Posy Trio Teddies

Brrrrrr  - what a cold and miserable day! So just to lighten things up, here's a cute trio of teddies courtesy of Lili of the Valley! They stamped beautifully and I used Promarkers to colour them in. I matted them up onto a pale pinky-lilac spotty backing paper, using plain and scalloped circles, a flower plus a small length of ribbon left over from another project and there's my version of clean and simple.

I used:

LOTV -Posy Trio stamp (ST326)

Spellbinders Plain and Scalloped Circles

Promarkers

Dovecraft DP

Ribbon & Flower from stash

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenge:

Lili of the Valley Ideas to Inspire Blog - Anything Goes

Passion for Promarkers - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking!

New Year and Butterflies Everywhere

Happy New Year to you and I hope that you had as lovely a Christmas as we did. Santa was very generous and brought me some card-making goodies which I shall be using and posting results soon. In the meantime, here are 3 cards that I made recently to showcase the gorgeous Spellbinders Shapeabilities Butterfly Magic die. Hope you like them.

I enjoyed making these cards although it's quite fiddly trimming up edges of the die-cut. The flowers and leaves were made with Cheery Lynn dies and I also used a Memory Box Butterfly die.

Tools used:

Spellbinders Shapeabilities Butterfly Magic S5-153

Cheery Lynn B259 Daisy Strip and B304 Ivy Strip

Cheery Lynn B266 Tiny Things with Wings

Memory Box Butterfly Vine Border

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge - 109 Anything Goes

Crafty Creations Challenges - 253 Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew - Challenge 52 Anything Goes

Thanks for looking!

Pretty In Pink

This is a recent card I made for a Grandma to give to her granddaughter. The request was for the card to be pink and feature a little girl.

I started with an 8x8 scalloped edge card blank. I did my matting and layering using Dovecraft Back to Basics papers and silver mirri card. Image is 'Busy Doing Nothing' by Sheena Douglass, coloured with Promarkers. Dress/sash have been paper pieced using My Mind's Eye and Pink Petticoat Vintage Rose papers and matted onto Spellbinders Labels 8 shape. Sentiment is from magazine freebie paper pad. The larger flowers were made with a Nellie Snellen medium flower punch and the small ones with a Papermania Midi punch. The flourish is Marianne Creatables Swirl Leaf die. Ribbons and gems from stash.

Apologies for the blurry photo - photos 2, 3 and 4 are clear shots!

                                             Close-ups of flower & swirl detail

Box made from Centura Pearl with Memory Box Butterfly Vine border detailing

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Crafty Little Fairies - Pretty in Pink

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Use a Rubber or Clear Stamp

Live & Love Crafts - Use Pink

A Creative Romance: Pink

Thanks for looking!

Bows n Brads

The challenge at Crafty Fairies this week is Bows n Brads and as I'm trying to post one card a week I managed to make this card fit the theme.

I started with a ready-made 6x6 scalloped edge card and added a piece of white embossed card and a Cheery Lynn doily which was topped with this lovely LOTV fairy topper. I glittered her wings and dress for extra sparkle. The sentiment is also LOTV and the brads and ribbon are from (very) old stash.

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Crafty Little Fairies - Bows n Brads
The Ribbon Girl Blog - Make it Sparkly
Lili of the Valley Monthly Challenge - Anything Goes
A Creative Romance - Fairytale or Winged Creations
ABC Challenges - W for Words
Creative Craft Challenges2 - Anything Goes
Inky Chicks - Ch 14 - Use 2 different die-cuts
Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes


Thanks for looking!

Autumn Colours

I had a new home card to make and managed to fit in some Autumn colours as there's several challenges running this theme at the moment. It hasn't photographed too well - the red leaves are not as overpowering in real-life!

I started with a 6x6 Kraft card blank which I stamped using a Papermania Square Urban All Aboard Postmark Stamp and embossed with Stampendous Gold powder. The birdhouse image is Hot Off The Press and was a freebie from Simply Cards & Papercraft mag and was embossed to match the background then cut with a Spellbinders Timeless Rectangle.  Corner flourish is also by Spellbinders: D-Lites Fantastic Flourish Two. The leaves are a mixture of Cheery Lynn Ivy Strip die and Woodware Birch Leaf punch. I added gold ribbon and red gems to finish off.

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Dream Valley Challenges: challenge 66 Autumn
Crafts 4 Eternity: R143 - Anything Goes
Come and Get It Challenges: Fall Colours
Delightful Challenges: Fall Y'All



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Sunflowers and Sunglasses !!

Definitely sunglasses required for this card. Not quite sure what came over me, LOL, as this counts as a very bright card for me. Anyway, the theme at this week's Crafty Fairies is 'A Numbered Birthday' and as I needed to make a 70th birthday card it fitted perfectly. I've also used the sketch from the latest Sketch Saturday challenge.

Supplies used:
Image & Sentiment - Lili of the Valley
DPs - Dovecraft Back to Basics IV
Yellow card, gems and brads - all from stash

Dies used:
Spellbinders S5-158Timeless Rectangles; Plain & Scalloped Circles
Cheery Lynn B259 Daisy Strip and B304 Ivy Strip
Cuttlebug - Olivia Alphabet

I'd like to enter these challenges

Crafty Little Fairies - A Numbered Birthday
Sketch Saturday - challenge no. 277

Thanks for looking!

Cute As A Button

I made this card recently and the new baby really is as cute as a button (Hello Lottie!)

I started with an 8x8 scalloped card base and matted with pink and white embossed card. I used the Button Box embossing folder by Die'sire which is 8x8 size. Again I've used a fab LOTV image (I think it's called Baby Blanket), coloured with ProMarkers and which has been matted onto plain and scalloped Spellbinder circles. Sentiment is computer generated. Next I added a ribbon bow, secured with a button and twine and I finished off with some teeny butterflies and flowers with card candy centres.

a sideways view

button, bow & twine detail

flowers

I would like to enter into the following challenges:

Crafty Little Fairies - New Baby

Lili of the Valley Monthly Challenge - Ribbon & Lace

In The Pink: challenge 27 - Keep it Sweet and Simple

Delightful Challenges: New Beginnings

Cute Card Thursday: challenge 28 - Hip to be Square

Allsorts Challenge Blog: Week 224 - Baby, baby

ABC Challenge: V for Very Cute

Thanks for looking!