Book card

This is the second of these cards I've made. To be honest I preferred the first one I made but of course I didn't take a picture of it before it was collected.  Always the way isn't it.
I used papermania papers, Wryn and Emmy BFF digi and a Whimsy sentiment stamp.  The other sentiment and bunting I created on the pc.
There was a lot of folding to create the 'pages' of the book, so I thought I would enter this month's cupcake craftroom challenge - which is layers.   Laters ;)

sketch and stash, and stash and stash

This card may look simple, I suppose it is simple but, my oh my it was a labour of love.  My sister in law asked me to make a couple of cards for her sister, one from her, one from my nephews, I decided to follow the sketch at Sketch N Stash.  Its a really straight forward sketch but could I make it work - this was actually my third attempt.  I don't know what was wrong with the other two but they really didn't work.  I'm happy with this one though and thankfully so is my SIL and her boys.
The sentiment is computer generated, the doily I cut on my cricut and every thing else is from kanban.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges
Sketch N Stash #91
Celebrate the Occasion #70 Happy Birthday
J & C Creations Anything Goes

Yikes my first post..... I've no idea what to write so I'll start with showing a card I recently made for a colleagues birthday. Nicola is a joy to work with, (in fact my whole team is but), back to Nicola. She is celebrating her 21st birthday this week and on Saturday night a whole bunch of them went out in Belfast dressed up in salior outfits. I cannot wait to see the pics and hear about what they got up to and if I ask nicely they might even let me share a few here.

Coming up with a card to fit the bill was easier said than done but I am quite pleased with the end result and Nicola seemed delighted with it.

I've used HOTP Papers, apart from the watery effect paper which came from Craftworld - I'm not sure who makes it but it only comes in A3 sheets. The "porthole" was cut with my beloved nesties and the "rivets" are brads. The numbers (which came in a QVC kit) where heat embossed to match the gold and the sentiment was computer generated.

So thats it - my first post on my own blog, I need to catch a grip, at the minute I am alternating between feeling so very proud of myself and nervous as hell, time to get some sleep and a little perspective me thinks.