Thank you cards

These are two Thank You cards I have made using Martha Stewart punches and my Cricut.

For my first card I covered a square card blank with turquoise card. Onto this I attached a white punched patterned square. I punched this using a Martha Stewart Punch All Over The Page Country Tile punch.



I cut the thank you wording with my Cricut. I added this to the card with foam pads. To finish I added faux stitching, crystal Stickles and gems.



For my second card I used my Martha Stewart Punch All Over The Page Crochet Flower punch for the green patterned layer. I added this to a square card blank. Again I cut the wording with my Cricut. To finish I added faux pearls.

Mother's Day cards

This is a selection of Mother's Day card I have made.

For my first card I used a Martha Stewart punch-all-over the page punch for the background lace effect. The flowers were stamped using Everything Eleanor stamp set from Stampin' Up. I used my Cricut to cut the wording. To finish I added pearls and crystal Stickles.



For my second card I used a cute Penny Black image. I coloured the image with ProMarkers. I used Spellbinders die to cut the circles and scalloped circle which I attached the hedgehog to with foam pads. The flowers were cut with a Cuttlebug Flower die. To finish I added a bow, gold Stickles and gems.



My final card used a Craftwork Cards diecut Floral which I coloured with ProMarkers. I added this and the patterned paper to a Craftwork Card easel card blank.

Cake and flowers

No card from me today but I wanted to share a couple of other items with you that I have made. I made a Valentine cake today. It's a vanilla sponge which I covered with fondant icing. I also cut the hearts from fondant icing which I coloured with red food colouring.I was pleased with my icing along the bottom as I'm still just learning.



My second item is a flower which I cut with a new Cricut cartridge called Flower Shoppe. I cut all the layers from different colours of card before attaching them together with wet glue. I added a yellow sticker gem to the centre.

Birthday rose

This is a birthday card I have made using a new toy of mine - the Spellbinders Rose Creations Nestabilities. As soon as I saw then I knew I 'needed' them!

I begun my cutting the petals and leaves from coloured card. On the leaves and top layer of petal I lightly embossed some details using a round ended embossing tool. I put a little PVA glue between each layer and I also added a brad to keep all the pieces together.



I stamped a section of flower design on a Kraft card blank using Stampin' Up Crumb Cake ink pad. Onto this added strip of white, green and burgundy card. The edge of the burgundy card was punched with a my Stampin' Up eyelet punch.

To finish the card I added gold peel-off strips and a birthday greeting which was cut using my Cricut.

I love ProMarkers - challenge 62

This is my card for this week's I Love ProMarkers blog challenge. The theme of the challenge is 'anything goes'.

The stamp set I used for the card was Polka Doodles 'Garden Neighbours' stamp set. I begun by stamping all the elements of the image onto smooth white card with using a black Memento ink pad. I coloured in the image with ProMarkers. I added gold highlights with a gold Sakura pen.



I cut a panel of light purple card for the background. I punched the edge of the strip of white card using Stampin' Up eyelet punch. I added the image and the punch edge to the purple panel. Across the centre I added a strip of light purple card with two brads.

I cut out the wording using my Cricut. To finish I added faux stitching.

Royal Wedding

This is my card for DoCrafts Royal Wedding card competition. I chose to use a colour scheme of cream , gold and pale blue.

I begun by cutting the initial out of cream and gold card. I used Gypsy Wandering font and my Cricut. I mounted the cream onto the gold layer.



I covered a card blank with cream card. I cut a large square of gold card for the background. I punched the corners with a XCut corner punch. The pale blue paper was from the DoCrafts Pampered Pets range. I added this to the gold card square and tucked the corners under the flower corners. In the corners I added gold Dew Drops from Papermania.



I attached a thin strip of gold card and cream ribbon by Anita's across the card. I added two small bows tied from the same ribbon. To finish I added a greeting from the Forever Friends range.

Floral birthday

I made this birthday card using Cricut cartridge 'Cindy Loo'.

I begun by cutting the green background design. I then cut the layers for the pink flowers. I added the flowers onto the green background design. I covered a square card with dark brown card. Onto this I attached the green background design.



I added gold dots around the edge of the card and on the leaves. I coloured in the berries with the gold pen. To finish the card I added a circle greeting by Craftwork Cards.

Birthday bear

This is my card for two challenges - Passion for ProMarkers, the theme was 'coffee and cream'. I have used a range of brown and cream colours for the card. The other challenge is I Love ProMarkers, the theme was 'paper piecing', so I used this technique for the bear's top.



I began by stamping the Penny Black bear and mouse image with a black Memento ink pad. I coloured in the images with ProMarkers. I stamped the bear's top again on light blue card. I cut this out and added it to the coloured image. I mounted the image on square of cream card.



I covered a card black with brown patterned paper from Trimcraft Sugar and Spice range. I used my Cricut to cut out the greeting and the number. I using my Stampin' Up photo corners punch to punch the corners from brown card.

I attached all the elements to the card. To finish I added faux stitching with a gold pen and highlights with a gold Sakura pen.

Clare's weekly challenge

This is my card for Clare's sketch challenge on the DoCrafts website.

I begun my stamping the Forever Friends bear three times using a Memento ink pad. I coloured in the three images using ProMarkers. I cut out the images and layered up parts of the image using foam pads.



I cut out three red circles using Lacy Circles Nestabilities. Around the edges I added white dots with a white Papermania pen. I added them onto a strip of white card. I cut out an 'I' and 'U' letter using my Cricut and attached them to the smaller circles. This panel was them added on the larger red card panel.



I stamped the same Forever Friends bear image onto a Papermania Kraft card blank using a blank ink pad. I added the centre panel to the card and also a peel off greeting. To finish the card I added Papermania red dewdrops and some additional white dots.

