40th Birthday

Christopher and I are going to a 40th Birthday party tomorrow night. The Birthday girl is Alison and we both wish her all the best as she celebrates with family and friends.

Here is the card that I have made for her. It was using a sheet of paper that I bought in a mixed pack (it was the best one too) and unfortunately I didn't buy more of them when I had the chance. Cards made with this paper are therefore limited and all the more special.

In fact, I think the last card I made with this paper was a 40th Birthday one too!

Kyle's Birthday Card

A friend of mine has a little boy who turned 5 on New Year's Eve. I made this card which was completely new for me. It represents a car number plate (which he recognised immediately and loved) using the letters of his name and his age.

I bought some letter stencils a while back and hadn't really had the opportunity to use them (althought the ideas were floating around in my head). This seemed like the perfect time and created a great birthday card for a boy. I drew the letters onto white card and painted them black, the background yellow. I also drew and painted another set of letters which I cut out and stuck over the top of the base so they stand out in 3D.

Pure & Simple

This week's Sunday Challenge on Dottie's World is to be PURE & SIMPLE! No use of patterned papers, just clean, fresh and simple. No fuss! You do of course have to include a Charmed digital download which is available from http://www.charmedcardsandcrafts.co.uk/. And they are all wonderful so you really should check them out.

My creation really is simple but it was something I had been thinking about for a while and as it uses the least amount of materials it fits in quite well with the challenge. It only uses the pre-coloured images (thanks Lou) which I have used repeatedly to make dominoes (you know the type little kids have with pictures rather than dots). I have used six images all from the Love and Marriage collection.

I have stuck to a really simple idea because I have a really busy week ahead at work with members of my team travelling overseas. If I didn't complete the challenge today, I wouldn't do it at all.

You can check out this challenge and all of the other entries on http://dotties-wonderful-world.blogspot.com/.

'ave a laugh - Sunday Challenge

Here is my entry for the Sunday Challenge on Dottie's World. The challenge was to "Start the New Year With a Laugh" where you had to incorporate something funny into your entry along with one of the Charmed digital downloads.

I have used the Naughty Dottie image from the Dottie at Home collection. The background image has been printed as a watermark and is from http://www.freefoto.com/ and can be found in the chocolate collection. The three smaller chocolates are copied from the larger image.

The phrase on the card is "We must all believe in something. I believe I'll have another piece of chocolate".

You can check out this challenge and all of the other entries on http://dotties-wonderful-world.blogspot.com/.

Happy New Year and all the best for 2009

I have just spent the most amazing Christmas and New Year with my partner Christopher. It was our first Christmas together and we have had a great time with my family. Christopher met my sister and her partner on Christmas Day and he was still meeting family members on New Year's Eve.

Even though he wasn't feeling too good he was determined that we would end 2008 and start 2009 as we mean to go on - together.