China Vase

My card today uses a LOTV coloured art pad image called China vase which you can now buy as a digi stamp.  I diecut it using that pretty circle die again. The papers are some old Craftwork Cards ones. I added flowers, ribbon and pearls and a paper butterfly from a pack I bought ages ago in Poundland. I haven't been in there much lately but when I have they haven't had any good craft items.

 

Hellebores

I actually used one of the old LOTV colouredart pads for this card but the image is available as a coloured simply print digi called Hellebores. The paper is First Edition Gardenia. It is the first time I have used the pretty circle die which I bought from someone on FB. It didn't have any packaging but I think it may be  Marianne die. The leaves were cute with a Joy die, flowers from Wild Orchid, butterfly from Poundland coloured with Victorian velvet DI and cheesecloth from Ebay.

I ordered my reading glasses last week so off to pick those up today plus get a few things in the city and take advantage of the last half price eat out to help out lunch. Enjoy your Bank Holiday.

 

Hellebores

This is the second card I made for my friend's request. I used the hellebore image from the coloured art pad but you can find this as a coloured simply print at LOTV. I used papers from The Works, LOTV sentiment, MFT wonky stitched oval and stitched ricrac dies along with some lace from my stash and some old Memory Box butterfly dies.

Flower jug

My friend across the road asked me on Wednesday afternoon if I could make her two floral cards for Thursday as she had to post them. Thank goodness for coloured toppers as I didn't have time to colour two images and make the cards. This is actually from one of the old LOTV art pads but this image and many more floral ones are available as coloured imply print digis.

The papers are from The Works, lace from Crafty Ribbons, sentiment LOTV teenage girl sentiments. I used MFT wonky stitched circle and stitched ricrac dies and a Crafts Too butterfly die.

I will be back tomorrow with a card for a very special person.

New lace at Crafty Ribbons

I am really enjoying making this style of card and made this one to send to Ali at Crafty Ribbons as a sample for the show stand. If you are going to the NEC in March or any of the other shows you may spot this on the stand. I am not going to the NEC but will going to Ally Pally in April with my good friend Lynsey. Let me know if you will be there too.

So back to my card which showcases more of the gorgeous new lace coming to Crafty Ribbons. There is such a range of designs and colours you will love it. I currently have a candy to win a £10 voucher so please enter and you could be choosing some of this lace for yourself.

I also used some gauze, DCWV gauze and burlap papers, pin, flowers, brads and enamel dots. I have had the pin, flowers and brads for a long time so still making use of those older embellies.

Something very different

Yes a very different card from me today. I have seen a few cards around blogland with beautiful floral arrangements and thought I would have a go. I also though this would be a quicker card to make than one with a stamped and coloured image. How wrong could I be. I spent ages fiddling around until I was happy with it. My first thought was to have no backing paper but then I had nothing to wrap the lace around and I hate the ends just wrapped around the card blank. So I settled on Kaisercraft Dear Santa which I also used for the poinsettias which were cut and embossed with Marianne dies. I added some gorgeous lace from Crafty Ribbons, Woodware punched holly leaves, MD die cut floral vine leave and Marianne die cut pine branches. The raffia is actually some plastic which looks like raffia. It was wrapped around something I bought recently and immediately found its way to my stash. I used a Memento dewdrop brown stamp pad for a change on all the edge and added some brads and pearls to finish. The sentiment is from LOTV.

This is my inspiration card for Day 4 of the Crafty Ribbons Advent Calendar. Hop over to the Crafty Ribbons Pure Inspiration blog to play along and see what my teamies have made. Today you could win 3 digi sets from The Cuting Cafe.

Challenges

Simon Says Anything Goes 

Crafting for all seasons Flowers 

Delightful Festively floral 

Willow Sketchie Merry Christmas 

Crafty Catz Recycle/upcycle (plastic raffia) 

Allsorts Advent

I'm selling at a hospital craft fair all day so it's an early start so will link up when I get home.

Spring is here

The weather is definitely getting a bit warmer and the flowers are blooming so it does feel more like Spring. The first card today is this sweet bunny from LOTV. I followed the lovely sketch at Moving along with the times and their theme of pink, brown and ribbon. Flowers are Prima, pearls from the Hobby House and bows and pearls from Wild Orchid. Other challenges:
The Craft Garden pastel colours
Polka Doodles Birthday
Stampin' for the Weekend ribbons and bows
Magical Crafts Animal antics
One stitch at a time Anything goes
Passion for Promarkers The young ones
I love Promarkers Animals
Simon Says Card for a child


The second card, in my fave purple, was made using an image and sentiment from my blogger friend Jo. I coloured them with PMS and Sakura clearstar pen. Papers , all 7 of them, are all Papermania Heather capsule collection. This fab sketch from Sketch Saturday was a great way to use some strips of paper. I used 6 different strips all edged with my MS doily lace punch. Flowers are a mix of Wild Orchid and some oddments from my stash. Punched leaves with glitter and a sentiment cut using a nestie complete the card. Spring always makes me think of flowers so I am also entering this into the challenge of the joys of Spring at Quixotic.

Don't forget to enter this week's Winter Wonderland challenge. There are not many entries at this time of the year so you have more chance of winning.

Feeling floral

No rain for three days now and as well as 4 crocuses and a few pansies I found my first dwarf iris in flower in the garden today. A few more of the dwarf bulbs are in bud so hopefully we should soon have a few spring flowers in the garden. It's still cold here though and sharp frosts at night.

