Arty Girlz weekly challenge #52 Birthdays

This week's challenge over on Arty Girlz is Birthdays ~ why you may ask well............

ARTY GIRLZ CHALLENGE BLOG IS 1 YEAR OLD TODAY

To celebrate Arty Girlz first birthday we have put together a little prize for one of our participants to win. so pop on over to Arty Girlz and join in the Birthday challenge

We would like to thank everyone that has joined in with our challenges over this past year its been fun seeing everyones work and getting to know you all.


The challenge is to ....create something for a Birthday so could be a card or a gift, even a layout of a birthday ~ anything you like as long as its associated with a birthday

Heres my card I used lilly kate papers the image is from crafty individuals and the flowers are silk and paper.

Arty Girlz weekly challenge #38 FACES

The challenge this week on Arty Girlz is FACES.

we also have the very talented Ilonka as our guest designer you can find Ilonka's wonderful creations on her blog HERE.


so click HERE to join in in with the faces challenge.


Here's mine

I matted white card stock on to black then mounted it on to a card blank. I stamped the faces 3 times stamp is from cats life press, cut out and matted on to back card stock stuck them to the card punched 2 flowers in black added a black brad to the centers and added them to the card.

Here's a couple more that i did

I stamped a cream card blank in blown with a stampin up sanded background stamp. Then stamped the autumn leaves flourishes . cut a small square of parchment card stamped the sanded stamp again on top and went round the edges with a brown ink then stamped the face cats life press on a scrap of the parchment card mounted it with foam pads and attached to the square added the looped brad.

I covered a card blank with patterned paper cut a strip of purple card and a small square went round the edges with a silver krylon pen also did this on the card to. mounted the image which is from crafty individuals to the square but first went round the edge with the krylon pen , added the strip to the card and mounted the square on top of that.