Another birthday card

Hi Everyone!

This is another card for my elder daughter's birthday coming up this month.  I thought the image would amuse her since she loves buying bras and also loves cats (even though she seems to be allergic to them!).  I bought the Penny Black stamp from the internet (I think it is actually discontinued now) and coloured it with Promarkers.  I used papers and gems from my stash for the rest.  Thanks for looking.

Sympathy Card

Hi everyone
Unfortunately it's a fact of life that sympathy cards are always in great demand.  When I saw this quote on the internet I thought it was so apt and beautiful that I had to make a card using it.  I hope you like the card and are also touched by the sentiment.

It's time for Christmas cards again!

Well last year I was pretty well organised with my cards but behind on the Christmas cake and pudding front.  This year it's the other way around so maybe next year I'll have everything covered .....who'll spot the flying pigs first!!  Anyway this year I bought a Christmas pudding stamp but thought it would look nice stamped on different papers and then put together in a patchwork style.  I'm quite pleased with the overall effect.  I used glossy accents on the holly leaves and then some large red gems for the berries.

Hope you like it too!

Supplies

 

Imagination Crafts clear stamp

Promarkers

Glossy Accents

Big Crystal Stickers gems

Assorted Xmas papers from stash

 

I have entered this card in the following challenges:-

 

Paper Creators Crafts -  All About Christmas
52 Christmas Card Throwdown - November Embellishment Challenge
Jingle Belles Rock - Christmas Feast

Two really useful "Male" cards!

Hi folks!  This is the first time I've put anything on my blog since September but I have been busy - honestly!!  Anyway, I made these cards at our local crafting session and thought they were really useful to keep in my box.  The template was courtesy of Scrappycath Designs and can be found on: www.scrappycath.blogspot.com.

I used a computer generated message on my folded card and then mounted the suit onto it but it can be made up in several different ways.

I hope you like them and thanks for looking.

This is a commissioned anniversary card which was a pleasure to make and I hope it is liked.  60 years of marriage is seriously impressive!  I printed the message first and then cut the card to fit a large square card with a silver backing card.  The bottom half was embossed using a swirl design and  I embossed two lines around the top half edges using my score board.  The ribbon was added with a taped bow and a diamond type gem from my stash.  The couple's names were printed before using a Nellie Snellen heart die around them.  Silver backing card and a few minute diamond gems finished them off. 

"Less is More" Week 60 Take Three Challenges

These challenges certainly take me out of my comfort zone but this week I am going to enter 2 cards!  The first is a card featuring the following challenges:-

Week 9 - A Touch of Red
Week 15 - Embossing
Week 37 - Cocktails

Thank you for looking and I hope you like it.
Less is More

A quick card for Mother's Day!

I can't believe I've managed to get ahead in my cardmaking and, for the first time, I've got a little box with cards appropriately marked for the birthdays up to June 2012 - amazing! Here is a really quick card for Mother's Day which I made using a design from Serif Craft Artist for my backing card.  The flowers and curly stem were cut using Marianne Creatables dies and then I finally added gems and sentiment.  Not a brain teaser this one!!

Brother's Wedding Anniversary

This always proves a difficult card for me to make as my brother is not a "card" person, however I am quite happy with the result of my efforts!  I used the Nellie Snellen heart dies and with the Grand Caliber I produced one heart in a pealised grey card, one in white card and finally one in a pearlised aquamarine card.  I cut the black one to resemble a jacket and mounted the white heart behind.  I punched a Martha Stewart heart and mounted that behind the aquamarine heart.  I decorated both hearts with small gems and mounted them on some pearlised aquamarine card onto which I printed a light grey rose design from Serif Craft Artist.  I used Nestability dies to mount the hearts onto and finally added a sentiment with some flowers around it.