In the garden

What? I hear you say, another post from Crafty Cat Designs…No!…really?,. What a shocker!!

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Hehe! Yes! I am back again, this time with another male themed card, well to be honest, it could be for male or female(if the sentiment is changed)but the intended is male to I’ll stick with it being male themed, thankyouverymuch!

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Before I get on to my card, I hope you have all have a good day & evening.  My day has included a bit of this 'n' a bit of that…crafting, gardening, baking… not exactly in that order lol

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So, now, onto my card..

I have used the beautiful kit from Kanban’s  ‘In the garden’ – such quality card, toppers & papers (still makes me sad to think they’ll be no more in the future)and such a pleasure to use.  I’m very attached to my Kanban kits & don’t want to use them all up cos I loves them so much! 

My ingredients:

8 x 8 card blank

Kanban 'In the garden' card,papers & owl topper (decoupaged)

Kanban sentiments

Acetate

Gold metallic promarker pen

Gold gems

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all the gummings to stick it all together!

I hope you like!

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I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-

Cards for men -challenge #18 - anything goes

Challenges4everybody =challenge #18 - anything goes 

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That's all folks! As usual, thank you all for your wonderful comments.  I appreciate them all :)

Until next time,

Mandy :-)

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Man, you deserve the best!

So, card #4 …

J Hi again my crafty buddies J

My last card for the year day is a male themed card. I recently purchased a new CD Rom called 

'Man about Town from Kraftyhands

after watching them on Create & Craft and LOVED what I saw. 

Anyhoo, the Ingredients:

Easal card template, papers, toppers, embellishments are all from 

The 'Man about Town' CD rom.

Goldy paper from my crafty paper stash.

Such a lovely CD for all male themed cards. I know I'll be using this one quite a lot!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge:

Kraftyhands Challenge blog - April Showers.

Ok, my busy day is over. Will be catching up with everyone's blogs tomorrow.

Until next time,

Mandy :-)

Is it SPRINGTIME, yet?

Well, I have been a busy bee today, I don’t blog for ages and then I go & blog 3 times in one day!

So, card #3 – this little creation has been in my mind ever since I brought the April edition of Cardmaking & Papercraft magazine & the free gift were 'Apple of my eye'  stamps by Jayne Nestorenko & papers! I fell in love with the stamps as soon as I saw them! The papers are gorgeous too.

 So, on to my card: 

Ingrediants

Stamps 'Apple of my eye' by Jayne Nestorenko 

Backing papers free from Cardmaking & Papercraft magazine

Flowers & gems from my stash

cArt-Us border fountain Die

Image coloured in using conbo of Promarkers & Speccies.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge:

Crafty Creations challenge - Springtime.

Right, this ol' gal is getting tired! I will be back tomorrow with card #4!

Until then,

Take care,

Mandy :-) 

What’s BESTIE for you?

Heeellooo again, peeps,

Here’s card #2:

This is my first time colouring a Sherri Baldi Designs - Bestie Digistamp! 
I really like this Big Eye art. Such a pleasure to colour.  I really did enjoy losing myself in colouring and creating this card – a little out of my comfort zone – but a change is good as the rest, right? And, I'm pleased with how it turned out :-)

Ingredients:

My Bestie digi stamp-Snaily Nellie in the garden

To colour image, flower & butterfly I used a combination of Promarkers, Spectrum Noir & Sekura glitter pens

Free backing papers from Simply cards & papercraft magazine

Flowers,leaves, flourish & butterfly from my crafty stash!

Martha Stewart Punch

cArt-Us border fountain Die.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge:

Besties Challenge blog - challenge #15 Ribbon

Stay tuned, Folks, I will be back with card #3!

See you soon!

Mandy :)

Angelica and Friends

Hi crafty peeps!

I hope all is good with one & all?

I am so behind with blogging and I have approx. 4 cards to blog about…I hope no one is too busy ? hehe

On to my first card, this was a commissioned card and to be for a little girl ~ which gave me the opportunity to use my new:

Angelica and Friends CD-ROM by Crafter's Companion UK

It wasn’t hard to choose little Angelica herself as the little girl on the card  looks very similar to her! 

 

Ingrediants:

All elements used from the CD itself, apart from backing paper, which for the life of me, I can not remember but I know it was from one of Crafter's Companion CD's

Glitter pen.

I added some glitter to the main image,bows & flower/ leaves.

I would like to enter this card into: 

Crafter's Companion April challenge-Flowers

Well, that's all for now.  keep your eye's peeled as there is more cards to follow!

Thank you to my new followers and to my ol' faithful followers & your lovely comments left, I do appreciate everyone of them :-)

Until, next time,

Mandy :-) 

Today is a special day...

Hi to my crafty buddies!  I hope you are all well and doing what you love best J

Today is a very special day for me, and all though it’s not craft related as such but I do have a card representing this FANTASTIC day.

Today is five years to the day, that my Daughter kicked cancers arse, so in the medical world that means she is CURED.

As every person who has walked this road, either with cancer, or walked alongside a loved one, friend etc with cancer and or lost someone to cancer, knows what a tough, rough road it is to walk.  I also know, as a Mother & a Daughter, I am one of the lucky ones, my Daughter is still here, my Mother too. We made lots of friend's on this journey and we also lost friends too. My heart is with those who have lost and still fighting & for every partner, parent, sibling, friend who has supported them through those difficult times, feeling helpless & scared...

  I can not wait for the day when there will be no cancer for anyone.

But today...

 I AM SO THANKFULL

For my daughter's strength, determination, stubbornness and a firm knowledge that she would kick cancers arse!

(I don't know how, can't answer why, but she knew the day she was diagnosed that she would be kicking hard and would win)

Here is a link to her blog if anyone knows of anyone fighting this battle and in need of some inspiration & humour and a whole lot of reality thrown in:

Hayley's blog

I wont go on and on, so instead will show you the card I made for my Daughter, a card of recognition of how far she has come on this journey…

& love & hope for her future.

Thank you for dropping by, I do appreciate each & everyone of you who finds the time to visit and share with me.  

I love your views so please feel free to comment! :)

Wherever you are whatever you do, I hope today is a fantastic one for you!

Until next time,

Mandy :)

OOhh, exciting news!

Hey  everyone,

I’m blogging today with some very exciting news ...... I, along with other lovely talented crafters’, have been invited to join Emma’s Cards as a new DT member!!

I`m so excited & scared lol My first DT!  I just hope I do Emma & the team proud.

Here is my first DT card! 

Background was stamped with Kanban's butterfly stamp & coloured with a mixture of promarkers, Sukura pens.

Matt & layered with mirri card & embossed white card.  Butterfly glittered & embellished with green gems. flower boarder added and glitter pens used...voila, my little creation, hope you like it?

So, please pop over to Emma’s Crafty Challenge blog & join in, check out the challenge rules & have a look at the inspirational Design Teams projects for inspiration.

'April’s Crafty Challenge'

  'Challenge #15'

The theme for this momths challenge is

BUTTERFLIES

And,your project must have at least one butterfly & be butterfly themed - it can be a card, a scrapbook page or a 3D project.

 The sponsors for this challenge is the fabulous

'Stix2'

And they are very generously providing for the winner, a goody bag of their products.

So, what you waiting for…go on, get crafting & enter the challenge - we would love to see your wonderful creations!!!

Until next time,

Mandy :)