Especially for You

Here's a recent commission card make for a husband to give to his wife and as both are very keen gardeners, I thought this would fit the bill.

As usual I played with some Lili of the Valley items.  The image is from Art Pad 24 - English charm and the papers are from the Promises pad.

The sentiment was made using a Tattered Lace words die. I managed to piece together the word 'Wife' using letters from other words. Hopefully the join isn't too noticeable.

I also used Martha Stewart punches and the roses, ribbon and gems are from my stash.

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

The Ribbon Girl March Challenge - Any Image
Lili of the Valley - Facebook April challenge
The ABC Challenge: E is for Everything



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Friends

Here's a simple but elegant (I hope) white on white card made for a very good friend's birthday. She's a fellow card-maker and was very pleased with it. Always difficult making cards for fellow crafters!
I used my Tied-Together embossing folder and accented the intersections with pearls. The central band was made with a Martha Stewart punch. I stamped the sentiment in Memento Ink - London Fog I think it's called, and then finished off with a little floral arrangement and a punched and Glamour Dusted butterfly.

I also scored several lines at the sides for a bit more textural interest.

I'd like to enter the following challenges: 

Crafting from the Heart - #84 Anything Goes

Simply Papercraft Challenges - #17 Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

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Pink Star card

Here's a recent birthday make - not yet given but I'm pretty sure the recipient doesn't see my blog - fingers crossed anyway.

This card is very much inspired by a post from Ruth Hamilton on the Tonic blog here. I've done my own version as my star dies are much smaller than the Tonic ones.

I used the Circle Trellis dies from Tonic, the Stars are Die'sire Essentials and the fronds are from the Spellbinders Floral Flourishes set. The flower is made with my Cheery Lynn Daisy strip and the DPs are Vintage Rose collection from Pink Petticoat. Pink Candi from Craftwork Cards.

I'd like to enter the following challenge:

In The Pink: Challenge #74 - Starry, Starry..... Pink
Simon Says Wednesday challenge - Anything Goes
ABC challenge - O is for Open
4 Crafty Chicks: challenge #257 Anything Goes




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3 Today

Poor neglected blog - not sure where the time goes but here we are in June already and where's the sun?

Anyway, this card is hopefully bright and summery. It has been made for a friend's granddaughter who likes all things pink and girly so I think it fits the bill. I managed to get this card done and entered into LOTV's first Facebook Challenge.

I used:

Image:  LOTV - Birthday Fairy - coloured with ProMarkers and added Stickles
DP:       LOTV Bonnets and Bowties: Butterfly Kisses
Flower Punch: Nellie Snellen medium flower
Butterflies:  Hobbycraft punch
Dies:    Spellbinders Scalloped Circle, Sue Wilson Petite Vinery, Cuttlebug Olivia Alphabet

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

Papertake Weekly Challenge: Anything Goes #option Summer
Paper Creator's Crafts: Challenge #39 Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday: Challenge #376 Summer Colours
In The Pink: Challenge #70 - Things with Wings



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Girly Birthday

Happy Bank Holiday Weekend although the weather isn't up to much is it? Quite cold here and the heating is on low!

Here's a recent birthday make using a pre-coloured LOTV image. The papers used are from LOTV's Bonnets & Bowties paper pad. The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards.

Image was die-cut and matted using Spellbinders scalloped circles. The flowers are made with a Cheery Lynn die and the corner flourish is a Signature die from Joanna Sheen.

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

The Ribbon Girl - May Card Challenge
Cute Card Thursday - #371 Use a Sentiment
4 Crafty Chicks - #244 Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes


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Bright & Sassy (very)

Something a little different from me today. You may need sunglasses! This is the card I made last year  for my son's girlfriend. I really like the colour combo but my DH said he wasn't keen! Anyway 'L' was very pleased with it and that's what matters.

Image is Scruffy Little Cat - Perry - and has been coloured with my ProMarkers - plenty of glamour dust added - and then matted and layered onto Spellbinders Timeless Rectangles. I matted the white rectangle onto a cut and embossed pink rectangle then drew around the die to get the slightly larger black frame. The flowers are cut with a Cheery Lynn Daisy die and the leaves are also by Cheery Lynn - Ivy Strip.  The bunting is a La-La-Land die which I shadow cut. Sentiment is LOTV and was a magazine freebie. Handbag charm is from stash as are the gems and ribbon. Butterfly punched using an old punch from Hobbycraft. The background DP is LOTV Bonnets & Bowties.

