Party Owl

This is my second post today, so I guess you can probably tell there has been NO i***ing done !! This card was a rare flash of inspiration for me, well very rare in fact... I had some nesties laying on my desk waiting to be tidied away and also 'Birthday Hoot' from Pink Gem, waiting to be put into a CD case for storage. Anyways, I suddenly realised that the owl fitted the hexagon really well and then I remembered the crafty cardmakers challenge this week which is 'Inside out' so I thought why not put the owl inside (3rd piccy down) and make her a little window to look out of!! Not exactly genius I know, but I'm happy LOL!! Coloured the owl with promarkers and mounted onto a hexagonal piece of Bazzill bling. The balloon paper is from Dovecraft birthday stack, birthday brad and ribbon are both from my stash. Tricky bit was getting the bow right.....still not 100% sure about it. I'd like to enter Mrs Owl into the following challenges:

Crafty Cardmakers : Inside out

A spoonful of sugar: Celebrations

My time to craft: Vivid colours (hope this is bright enough!)

By the cute & girly: Celebrations

Passion for promarkers: Anything goes

Creative craft challenges: Ribbons & bows

Stampavie and more: Happy birthday for a girl

Paperplay: Up in the air (the balloons!!)

The Crafty Pad challenge: Over the edge (the ribbon)

O.S.A.A.T. : Furry friends ( & birds!)

Thanks for looking!

Hippo Bathtime!!

Talk about last minute.com - I am that woman!! I made this easel card this afternoon after trying all week to find some craft time!! The stamp is one I bought a while ago because it made me laugh, coloured with promarkers and then added glossy accents and glamour dust for the bubbles. The easel card is cut out using scalloped nesties, I got the idea from this tutorial at In2crafting. I couldn't find any suitable papers in my stash so I decided to use inked up cuttlebug folders to make some. The bubbles paper is made using the tiny bubbles folder and the bottom paper was made using the caramelo folder, I think the flowers match those on the bath quite nicely.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Creative craft world: Easel card

Rosie D's challenges: Easel card

Secret crafter Saturday: No Patterned paper

Charisma Cards : 3D

A spoonful of sugar: Cute and girly

I am also going to enter this card into the make someone smile / cheer them up challenge at Stampin for the weekend. The second part of the challenge (optional) is to post a card to a child on Postpals. Post Pals is an organisation that was set up to create smiles for children who suffer from life threatening and long term illnesses:

" We ask people to log on to send the children featured on the website ‘happy post’. When a child is very ill, often a visit from the postman can make their day. A cheery card or letter can make them feel less alone and bring welcome distraction from what they go through each day."

I am going to send this card to Alice P who is battling Hodgkin's lymphoma, you can read her story here. I hope she likes it as she says she likes all things girly and bath bubbles!!!

Quick bookmark!!

Last week, I found this really fab bookmark over at Dustin Pikes fab blog (his images are such fun!!) and it was just shouting out to be coloured in and made into a bookmark for my son. This afternoon, it was a toss up between the ironing or playing with the promarkers - no prizes for guessing which one won!! I was influenced a bit by feeling the need to enter the bookmark challenge over at A spoonful of Sugar..... My son's favourite colour is green and I didn't think he'd like a ribbon on it (too girly!!!....ugh!!!) so I finished it off with a tuft of funky fibre and a brad. I'm also going to enter it into the Creative Inspirations challenge which is anything but a card.