Friday 7 September 2012

Delicious Doodles are back - Celebrating

Delicious Doodles Challenges are back after our well needed holidays, complete with a whole load of new DT members - a REALLY talented bunch of ladies. Please make sure you've welcomed them and a bit of bloggie love is always appreciated.

The challenges have gone weekly, so even more chances for you guys to show us your wares.

The first challenge for this season is CELEBRATIONS. My card was made with a duel purpose. A friend's granddaughter's first birthday was yesterday and she wanted to mark this milestone with a special card. Would I please make one for her. The colour scheme was set and it had to be cute with a puppy. Of course it also had to be child friendly. So no big, loose embellishments! This is the card that transpired. I followed the sketch from Sketches By Carly.

The image is, of course from Delicious DoodlesWestie's First. An obvious choice for me, given the request, coloured with promarkers. The "1" was coated with glossy accents and holographic glitter embedded in it so that it won't "shed". When that was dry, the image was then highlighted with distress ink.
The papers are from the Neighbourwood paper stack. (This has so many papers that are ideal for young cards). Matted onto dark pink/purple card. The same card being used to cut the letters out using my cricut. The flowers are glued on and brads added for the centres. The ribbon is from stash. It was harder than I thought to keep it all simple and child friendly. It's so easy just to add "just that bit more"

Looking forward to seeing the delights that come out of your crafty area peeps, - get linking - but only one entry per person please.

A challenge I'd like to enter this into
Sketches by Carly - Their Sketch
JustWordz - Celebrations


9 comments:

  1. Sweet card! I am sure your friends GD loved it! What a milestone, one year old, so much to learn.
    Love the Puppy!
    Hugs,
    Julia

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  2. what a beautiful card, Helen; I love that image and good tip to make it child friendly. Vee xx

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  3. It's fab hun! Love the colour combo xxx

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  4. Hi this is so cute I love the distressing around the image xxx Hugs Pascale

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  5. Perfect for a one year old's birthday. Lovely card Crom. Fabulous to be working with you on the DD DT.

    Cheers,
    Kasey ~ in Oz

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  6. ahhh super cute and adorable...love the image and perfectly coloured...thanks for joining us at justwords for redonkulous first challenge...good luck

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  7. Adorable card!! I love the image and how you decorated it. They will love it. Thanks for joining us at Skethces by Carly. Hugs, Gloria

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  8. Oh this is just too cute, thank for joining us for our first challenge at Redonkulous.
    Shell xx

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  9. Ohh what a cute image. I like those soft colours.
    Thank you for joining in on our Redonkulous challenge :)

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