Oh christmas tree

Snowflake embossing folder, mat and layered, see D"s stamped greeting and a folded christmas tree using double sided paper.

Nitwits circus train

I made this card for my nephew using the Nitwits circus collection, I resized it added the greeting and decoupaged it then added Anita's 3D clear gloss to give it a shine. The border is hand drawn with a fine liner.

Wedding card

I was in a rush and needed a wedding card so I managed to make this pretty quickly, don't ya just love embossing folders, this I think was a papermania one, I just added some ribbon, pearls and the nestabilities hearts.

Stampin up embossing folders

 Shimmer chalks used to add detail and a subtle colour

 The butterflies are an Anna Griffin punch I have had for years, nestabilities die and flat backed pearls.

A few quick and easy cards for my charity box, to be sold at a coffee morning in aid of cancer research.

Tent card

I loved this style of card, I think it is a tent card, I used a square card and added an extra piece of card in the bottom, I scored and folded it at inch intervals, it was four inches deep and the same width as the card. I covered the frount and inside of the card with Papermania paper then cut a circle out with my circle nestabilities, then I made a scalloped frame to edge the aperture. Decorated with a butterfly cut on my Craft Robo, flowers cut with Mariane dies and finished with glamour dust glitter and little pearls.

magnolia with ladybug

 I love the red and white but found it difficult to colour! I have used a nesty label die and circle die, the border is from martha stewart and the flowers are a few years old from my stash, oh and the florish is a Marianne die.

A close up, she's a real cuty.

Off to get some more crafting done.

Boys cards for a change

A selection of boys cards I have made using  free digital stamps from Becky. I have coloured them with promarkers and mat and layered them.For the red card I have added a rub on border.

For this card I stamped the happy birthday on the surf board and doodled a border

At least now when I get a last minute request for a boys card I will be organised, I think these images are pretty cool for teenage boys, my two have certainly given them the seal of approval!

Tilda with butterflies

The papers are from a japanese origami paper pad, I used a martha stewart wide punch to make the frame, the magnolia stamp and butterflies are coloured with promarkers and added stickles in crystal. The felt florish and flowers are from kaiser. The sentiment is cut with nestabilities

Kaiser advent calendar

I bought this gorgeous advent calendar from kaiser craft, it's made from wood with little carboard boxes, first of all I painted it with kaiser cream paint then I used five different papers to cover the main box and little boxes, then I added flowers and pearls. The centre has the same paper, with lace edges, a sizzix flower and cuttlebug embossed butterflies and die cut flowers

Blue for a change

I spotted this lovely image and backing paper over on Mel's blog, I thought it would be just perfect for my niece who wants to be a fashion designer. I have hand stitched the border and used broken chinadistress ink around the edges, nestability label die, ribbon frommy stash and gem brad from stampin up. Have a great day and thanks for looking.



Foiled butterfly

I had such good fun making this card, I have rolls and rolls of foil that I bought and was not using so I did a bit of research and found that they can be used with a laser printer but I don't have one so I printed off the butterflies (which are from the stampin up digital studio) on my ink jet printer and ran it through a laminator, it did not cover the whole image but gave a nice effect which was difficult to photograph, I did the same technique with the plain black card. The white card was embossed. I have added diamond black stickles to the butterfly. I can't wait to have a play with different colours of stamps and foils, so check back to see what happens.

Dad's birthday

 My Dad turns eighty in a couple of weeks so I had a play with some Kaiser products and came up with this card, it's a kaiser scrapbook paper, the border is kaiser fozz felt , the mat and layer is nestabilities label die, I have added metalic rub on's in gold to accent the sails, the brad is again from kaiser and the numbers are cut from a wizard alphabet set. I hope he likes it.