Finally Arrived!

After almost 3 months of waiting my Amy Butler 'Frenchy Bags' pattern finally arrived! : )

April Challenge Card

This is the card ive made for the April challenge for the MSN group i belong to to. This months challenge was to make a flap card. The fist image is of the card when closed, the second is the card open and the third is of the gift card/money pocket behind another flap.

March Challenge Card

This is the card i made for the March challenge for the msn group i belong to. The card was to have a name on it. So for mine i put my brothers name on as it was his birthday last week. The letters are cut out of acetate, i painted them with metallic paints on both sides. The letters were stuck on the card using foam squares just to make the letters stand out a bit more.

Two new cards - Easter

I made these two cards yesterday. I've used the free stamps from the April issue of 'Cardmaking and Papercraft'. I've coloured in the images using watercolours. For the top card I've used acetate as the base card and placed a piece of green paper directly behind the front so it covers the double sided tape. For the bootom card i've added the same flower paper inside the card for the insert and added the butterfly embellishments - with out them the card looked quite plain.

Been having a play with..

The ribbon tool which i got on Saturday. Made two flowers -well one looks like a flower not so sure about the other one.

Good Weekend

I had a good weekend (well Saturday!) My mum and I had a girlie day out in Glasgow, where we went to the Creative Stitches and Hobbycraft Show at the SECC. We had a fab time looking round all the stalls. Got so many ideas for cardmaking. I picked up a few goodies. I got - a clear away tray, some Flower Soft (Sweet Pea) , a Decoupage sheet, a ribbon stripper for doing this, and also a counted cross stitch called 'Weekend in Paris'.
They also had this cool 'Kinitted Gingerbread House' there. It was very impressive all the details they had thought of. You read more about it here .

Mother's Day card

I made another card today. I made my mum's mothers day card.
I usually make her cards using the same colours - pinks, lilacs or cream- so i thought i'd make it green.

The top flower is a creamy colour and the second flower is a lovely green. I've used a silver heart brad to fasten them to the card. The strip of paper is light green and i've embossed it with stylizeed flowers. Then i added green gems.


*the card looks a lot better in real*