Paper Pros May Challenge

Hello!! Its been a while again, but I am here with our Paper Pro's Challenge and this month I thought I would be really clever and make the theme "Few of our favourite things" and I thought it would be easy, but when you like so many things it makes choosing tricky!

So here is my card.

And here is a list of my Favourite things.

First up ACCORDION Dies from Karen Burniston.  Amazing dies as accordions but I also love to cut the centres out and these make amazing frames. And on this particular one it has the stitched design around the edges which I love, so I drew through it with a black pen.

Penny Black stamps, namely Margaret Sherry's Designs - these were my first love when I started stamping, probably over 25 years ago!!

Banners I love banners and bunting dies and stamps and I have used here the Lawn Fawn ones.

Lastly on this card I used the Nuvo Aqua Flow brushes from Tonic and I LOVE these.  The colour is so intense but you can use a regular waterbrush and some nice watercolour card to colour in.  These are my new best friends.

The rest of the ladies on the Paper Pros group have been busy making cards.  Remember this is a no stress challenge we do as friends so not everyone will take part every month :)  But it was so much fun not to miss.

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Make 'em laugh part 2

Today's card is the second for my Make 'em Laugh challenge for the Karen Burniston Designer Challenge Team and last time I post I said I didn't have a clue what I was going to do.  However, I do have a fair few cards I need to make at the moment so I wanted to make sure it was a card that I could use.  I chose to use the Funny card for a card for one of Harveys school friends who is having a party this Friday (inset).  Myself and my good friend Suzie Q (who got  frantic phone message - I need your help, my brain has stopped working) and we tried to think of a funny card suitable for a 12 year old boy.   Suzie mentioned frog and from there I used the trusty google to give me a helping hand... I saw this picture......

And it immediately made me laugh... and thus my card was born!!

Meet Gangnam Hoppy!

If I were to make it again I would use the background layer for Hoppy's legs and arms to make 

them stand out a bit more.  But all in all I am very happy with it and I hope that Harvey's friend

might smile on opening it.

Items Used :

Hoppy -  Karen Burniston/Elizabeth Craft Designs

Props - Karen Burniston/Elizabeth Craft Designs

Lorna Label Pop it up- Karen Burniston/Elizabeth Craft Designs

Happy from the Happy Birthday Pop it up

Gingham -  Lawn Fawn Rubber stamp set

All items from Crafts U Love www.craftsulove.co.uk 

Simples

I've made a couple of really simple cards lately too... here are two of them.

This one was made using the Sizzix Debi Potter Fox  HERE

I used a circle punch and small star punch to make a mask

and used a silver metallic cream to made the moon and stars "pop" out from the nights sky.

Here is a little card I made with the Skull and Crossbuns bunting stamp

and the Lawn Fawn Owl stamps and the little rose was a freebie.

Sending you Hedgehugs

I made this little card for my friend Suzie Q featuring the Hedgehugs from Lawn Fawn.

I mounted it onto the Karen Burniston Lorna Pop up and you

can get the Lorna Pop up HERE

The bunting stamp was one that I had made for me by Skull and Crossbuns

this design was made for me when I was running my Say it in bunting.

But there is a simular one HERE with just the 4 flags.

These are hand carved and excellent quality.