Bat Man Cards

Happy Monday everyone,

Hope everyone has had a good weekend. 

I have been doing alot of SPRING cleaning, 

got part of the loft cleaned out. And have gone thru my kids winter clothes to 

get rid of things I know won't fit them next winter.

Painted both of my kids bedrooms the last couple of weeks and everything is finally finished. 

So am hopeing to get pictures takin to show how much better they look. I have learned to not paint rooms hot pink and dark blue. LOL Trying to paint over those colours was a nightmare. 

Both rooms took 5 coats of Magnolia paint each!! 

But they look soooo bright and fresh and the light just bounces all around in their rooms. 

So once I have takin pictures I will post them :)

Now onto some cards. As some of you may know, I use MTC software to 

create images or I use free SVG files that my Cricut Expression machine cuts out. 

So I thought I would post a couple new ones that I have made the last few days.

If you would like to know exactly what MTC software
Does and Does Not do, you can have a look at my post here 

My husband is a HUGE Bat Man and Super Man fan So I created this card for him. 

I am so excited, I have not ever worked with vinyl before, but my husband liked this card so much he wants a t-shirt with the image on it . So I am going to be buying some vinyl to try and do that for him. It will be for his Birthday. Still have a couple months til then though hehe

This is the card I made my husband for his Birthday. He hasnt seen this card.

Thanks For Looking :) 

Cheryl

Happy St. Patricks Day

Happy St. Patricks Day everyone!

Hope everyone is having a fab "green" day :)

I have some projects for you today from Valentines Day.

Am still trying to play catch up on my posts, so will also show you my

St. Patricks Day cards I made as well, along

with a birthday card for my niece who is turning 1 in a couple of weeks:).

And while I have been away I won an award from Jennys Creations 

you can find her wonderful blog here Thank you so much for thinking of me :)  It really means alot to know that I inspire people :)

So Thank you again

Now onto some very cute projects:) 

I will start with the Valentines projects and work down to the St. Patricks Day Cards:)

This is the card that I made for my kids for Valentines Day. I created it on the Gypsy. I welded 2 hearts together from Gypsy Wanderings and then duplicated some of the hearts and made them a smaller size so they would fit on top. I then used an embossing folder to give it a bit of depth.

This was my husbands Valentines Day card. I again used my Gypsy to weld 2 hearts together from Gypsy Wanderings and hiding bits on it, I then used my MTC software and cut the flame and "Hot 4-U" svg out. I popped that up with pop dots. I then used TGF stamp and coloured her in with Promarkers. And added some light pink heart gems and used a white gel pen to finish it off.

 I created the box for it by cutting some old scrap paper ,folding it  and then glueing it in the shape of a square and made a slit in the top for the card to sit in.

This is the treat bags I made my husband and kids. I used a Childs Year and cut the image at 3.50 width and 2.45 height. For the layer of the background I sized it the same and hid the center pieces. I used a Nestability and folded it in half for the image to sit on. and glued that to the tops of the bags.

This is the card I made for my niece that is turning 1 in a few weeks. I used MTC to create this card. 

Isnt Tweety sooooo cute :) The inside of the card says 1st Birthday. 

I punched some flowers and used my Kandis Rhinestone setter to put gems in the middle. I made this card so that they could cut Tweety from the card and put it in my nieces scrapbook:) The card is 6x6

And finally, this is the St.Patricks Day cards I made for friends. I used my Gypsy again and welded 2 hats from A Childs Year together and then cut out the lucky from simply charmed. I put black cardstock at the back of the card that had sticky tape on it. and then rubbed glitter onto the shamrock and the black bit of the hat to give it some bling. I cut out the buckle from the hat by welding 2 rounded squares together from Accent Essentials

Thanks for looking:)

Cheryl

18th Birthday and Baby Cards

Here are some cards I made for a friend of mine.
I hope she likes them :) The pictures dont do them justice .
One of the pictures is rather dark..and no matter what I did ..it was still dark :(

18th Birthday

Items used:
Book-a-Trix board
White and purple cardstock
Papers by DCWV
Brads, Mesh and Ribbon from stash
I used an SVG file from Scrapped Lives. You can find it here .
Really like these little flowers:)
Nestabilities
Purple Glitter glue

Stamp is by TGF
Cheeky Beauty
I used Promarkers to colour her in.

Baby Boy

Items used:
White and Baby Blue cardstock
DCWV Glitter cardstock
DCWV papers
Ribbon from stash
Sizzix Texture Plate
Nestabilities

Baby Girl

Items used:
White and Pink cardstock
Papers by Papermania: Honey and Hugs
Ribbon and tiny flower stickers from stash
Nestabilities
Sizzix Texture Plate


Thanks for looking,
Cheryl

Surfs Up

Today I have a couple of male inspired cards.