Detail close-ups

I'd like to enter the following challenge:

Ribbon Girls - Everything Goes - Birthday
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
In The Pink - challenge 64 For a Special Lady






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70th Celebrations

Here's another recent make using a pre-coloured LOTV image which was matted and layered onto Spellbinder circles. The butterflies on the right-hand side were cut using Tonic Butterflies & Blooms - Ringlet Rest.

The ribbon, fabric flower and gems were from stash. The flower centre is a pretty enamelled butterfly brad which I think came from The Works. The sentiment is from a Hunkydory kit which was a magazine freebie. Numbers cut using my Cuttlebug Olivia Alphabet dies.

I'd like to enter into the following challenges:

The Ribbon Girl January Challenge - Pink
Sister Act - Challenge #89 - Anything Goes
Scrap & Craft challenge #1 - Anything Goes



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Just for You

Here's a birthday card I made recently. I used a pink/white colour combo for some winter brightness. The flowers were punched with a Martha Stewart punch, some have card candi centres and some have gems. I used a Cuttlebug Divine Swirls embossing folder on the pink card. The side edges and sentiment topper were cut using Spellbinders Shapeabilities Parisian Accents.

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

Papertake Weekly Challenge: Paper Play

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Pretty (Pink) Papers

September's Lili of the Valley Challenge is to use Pretty Papers and so I did!!

Sentiment and image also by LOTV and the 3 different papers are from the gorgeous Bonnets and Bowties 8x8 paper pad.

Art Pad 3 Wild Flowers image is framed by Cheery Lynn Polynesian Sails Doily

Close up to show the roses from Wild Orchid Crafts

Sentiment mounted onto a floral rosette - finished off with a teeny butterfly

Pink and green card and gems from stash.  The leaves were cut with a Martha Stewart punch - as were the fancy corners and the butterfly was cut with an old Hobbycraft punch.

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

Lili of the Valley Ideas to Inspire Challenge - Pretty Papers    ends 30/9
Papertake Weekly - Repeat Repeat  (flowers/gems/corners)  ends 16/9
My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge 21 - Dies or Punches ends 30/9
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge  ends 30/9
Divas by Design - Anything Goes  ends 16/9
Alphabet Challenge - P for Pretty Petals    ends 24/9
Let's Craft and Create - Challenge 96 Anything Goes  ends 23/9

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Take Two - Floral Birthday

Oh  dear it's been far too hot today! Sorry to be a spoilsport but I just don't like the heat and always head for the shade!

Here's a recent birthday make and sort of my version of a CAS card. I used one of the images from LOTV Art Pad set 3 - Wild Flowers. I matted it onto the largest Spellbinders Timeless Rectangles which was cut from plain white card first.  I then trimmed down the image to fit as the die is just that bit too big to cut straight from the art pad sheet which is a shame. The design papers are both LOTV - from the Petal Fresh 8x8 paper pad. The daisies were made using a Cheery Lynn Daisy Strip and the sentiment is from Craftwork Cards. Gems are from stash.

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

Lili of the Valley Monthly Challenge - July - Take Two
Crafty Catz Challenge 239 - Flowers
Try it on Tuesday - Colours of Summer






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Dandelion Clock

Here's my card for this month's Lili of the Valley challenge and the theme for May is Fairies. This is Dandelion Clock, one of the older stamps but my favourite (I think, until I see another favourite!!). I used a ready-coloured topper which has been cut using a Spellbinders plain circle die and then mounted onto a Cheery Lynn Large Sunflower Die (DL181). The butterflies are also Cheery Lynn (B266) and the LOTV sentiment is mounted onto a Nellie's Multi-Frame die (MFD 005).

Design paper is from Dovecraft and the flowers and gems are from my stash. I added plenty of Glamour Dust for extra fairy sparkle. Card size is 8x8.

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

LOTV Monthly Challenge - Fairies



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Pop-up Box

Here's my first attempt at a pop-up card - made for a friend's special 'big' birthday. It was fun to do - even the fiddly bits - and I'd certainly do another one. I used the most gorgeous papers (which were a freebie from Cardmaking & Papercraft magazine)  - 'Spring Jubilee' by pinkpaislee.  I used the same papers to die-cut the flowers, leaves and flourishes.