Passion for ProMarkers - week 82 challenge

This is my card for this week's Passion for ProMarkers challenge. The theme of the challenge was 'baby cards'.



I begun my stamping the baby image with a Memento ink pad. I coloured in the image with ProMarkers. The stamp is by Lili of the Valley. I used nestabilities to cut out the image and the circle and scalloped frames. I covered a 8x8 card blank with pink patterned paper. The paper was from the Honey & Hugs range by Papermania.



Using my Cricut to cut of the daisies and the wording. I added these to the card. To finish I added gold and white dots using Sakura pens.

On your engagement

This is an engagement card I have made. It's for a couple who initials are both 'A' so that is why I used these letters on the front. To made this card I used my new craft gadget, a Gypsy.

I started by covering a card blank with lilac card. The white background design was cut from thick white paper using the Cindy Loo Cricut cartridge. The A's were cut using Gyspy Wanderings Cricut designs with came with the Gypsy. I cut the letters from lilac card and the shadow from white card. I added these to the card with foam pads.



I stamped the love wording and flourish design with Stampin' Up Tiny Tags stamp set. I punched out the tags using Stampin' Up Tag punch. I tied them to the letters with lilac ribbon. To finish I added a gem.

The Stamp Man Challenge 11

After the Christmas card 'break' I'm now starting to get back to taking part in some challenges. This is my card for The Stamp Man challenge 11. The theme of the challenge was Christmas but only using three colours. The colours I used are white, silver and turquoise.



I embossed two rectangles of white card with a snowflake design. I did this using my Cuttlebug and the Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder. I attached these to a panel of light turquoise card. Across the centre of the panel I attached a strip of turquoise ribbon.

The centre greeting was cut out of white card using my Cricut. I removed the greeting and mounted the square that was left onto a scalloped edge square of light turquoise card. I added small silver dots using a silver Sakura pen.



I used my Cuttlebug and single snowflake cutting dies to cut out the individual snowflakes. The larger ones I added with brads and the other with Quickie glue. I added diamond Stickles to the snowflakes. To finish I added the panel to a card blank.

Bloomin With Beauty

These are two card I've made using Bloomin With Beauty stamp set from Stampin' Up. Unfortunately this set was retired last month. I had been looking at this set in the catalogue for months and when I found out it was going I just had to have it.



For this card (above) I stamped the flower images on whisper white card also by Stampin' Up. I coloured the images using a variety of Stampin' Up ink pads. The greeting was cut using my Cricut. The background paper was stamped with the wording from the stamp set. The plant pot was cut from Kraft card.



To finish the card I added ribbon and gold centre to the potted flower using a Sakura pen.

My second card (below) for my October friendship card swap on the DoCrafts website. The flower pot image was stamped with Memento ink pad and coloured in with ProMarkers. The card blank was stamped with a flowers design from Stampin' Up Tiny Tags stamp set.



The greeting tag were also stamped with the Tiny Tags set and then punched out the the Jewelry tag punch. They were attached to the card with ribbon. To finish the card I gold centre to the flowers using a Sakura pen.

Elegant lady

A different style of card from me today. I made this easel card for my friend Julie's birthday. She also makes cards but has a different style to me. So for her birthday card I made a card more in her style.

The 1920's lady image panel is by Kanban. I added some additional glitter to the dress and I used Flowersoft Polar White for the fur collars.



I kept to a colour scheme of gold and blues for the card. For the blue background panel on the top section of the card I used 'En Francais' stamp by Stampin' Up. I stamped it with clear Memento ink pad and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.

The fancy flower die cut design was cut using my Cricut. The design was from the Home Decor cartridge. I also used my Cricut to cut the greeting. I used brads to hold the easel card up.

Owlgate - part two

These are two more cards made using October Stamp Club stamps. My first card is also one of October's project cards. So if you are part of the Club then keep a look out for my card and instruction on how to make it.



For this card I stamped the Owlgate image. I used ProMarker to coloured in one of the owls. I added flock to the white sections of the Santa hat. I cut out the owl and he was mounted on a circle and scalloped circle of card. These were cut out using Nestabilities.



I cover the bottom section of a card blank with green card. I stamped the greeting onto this with Stampin' Up white craft ink. The owl panel was added with foam pads. To finish the card I added dots with a white Sakura pen and a red fineliner.

For my second card I wanted to try a different colour scheme then expected. I chose to use pinks, purple and silver. I coloured in the image with ProMarkers. This was mounted on a pink and then a silver square scalloped frame. There were cut with Nestabilities.



I cut a large panel of pink card for the main background. Onto this I added a panel of snowflake patterned paper. I attached the image panel with coloured brads. The snowflakes were cut using my Cricut. I used the same greeting stamp for this card too. It was mounted onto a panel if silver card and then attached to the card.

George the Giraffe

These two cards were made using Christmas Giraffe stamp by Little Claire. I have named in George... an obvious choice for me!



For the first card I used ProMarkers to colour in George. I used Nestabilities to cut out the frames. The snowflake background paper was stamped using a white Stampin' Up ink pad. The snowflakes and the greeting are from Little Claire's 'All set for Christmas' set. The cutout snowflakes were done using my Cricut.

The greeting was also stamped with white ink onto dark blue card. I used a scalloped puch for the end of the card. To finish I added Polar White Flowersoft for snow.



My second card is George the football fan. He has on a black and white scarf for my favourite football team - Juventus! For this card George was stamped on tan coloured paper with a sepia VersaMark ink pad. He was coloured in with colour pencils. I stamped the scarf on white paper and coloured that in with ProMarkers. I cut this out and added it to George.

Both frames were cut with Nestabilities. The football background was stamped with a black VersaFine ink pad and coloured in with a black Sakura pen. To finish I added football ribbon and a greeting.