Spring Has Sprung!

Well, in my card it has anyway!  Fed up of the gloomy cold weather I decided to make a nice bright card with the lovely Magnolia Cuddly Siblings stamp and background.

I cut out the image using the Spellbinder Wonky Squares die and layered it on to some orange card.  The butterflies were cut using the Marianne Topirary & Butterfly die and the swirl with the beautiful Memory Box Riviera Corner.

I hope this helps to brighten your day.  Something else which might is the lovely candy giveaway the Ribbon Girls are offering until the 30th March.  Pop over and take a look.

I have entered this card into the following challenges:

Tilda's Town - Think Spring

Time for Magnolia Challenge - Spring with main colours orange/yellow with image of Edwin and Tilda

Marvelous Magnolia - Dies

Where did Spring go?

It was supposed to be the first day of Spring the other day, only someone forgot to tell the weather man!  We have actually been very lucky on the Isle of Wight, with none of the white stuff, just plenty of wet stuff and cold with it.  So my card today is probably more seasonal and correct than it should be for this time of year!

For this I used the lovely House Mouse stamp 'Snuggle Up' from Joanna Sheen.  The image is so lovely I decided to keep it very simple and just use one of the Martha Stewart punches around the page stamps and layer it on to a base card of deep copper brown.  The image was coloured with Promarkers and highlighted with glitter.

I have entered this card into the following challenge:

Joanna Sheen - Come Rain or Shine

Underwater Birthday

For a long time now I have been meaning to try out the effect of using hair gel in a sealed plastic bag to give a squidgy, touchy feely effect to a card, and I thought this idea went well with an underwater theme. 

 So I gave it a go using the lovely Swimming Tilda stamp.  I coloured her in with my Promarkers and added a couple of 'seaweed' branches cut from green card with the Magnolia Leaf and Swirl die.

I put a small amount of gel in a bag (which I checked had no holes!!) and attached it to the underside of the frame I had made using the Spellbinders dies.  This was layered on top of an 8x8 card and embellished with the lovely Ahoy Tilda and Pair of Lighthouses Stamps from Magnolia.

I was really pleased with the result and have entered the card into the following challenges:

Tildas Town - Anything Goes
Bearly-Mine Challenges - Anything Goes

Bath Time

I have made this card today for my sons girlfriends birthday.  She's a great fan of the colour green and relaxing in a nice bath full of bubbles!

I used an 8x8 scalloped edge card blank because they added to the impression of bubbles, but the background papers I wanted to use came from a 6x6 pad from First Edition.  So I cut both papers into quarters and attached the first four into each corner of the green base layer.  The other quarters were attached each end to a strip of green card and attached in a cross shape to the first layer.

 The 'hole' in the middle was covered by the stamped image of Tilda with Bath Cap and Bath Tub.  I cut a frame from green card and randomly dotted 'pearls' around the edge with Cosmic Shimmer Cosmic Pearl PVA.  The image was coloured with promarkers and Spectrum Noir and the additional bathtime buttons are from Craft Time.

I have entered this card into the following challenges:

The Ribbon Girls - Green and White

Tilda's Town - Anything Goes

Joanna Sheen - Mums the Word
The Crafter's Cafe - Green and/or St Patrick's Day

A Vintage Birthday

I wanted to have a go at making a vintage looking birthday card for one of my husbands colleagues, as I've not really made one before, and I must admit, I was quite pleased with the way it turned out.

 I used the Magnolia Birthday Tilda stamp for the main image and coloured her in using Promarkers.  I then cut her out using the Spellbinders Nestabilities Floral Oval die.

The backing papers are from the Prima Botanical Collection papers.  The lace edging was in my stash and I threaded a length of what was thin white ribbon, but coloured it to match with Promarkers, through the holes in the lace.

The flowers are from Celebrate It and are from the Occasions fabric flowers collection.  I used Kort & Godt green pearls for the centres.  The swirl is cut using the Memory Box Elegant Scrollwork die.

I have entered this card into the following challenges:

Joanna Sheen - Mums the Word

Time for Magnolia - Happy Birthday

While on the subject of challenges, pop over to the Ribbons Girls blogspot and have a go at their flower giveaway, it's for a beautiful collection of flowers - good luck!

Beginners Luck?

Hi Everyone

I was so excited to find out today that my 'I Do' card had come in the top five picks for Tilda's Town - Understated and Elegant challenge.
As I have only just joined the world of blogging and challenges, I was so pleased.  Let's hope I can be lucky again one day! 

Mother's Day

Who can believe it is March already and Mother's Day is almost upon us?  I made this card for my Mum using a decoupage image from the brilliant 'Best of La Pashe' CD, which I love.

It was extremely quick and easy to make, as the image says it all, but I layered the image onto a Magic Mirror Die'Sire Decorative Die, cut from green card and highlighted the corners with gems.

The flowers are from Wild Orchid and also some I bought from the NEC.

The background paper is from the Dovecraft Aquamarine floral print paper pack.

I am entering this card into the Bearly Mine - Mothers Day Challenge.

Happy Anniversary

Making the wedding card in my previous post reminded me that it will be mine and my wonderful husband's 13th wedding anniversary soon, so I also made this card.

I wanted to use the lovely 'Together Forever' stamp from LOTV, which I hadn't had chance to play with yet.  I stamped the image twice and cut one out using a Spellbinders Labels 20 die, inking the edges with Weathered Wood Distress Inks.  I coloured both images identically with a mixture of my Promarkers, Flexmarkers and Spectrum Noir's (you see, I knew I needed all those pens!)

I glued a length of Bakers Twine over the swing ropes on the base image and then cut out the second image and stuck that over the top with pinflair glue.

I cut out a branch using my Sizzix 'Branches and Birds' strip die and glued it to the top of the twine to look like the swing is hanging from the branch.

The base card was layered in brown and green card and then some green backing paper I had in my stash (free from a magazine, I think).  I then made another panel with brown and green card and layered this with paper from the Trimcraft Helz Cuppleditch Neighbourwood paper pack.

Towards the bottom of this panel I attached a length of green organza ribbon and stuck the 'Forever Together' sentiment,which has also been cut out with a Label 20 die and edged in Distress Ink.

I added some small butterflies cut from lemon card with the Marianne Topirary and Butterfly die and added some small green gems to the bodies.

I have also entered the card into the following challenge:

The Ribbon Girls - Add ribbon or twine

I Do!

At last - Spring has arrived! (Well, at least for today!)  After a very chilly start, we had bright skies and warm sunshine (or should I say warmer!), and it started me thinking that wedding season will be apon us soon. So I thought I would make a wedding card to be included in my next batch to go to the Cafe where they kindly display my cards for sale.

I chose this beautiful Magnolia stamp, Bride and Bridesmaid because I think it is adorable.  I coloured the image with Promarkers and highlighted the dresses and flowers with glitter, adding pearls to the brides neck.

I used a backing paper from the Dovecraft Wedding Designer Paper Pack and a Martha Stewart Punch Around The Page punch for the lace detail.

The image was cut out with a Spellbinders Labels One die and the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I have entered this card into the following challenge:

Tilda's Town - Fussy & Fancy or Understated and Elegant