I followed the tutorial from the Craftworkwork Cards blog  but made my own template.

close up of flowers, leaves and flourishes

and a sideways view

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

Crafty Boots Challenges - Milestone Birthdays
Simon Says Wednesday challenge - Spring Flowers
Crazy 4 Challenges - April Showers bring May Flowers
Cute Card Thursday - Here Comes Summer
Divas by Design - In the Pink challenge

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Birthday Fairy

I treated myself to a Tonic sentiment die set and this is its first outing. I used a LOTV Cute Square fairy image called 'On Tiptoe' which I cut with a Spellbinders circle and layered on to this gorgeous Cheery Lynn sunflower doily die. I absolutely love it but it does need to go through my machine 3 or 4 times. It's worth it though! I used an 8x8 scalloped card base, some Dovecraft papers and matt gold mirri card. Gold ribbon is from stash.

Butterflies cut with Cheery Lynn die B266 - Tiny Things with Wings

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - Spring has Sprung
Crafting for all Seasons - challenge 74 Dies and Punches
Lili of the Valley Monthly Challenge

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LOTV 10th Birthday

Lili of the Valley are celebrating their 10th birthday in May and their latest blog challenge is to make them a birthday card. Here's my make (and it also fits in with April's Ribbon Girl challenge).  It's very lilac - LOL - hope you like it.

Decorative front made with Martha Stewart PATP punch

I used one of the Fun-Time Teddies images and added Glossy Accents to his shirt and plenty of Glamour Dust to her dress and headdress. LOTV sentiment matted and layered with Spellbinders to match the image matting and layering. The flowers are punched from Dovecraft papers using  a mix of two punches; the smaller one is Nellie Snellen and the larger is Martha Stewart. All covered in Glossy Accents and finished with a gem centre. I tied the butterfly ribbon into a double bow and finished it off with a lilac dazzler from Creative Expressions. The three tiny butterflies are made with an old punch which I think was from Hobbycraft. 

close up of the ribbon bow and flowers 

another shot showing the butterfly printed ribbon

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

LOTV Ideas to Inspire Monthly Challenge - 10th Birthday
The Ribbon Girl Blog: April Lovely Lili Challenge

My Mum's Craft Shop: challenge 16 Anything Goes
Challenges4Everybody - challenge 40 Anything Goes

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Pop-Up Book Birthday Card

So, this is the card I made for my Mum's birthday. I had seen a beautiful card on Jules'wonderful blog 'Always With a Heart' and wanted to have a go at this fold myself. I'm pleased with my effort but I will attach my ribbons differently next time- as per Jules' example - as it's really tricky to get the bow looking nice the way I did it!  Link to Jules' card Here.

I used my new papers from Lili of the Valley - 3 different designs. The die-cut oval is a Cheery Lynn design which I added tiny pearls to and finished off with a Hunkydory sentiment. The letters were cut using Spellbinders Donnas Alphas.

                                                                  Front view

Inside view

Inside the card is decorated down each side with Spellbinders borders which have tiny pearls attached. (Bit difficult to see but they are there).

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

The Craft Garden - Pastel Colours
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes
Challenges 4 Everyone - no. 39 Anything Goes

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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

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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

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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

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Butterfly Birthday

Yes, I know, Lili of the Valley again but I just can’t resist. I also wanted to enter the last ever Lili’s Little Fairies Challenge. I’ve enjoyed entering the challenges over the summer months and hope to join in with the new challenge blog.

So, on to my card. I used a 6 x 6 Kraft card blank and layered two different Vintage Rose DPs (by Craftworks) onto Kraft card. Edges have been inked with Memento Rich Cocoa. The LOTV image is one of the older Cute Squares, cut with a plain circle die and matted onto Spellbinders Butterflies Circle. Gems and ribbon from stash and the sweet butterfly stopwatch embellishment is from The Range. The sentiment is by Hot Off the Press and was a recent magazine freebie.

I would like to enter the following challenge:

Lili's Little Fairies - No Flowers

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Red, White and Blue challenge card

I needed a birthday card this week and thought it would be fun to make it to a challenge instead of my normal routine - i.e. make a card and then see if it will fit a challenge. Have to say that this way is much easier LOL.

I used one of my LOTV cute squares and just darkened the red with a Promarker. I cut a 6x6 base of white linen textured card and covered that with Dovecraft blue spotty paper. Some red ribbon and a red brad from stash and the red doily was cut with a Marianne die. I used my La-La-Land banner die again with a paler blue Dovecraft paper and added a few gems for some sparkle. Oh and a few touches here and there with my trusty glitter pen.



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


Lili's Little Fairies - Red, White & Blue Challenge
One Stop Craft Challenge 233 - Anything Goes


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