Crafting When We Can Challenges #127 - Happy Birthday

It's birthday time over at Crafting When We Can Challenges and was having probs with my blogger and totally forgot to post my card. So here it is (you have until next Saturday UK time to link you birthday creation).

This week we have the wonderful Cheri Shull of

Karleigh Sue Designs

Prize - choice of

1. choose any 2 digi's (value $5)

2. choose current color club (value $10)

Theme: Happy Birthday

To start with I created a frame of cupcakes to go around my image using the SVG function in CraftArtist and the Scan'n'Cut to cut the file. I then added an offset to mat the cupcakes using Create and Craft glitter card. The background papers are from a CWVC paper pad. The image and cupcakes were coloured using Spectrum noir pens. The image is It's my birthday. The sentiment is one from the scan'n'cut on board library.

Hop over to CWWCC and show us your 'Happy Birthday' projects.  It can be any form of project and as long as you follow the rules you will be in with a chance of winning the prize.

Crafting When We Can Challenges #122 - Any occasion

It's been a long time since I played with paper, I've been sat in front of a sewing machine for weeks making 3 dress for saloon girls in HGMTG production of Calamity Jane.  Here is a badly cut out picture of the dress.  As the girls playing the chorus were under 18 I'm not allowed to show them on the internet and as usual I forgot to take any pictures.  The dress was cobbled together from a top pattern and a round skirt, all 12 feet of it, the same for an underskirt and net skirt and frills sewn to the inside so when the girls picked the front up to do their dance the frills moved.  Don't worry to preserve modesty of the girls they wore big white bloomers under the dress.  Needless to say I really needed my Pilates on Wednesday to help with a aching back and shoulders.

Anyhoo on to the reason for my post.  The challenge over at CWWCC is Any occasion, I made a birthday card with an image, Adriana's Owl kindly provided by the wonderful sponsor Karleigh Sue Digi Store.  I really enjoyed making this card as it was my first for about 2 months.  I used my Brother Scan 'n' Cut and scraps of card from my stash.  The image was coloured with Promarkers and Copic pens.  The sparkles in the flowers are Tonic Nuvo glitter drops and in the spots on the head scarf I used Crafters Companion glitter pens.

CHALLENGES

Sketch Saturday #418 - Sketch by Kathy

Creative Fingers Challenge #112 - Anything Goes

C.R.A.F.T Challenge 369 - Animals

Digital Delights by Louby Loo #11 - Anything Goes

Ruby's Rainbow #132 - Hip to be square

Crafting When We Can Challenges 116 - Based on a song

I'm so late with this post but at least it's here now.  You still have a few days to enter our "Based on a Song" challenge over at the CWWCC blog.   We have a new Sponsor for this challenge.

Karleigh Sue Digi Store

Prize: choice of

1. choose any 2 digi's (value $5)

2. choose current color club (value $10)

I have used some old papermania card from my stash and my new Scan n Cut to cut the shapes.  I was really please with how this card went but then I've had another look and decided that it needs more texture/interest so hopefully I will have another go and use some of the numerous embossing folders I have.  We were generously given an image to use and I chose Miss Cherry.  The song that was going around in my head is "She wears short shorts"

I think I'm going to put my image as if she is leaning on a wall to ground her.  The colours are all in the image but as usual rubbish photo doesn't really show this.  I think I might also put short shorts on the big banner.  Why didn't these ideas come when I was constructing this card?

CHALLENGES

Tuesday Morning Sketches #347 - Sketch by Debbie Foster
Dream Valley Challenges 129 - Anything Goes
Little Miss Muffet Challenges 135 - Anything Goes
Crafty Calendar Challenges - April Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes