21st

My daughter needed a 21st birthday card for a friend. She only gave me a days notice so this is the card i made

Playing with one design

I was bored so decided to play around with one of the free Sheets from this months Making Cards magazine. I took one design and one sheet of backing paper and played around with different designs. I'm quite pleased on how they turned out so now going to play with some of the othere sheets in the magazine to see what i can come up with

Blog Candy at A Card for Life

Just to let you know Debbie at A card for Life has some great blog candy up for grabs to celebrate her first designs being made into stamps. Check it out here.

Dottie ready for a party

Here is the card that I have made for my daughters friend. It will be her 4th birthday so thought the Dottie Fairy would be appropriate. The backing papers and sentiment are from the crafters companions Girls CD. Dottie is coloured with pearly water colour paints that i bought from The Works. I love these paints and they are soooo much cheaper than H2O's, just wish there was a larger selection of colours. The letters for her name have been printed out and then clear embossed to give them a 3d effect.

my prize from Trimcraft

If you have read my earlier post on 'thank you teacher' Than you will have read that i was a finalist in Trimcrafts July competition. Well I am proud to announce that i won, and here is my prize. It's a selection of the Dovecraft pet's range and it's lovely. Now just got to ge some idea's on what i am going to do with it

A Christmas Carol

The Challenge on Papertake weekly this week is to ma a Christmas card. No special instructions.
I decided to have a go at making one of these slide cards, and i like it so much i may just make some more.
I have used the penny black christmas critters stamp for this, coloured with watercolour pencils and highlighted with sakura clear stardust. i can't remember where the backing paper is from as its some scraps left over from last year.

Advent calender

I was inspired after looking through websites to make this Advent calendar. I found the idea on Make the moments last. They have some great projects to try. Now just got to find somewhere to store it safe until December so that it doesn't get damaged.

Thank you gift

This is the gift i made for my daughters preschool teachers. I made 5 sets in all as she has 5 teacher/helpers.
The papers and flowers are a download from Fred, She Said blog. Thank you to Tracey for designing such wonderful designs

Thank You Teacher

This is the card i have made for my daughters preschool teachers for tomorrow as she is going up to infant school in September.
I have entered this card into the Trimcraft competition for this month and have been chosen as a finalist. I am so excited. I hope i win as the prize is some Dovecraft goodies.
If any of you who visit my blog are Trimcraft members, please vote for my card here if you haven't already. This is the first time I have had my card chosen and my daughter is so excited that the card we made was chosen

Fabby Blog Candy Giveaway

Funky Fairy Inspirations have a great Blog candy givaway at the moment.

'What is this blog candy i here you ask?????The *Prize* is FREE FUNKY FAIRYS PAPERCRAFTS PRODUCTS FOR A WHOLE YEAR!!! *WOW)'

You have to be in it to win it so give them a look

Blog Candy Alert

Nikki at Nikki's Card Creations is running a blog candy challenge at the moment to celelbrate her blogaversary. Here is the card i have made for the challenge.
The backing paper is from Dovecraft Amethyst floral prints and the stamped image is one I had sent me so not sure who the designer is.

The colour blue

This week Ooh-la-la creations are running a challenge for the colour blue. So here is the card i came up with.

DC challenge

The Daring cardmakers challenge this week is to 'Use images, use colour, use embellishments that make you feel cold and remind you of winter.'
So here is my card
The backing papers are by Marie Johnstone, which are then layered onto matt silver cardstock. The snowman is diecut with my cuttlebug and then watercoloured with my whisper pens and the boddy glittered up. The snowflakes are die cut with my cuttlebug from white glitter card and then stuck onto acetate to give them a 3d motion effect.
hope you like it

CPS # 72

Here is my card for the CPS challenge.
I have used Marie Johnstones modern xmas CD for the papers for this one

Tutorial Diamond top Card

Since i made this card I have had a few people asking me how i made it so I have decided to do a tutorial on my blog.

Firstly take an A4 piece of card stock and fold it length ways down the centre. I then trimmed the card so that it was 20cm's wide (10cm's either side of fold).

Open the cardstock and mark 10cm's down each side and score accross card.

From the centre poing of that score (down the middle of the card mark 3cm's, then down ech side from the score line, measure and mark at 7cm's.

score between the 7cm mark and 3cm mark on each side.

valley fold on the 10cm score line and mountain fold on the 7cm score line.

fold the card and it should fall into shape.

Decorate as required

Wedding card

This card took me a lot of time to think about. I wanted something special for my OH's niece who gets married in a month. I didn't want anything too fussy, but wanted it to be special.

Cute Card Thursday #16

It's been a while since i have done any challenges on the blogs, but today decided to have a go again.
The challenge on Cute Card Thursday this week is not to use any patterned paper. So Out came the cuttlebug and my scrap pieces of card. I used the Sugar nellie Lola with flowers coloured with pearly watercolours from The Works (great price @ £2.99 for 12 colours). The sentiment is a stamp from the Dovecraft 99p range

Graduation

Here are Two cards that I had been asked to make for one of my neighbours friends. Both her daughters were celebrating, one for graduating and the other for passing her A levels. I used GCF to make them and the decoupaged them up to give them some depth

Male card

I find it very difficult to come up with idea's for mens cards and with my Brother in laws birthday coming up i need to think. Luckily I had just bought the Dovecraft masculine papers so thought i would have a play with them and this is what i came up with. The wording I made in psp and then printed onto the spotty paper and then stuck this onto card before cutting out and then inking the edges with a copper ink