More Cards I've done!

So here I have some more cards 3 of which I made at my daughter Emma's yesterday and her hubby Bob gave us a little project to do for a card - so right away I set to, and produced this one in quite a short time!

I used some pink backing paper (dunno what it was, but Emma gave me lots of bits and pieces and it came from that!)  I then put a lilac oval cut out and added a little frame with a butterfly on it and then stamped 'With Love' inside it.  I added an oblong flowery plastic topper and a lilac ribbon.  this was all to Bob's specification - but when I came home I added another little cardboard butterfly to it!

I did this with some free backing papers from a CardMaking magazine and must admit found the flimsy paper a little difficult to handle!  Basically, its two papers with a doggy theme and a little strip of paws sealed over the two sides and a little topper of a dog!
Easy peasy!

I used a peach theme to make this card, again at Emma's with a peach backing paper then added an oval decorated cutout that Em gave me and then added a little wheelbarrow with flowers in and two amber butterflies.  I then put peach ribbon all around the card to finish.

this is a decoupage sweet pea added on to a cream bordered backing paper, to which I added a foil butterfly and a little bag with a heart on - I will think of a sentiment to add on later!

So there are my lates additions - let me know what you think of them!

My Entry to Waltzingmouse Sketch Competition

Well, hopefully I have the right idea about what's expected and here is my effort for the competition!

I stamped a lilac circle of paper with a Waltzingmouse rose from the Rose in Bloom set and added two halves of the leaf motif. I then coloured this in with felt tip pens.  I attached it to some purple paper from the papermania heather paper pack.  I then used some pale lilac from the same set to stamp the sentiment of 'Children and mothers never truly part Bound in the beating of each other's heart' which seemed apt seeing I lost my dear Mum two years ago. I added a little purple flower and two lilac glass butterflies.

My New Cards

Well here are a few more of my latest cards - the first one is one I've done for my youngest daughter Laura who has just landed a new Supervisor's job after being made redundant last December!

This is a Bentley Bear stamp that I coloured in with felt tips and I'd put it on handmade paper card (see below). I added a paper that had a flowery border and coloured that in as well. I stamped some little birds and some leaves too. Then I used two stamps for Congratulations Laura.

Here is my version of the paper that has a bird and a cage on it which I did last Thursday!  I put the paper on a green base card and left a little of it as a border showing.  I used another paper from the same collection at the top and cut it on the slant. I then added a black patterned paper that was cut out with wavy scissors to create a patchwork effect and added a green shiney ribbon across the two parts.
I cut out a little circle that has the words; 'Live the life you have imagined' and added a little green bow that I made.

I then put a green and orange butterfly on the top half.

This card I made today and has a cream paper that has a decorative darker cream border and an inset square in cream.  I then stamped an oval shape from one of the new Waltzingmouse stamp sets I bought, called 'Very Vintage Labels No.10 and added the little silver corner stamp in each corner, from the same set. I enhanced the silver stamp with a silver felt tip pen. Then I stamped the rose which was from a set called 'Roses in Bloom'.  I then coloured it in with felt tip colours. I added a little pink butterfly motif and stamped in red 'You are a rose in life's garden' also from the same set. 

I originally did this to enter the Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge - but I think, being my usual 'Silly Sally' self, I've got the wrong idea about it, as I think you have to use the sketch that they have there and make something out of it!!!!

Yet More Cards!

Here a few more of the cards I've made up recently.........

I used two different Henbury Lane papers as a backing one being a slightly metallic one (bottom) of the same flowerly design. I laid some pink ribbon across the seam and corner punched a heart on the corners.  The topper is a Kanban one called 'Mannequin'.

This was a read to do card from Kanban called 'Vintage Car'. It had several cut outs of the cars and after placing the larger ones on the card with foam pads, I cut around the slightly smaller ones to make a decoupage picture. I added a steering wheel motif and a tag.

I really like this one - the paper is one that I bought from Angel Cards and it depicts a baby carriage, clock and flowers and birds.  I added a couple of stick on butterflies, then a little rocking horse from the backing of a different paper. I added a square topper on it and then cut out an oval of the backing paper which had toys on it inside the card.  This was needed because the actual card was a hand made paper from Jaeger which had been stamped with a silver bow, so I needed to cover it up.

This is a pretty design which I've used in my previous cards, only a different corner of the 12"x12" sized sheet!  It's from the Pastiche Collection called 'Butterfly wings'. It has a writing script in the background and I just cut round the edge with wavy scissors and then added a rose epoxy sticker from a set called 'Romantic Roses' which I bought from an ebay store called Quickdraw Supplies and they do have lots of craft stuff on there which I'm always tempted to buy!  (www.qdsupplies.co.uk).