The 1st one is a Surfer card. I used a SVG file that I found over at Scrapped Lives. The wonderful Carla designed them.
The only thing she asks, is if you use her files, is to send her a pic
of them , so she can post them on her blog to show what you can do with them.

Surfs Up

Items used:
White, Aqua, Black cardstock
Twine and Brads
Surfer Svg file from Scrapped Lives ...this will take you direct to the link
Aqua ink to ink the edges of the white cardstock
Sizzix Texture plate to emboss the White cardstock
I designed the Surfs Up tag, but do not have an SVG file for it yet .
And Aqua glitter glue to add a bit of bling and texture.

Biker Dude

Items used:
Dark Turquoise cardstock
Basic Grey Paper for the background
Brown core stock card....looks red in the picture...I sanded it down to distress it and to show the white core .
Scal file from Scrapped lives ....will take you directly to the link
I designed the Dude tag...but again I dont have a file for it yet .

Thanks for looking
Cheryl Standley

I'm back:)

Ok so I have been away awhile. Lots of things have been going on.

We were planning on moving back to the states this year,
but other things have come up. So moving has been put
off til early -middle of next year now :(

And then around Easter my mother delivered my brothers -girlfriends baby:) Her name is Kylee Faith. And she is beautiful. And I am very excited to be an aunt again !!!

Also back in March-April, I started a craft club at my childrens school. And it has been loads of fun, being able to show the ladies that come weekly new techniques as well as learning new things. So I have been very busy with that , and now that the kids are about to break up for the summer , I have a bit of time to sit and blog.

My oldest son David finished high school. He starts 6th form in the fall , and My 2nd oldest son Derek is starting high school, and Emma will be in 3rd grade .....where does the time go !! Seems like yesterday I was changeing diapers lol.

Anyways.....
Time for some cards now!!! :)

Anya Rocks the Farm

I made this card for my sister-in-laws birthday:)
I love this stamp and its such a fun image to work with and colour.
And it being summertime
I wanted bright and vivid colours.

Stamp by: TGF
I coloured the image in useing Promarkers.
Highlighted with a Gelly roll pen.

Bumble Bee Birthday:)

I made this card for my nieces birthday.
I embossed the light pink cardstock with my BigShot machine,
and used a Xcut border punch for the scallops. You can't tell from the image,
but on the black parts of the bee I used black flocking powders. Added google eyes,
and highlighted with a Gelly roll pen.


Fishy Birthday

This card is for a friends birthday that is coming up .
I wanted something fun and summery.

Stamp by: TGF
I coloured the fish in useing Promarkers.
Added glitter glue to the water, sand, plant, and fish.
Embossed the card ,and highlighted with a Gelly roll pen
Sentiment is by C.C.DESIGNS

Surfer Dude

This card is for my sons 16th birthday. Again I wanted to make something
that was fun and summery . Also I have not made a bookatrix card before ,
and I have really enjoyed making this.

Stamp by: TGF
Coloured him in useing Promarkers.
Used Glitter glue on the 16 and birthday.

Copper-Ivory Wedding

This card is for a friend . She asked me to make a
card for her son that is getting married. She told me the colours are
Copper and Ivory...such pretty colours !!
Again, I used the bookatrix board to make this card. It isnt finished yet, There is a tag that will go on the right side. But its so pretty , I just wanted to show what I've done so far:)

Stamp by: Magnolia
I coloured the couple in useing Promarkers.
Highlighted with a Gelly roll pen.


Thanks for looking,
Cheryl

Emma Bookmark Card

Hello,
Today I made a bookmark card for the challenges over at ICSketches and A Spoonful of Sugar.
The challenge at ICSketches is a sketch and its really pretty. The challenge at A Spoonful of Sugar is called" BookMark This"

So I made a matching set :)

Front of the card is for the sketch at ICSketches

And the bookmark is for the challenge at A Spoonful of Sugar


Thanks for looking,
Cheryl

It's Friday :)

Good Morning,

Is everyone ready for the weekend ? I know I am haha.
Got lots of cleaning and sorting out to do. And me and a friend are going to go watch a card demonstration tomorrow :) Always looking for new ideas and inspiration:)

Also just a quick note. Next week on Wednesday.....Please ,please,please go to
The Greeting Farm Blog and
vote for my lovely team " Sassy Lassies". Such lovely ladies and very friendly,
couldnt of asked for
better teammates !!
If you would like to check out their blogs you can find them here

Some of you may know , that last week was the first week for the St.Johns craft club ....sweet.
Me and a friend of mine named Laurie are running it:) And it has been loads of fun !! So last week I got asked to show the ladies how to make a diamond shaped card. I was like omg omg....dont know how to do that. LOL so I came home and I learned :) So this week I got to show the ladies how to make this really pretty card, and we all made one together and then they got to take them home . Loads of fun, laughter, and inspiration all around !!! So the card I am shareing today is what I made at the club.

