New Cards

Some cards I made recently with some new rubber stamps and some of the lovely Tim Holtz Distressed Ink Pads - why didn't I buy these sooner, they are so wonderful to use and give fantastic effects.
























Cute and fun *fat cat* card!





















"New Baby" card, image from one of Joanna Sheen's cd's, stamped monogram using some lovely new stamps I recently bought which are completely interchangeable and great for these little monograms. I used a scallop edged die in my cuttlebug to cut a silver background to mount it on and I am really pleased with the effect - apologies for the flash flare!

Mothers Day

Had a wonderful Mothers Day today, William gave me a very funny 'talking card' with a picture of a cat on it who looked just like ours! I was also given a lovely heart on a chain and some matching earrings as well, oh and a cup of tea in bed too - lovely :)

Here is the mothers day card I made for MIL using Joanna Sheen's Dancing with Shadows CD which is lovely. I would have posted up the one I made for my Mum but it seems I neglected to take a photo of it - typical me! It was a triangle card made using the backing papers from the Artylicious butterfly CD with some cut out butterflies flying all over it, looked very pretty but you will just have to visualise it LOL.

Glitter Girls Celebration Board

I can't believe I've had my board now for two whole days and havn't played with it yet!!! How sad it that!!! I put it down to it being half term and everytime I pick up something crafty I hear the words "oh mum, do you have to do that - play with me instead". And so I end up playing various 8 year old boy games (not always suitable for knackered mums!) instead of playing with my crafty stuff - it's just not fair - lol. Still, he will be back at school next week so I will have plenty of time to play with it then. Got some great ideas for Christmas Cards with it using images from Joanna Sheens CD's - I must make some for us to send and not just for sale I remembered - lol.
I finished all the CC Christmas Group's cards and have posted them off so that's another job well done, just hope everyone likes their card, I can't put up pics of them on here because a lot of the people who will be getting cards look at my blog and I don't want to spoil the surprise!
I'm still working on the Papertake Challenge, not finished yet but I think it will look good when it is done - hopefully!

Birthday Card

Today I have been making a card for my friend to give to her Mum for her 65th birthday next week. It took me a while to figure out what design to do, the only brief I had was that it had to have 'Happy 65th Birthday' on the front with either poppies, snowdrops or primroses. After searching through my Joanna Sheen CD's I plumped for snowdrops.
I made the card base with 350g white pearlescent card and then used the Glitter Girls board (the pale green one - can't remember which one that is!) to emboss some more card which I then cut on the embossing lines to create layers. Before fixing the top for the card I added a piece of gold and white ribbon. I did a little decoupage to the picture of the basket of snowdrops, added a little gold tag with a rub-on for 'Mum'. I layered this up and fixed with silicone glue. I printed out the wording in grey onto pearlescent paper, went over with with a versamark pen and then embossed it in gold, layered it in the same way as the topper and fixed using silicone glue. I then made the box using my Ultimate from Crafters Companion (so incredibly useful) and decorated it to match the card. I am pleased with the result and I really hope my friend likes it. She won't be collecting it until next week so you are all getting a sneak preview - lol.