So that's my latest additions and I'm really loving and enjoying creating these cards.

My Latest Additions!

I'm really enjoying creating my cards and find it so rewarding - dunno why I waited so long!

So here are my four latest cards.......

This was from a card set I bought and instead of using the stripey card as the base card, I cut it in two and punched the corners and stuck the topper on and added a little basket of flowers on the bottom corner.

This is my first real attempt at decoupage from a set by Hunkydory called Pretty Petals and this is one of the Anemone & Hyacinth sheet, and this is the Hyacinth one.  I placed the main oval topper onto a backing card cut out from Webster's Pages called Garden Gala.  I stamped 'To You Both' in silver on the right hand bottom corner and added some little pink and cream butterfly cut-outs to the top. I also added a stamped silver 'Happy Anniversary' inside the card too.

Same as before only with two squares of a screen printed paper from Hambly called 'Mini Bicycles'. (The plain green is slightly metallic looking and is the other side to the Bicycles.  I also added a little circle decoration with a pearl heart and little beads and a 'Thinking of You' tag.

Here is the other part of the Hunkydory decoupage set called 'Anemome & Hyacinth' and this is the Anemone one.  I placed it on cream backing card from Postcards from Paris called
'Salon les fleurs' and punched all round the edges to create a lace effect.  I placed a little embellishment with two silver hearts and stamped 'together Forever' in Scarlet ink and also stamped 'Happy Anniversary' inside as well.

Yep! I'm certainly Hooked!!

Here are some more cards I've managed to do over the last few days.

This is a Henbury stamp which I've put on pink card and filled in with coloured pens watered down. The backing paper is from the Prima Pastiche collection called 'Butterfly wings' and I've added a butterfly and a little tag with a pink heart on and 'For You'.  I also butterfly stamped the edge of the card.

This is a card set I got from 'Mad About Cards' website.  I used the actual card to use instead as a backing paper and placed onto a white card, then I cut round the little dog pictures twice and decoupaged it on top of the picture and added a little green bow.  I added the little paws with stick ons and used the Best Wishes sticker it came with.

This card I used the butterfly punch on the edge of it and added a wavy cut out part of the Prima Pastiche collection called 'Butterfly wings' - which is the other side to the one I used before.  These sheets come in 12"x12" size so plenty still to use up!!  I put some little butterflies on and also a little metal heart and 2 birds embellishment on it.

This is a Thank You card I made for my Hubby Mike for supporting me in, (and paying for!) all my card making kit!  It has blue patterened paper and then I cut out the words individually from a sheet of them of the same set (sorry can't remember name of them!) I added some little blue flowers and a blue butterfly to match the stamped out butterfly at the top and bottom of card.

I made this card from 3 different lilac backing papers which I zig-zagged with scissors. I added a bluebell topper on top of a strip of silver and lilac ribbon. There are also 5 little butterflies that are the cut-offs from the butterfly punch (I don't throw anything away!) lol

This card is again used with lilac papers and the stripey one I punched with butterflies and the two larger butterflies were actually punched by an in-store demonstrator!  I do hope to get that punch though! I added some purple stones.  Also there are purple star stick on ribbon and a lilac butterfly one to separate the papers.  I used a punch on the bottom paper and added a little butterfly stick on. I also punched the edge of the card.

This is a range of different blue papers and I've punched the dotty one and the starry one top and bottom.  I added two toppers with cricket as it's theme and a little blue flower.

This is made from the backing of the same paper called 'Postcards from Paris' from Webster's Pages.  There's a cream/green lace one on one side that I used as a backing and the red roses on cream background on the other side that I ziz-zagged along one edge and laid it onto the right hand side.  I added a green ribbon on the top and decorated with 3 amber stones.

This is a lovely pink and mint green paper from the Watercolour Collection called 'Because'.  I managed to include the words Because and cut around the card with wavy edged scissors and I also corner punched it.  I added a topper from the Kanban range called 'Rosie' and again, cut around it with the wavy scissors in an oval shape. I placed a little pink rose and ribbon at the top and some little pink butterflies from the cutaways of the butterfly punch.




So there are my latest additions - hope you enjoyed looking at them!

Mike and Me doing the Tango!!

 Hi again,

Well here I go copying Emma again - she got me on to this site (JibJab) in the first place so I had to get one done - only I don't know how she managed to get it on her blog cos I've been trying all afternoon and only ended up with a link to it!  Anyway, go have a laugh on me and look at it!


http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/zyMNc1f5Ku1i76iCFih8


the funny thing is, that the man's body is exactly like Mike's and I only WISH my body looked like the lady's!!