Welcome: July 2025

Friday, 11 July 2025

Retro Birthday

I thought I would go retro for the new challenge at

The Crafty Catz challenge.

Our sponsor this time is

last Minute Manda.

This is one of their images from the set called

Birthday Gnome.

Our theme this time is

Kids Birthday

I've gone back in time for my kid birthday card. I've coloured the image with polychromo pencils, using bright colours, the swirls and stars have been coloured with glitter/metallic pens,The image has then been die cut, and a background layer is die cut out of glitter card. I've cut and coloured, using glitter pens, a small tag the bottom left corner, with a with love greeting on. Then the real retro point is some corner peel offs to brighten up the corners.

I think card making trends have changed a lot since I started making cards now over 25 years ago.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges

Wordart Wednesday - ATG

Addicted to stamps and more - Make your Mark

Ally's Angels - ATG

Neglected Stuff - Old stash/ATG

Allsorts - For a child

Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Happy 100th Birthday Critters

This is the 100th Birthday at the

Critter Crazy Challenge.

The theme is the usual must use a critter but

the critter must be celebrating a birthday.

Please check out the challenge blog and join in as there will be lots of

recognition and badges for those that take part.

This is one of my favourite images from Hetty Clair called Tea Party Pony, it also comes in a ready coloured version. I've used is several times. Great for all my horsey friends male or female, it's so versatile. I've coloured it with polychromo pencils. The background is made with a stencil from Sweet Poppy called stripes backplate. I've used the stencil diagonally across the card, one way in red and the other way in gray. The vertical greeting is die cut and finally used some red and gray candy in the corners.