Late Birthday Card...

It was my Aunt's birthday about a week ago, and I missed it :(  I spoke to her the day afterwards, and made her a card, but wish I'd sent one to arrive on time! My Aunt is very artistic and creative, so I'm always a bit nervous of sending her my cards. She makes beautiful teddy bears and sells them all over the world. It's a bit intimidating! Here is her website, and a couple of her creations:

Bears by Sue Quinn

 

Here's the card I made for her. I really hope she likes it.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
The Pink Elephant Challenge: Anything Goes
Paper Pretties : Birthdays
Divas By Design : Happy Birthday
Addicted to CAS : Luxury

Something New

I needed to make a birthday card for my friend, which is always problematic because she is very creative and makes beautiful cards! No pressure, then. 

We both sell cards at work, and last week she joked that I'd give her one of her own cards for her birthday, or maybe give her one of my old cards that has been at the back of the display for ages because nobody wants to buy it...

Anyway, we were due to go on a wet felting course the day after her birthday, and had been talking about trying out felting for a while, so I thought I'd have a go at a small piece of felting for a card. I tried to follow an online tutorial, but I had to try to roll up the felt in bits of cardboard because I didn't have anything to use as a rolling mat. It sort of worked, but probably only because it was such a small piece of felt!

I added beads and some metallic embroidery thread on the flowers, and used green eyelash yarn for the stems. Here's what I came up with:

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Cupcake Craft Challenges - Make a Scene

Paper Pretties - Try a New Technique

The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes

Autumn Already!

I've had a go at making some CAS cards with Lavinia stamps, and this is what I've come up with:

I'm entering the leafy one in the following challenges:
Crafty Creations - Autumn Leaves
Crafty Sentiments - Autumn Colours
Paper Pretties - Fall Inspired
Stamptacular - It's Your Birthday

Everybody loves dinosaurs

Here are a couple of cards I made with a cute dinosaur digi:

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Wags 'n' Whiskers - Birthdays

Paper Pretties - Square Cards

Colour Challenge

Thought I'd have a go at a colour challenge for the first time. There's a challenge over at Color Throwdown:

And this is what I came up with:

I used stickles on the water and on her hair, and gems on her dress to bling it up. 

I'm also entering this in the following challenges:

By the Cute & Girly "Spring is All Around"
Paper Pretties "Flowers"
Stamptacular "Spring Bling"
Pink Elephant "Spring Time"

Charm Bracelet Card

I wanted to make a card for the Less is more challenge 'How Charming', so I've used a charm bracelet digi stamp. I've sewn some silver thread on part of the bracelet strands, and '3D'ed some of the beads. I've used a silver pen and stickles on some of the small beads, and Crystal Clear Lacquer on the red beads to make them stand out. I added 3 small silver plated beads and a silver daisy charm. I hope it is CAS enough, and not too fussy! I had fun making it, anyway, so I might make a couple more in different colours :)

I'm also entering this in the Paper Pretties challenge 'Clean & Simple', the Simon Says Stamp challenge 'Anything Goes', and the Stamptacular challenge 'Loaded with Layers'.

Flower cards

I've been making cute little leaves with my craft robo, and used them on these flower cards, using my blossom punches:

I'm entering the red one in the following challenges:
The Pink Elephant "Flowers"
Crafty Creations Challenges "Flower Power"
Paper Pretties "Use lots of layers, 3 or more"