Gift Wallet

Short and sweet from me today. This is a little gift tag/wallet made to present some cash in. I made a little box on the reverse for the shaped tag to slide into. I used my Martha Stewart punches for the front and started with a piece of DP that was 6.75 ins x 5 ins.

DP - Papermania Capsule in Heather
Lilac card/Ribbon and Mirri Card from Stash
Tools Used:
Martha Stewart PATP - Eyelet Lace
Small & Medium Butterfly Punches (Hobbycraft I think)
Cuttlebug Olivia Alphabet
Nestabilities Labels 14 for the tag

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Have a Tweet Day !

Today's card has been made for the latest challenge over on the MSE board. So back to my favourite lilac again and this time with a hint of pink. I wanted to try out something I've seen on one or two blogs in the past, most notably Mandy's - A Sprinkling of Glitter - so used my Martha Stewart PATP set to make a pretty shaped card front and then decorated away! I also got to use one of my new Spellbinders dies from the recent C&C Multibuy Six Set offer. Can you believe I've had them about 10 days and only just cracked the first set open.

and a sideways view:

Coredinations Textured Cardstock
Image & Sentiment  - Pink Petticoat - magazine freebie
DPs - Pink Spotted - Pink Petticoat Vintage Rose
        - Lilac Glittered - Papermania Henbury Lane Collection
Ribbon & Pearls from Stash
Flower - K&Company (I think)

Tools Used:
Martha Stewart PATP - Scroll Lace
Spellbinders Shapeabilities - Floral Flourishes S4-327
Card Candy - CraftworkCards

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

MSE Challenge - this time hosted by OA
One Stitch at a Time challenge 67 - Things with Wings
Top Tip Tuesday challenge 38 - Open Challenge

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Seeing Double ......

Almost but not quite.....

Version 1

Version 2

This little card was made as a Thank You for the lovely Jacque from the USA.  Recently I was lucky enough to win one of her lovely blog candies and used some of the prize goodies on this card. Anyway, said card and little reciprocal gift was despatched to the USA mid-March and finally arrived with her on 31st May!  The Version 2 card was made to re-send to Jacque as I was convinced the first package had gone astray for ever.

Please do visit Jacque's blog (http://jacquesmagnolias.blogspot.com/) and say Hi. She really does some fantastic work and hers was the very first blog I read at the start of my cardmaking journey.

Scalloped card blank - Papermania

Sentiment - Papermania

Image - Magnolia's 'Sneaky Tilda' coloured with Promarkers

DP - K&Company Daisy by Tim Coffey

Gems - Papermania Mosaics

Ribbon - Offray

Butterfly (version 1) from stash

Large Flower (version 1)  - K&Co

Tools used:

Nestabilities Lacey Squares

Nellie Snellen medium Flower Punch set

Martha Stewart medium branch punch

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Good Luck !!

Here is my entry for Georgiegirl's Good Luck Challenge over on the M.S.E. board.  I was a bit lacking in inspiration so spent a while flicking through lots of my old magazines and, after cramming my head full of too many ideas, this is the end result! The most fiddly part was lining up all the butterflies and I'm still not convinced they're straight.

DP - K&Company - Daisy by Tim Coffey
Sentiment - Papermania (magazine freebie set)
Card, Ribbon & Gems from stash
Tools Used:  Martha Stewart Border Punch - Vintage Floral
Butterfly Punch (by Hobbycraft I think)

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

MSE Challenge - Good Luck
Charisma Cardz Challenges #22 - Something That Flies


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Red, White & Blue with a Circle

As a recent winner of the MSE Challenge it was my chance to set the next one and because this was just after the Royal Wedding I chose 'Red, White & Blue with a Circle' for the theme.  There were 16 entries and my DH picked Georgiegirl's name from the hat. This is the Congratulations card I made for her to go with her prize and as you can see I stuck to the theme! I coloured her shoes and ribbon with a Promarker to tie in with the blue card.

Image and Sentiment LOTV

Blue card, Gems and Ribbon from Stash

DP - My Mind's Eye (magazine freebie)

Tools Used: Nestabilities Plain Circle

Nellie Snellen Multi-Frame Die Set Flower 1 - MFD020

Dragonfly punch

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Wedding Card

So here is a recent commissioned make and I know I shouldn't really say this but I do just love it!!  I think it is the lovely zingy green card that makes this although it's not a colour that I'd normally have thought to use for a wedding card.  My friend had got me a couple of packs of this card from a supplies warehouse that she is able to go to and I can see that it will be used very often.  My love affair with LOTV continues of course.

Card size is 8 inch square and the embossing had to be done in two goes. It's fairly easy to line up the hearts folder but the birds & swirls won't match up so well, hence the flower treatment in the centre.

This is the first of two cards (second one will be blogged soon) and both are going out to Australia. LOL, I'm going global!!

Image - LOTV Weddings - Big Square
Sentiment - LOTV - For You Circular Sentiments
White & Green card and Gems from Stash
Striped DP for punched flowers - Pink Petticoat Vintage Rose collection
Green ribbon - Offray

Tools used:
Cuttlebug - Hearts and Birds & Swirls embossing folders
Nestabilities - Plain & Scalloped Circles
Marianne Creatables Flourish die
Nellie Snellen Medium Flower Punch
Martha Stewart Branch Punch

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

Creative Craft World - Use 3 or more flowers

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Thank You

Here's a little thank you card I made for Caroline from the MSE board. I was recently the lucky winner of her sketch challenge and she very kindly sent me some lovely crafting goodies. I was able to use some of the card candy on her thank you card.

The flower doily was die-cut using my new Nellies set and it's good value for money as there's seven pieces in the set including a sweet little button.

Papermania Scalloped card blank
Image - LOTV A4 Die-cut Sheet - Fairies
Sentiment - Honey & Hugs Rub-on
DP - Dovecraft Back to Basics
Holographic card & Ribbon from Stash
Card Candy - Part of my MSE Challenge Winners Prize

Tools used - X-cut corner rounder
Nellie Snellen Multi-Frame Die Set Flower 1 - MFD020


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