I love making feminine cards!!!

Jennys challenge over at Wee Memories is to make a pink card or scrapbook page, no problem for me there I love making feminine cards and pink is my favourite colour to use. I also need a card for my cousins birthday so the challenge was perfectly timed.

For Jenny's inspiration she has made a scrapbook page and complimented the pink with grey, I decided to add burgundy to my card to lift the pink.

The background paper is from Vinnie Pearce and I have distressed the edges with Worn Lipstick, I am hooked on making these paper roses, they are so simple to do and are really effective. The Butterfly is from Hero Arts and I have stamped it onto some pink BoBunny paper. 

 Again I have decided to leave off the sentiment as I don't want to crowd the front of the card.

I have also managed to get my sewing machine to play ball this time, I printed the background on very thin card and it seems to prefer that to paper.

Once again I would like to thank everyone who visits and finds time to leave a comment, I appreciate all of them .

Sketch challenge 62

This is the sketch for this weeks CardPatterns challenge and the prize is these fabulous new cling stamps from Hero Arts.

This is my take on the sketch

I used an old Hero Arts stamp called Silhouette Corner and used distress ink to create the image.

 Its May Day holiday in the UK but the weather is really cold so I not going to venture far, I have a card order to fill so plenty to do.

If the shoe fits.

As you know I was thrilled to be asked by the design team at The Daring Cardmakers blog to be their guest designer for the month of April. This weeks challenge has been set by Sue and its called "If the Shoe Fits". Poor Sue is unable to craft alot at the moment as she has been having trouble with her eyes but she is keen to see what we all come up with for this challenge!

This is my DT card and as I didn't have any shoe stamps I looked on good old Google again, It always comes up trumps with some great images. After finding the drawing of the Vintage shoes I decided to take the route of making a vintage looking fashion card. I printed the shoes onto patterned paper and and as it left the printer I quickly embossed it with clear embossing powder to make the image shine. I had some lovely vintage sheets of paper in my stash and the image of the models also came from Google.

Hope you are having a great week, I am still on school holidays Yipee!! Must get in the garden though as the sun is shining.

Feeling Blue!

This is this weeks colour challenge at The Play Date Cafe and although blue isn't a colour I use very often I have enjoyed this challenge and have ended up making two cards for it.

This card is using one of my new Hero Arts stamps Poppy Background. First I stamped a piece of BasicGrey paper with Wheat Grass in Chipped Sapphire Distress ink and let it dry. I then stamped again with the Poppy background ,versamark ink and enbossed in clear. The poppy heads were stamped and embossed again on patterned paper and then cut out and pop dotted to the card. The photograph is a little dark as the blues are quite bright!

This is the second card I have made, it was all based around the butterfly that I had stamped and coloured a few weeks ago and hadn't used.

Hope you are all having a lovely Easter weekend, the weather is ment to brighten up here tomorrow so I hope to get into the garden.

Another Challenge

This weeks challenge at The Play Date Cafe is to use the colours Pea Green, Lavender and White, I have enjoyed making this card, the colours are lovely together and it was easy to think of a design.

The Butterflies are from the Hero Arts Digital set called Flutterbies, a great set to use and as with all digital images they can be resized to fit your design. I have coloured them with copic markers and followed Kathys technique of adding white dots to them.

Stamps and Digital images: Hero Arts Papers: Making memories.

This is a mini card (only 3 inches square) I made this for last weeks CARDS blog challenge and was lucky enough to have it chosen for this weeks showcase. Such fun to make mini cards and great for using up scraps. I have used another digital butterfly and this time have added Glossy Accents to give it a shine.

Digital Image: Hero Arts. Papers:Vinnie Pearce and BoBunny

Summer Wheat

I recently found loads of seed beads while sorting through a cupboard in my daughters room and have started to add them to my cards, I love the sparkle they create and they are so easy to attach with Glossy Accents. These gold beads look great added to the Wheat Grass stamp as they look like rippened wheat in the summer sun. Love this effect althought found it very hard to photograph as you can see in the complete images.



It was probably too dark today to get a good image. The butterfly is a prima flower folded in half, I just added some copic coloured pearls.

I haven't added sentiments yet as I am not sure what event I will use these for.

Supplies: Stamp and Digital Butterfly: Hero Arts Papers: BoBunny and Crate Paper.

Sunshine Challenge

The challenge at The Play Date Cafe this week is to use these colours, so inspiring as I just think of spring and lots of lovely spring flowers.



This is my bright flowery card, I loved using these colours. ( The photograph is a little dark , the background is a lemony yellow not beige as it looks) The shape was cut using my new square nesties, they make such a sweet little card, Love them!
Have a great weekend, looks like the sun is going to shine here Yipee!

Papers: Bo Bunny. Script Stamp and pearls: Hero Arts. Raffia, brads and flowers from my stash.

