Pink Competition Cards!

Here's 3 cards that I entered into a forum competition , the theme was pink (I of course found it really hard to make pink cards lol!) but the twist was that you had to use brads, peel offs (eek!) or vellum! It was an extra point for each extra item used!

I had to dust down the vellum and peel off's as I don't really use them!

My favourite is the top card using my lovely new cupcake stamp from Stamp addicts... I'm really into cupcakes at the moment, it's a special card made for my friend who I travel to work on the trains with every day she's going back to shift work next week, it's going to be strange not seeing her on the train :(

Mother's Day Cards

Here's 2 cards I made tonight, one for my mum and one for Paul's step mum!

Top card is made using the NEW (drool drool) Cuttlebug Swiss dots embossing folder and the build a flower dies... I have to say I am very excited about the build a flower set.. it's just so me!!

The Bottom card is a Penny Black stamped image, the flower has been decoupaged and both cards the sentiment has been stamped using those Karen Foster mini stamps, which BTW when I last went into Capture The Magic she had a load more, they have been discontinued for a while and rare to find, but a must have if you can get them!

hmmm Blonde Moments!!

I'm into pink & brown again... The flower is coloured using Blonde Moments pearl powders, they were a last minute purchase from Ally Pally after admiring them every time I went!

They are fantastic, you use a perfect medium ink pad to stamp with then brush on the powder, to seal it all you do is spritz a bit of water onto area and let it dry, you can also use them like paints too... the photo really doesn't do them justice as they shimmer!

Get Well Soon

I organised a 'think pink' card competiton for my crafty friends to raise some money for the Breast Cancer charity as last month was Breast Cancer awreness month. We managed to raise £135.00 plus we have over 60 cards to hand over to the charity to sell on!

Here's one of the cards I made for the competiton, it's actually the winning card, never expected that! I love this paper!

Cupcake Birthday

Here's a rather simple birthday card I made round Becky's, the image is from Pink Petticoat, not sure which collection this is from though, but isn't the cupcake cute?!

Again this was Becky's lovely paper so I don't have a clue who makes it (sorry not much help really am I?!) but it's another on my wants list at the moment as I love the colour combination!

Male Birthday Card

Is it just me or do you find male cards hard?! I really struggle with male cards... if I could just make them pink & flowery I'd be ok lol!

I'm normally the type of girl who leaves male cards to the last minute and then gets stressed wondering what on earth I going to do... You only have to go through my craft stuff to see that I have very little male realted items... I think I own a little beer jug stamp (never used) and a quickutz football die... I think that is as far as it goes for male.. I really need to buy more stuff but I just don't get excited over male items like I do with girlie things like flowers lol.

Anyway this time was different, I made this card with nearly 2 weeks to spare... it's unheard of for me lol!

My brother loves his PSP at the moment and a little light switched on inside my brain lol. I just printed it out a few times and decoupaged the buttons up, the brother wording is cut with the Cuttlebug Hippie Chick alphabet set....

I know it's not the most stunning card and not hugely exciting but at least it's done in plenty of time and hopefully he'll love it.

Right back to pink & girlie now for a few weeks until I need to make my uncles birthday card... ooooh I'm stressed just thinking about what to make....

Lilac Spots!

I'm really into spotty backgrounds at the moment... I love these spot stamps by MSE, they are a clear set which makes it so much easier! The mouse stamp is by Penny Black, greeting is with my trusty snap stamps!

I made 2 more christmas cards last night, I'll get those downloaded later on. I have to say I am getting very worried with my Christmas obsession as I have made about 17 christmas cards in total after the ones I made last night! I never normally start until the end of September... Quite scary when you think about how close christmas is now....

Birthday Tag Book

A birthday card with a slight difference, I made a little pocket on the front of this card and out of the pocket comes a little Tag birthday book!

The stamped images are Doodlebug frames set & the with love greeting is using those Snap Stamps again. Around the edges I used glamour dust for a bit of sparkle!

The dotty paper is Doodlebug & the name on the front of the tag book is cuttlebug Hippie Chick!

Inside the tag book i've used Penny black stickers & DCWV cardstock and quotes.

50th Birthday

I made this card for my aunt's 50th birthday. The swirl stamped images on the pink bazzill card are Autumn Leaves Swirl v2, I love these stamps!

A while back I bought a large clear alphabet & numbers stencil set from a cheapy shop in town they only cost £1.99 - BARGAIN, I've used them a few times for special birthdays.

Using my Cuttlebug Emossing Folder - Stylized Flowers I embossed two pieces of card, drew round the 5 & the 0 and cut them out. I then coloured the flowers and the leaves with my I Kan'dee Shimmer chalks. Tied ribbon around the 0 and the little silver tag says 'joy', I bought these from Capture The Magic.

Using my Cuttlebug machine I cut a oval slider from the set of Cuttlebug Slider die set. The greeting is using those Karen Foster Snap Stamps again but the mini casual alphabet this time!

The flowers are punched using a small flower punch and they have a gem stone in them!

Tinkabella!

I'm soooo into Stamping Bella stamps at the moment!!! I'm not lucky enough to actually own this stamp YET but I just it, it's so girlie and so me!

Tinkabella is the name of the stamp, I've glittered her wings and flowers on her dress with Stickles - Star Dust which I love for that glittered effect!

The G is from a set of chipboard letters that I bought at Capture The Magic recently they are from American Traditional Designs - Chipboard Alphabet - Relax Pearlised!
I can't for the life of me remember what the paper is called but the pink ric rac down the card is actually from the Doolebug Paper Frills Assortment Pastel pack.

The rest of the greeting I have used a fantastic stamp set I love! They are called Karen Foster snap stamps - small casual alphabet... they are so clever as you can create your own words by snapping the alphabet stamps together... They must be one of my best buys recently... I got the mini set also which I'm told they have now discountined, they are very hard to come by, I know Vicki at Capture The Magic have a few sets left!