already left the card for her! However what I did was use an insert on the right side and put a matching border down the left of the insert. I also cut a unicorn from white card using the Magical Kingdom Moonstone die set and added that to the left side of the inside.

Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment if you'd like to.

Another anniversary card

Hello,
this is an anniversary card made for my bother and sister-in-law.

I basically used two 8 x 8 cards with the backs glued together, I then scored the two fronts down the middle to create a folded back gate fold card.

To decorate the inside I had chosen a page from the Hunkydory Little Book of Anniversaries which I layered on to silver mirri and then I created a mat of pink patterned paper to co-ordinate with the image. 

On the two front panels I matted and layered the same pink patterned paper on to silver mirri to create two panels. I decorated the panels with the Tonic Happy Anniversary sentiment, Affections heart and initials cut using the Tonic Clarice alphabet, all cut from deep pink card and silver mirri layered together.

Thanks for stopping by, if you've time to leave a comment I'd really appreciate it.

Happy anniversary purple and white

Hello,

this is an anniversary card made for friends of mine.

I basically used two 7 x 7 cards with the backs glued together, I then scored the two fronts down the middle to create a folded back gate fold card.

To decorate the inside I had chosen a page from the Hunkydory Little Book of Anniversaries so I created a mat of lilac card to co-ordinate with the image. I matted the image on to purple card, and cut strips using the Tonic Intricate Frame DL layering die set from the same purple card to decorate the sides.

On the front I created panels from purple card on to which I layered rose patterned embossed card which I'd dusted with purple ink to highlight the embossing. I decorated the panels with the Tonic Happy Anniversary sentiment, Affections heart and initials cut using the Tonic Clarice alphabet, all cut from purple card.

I'm entering this for the Win & Tonic Challenge for July:Anything Goes.

Thanks for stopping by, if you've time to leave a comment I'd really appreciate it.

Best wishes in cream and gold

Hello,

This is a card I've made using some of the "leftovers" in my bits and bobs box.

I used a light gold 7 x 7 card blank and a mix of cream, dark gold, light gold and a cream and gold patterned card backing card from Hunkydory. The centre piece is made using the Tonic Decorative Wreath die with different elements in gold, cream and dark gold which were left over from other cards. The flower was cut using a Tattered Lace die, and the sentiment is cut from a Kanban page of sentiments. I finished it off in the corners and the middle of the flower with gold pearls.

I'm entering this for the following challenge:
Win & Tonic July: Anything goes


Thanks for stopping by, any comment you'd like to leave would be much appreciated.

Silver anniversary card

Hello,

this is the 25th anniversary card I made for a friend.

I used an 8 x 8 silver card blank on to which I matted and layered black card and then a silver embossed patterned card. I used an image from the Hunkydory Anniversaries Little Book matted on to black card.

To finish it off I die cut my friends' initials using the Tonic Clarice die set and a heart using a Crafter's Companion from silver mirri card, and added some Craftwork Cards silver card candi and a silver and white organza ribbon bow.

Thanks for stopping by, if you've time to leave a comment I'd really appreciate it.

Rock and records birthday card

Hello there,

this is the birthday card I made for my brother this year, as he was getting a lot of music type presents I thought this quite fitting.

I started with an 8 x 8 black card blank and created a fold back front. I used black card and white card to create some layers in the font and inside. Then on to that layered some record paper from a Vintage Americana paper booklet which came free with a magazine ages ago.

I took an image from the Hunkydory Little Book of Everything with guitars on and matted it on to Limetree Crafts Terracotta Blaze card and black card.

I finished it off by die cutting the birthday wishes sentiment using the Tonic Miniature Moments set, and notes using the Tonic Rococo Musical dies out of white card. I just dotted them about the card.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you like my card, if you've time to leave a comment that would be great.

I'm entering this for the following challenge:
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge July 2017

Birthday cat

Hello,

this is card made with the Hunkydory Twilight Kingdom Little Book which I made for my niece who likes cats.

I used a 5 x 7 landscape card blank and matted and layered it with black card and some purple card. I mounted the page from the little book on to black card, then put this on the the card front with foam pads. Using the Tonic Miniature Moments die I die cut the birthday wishes sentiment from black card, added some swirls of black gems and and finished it off with  the numbers 3 and 0 in silver stickers.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you like it, please leave me a comment if you have time.

You rock birthday card

Hello,

Another birthday card using a combination of Tonic dies and a Hunkydory image, this one is from the Little Book of Everything, and was made for my nephew's birthday.

I picked out the brown in the image background and used a 7 x 7 kraft card blank. On to this I matted and layered red card and then cream which co-ordinated with the colours in the image. I layered the image on to the same cream and red card, then put this on the left side on the card front using foam pads.