Friends

Isnt it pretty ? I think it is :)

Items used:
DCWV paper
Light blue cardstock
Nesties

Stamp by:Pink Cat Studio

I used Promarkers to colour the image in. Added a bit of Glitter Glue to the flower wand.

Dress: Cool Aqua
Wings: Buttercup
Flower: Leaf Green, Baby Pink

This card was the sample I had takin in to show them what it would look like when we were done.

Thanks for looking,
Cheryl

Happy St. Patricks Day

Happy St. Patricks Day everyone :)
Hope you all are having a good day.
Its warm and sunny here :)

Today I thought I would share a baby card I made.
It does have a bit of green ......so no pinches haha .
I know this card doesnt have a baby baby
image on it , but I really
like this stamp by Pink Cat Studios.
And it is still a
nice simple delicate card:)

Items used:
White cardstock
Papers by Papermania Rose Garden set
Ribbon from stash
Nesties

Stamp: Enchanted Lily by Pink Cat Studio

I coloured the image useing Promarkers also added a bit of
Yellow and Pink Sakura
stardust pens for a glitter effect
on the wings, antennas, flower and dress.
To finish it off, I added glitter
glue to the petals
on the flower.

Colours I used
Hair: Cinnamon,Cocoa
Skin: Ivory, Vanilla, Saffron
Cheeks: Soft Peach, Coral
Dress and Antennas: Fushia Pink
Wings: Fushia Pink,Buttercup
Stem of Flower: Leaf Green

Thanks for looking,
Cheryl

New Stamp

Hello and Happy Saturday,

Today I have a card that a made to play along with Cindy at
Creating with the Heart. To use something you have not ever used before or once.

Its a small card , not used to makeing them this size.
The card measures 5 3/4in. and 4 1/4 in. So very new to me.
I am used to making
6 in.x6 in. cards.

So not only a new stamp , but new size card as well :)

I do like this size card, very good for making
quick cards if you need
one in a hurry :)

So here is the card I made...enjoy :)

Items used:

Craft cardstock
Blue and Light blue Coordinations card stock
DCWV paper for the circle .
Gems from stash

Stamp: Surfer Ian by TGF
I used Promarkers on him .
Skin- Ivory,Vanilla, Saffron
Cheeks-Soft Peach,Coral
Hair- Raw Sienna..I used this colour because I
thought it gave a nice effect to the hair, makes
it sort of look like highlights.

I paper pieced his shorts and surf board.
Thought it made it pop a bit more:)

And last but not least I added some glitter glue to
the hair and water to give
it a sparkling wet look.


Thanks for looking ,
Cheryl

Savanah Birthday Card

Hello,
Happy Thursday everyone. Hope your day is
sunny and bright, like mine is :)
So today I have a birthday card to share with you .
The image is a stamp by TGF called Savanah....another
one I got at Christmas but didnt use:(
This is such a pretty stamp.
So cheerful and girly :) Love the feather in her hair :)

White,Pink, and Green cardstock
Papers by Papermania
Flowers and gems from stash
Nesties
Cuttlebug embossing folder-Swiss Dots

Stamp-Savanah by TGF
I coloured her in useing Promarkers.

Skin-Ivory,Vanilla,Saffron
Cheeks-Coral, Soft Peach
Hair-Cinnamon, Chestnut
Dress-Meadow Green,Leaf Green,Baby Pink
Feather-Baby Pink

I took a pink Sakura Stardust pen over the feather and
pink areas of the dress to add a bit of sparkle. And
added a tiny bit to her eyes. Took a White Glaze
Sakura pen to fix the dots on the eyes. And
took a Red Glaze Sakura
pen to her lips .

Thanks for stopping by,
Cheryl

Birthday Cards and Mother's Day card

Hello,
Happy Tuesday to everyone :)
Today I thought I would show you some Birthday cards,
I had made a couple months ago...but didnt
get around to posting :(

The 1st was a card for my sons friend.
I wasnt sure how it was going to turn out ,
but it turned out to
be really nice !