I'm trying to fit in a bit of blogging in between all the cards I need to make this week but I'm sorry that I'm not visiting as much as usual at the moment.

This first card is for somebody at work who asked for a floral card in purple, so how could I refuse that request. Papers are Papermania capsule collection and I know you will have seen me use this image a few times now. I don't have many images that are just flowers and of course, the beauty of digi images is that you can resize them. I embossed some purple card and used my MS doily lace border punch on the long edges. I just got a delivery from Wild Orchid Crafts yesterday which included these gorgeous purple flowers. I added a Prima hydrangea, some punched leaves and a punched butterfly with some gems.
Challenges
Bee Crafty Embossing
Crafty creations One colour
Simon Says Mother's Day/ Girly (card for a female)

The second card is another Pollycraft image. I'm really pleased with the colour combo, which is a bit different for me and gave me the chance to use some more of my new roses but peach this time.
Challenges
Teddy Stampers Sketch
Just cute bears Mint and brown
Creative Card Crew Celebrations
Digital Tuesday Scallops
Quixotic Leave it out (use leaves)

Fancy folds

This week's challenge at Kaboodle Doodles is to make a fancy fold card. I was going to make an easel card coz I just love them but I haven't made a gatefold card for so long I decided to try that instead. They are so easy to make but not to photograph, lol! I decided to stick to one paper, but use the stripes both ways. The butterflies on the front are from an X cut dimension punch with some added gems. The sentiment was a freebie with a mag a couple of years ago. Inside I stamped and coloured this lovely rose and cut it out using a nellie die which I then backed with another circle using a scrap of paper. On the sides I made some swirling leaves using a Sizzix die and added some plain and patterned Primas and gems.

Please hop over to Kaboodle Doodles where there is a great prize on offer from Sunshine Stamps. They have some lovely digi images, particularly if you are looking for something different for male cards. You can see lots more fancy folds from the DT there too. It has been great to spot some of my lovely followers joining in the challenge and I'd love to see more of you there. Remember you have 2 weeks to enter the challenges and there is always a prize on offer.

Two more Mother's Day cards

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Another flying visit to post these 2 cards I made this afternoon. The Mother's Day cards are going so well at work that I only have 2 left so here's 2 more to take in tomorrow. Luckily I leave off at 1.30 on Tuesdays so had time to play. The first card is a simple easel card. The stamp is one I haven't used for a while. The Mother's Day stamp was free with a magazine a couple of years ago. I added some glitter to the leaves and used some shiny card candy to the Prima hydrangeas. I used the sketch at Sunday sketch and stamp.

As you can see I used the sketch across the whole card, which worked really worked with an easel. Other challenges are Multifold at Secret Crafter and a glittery spring at Paper Sundaes.

The second card is Coco from Digistamp Boutique. I cut him out ad backed him onto an embossed circle. The background paper is from a 12 x 12 sheet of K & Co which I bought in a sale for 20p. The lovely little buttons and bows were from the blog candy I won at Winter Wonderland where the challenge is satsuma, gold and chocolate. The sketch is from Just Cute Bears. Cupcake want us to keep it simple which is a challenge for me but I have managed it with this card. Teddy Stampers are looking for love and check this out at Papertake who want to see checks.

Roses

THIRD AND FINAL POST FOR TODAY.

There is a fabulous theme for the sketch at Moving along with the times. The theme is childhood memories. The DT have come up with some great ideas this week. I looked through my images and could think of so many to use. In the end I decided to go with these roses as I remember my friend and I picking rose petals and putting them into a jar of water thinking we could make some perfume! Needless to say it didn't work. Well I was only about 4 at the time.

The colour scheme of pink and cream came from Creative Inspirations and the recipe of 1 patterned paper, 1 embossing, 1 button and 1 ribbon is for A Spoonful of Sugar. I used one of my neglected Cuttlebug embossing frills for the border. The paper is another of the Papermania capsule collection. I know that the pink looks a bit purple on the photo but it is pink, I promise you.

Daisy Crazy

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A friend asked me to make a good luck card with bright flowers so I thought I would get out this lovely digi image from Sketch and Stamper again. Papers are all Papermania, flowers are Prima. Swirly leaves and corners are Sizzix. I added some flat backed pearls from Quixotic Paperie.
Challenges
Friday Sketchers Sketch
Allsorts Pearls and swirls

A Birthday Card for a change

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I have an order for 3 Birthday cards and managed to make one of them last night and here it is. The beautiful image is from a set by Inkadinkadoo (I think)which I bought in America. Coloured with PMs and added some glitter and gems. I used the sketch from Sketch Saturday. In order to fit it on a tall card I rotated the image but left the rest of the sketch as it was. Other challenges are a recipe of 3 patterned papers, 2 coloured card and 1 type of embellie at La la Land and 3 patterned papers and a stamp at Polka Doodle. Hopefully you can just see the third paper behind the sentiment. Tall cards are a challenge in themselves sometimes but I really like them for a change and this image wouldn't fir in a square card.

Retirement Card

A colleague at work asked me to make a retirement card so I decided that my new Papermania Bouquet papers would be perfect as they are so elegant. The sketch is from Dutch Dare Card Challenge

Ingredients
Stamp - All Night Media bought locally
Coloured with Letraset Promarkers, highlighted with glitter pens
Paper - Papermania Bouquet
Die cuts - Nestabilities
Embellishments - Flower buttons from the Range, gems from stash
Flowers - Prima, rose from stash