I'm Still Here... At least I Think I Am

My goodness, where has the past few months gone? I can't believe its been so long since I last posted, although I did actually do a post at the beginning of the year but for some strange reason it didn't appear on here or in the draft section so Blogger must have eaten it I think lol.
Since my last post my health as been a little erratic and driving me batty but I have managed to get some crafting in here and there and would like to share a card that was made for my mums birthday using some of my favourite crafty items...

The card base is Adorable Scorable available from Hunkydory

The topper is also from Hunkydory from the Decadent Days range, as is the printed background behind the image. The flowers which I love, are from iamroses.com. (Sorry I'm unsure of the exact item numbers for the flowers used because I stupidly threw away the packaging when I sorted through them on arrival and put them all together in the box that I store them in but they have a large range of beautiful blossoms to choose from so be sure to have a look).

Using a piece of acetate cut slightly larger than the size of the card which is A5 to create a domed effect which was then tied using a white ribbon from my stash that was laced through eyelets that I punched into the adorable scorable. I added a few adhesive pearls and a sentiment from the topper pack to the front for extra detail to the outside of the card.

After the front was created I added an basic A5 card base, using a plain white heavyweight cardstock from The Papermill, lined with a pale green paper insert to the back giving me a space to add a personal message.

With the dimension of the card obviously an envelope wasn't going to be any good so I also created a box using my Crafter's Companion Ultimate Pro. I used the same backing card as the inside of the front of the card and silver mirri card, along with more of the ribbon, pearls and also some silver peel-offs from the Anita's range available from Docrafts to make it 'look pretty'. 

I love how this card turned out and have used this style of card again already which I will hopefully get to share here another time.

I am sharing this on the Floral Fantasies blog as Brenda is celebrating her 5th Blogiversary and is asking her friends to share a project using their favourite craft items which in my case are pretty much everything that has been used in this creation :)

I would also like to enter this card into the following challenges...

I Am Roses - march designer challenge (Kates colour choice of green and white) ends 22nd March

Craft Your Passion challenges - challenge 203 Birthday Bonanza ends 9th March

The Ribbon Girl challenge blog - march card challenge Birthdays ends 8th March

Just Keep On Creating - 1st challenge for 2014 Anything Goes ends 26th March 

4 krafty girlz challenges  - Anything Goes ends 5th March

Through The Craft-Room Door - Anything Goes ends 10th March

Sister Act Card Challenge  #46 Anything Goes ends 7th March

CraftyCatz weekly challenge #220 Anything Goes ends 6th March

Whoopsi Daisy Challenge - Lots of Flowers ends 8th March

Jo's Scrap Shack - ffc39 - Floral ends 7th March

Natalie and Amy - challenge 18 - Flowers ends 29th March

Avenue 613 - #61 Anything Goes ends 8th March

Sunflower Field Designs march challenge Birthdays and/or Flowers ends 31st March

Come And Get It Challenges - Flowers Galore ends 7th March 

Pixies Crafty Workshop #114 Snippets (ribbons) ends 8th March

Thanks for taking the time to stop by.

Happy Crafting.

Hugs 

Natasha xnx

Happy Hallowe'en

I'm back from the living dead it would seem... I think :)

So apologies to my blog and anyone who is reading for my disappearing act so soon after starting but as hard as I tried to do more than a few things each day the more my body decided it didn't want to play along, leaving me to have to make more than a few decisions as to which things would take priority, this coming a little further down the list than I could seem to reach but now i'm back, kinda.
I very much doubt that my health issues are going to get any better any time soon and albeit I know that there are going to be times when I cant, Im going to try my darnest to post more frequently than I started.

I have managed to do a little crafting whilst i've been unwell this time round and as I intended my blog as a place to share my creations (along with other random babbling) thats what i'm going to do now...

My little boy, Junior's friend Courtney is celebrating her birthday today and seeing as her party was taking on the theme of todays date I thought this would be a cute idea for a card, I've since been informed by my girls that the pic is 'Frankie' from Monster High or something like that, I try not to pay much attention to the TV when the kids have it on.
The cardstock used were just stuff that I had lying around in my stash, the cobweb in the top corner was drawn on with Stickles, clear gems were placed at the bottom left hand corner to add an extra bit of sparkle and the sentiment was printed onto white card matted on a green offcut from the matt behind 'Frankie' in a font called Halloween Spider that can be downloaded free HERE. I do hope that she likes it.

I'd like to enter this card into the following contests...
The sisterhood of crafters - A halloween challenge
Creative Belli Blog - Challenge 155 (Halloween)
Anything Goes Challenge
Crazy Amigo Challenge - Halloween
Through The Craftroom Door - Challenge 42 Anything goes

Wishing everyone a wicked Hallowe'en and a wonderful evening

Take Care

Natasha xNx