For Mojo Monday

Hello sweet bloggers,

Here is a card I have made with the nesties and stars sent by dear Shirley-Anne (and so much other stuff). Thank you so much for the wonderful early Christmas present. These stars are perfect for a masculine card, aren't they?
I am going to enter this in Mojo Monday challenge this week and Make it Monday which is one of my fave challenges. 

Happy Wednesday,

Monica

For Cas-ual Friday - black, white plus one

Hello lovely bloggers,

Welcome  and a very warm one to my newest followers - Evie and Sara!

Here is a quick card I made with my latest stamp from Prima. It is a background stamp (done with distress ink in black soot) and I have cut out three stamped flowers and stuck them on the image after colouring them with water colour pencils. Blue crystals in the coloured flower centres and my card was ready. No sentiment on it to let it be flexible enough to be sold with ease.

I will submit this card for the following challenges:
http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.com/ -anything goes
http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/ - anything goes
http://www.craftybloggersnetwork.blogspot.com/ - anything goes
http://thedynamicduoschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ - dynamic duos

Off to bed now...

Love,
Monica 

For One Stop Craft Challenge

Hello sweet bloggers,

Here is a quick post to show you the card I made for the challenge at http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.com/ which is a sketch. To me it seems a hash of card... Too much, too busy but never mind. I have used a Penny Black image and have coloured it with my water colour pencils.  The papers are from my stash - fancy gift wrap. The purple flower you see is homemade and the flourish is from Sizzix. The sentiment is handwritten. There is hand tearing and distressing as well as sponging here hence the rough edges specially at the bottom.

I will also enter this card into:

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/ - anything goes
http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/ - anything goes
http://www.gingerloftchallenge.blogspot.com/ - the colour red

Catch you later...

Love,

Monica 

Trying to get better at colouring

Hello bloggers,

This is a teddy bear card I just made for the heck of it because I wanted to improve my colouring. The stamp is from Paper Craft (a set of them)  which I bought for Aleeza. I had this scrap of blue paper which was actually packaging for lace flowers that I bought a couple of days ago and I stuck it under the stamped white paper. The sentiment is a tape and I used colourful buttons as embellishments. The blue card stock has been embossed and there is a layer of washi tape at the bottom. 

I could have added some colour at the bottom but forgot all about it in the end. 

I will enter this card in:

http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ - for men
http://crafts4eternity.blogspot.com/ - teddy bear picnic
http://joyfulstamper.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

Am off to bed now. Catch you in the morning.

Love,

Monica 

Second entry for Cas-ual Friday

Hello bloggers,

Gosh, this is my second post of the day!!!
The movie, "Love and Honour" was quite sweet and the fact that there was no violence was good enough for me. It was a story about two American soldiers fighting the war in Vietnam and their love lives.

Now to my second card for Cas-ual Friday - I have stencilled this spatter image with pickled raspberry distress ink. The sentiment is handwritten and I have added a couple of buttons to make it look interesting. I promise the pink button matches the distress ink in real life but I don't know what has happened in the picture.

Hope you are having a pleasant weekend,

Monica 

For Casual Friday - black and white plus another colour

Hello lovely bloggers,

Hope you are having a decent weekend...

I am going to catch a movie called Love and Honour (we are practically starved for Hollywood films here) after I post this card so this is going to be quick post.

Over at CAS-ual Friday, the challenge is to use black and white with another colour - so here is my woody card. The punched flowers have been layered and popped on foam dimensional and the centres have liquid pearls in gold on them. Not sure how it turned out but Zeenya liked it so that means a lot.

Down below is how I placed the card first.

However, I did not seem impressed with the above placement so carefully dismantled it while the glue was still fresh and what you see below is how the final appearance. Anyway would love to hear which version you like. The  sentiment is handwritten on the one below.

I will also enter this in:

http://www.thecraftgarden.blogspot.com/ - colour take

http://sandyscraftycreations.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

Happy weekend,

Monica 

Cupcakes

Hello sweet bloggers,

Here is a quick post and another simple card. The cupcake has been cut out from a larger image. I have glittered it and used pop fabric glue on the icing and the flower centres to give added texture. The embossed card stock has been coloured with water colour pencils and I have used glitter on the icing too. Done some faux stitching and the sentiment is actually a ribbon cut and mounted on card stock. I have rounded the corners of the card with my Carla craft punch - not sure they look rounded enough though!

Down below is something that a friend sent me - she is a brave lady and is going through a trying time and yet this came from her.

I will enter this card in:

http://www.charismacardz.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

Thanks for the get well soon wishes for Aleeza. She seems on the mend for sure. Hopefully she will be back to school on Monday morning.

I cannot believe another week has gone by so quickly.

Wish you a pleasant weekend.

Love,

Monica