Boxes

My son bought himself a take-away curry last week and it came in this amazing box, I decided it would make a great gift box for a present and had a try at re modelling it. The challenge on "Everything but the kitchen sink" is to use Box tops so I am not sure if this qualifies but have decided to enter it just incase. I have used a cereal box top for the scroll on the side of the box though.


This is the end result and I am really pleased with the effect.


Here is a close up of the tags, I decided to use one of Janes fabulous buttons. I was lucky enough to win these on her blog a few weeks ago and they are very precious but I felt it was the finishing touch the labels needed.

I was so thrilled yesterday when I found that this card had been picked out by the Cards blog as one of the challenge winners this week along with Agata from the Hero Arts flickr group. Well done to all the challenge winners!

Glitter challenge

The lovely Jane designs images for Squigglefly and she has just released "Janes Bakery", scrummy images of cakes and pies, plus a banner and sentiments. I am not really very good at colouring but thought these images ideal to practice on. I am fairly pleased with the result but I have a long way to go to get up to the standard of some of my blogging friends.

I have used lots of glittery goodness (stickles) on the cakes and banner so will join the lovely and talented Lucy's challenge with this card. I have also taken the opportunity to add some machine stitching after watching her latest video. Think there is more practice needed there too!!!

Virginia's Challenge

The lovely Virginia has a challenge running on her site called "Beat the Winter Blah" The card is ment to cheer someone up during the winter weather and it must have something different on it. It can be a special/new technique, colour combo, unique embellishment or an original design. Well for me these flowers are still a new technique, but I have got to say I am hooked on them. I love the texture they create to a card, also I would not necessarily put pink and orange together but I think it works this time!

Love the snow

I love these snowy days, we live out in the country and the School I work in has been closed for three days now due to the snow and Ice. Some teachers and pupils have to travel quite a distance to school so the headteacher has decided that its to dangerous to travel. It means I have had a lot more time in my craft room this week, Yipee!!! Here are three of the cards I have made using two of the new Hero Arts stamps I got before Christmas.

Love this Wheat Grass stamp, I wanted to try to make it look like a sky and setting sun. I am quite pleased with the result. The backing paper is an old piece from my stash that has watermarked butterflies on it.


Just playing around with the digital butterfly kit from Hero Arts. Watched Jennifer McGuires video on quick colouring and had to have a go.

This is using my Row of Houses stamp from Hero Arts. I found the sentiment on the internet and thought it fitted the card beautifully.
I am off now to do some more colouring, hope you are all keeping warm!!

SNOW

We have had a lot of snow in Surrey today, about 6 inches which is rather a lot for this area. The school where I work has been shut for the day so I went out taking some photographs.



This one is a bit like the Hero Arts snowman don't you think?



This is a bird feeder box in my friends garden.

Managed to get this photograph of a Heron on Blackhill Pond near where I live, I don't think he will catch anything today! I have had a fantastic day with my daughter, she is home from University at the moment and we had great fun in the snow.

I have also just had a call to say that school will be closed tomorrow, so I plan to do some crafting. Yipee!!!!

Another Challenge Card

Had some more spare time today so thought I would have another go at the Caardvarks challenge. Used some patterned papers as the main card design, just added some punched butterflies, pearls and a sentiment. I also dry embossed the paper to give it some dimension. (Hard to see in the photograph)

Digital card

This is my second post today, I have had a quiet afternoon and was able to make this quick card using Hero Arts digital images. I am still getting used to digital but am pleased with how this turned out. I will enter it in the new Caardvarks digital challenge.

Hearts

Quickly made this card for the current Hero Arts challenge. Have been really busy at school this week as its getting near to the end of term, so not a lot of time for card making. Hope to have a bit more time tomorrow.

paperpiecing

Have made this card for the current Hero Arts challenge and the Caardvarks challenge. Used my two favourite stamps, the heartwinged butterfly and the heart flourish.

Caardvarks challenge

Made this card for the current Caardvarks challenge of using ribbon in a different way on a card. Made the flowers by gathering the ribbon into a circle then folding in half. The patterned paper is Basic Grey also added an acetate Hero Arts butterfly.

World Card Making Day

Have made these cards for "World Card Making Day" They all feature butterflies as I love using them on my cards. I have used various techniques here, hope you like them. Enjoy your day and your weekend.

Acetate butterfly

I have just made this for the current Hero Arts Challenge. I took the photograph of the flowers a couple of weeks ago on a trip to Wisley Gardens in Surrey. Love the Autumnal colours and love this butterfly stamp from Hero Arts stamped on acetate. Looking forward to a relaxing crafty weekend!!

Hero Arts Fall Challenge

I always like to keep some cards without messages on then I can add them at the last minute if I need a card in a hurry so I have also made a couple of cards using the fall palette 2 for this weeks challenge. I used a lot of distressing with Tim Holtz inks, broken china and spiced marmalade, also stamped randomly, added another Kathy inspired butterfly, this one in blue which I then sprayed with gold perfect pearls.