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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On Your Wedding Day

Recently I was asked to make a wedding card featuring powder/baby blue colours and this is how it turned out. I used one of my favourite LOTV Big Squares and added a little Glamour Dust sparkle to the bride's veil. The background is embossed with Creative Expressions' Heart Lattice A4 embossing folder (very kindly loaned to me by my crafty friend M). It's on the wish-list!

As you can see I went a bit mad with the die-cuts - but it's a wedding card!

close up of the flowers

butterfly vine, more flowers and ivy leaves

Box decorated to complement the card

Supplies used:
Image & Sentiment - Lili of the Valley

Centura Pearl cardstock

Blue card, blue ribbon & pearls from stash

Dies used:
Cheery Lynn B259 Daisy Strip and B304 Ivy Strip

Memory Box Butterfly Vine

Joanna Sheen Signature Die - Flourish Corner SD043

Spellbinders Plain Circles

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

Lili of the Valley Ideas to Inspire Challenge - Crafty Bingo  (Ribbon/Pearls/Flowers)
Crafts and Me March Challenge - Anything Goes
Challenges 4 Everybody no.39 - Anything Goes
Natalie and Amy: Challenge 18 'Flowers'

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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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Love Is In The Air.....

..... and it's not a Valentines card that I'm sharing today. This is an engagement card that I was asked to make and the brief was to keep it fairly flat as it had to be packed in a suitcase going to Spain. So I wasn't able to go too mad with embellies this time. I started with an 8x8 scalloped card base, covered with DP from First Edition Love Letters pad. The image is from LOTV (of course) and I added Glossy Accents to the roses and shoes and Glamour Dust to the girl's hat. I used some ivory Centura Pearl card with a combination of dies - Spellbinders, Memory Box, Cheery Lynn & Signature by Joanna Sheen. The small tag and the two letter tiles were from the Love Letters paper pad. I finished off with gems, heart brad and a heart charm.

This picture (taken with flash on) shows the sheen from the Centura Pearl card                                             

Dies used:

Spellbinders - Captivating Squares
Memory Box - La Rue Heart
Cheery Lynn - Small Exotic Butterflies #2
Joanna Sheen Signature Dies - Bunting SD064

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

LOTV Ideas to Inspire Monthly challenge - Name that Tune
Papertake Weekly - With a Heart
****   In The Pink - Challenge 37 - A Little Pink Love  ****   Top 5 Winner
Cute Card Thursday - challenge 308 Clever Cutting
Bunny Zoe's Challenge - Hearts/Love
Divas by Design - With Love



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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

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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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