Disney card

I made this card for our Godson to give to a special friend for Christmas, and, thank goodness, he loves it !! I used royalty free images from Disney websites and decoupage figures from a sheet that I bought..
The card is a three-fold card, first photo is the front and the second is the inside part..feel free to enlarge it for more detail..

Art Deco card

This is a fancy fold card, I picked the idea up whilst blog hopping, but forgot to write down the name, so if you visit, whoever you are, thank you and I love your ideas. I made it with two sheets of A4 card, a beige mottled sheet and gold mirri card. The mottled card was sliced up to fit into the folds of the gold card. The word stamps were Stampin Up and the image is Hampton Arts Cozy Lady... I held the folds in place with thin double sided tape and finished off with some jewelled brads in toning colours..

Finally, I can post this today as it is my friend Carol's birthday (link down the left hand side) and it was made for her.

Oooo A Twaktaa

A gorgeous little boy names Elliot is 2 years old very soon, and he eats and sleeps tractors, so I made him this very simple card, which I know he will love. Actually, the background greens haven't shown up too well on the scan, it's more intense in real life.....

Something Completely Different ......

An experiment - but I think it works :-) A FlowerSoft image again - snowflakes stamped in silver ..

Some Christmas Cards ..

I made these cards with FlowerSoft and Tapestry stamps. Actually, if you double click on the cards to take a closer look, the little black dots on the Tapestry card is actually gold glitter, which looks very pretty - it doesn't show up at all on the scan which is a shame because the card is quite pretty in real life...
The FlowerSoft used is Christmas Mix.

What a weekend ........

I went to Port Sunlight Craft and Stamp show yesterday, took hubby along for a culture shock (he said it reminded him of a cattle market, or being dragged round a jumble sale with him mum when he was a lad..) and actually we had a brilliant day. Met up with my friend Carol - pop over and see her gorgeous cards - had a good chin way, and a great spend - even more so than usual, because hubby kept putting a word in here and there about how I could use particular stamps - and of course, to keep the peace, I agreed with him every time :-)
These cards are the result of a lovely weekend of play with mostly new stuff, stamps are Artistic Stamper, Hampton Arts, Stamps Away, Penny Black, Beach Bum stamps and a few of my own. Fraid there is overkill with turquoise because I also bought a luscious new Vintage ink pad from Ranger and just found some card to matt and layer that matched perfectly.

Thinking of You..

I made this card for a friends birthday - I bought a sheet of embossed and glittered decoupage and used some borders and tags from my stash ..

Simple Christmas Cards.....

Here are a couple of the first batch of cards - I need a major assault on my craft room, have so many cards to make that I must make a load more space - trouble is, it's a really tiny ropom, and I have a tad - just a tad - too much stuff :-)

25th Anniversary card

I made this card for a friend to give her daughter and son-in-law, had a problem first, because I didn't have a clue what kind of card I wanted to make, the only clue I had been given was that the couple like karaoke. Well, I couldn't find anything romantic musically, so I opted for plain romantic and when I saw these tiny silver roses, and the even tinier red ones I visualised exactly what I wanted to do. I have taken a couple of close up photos so you can see the tiny bouquet and corsages I made, and if you look carefully, I even tucked a couple of tiny red rosebuds under the Joanna Sheen rose topper, and under the top of the verse.

Just to show I have been playing nicely !!

My lovely friend Sue, from Sue's Art Stuff , sent me a huge envelope full of goodies for me to use on my charity cards, so just to show I really haven't been swanning round country piles all the time, here are a few of my latest cards, around 60 I think - mostly finished, just a few to finish off, adding inserts and putting into bags etc ...

Sympathy Card

My cousin's mother-in-law just died - here is the card I made to send to them ....

picture stamp is Paper Inspirations, stamped in Black Stazon and chalked, and the background flower, stamped in pale gold is Penny Black, Sympathy stamp is Inkadinkadoo.

SBS Thinking of You, and other cards ..

Here is a mixture of hand painted and stamped cards - I used cuttlebug embossed backgrounds and words, Tilda images sent to me by a friend, and various background papers from my stash .....I also used a K and Co. buttons embellishment on my Thinking of You card, entered for the SBS challenge today.

Handpainted cards

You can double click on any of the pictures to see them in more detail..





I've been having a lovely time recently, painting. I have mixed gouache, H2o's and Marvy and Whispers pens, so lots of different painting and colouring mediums - I stamped the images first with Black Stazon and then set to with my colours - hope you like them!! All I have to do now, is add a greeting here and there, and voila !!

All Carded Out Now ..

Had a mad week this week, no time for challenges, I have been making cards to donate to some of the charities I help, all different types, styles and techniques. A while ago, I had a lovely time using my friend Carol's stash of Stampin Up sets, so, I have finished off all those cards, plus made lots using my stamps, including a Flower Soft one, (don't use Flower Soft very often - looks good but goes everywhere)
You can double click on the photo's to look closer, hope you like !!

Some Cards

These cards have been dry embossed along the top edges and down the side, and I touched them with chalks to add a little colour. I added a butterfly stamped on acetate and a 3D butterfly to one of the cards..


This one was painted with Twinkling H20's - it's such a shame the company making these tiny pots of paint has gone out of business, I recently discovered them, and love using them.........




I love this stamp - I have been asked to make some dog and cat cards for a friend, this one is the first. It's an Imagina stamp by Clarity Stamps. It's coloured with watercolour pencils.


I'ver shown the back and front of this card, so you can see how it's made, it's just a bit of fancy folding, but it looks so different.

Valentine card

I thought I would share this card with you - it's the card I made for my hubby for Valentine's Day. Unfortunately the scan isn't very good because the card is 3d due to the spray of Roses. I made the hearts using my Cuttlebug Heart die and embossing folders. I used Elusive Images Valentine stamp sheet - love those images. Double click on the card to read the words, they are lovely.

Geisha with Fan card

Somewhere out there is a challenge to include Fans - but I can't find it now I've made my card - still I like the card anyway so am posting it. I made it for a friend's birthday, the card is Papermania printed card, and the stamp is a big Rubbernecker one. The image is coloured with watercolour pencils.

Cards ..

I made these cards for friend's birthdays, one is horse mad and the other loves oriental stuff - so I used a Laura Ashley stamp for both backgrounds, stippling them both with a hard bristle brush and backing the Hero Arts butterfly collage with a cuttlebug embossed piece of toning card. I also painted the butterfly with Twinkling H20's and finished it off with a tiny, hand tied bow. The horse is a Joanna Sheen image from one of her cd's. I printed the sheet of toppers off on photo paper - it's come up quite well..

Forever..

The stamp I used for this card is a huge Elusive Images stamp, which I stamped twice and cut out the lovers from the second image. This is for an engagement card with a difference, and was coloured with watercolour pencils ..

Magic Moments

For some reason, the background hasn't shown up on the scan - it's like a cross hatched pattern in pale blue - which is a shame because it sets the whole thing off.
These two cheeky chappies are painted with Twinkling H20's