I used the Tonic Miniature Moments Birthday wishes die and cut it in red and cream card, drop shadowed the red one on to the cream one and placed this on the card front. I also cut three notes from red card using the Tonic Rococo music dies and put them on the front.

Thanks for stopping by please leave a comment if you have time as I'd be really grateful.

I'm entering this into the following challenge:
Dies R Us 75: Celebrations

16th birthday card

Hello,

this is a card I made for a friend's daughter for her 16th birthday - a bit of a milestone birthday so I wanted to choose something with some meaningful words.

This was made from the Hunkydory Wishes on Wings kit which has some really pretty images in it and nice verses on tags. As it was a special birthday and I wanted to fit an image and verse on the front I used and 8 x 8 card blank - as I was handing it over no need to worry about postage costs! Having chosen the toppers I used the complementary backing card to cover the front of the card. I used the Tonic Art Nouveau die to cut two mats from Adorable Scorable card I had in my stash to put the topper and verse on to.

To finish it off I chose a matching sentiment, added the number 16 die cut from silver mirri to match the foiling on the toppers and added a double silver bow.

Thanks for stopping by, if you've time to leave a comment I'd really appreciate it.

Engagement card and box

Hello,
today I'm sharing an engagement card and box I made from a Hunkydory kit.

I needed something I could make quickly as we went on holiday just after the party invite so had to do something quickly when we got back. This kit was ideal as the instructions were so clear. It came in a pack of three others in the same style but for other occasions.

I made the card, which is in fact a box card with a stand, following the instructions. The outer box was pretty easy too and I decorated it with some silver mirri card, a topper and sentiment from another HD set. I lined the inside of the box with paper from yet another HD kit to finish it off and popped some tissue paper in to hold the card inside.

My friends were really pleased with the card so I shall definitely make up the others in the kit ready for the right occasion.




Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment if you'd like to - I'd be really grateful.

Easter cards

Hello,

I usually make religious cards for Easter but this year I decided to make a couple of non-religious ones. My religious card is here Easter Cross.

I chose images from the Little Book of Everything to match the recipients' interests, birds for my Mom, cats for Mother-in-law and rabbits for an Aunt.

For the bird and cat ones I found some patterned Hunkydory backing card which co-ordinated with the images. For the rabbit one I recycled the green card Tonic pack their dies in! I then used some plain card to mat the image and patterned backing card on to.

I stamped a sentiment, added a bit of colour with my Promarkers and then matted them on to the plain coloured card. I finished them off with a bow in the case of the rabbit and bird one, and an acetate butterfly for the cat one as it had butterflies in the image.

These were quick and easy to make which was what I needed as I had to make them in a hurry!

Thanks for stopping by, if you've time to leave a copy it would be really appreciated.

Birthday hedgehog

Hello there,

this is a card for a male friend which bucks the trend of cars, sport or wine - although I think he's had all of those in the past! I happened to find out that he really likes hedgehogs so when I saw this image I immediately decided to use it for his birthday card.

It's made using mainly Hunkydory products, the image is from the Little Book of Everything, the card stock is Adorable Scorable, and the sentiment is from a Hunkydory set I bought ages ago. I finished it off using a few gold pearls to match the foiling.

My friend was really pleased with the card, and I hope you like it too. Thanks for stopping by, if you'd like to leave a comment I'd really appreciate it.

Car birthday card

Hello there,
I've made a couple of variations of this card, one is a plain flat card, the other has a diagonal cut front to it. Men can be difficult to make for and  generally seem to use cars, sport or wine! The plan one was quite quick and easy to make - good job as I was finishing it off the day before the birthday. I had a bit more time for the other so decided to tray the cut front.

It's an 8 x 8 white card blank matted and layered with a dark green mat and a light green, linen effect metallic card - I thought they picked out the colours in the car. The image is from the Hunkydory Little Book of Everything and has been matted onto the green card, then fixed to the card front using foam pads for dimension.
The embellishments are cogs cut from black card using X-Cut dies, and the sentiment is a Craftwork Cards one layered on to a light green then a dark green mat, both cut using the cogs dies.

I'm quite pleased with this design and have made another plain version one already, and hope you like it too. I've a couple more male birthdays this year so can see me making more like this.

If you've time to leave a comment I'd really appreciate it.

Mothers' Day cards

Hello,
these are the cards I made for my Mom and my Mother-in-law this year.

Both were made using a Hunkydory kit which was a members gift, and were made using 8 x 8 cards fold back on the front.

I also used Tonic dies: the Mothers' day die from the Affections die set and also the Sent with Love sentiment from the Miniature Moments collection.

I finished off my Mom's card with some blue roses and Mother-in-law's with some gold pearls.

Thanks for stopping by, if you'd like to leave a comment it would really be appreciated.