cute card thursday!!

I made this card this morning for the cute card thursday challenge blog. The theme this week is "Make Your Own," in which you need to make something yourself. I made the background from a florish stamp from papermania and the image (which I love and have bought several times!!) is from Dufex decoupage. I'm actually quite please with it :) I hope you like it too.

Allsorts Challenge blog

my inspiration has gone this week so I thought I would do a bit of blog hopping to see what challenges I could find, its been a while since I did this and I'm so glad that I did. I found the allsorts challenge blog and the theme this week is "Be Inspired." The DT gave you a photo of the most gorgeous butterfly bracelet and use this as your inspiration. I loved it and I hope that you like what I've come up.

Allsorts challenge - Be Inspired

Another post today!!

Well I haven't posted anything for ages and I've got 2 on the same day. I've been trying to sort out some files on the computer so thought I would move some of my pictures to my blog :)

I bought these stamps from QVC and I love them. There were 5 foam stamps in the set and you will see these a lot over the next few weeks. They have totally encouraged me to become more of a stamper just because the images are so gorgeous. I wanted to keep this card as simple as possible because the image is so lovely.

I seem to be making a lot of baby cards recently and I love this image. These cards are simply a bit of matting and layering but I'm pleased with them :)

This Easter card I made for my Gran, the stickers are from Poundland (they are like shaker stickers) with Easter ribbon from my local craft shop and used glitter vellum from a do crafts goody bag.

I love this image, it is from a creative impressions Christmas theme plate. I embossed it with pearlised embossing powder. You cant tell from the image but I've inked the corners of the base card with a pink ink pad - I like using pink, lilac and blue for Christmas cards.

This is die cut decoupage from Kanban, I don't normally die cut decoupage because I like to it watching TV and cutting out the decoupage but I love the images on the sheet with this one. I just think that he is so cute!! I also think that it goes really well with the pearlised base card.

This is another card that I made with the Patchwork Pals kit from QVC. I loved this kit and I may buy it again because I used it loads. The base card is again card I got from Woolies before it closed.

This is the card that I made for my other half for valentines this year. I find it really difficult to make cards for him but I thought that this wasn't too girly!! The hearts and the love image are all papermania foam stamps and finished it off with gold heart peels offs.

This card I made for my other half's best friend who got engaged to his long term girlfriend just before Christmas. I used the same stamp as the valentines card above but I think that it looks totally different. I like the monochrome look but like to add a touch of colour like I have done here with the alphabets which were from a DCVW kit. The glitter paper was some wrapping paper that I had a left over from Christmas.

A quick last minute card for a last minute night out I was invited to. I can't remember where the topper came from but its a cute image.

my goodness!!

i cant believe its been nearly 2 years since I've been on my blog!! So much has changed and I think that its about time I updated this!!! well i have been busy and I've branched out and started different crafting rather than just cards! I have made some canvases, joined new swaps and challenges on the Craft Swap forum. Also its my birthday next week and I'm getting a cuttle bug!! (I've been wanting one for about 3 years but other things have got in the way) - it arrived on Friday but my other half has put it in the car so I wont play with it while he is a work!! lol . Anyway over the next few days I will be putting up some of my cards and your comments will be appreciated, thanks :)

this Christmas card i made for my brother and his wife for their first Christmas as a married couple. to be honest I'm not sure where the topper or the backing paper came from but I thought that it worked really well together.

A good Scottish Christmas card!! lol! I love this image and the background paper is actually the bag that they put the goodies that I bought the same day in!! I finished it off with some Anita's Christmas ribbon.

this card I made for my friend Fiona, I really struggled with it but at the last minute I remembered about this Forever Friends stamp and combined it with Papermania flowers and ribbon. I was quite please with the final result.

I was asked by someone at work to make a Christmas card for her daughter. The image is from a Patchwork pals TSV kit by QVC, (I don't normally buy these kits but I loved the images so much I couldn't resist.) The base card is glitter card that I bought from Woolies before it went under (i don't know if its just me because I used to work for them but I really miss Woolies) and put glittery vellum over the top. It's so girly I love it!!

this is a really simple thank you card but i think its quiet effective. The background paper is some glittery wrapping paper that I got in an outlet store and just added some white ribbon a butterfly topper and thank you peel off.

Numbers!

I was asked by someone at work to make an 18th shaker card for her niece and thought that this is great timing as the challenge at My Time to Craft is numbers this week. As with one of my Christmas cards I have cut the card along the pre scored line and reattached it with ribbon (I have decided that I really like the effect that this gives!) The backround paper is from personal impressions and I added self adhesive gems for the 18! I hope this is what she is looking for (she did ask for girly!!!)

Another Christmas Card

Another Christmas card for you. I got the idea for this card while flicking through an old magazine while waiting in the doctors surgery. I chopped up a 5x5 card blank and reattached it at the top with ribbon and covered it with last years American Crafts Xmas paper (I cant remember the name of it though I'm afraid!) Then used a piece of round chipboard and covered it in some brown pearlised paper and drew the icing, the berries and the leaves freehand. I really think that its a fun Xmas card and I will be making more like this! I think that I will enter it into the Artistic Stamper blog challenge, which is Christmas in July!

ATC Challenge

This week I was asked by Shazzapat to set the theme for Florries ATC challenge. I thought that I would think of something a bit different for this weeks challenge so after some thought I decided on a "2 colour challenge" with no black or white. I love this paper from the oriental dovecraft theme and thought that the ribbon and the chipboard toppers looked great with it. (My colours are obviously purple and green!)