Pleased with these latest cards....

Here is a Man's birthday card featuring a stamped fisherman from a Clare Curd set that I coloured in with felt tips - the colour being put on an acrylic block and using a damp paintbrush to colour in.  On the blue base card I laid little squares of sayings pertaining to fishing my favourites being
'There is always a little boy in the old man gone fishing' and 'Good things come to those who wade'!

I used a cream base card and added a lovely Webster's Pages paper called 'Your Life. Beautiful'.  I then cut out an oval using the back of that paper which is a dusky pink colour and then started adding the lady from a Dufex Craft decoupage sheet called 'Elegance 2'.  I had used an x-cut corner cut out on the paper to finish it off.  I'm quite proud of this one!

 I decided to use another stamp from the above set this time a handy man one.  I stamped it on light yellow card and coloured it in exactly the same way as above too and stamped the sentiment from the same set.  I used a light blue base card and added a darker blue paper with stars on right behind the main picture and at the bottom a paper that has lots of saying pertaining to men like 'boys will be boys' and 'Like father, like son'.

I used a lovely turquoise patterned paper from Websters pages called 'Brocade' and a little turquoise and red oblong piece called 'Gypsy Sisters'. I added a little plastic flower motif and then added the 3 toppers using sticky foam pads after colouring in the roses with glitter gel pens. Then I added the anniversary sentiment in a gold peel off plus a little gold heart. The middle topper has a verse on it - 'Love brought you together as husband and wife and gave both of you a best friend for life'.

Here is my contribution to the Tiffany Doodles Challenge....

I used a pink flowery backing paper by Henbury Lane. I then mounted a pretty turquoise paper called Gypsy Sisters Collection and added a vintage looking cream tag designed by Rhonna Farrer, that I threaded a cream gauze ribbon through, I placed a pink stone in the middle of the flower and enhanced some of the leaves and flowers with glitter gel pens.  I added a cardboard bird on top of the ribbon. At the bottom I added a pink butterfly ribbon strip and a multi-coloured butterfly then a little 'Best Wishes' tag that I stamped with lavender ink.

Look What I Found...............

There I was with Hubby Mike in a local charity shop and I spies this beautiful tin!  It had a sticker on that said
60 and I turned to Mike and said - 'That doesn't mean £60 does it'? 'Can't be', Mike says. so I go up to the lady behind the till and ask her.......'No, dear, that's 60p and isn't it pretty'.  Well, I had to have it, but not quite sure what to do with it yet!!  It used to have Churchill's biscuits in it but not a crumb remains! lol  Anyhow, I thought you'd like to see my little 60p bargain....

                                     



So you can see it is a white background with beautiful lilac iris flowers embossed in the tin - so any ideas of what I can use it for?

Here is a card I made entirely from the insides of envelopes!! lol
I got the idea from Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine issue 80 and thought it a cool idea!  I collected several envelopes with different insides and just cut them out and layerd them on a blue base card and made a wavy pattern to represent the sea.  I put a little boat and I did put a blue sun and Mike said 'Why is your sun blue'? Hmm, good question, so I added a yellow sun like topper!

 I added a little pic of my big brother Steve, supposedly swimming in the sea, who the card is for, because at the end of the month he is going to live in Turkey for awhile, which is why I added 'bon voyage' in silver peel offs and also put a little tag with a star fish on it in the corner!

Friday night we were invited to a dinner/dance by a friend and his wife and we had a really lovely time at this magnificant old Hall, in a beautiful setting by a river, that's now a hotel.  The food was delicious and the entertainment really good.  so I decided to make them a thank you card.

 I chose a cream base card which was a freebie called 'Country Diary' kit, in the above mentioned magazine!  I've added a lilac flowery topper onto some purple card.  I cut out 6 little gingham squares and placed three onto some lilac & white ribbon at the bottom.  I then stuck the remaining 3 at the top. I then cut out 6 little lilac flowers (took ages as it's very fiddly!) and placed them on top of one another to create 3 little decoupage pictures. I then added the 'thank you' in gold peel offs.

This is another from the same freebie set and I just followed what the magazine told me to do - easy-peasy!
I chose a cream square base card and added a pink gingham cardboard topper. I then cut out two more sets of the flower design and placed them on top creating a decoupage image.
I then added a row of 3 little pink and cream flowers down the edge and across the bottom added a pink silky ribbon with another of the flowers and a 'With Love' sentiment card.

So quite a productive afternoon all in all for me!

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.