Stamp-Free stamp from magazine
Papers by DCWV
Blue cardstock
Cuttlebug embossing folder
Marth Stewart Punch

I coloured the image in with promarkers.......but its been so long
am not sure what colours I used :(

This card I made for my husbands Nan, for her birthday :)
Really love this image ,
so cheerful and happy:)

Stamp-Sweet Message set from TGF
Papers by My Minds Eye-Pretty Please
Flowers were punched
Brads and ribbon from stash
Nesties

Again I coloured he with Promarkers
Grass-Moss
Body-Spice, Chestnut

Dress-Cool Aqua, Pastel Yellow, Lemon, Buttercup
Bird-Cocoa, Coral
Shadow-Cool Grey1

This is a card I made on commission. Really pretty Mother's Day card !!
I like how it is so simple and says so much at the same time :)

White and Purple cardstock
Sizzix Texture Plate
Brads from stash

Image is from a set my mom sent to me awhile back....I dont
remeber what they were called:(


Thanks for looking :)
Cheryl

Therapy :)

Wow , seems like I have not posted anything in awhile lol . Getting back in the groove is tireing heheh. I made some cards today and thought I would share them with you :)

Back in December , for Christmas and my birthday I got a bunch of new stamps and papers and other stuff. But didnt use any of them :( I was still playing around with other stamps I had . So I broke them out today :)

And let me tell you ..had soooooo much fun colouring this stamp in !! Was really relaxing !!

Therapy1

Stamp-Anya Yoga by TGF
I coloured her in useing Promarkers.
Skin-Ivory,Vanilla,Saffron
Cheeks-Soft Peach, Coral
Hair-Spice,Terracotta
Clothes- Pants..Denim Blue,Top..Mullberry
Shadow-Cool Grey1

Papers by-Deena's Penny Lane ....dont know if you can see in the pics .....but these papers are soooo pretty and so much glitter on them !! The colours are so Springy hehe

Ribbon and gems from stash

Therapy2

I decided I liked the 1st card so much , and was having fun,
that I made a 2nd card similiar to the 1st.

Again the stamp is Anya Yoga by TGF

Coloured her in useing Promarkers
Skin-Ivory, Vanilla, Saffron
Cheeks-Soft Peach, Coral
Hair-Tan,Cinnamon
Clothes-Top...Soft Green, Pants... Denim Blue
Shadow-Cool Grey 1

Papers by-Deena's Penny Lane

Ribbon from stash

Thanks for stopping by !!!
Cheryl

Glitter, Card and Contest

So what do I have for you today?
Over on my digiscrap blog, I have made a set of Glitters called Pumpkin Patch .
They are dark rich browns,greens and oranges . If anyone is interested ,
there is a link on my left sidebar , or you can find them here
Dont forget to look at the other free digi stuff as well :)

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Aloha

I thought I had posted this card a while back... but got to
looking thru and found that
I had not posted it :(
This was probably one of my favorite cards for the summer to make .
I love the colors and the texture of the papers and how it
looks all ruffely at the bottom lol . Plus the image is super cute.

Fartsy artys photo to show the glitter on the dress .


Items used :
White cardstock
Papers by DCWV
Martha Stewart border punch
Flowers, brad and glitter from stash

Stamp :
Sing Anya by TGF
I used Whipser Strokes markers as watercolour on her, then took
a Sakura orange stardust pen and used it with my waterbrush
to go over the clothes to add
some soft glitter to it .

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Masquerade

Over at The Greeting Farm , they have a contest open til Thursday 24th of Sept.
Titled "Design My Sprout" .
They have a template for you to go on as well, you can do whatever you want to the image .
The winner will get thier sprout plus a free months shipping , and you will also receive 3 free stamp singles of your choice

So here is my drawing. She is called Masquerade !

Isnt she pretty . I think it would make an awesome stamp.
For those hen, and costume nights! hehe.
So many options.

Am not the best drawer in the world but I think I did alright :)



Thanks for looking :)
Cheryl

Alzheimers appeal and Birthday cards

Jude is asking for help gathering cards or
other craft goods to raise money for Alzheimers.
If you can help out please click on the picture in my
sidebar, it will take you right to her post on it :)

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Spacerific Birthday

This is the birthday card I made for my son's 11 birthday
which is today (Happy birthday Derek )
My son is into Dr. Who and aliens and space ships ,
so I thought this card would
be spacerific hehe.

The image spins , so have added both sides to show .

Items used :
White,blue cardstock
Papers by DCWV
Sizzix texture plate
Ribbon from stash
Twine

The image are some super cool clear space stickers my sister
sent me awhile back .
Sorry I dont remeber who they are by :(

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Anya Birthday

And this card, last but not least, is of Anya Hippy . Isnt she a cutie !?!
I so like how I can do lots of stuff with her.

I'm not used to makeing big bows on cards , so this was good practise :)
Also got to use my
birthday texture plate by Sizzix.

Items used:
Brown ,white cardstock
Papers by Papermania
Sizzix Texture plate
Martha Stewart border punch
Ribbon and glitter from stash

Stamp:
Anya Hippy from TGF
I coloured her in useing Whisper Strokes
markers as watercolour and
decoupaged her clothes .


Thanks for looking and
please check out Jude's blog.

Cheryl:)