Father's Day Take 2

I have finally finished making my 4th card of the day and it's been the one that took the longest. It's for a dear friend's 60th birthday on Tuesday. It's too late to photograph it now so I'll take pictures tomorrow in daylight and upload it tomorrow I', really pleased with it. I'll leave you with the other father's day card which I made this year for my bf's dad. He's big into cars so a used some Kanban clear stamps which I've had a while but not had a reason to play with. I coloured the car in with promarkers and used glossy acents to add closs the the fender, lights, window and mirrors. I cut the letters out of black cardstock and added white markings and cat's eyes with gem stones. I made my own little traffic signs with card and coctail sticks, to share the sentiment 'Happy Father's Day' which is what I think really makes this card. I was looking for yellow ribbon as I was going to colour in black stripes on it to make it look like the hazard tape police use on the road and feed it inbetween the signs but I couldn't find any in my stash. I'm really pleased with this card and think I'm going to get organised and make a different version of it for each of ny 6 brothers for their next birthdays.

New Home

My brother and his family has just moved into their newly built house and so I decided to make them a 'New Home' Card to wish them well as they settle in.
The paper is a crat paper from Lilian's Home collection and the tree stamp was a Nitwit freebee from a magazine. The house stamp is a Kaiser Craft mini clear stamp which I coloured in with my pro markers.I added some faux stitching around the side and sugar candy in the corners and finished it off with some bunting cut from the reverse of the crate paper and joined together with dots of perfect pearls. I decided to keep this sweet and simple. I'd like to enter this for the following challenges: Scrapbooksisters - Bunting & Banners Totally stampalicious challenge - Anything goes Stamp challenges - pretty papers

Scrapbooksister's 2nd Card Challenge

These cards were inspired by a card which I purchased from SBS at their stand in Hempstead Valley one Sunday afternoon. If you're ever in the area on the last Sunday of the month be sure to call in and see the girls and the beautiful work which they have on display. I have had these Magnolia stamps for some time and never used them but over the summer made some time to play with them and my promarkers and once I started stamping and colouring I couldn't stop!!! I made lots of different colour combinations of this card but here are two of my favourite. I'd like to enter these into Scrapbooksisters' second card challenge 'Scalloped Circles' and thank them for the original inspiration of using circles to make a scalloped design.
I had never made an easel card before so this was completely new for me. I used nestibilities, martha stewart and woodware punches as well as Promarkers to colour my little magnolia girl.I was in Ireland when I made this and didn't have many papers to hand so decided to create the dotted strip using the swiss dot embossing folder and a strip of cream card. I was then able to use a distress pad to add the colour to the embossed strip. I added the floating balloon using a piece of twisted craft wire and love how the punched balloon floats in the air.

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Stamps R Us Challenge

Today I am posting a card which I made over the summer for my friend's granddaughter Tilly, to celebrate her very first birthday. I started off with using one of the sugar nellie Gorgeous girls stamps and used promarkers to colour it. I then looked through a range of my stamps and selected random stamps to make the child's toys at the front. I used the nestibility circles and big shot to cut a circular aperture in the lilac card and also cut a smaller circle from some green card stock. I decided to create a 3D card and added a folded piece of cream card to the base and back so that my card would stand. I then used the cuttle bug swiss dot embossing folder to emboss the green circle which I distressed and 3D mounted onto the lilac circle on the back. The little girl and bird are attached using invisible thread and they are suspended from the top where I poked 2 small pin holes and threaded these through so that the girl appears to be on a swing. I used some pink tool to cover the holes at the top. To finish it all off I used a large woodware balloon punch to punch the balloons out of some dotty paper and added a distressed chipboard letter. I added the balloons by twisting some coloured wire around a pencil and using silicone glue to fix both ends.

My friend loved the card and her daughter had it framed in a shadow box as she liked it that much.


I really enjoyed making this card and would like to enter it in Stamps R Us challenge to create a card for a child’s birthday! http://stampsruschallenges.blogspot.com/

Scrapbook Sisters Card Challenge

I've been so busy since coming back from my holidays in Ireland and I really haven't had much time to myself to craft so last night I decided to have a little me time. I made this little card to enter into Scrapbook sisters first ever card challenge.

The theme was Pink and Black, their signature colours and once I started I couldn't stop. I used bits and bobs from my stash and lots of what I've learnt in classes at scrapbook sisters. I really enjoyed making this and look forward to entering future challenges.