Something Beginning With B

My card today is for my Daughter who's birthday is in October (good job she doesn't look at this blog) but it fitted in with this months theme over on the Stamping Sensations challenge blog, which is Something Beginning With B. This has Birds, Blossoms, Branches and it's a Birthday card. I've used stamps and Dies from Heartfelt Creations Birds and Blossoms Collection teamed up with papers from the Sweet Peony Collection (I had papers that I had already cut into from this collection and they went so well with the stamps and dies I used). After stamping everything out that I wanted to use I coloured using Distress ink pads and a finger blender. I teamed the papers with some gold mirri card and an 8x8 card base, the corners were cut using a Marianne die and the sentiment is from The Paper Boutique. The stamped elements were attached using glue gel and a little shaping. Now just to hide the card away until her Birthday.

I am also going to enter this into the Allsorts Challenge which this week is Things With Wings.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

A Rudolph For Rudolph Days

I've never been able to resist a bargain, so when Debbie Moore had 70% off of CD's over Christmas I just had to buy a couple that I did not have in my huge collection. One of them being Rudolph and Friends, so I could not think of anything more appropriate to start off this years Rudolph Days Challenge than Rudolph. I made my card base from some left over card from an A3 piece that I used on another project making a slightly odd sized card at 5 1/2 x 6 1/2, then I printed off a backing sheet and a decoupage topper. Once all of the pieces where cut out I used an off cut of gold mirri for matting  and then stuck the base of the decoupage to the card with some foam tape. Next I built up the layers with Glue Gel and lastly added a Merry Christmas cut out of the left over piece of gold using an All Occasions die.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Indigo Blue and Butterflies

The new challenge over on the Butterfly Challenge blog is S is for Silhouette and/or the colour Indigo. So for this challenge I decided to go with some new dies I bought recently from Tattered Lace, the beautiful Barley and Butterflies and The Pearl Square. The butterflies are from All Occasions Dies and I carefully removed the Butterflies from the die without disturbing the bits that would normally drop out making them silhouettes. The background was made with Sheena's Stamping card and distress inks. I've not added a sentiment as I'll pop this card into my box for later.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Red Roses

I made this card a couple of weeks ago and just didn't get around to posting it on here. It was the card that I made for my Father-in-law to give to my Daughter on her birthday. The Rose stamp is from Chocolate Baroque and coloured with pro marker  pens, I then cut it out using a spellbinders die and added some distress inks around the edge before popping it onto a doily die cut from Tattered Lace. The Embossed background was a Crafters Companion embossing folder and the Happy Birthday is a All Occasions die which has been placed on top of a smaller version of the doily that the rose is on. The ribbon is some that I've had in my stash for a couple of years now. I used some Silver mirri card for the matting and an 8x8 black card base.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Twiggy and Toots

Just a quick post from me today as I'm off to Droitwich shortly, where the UK Stampers Network are having  their 2nd Annual Residential  Retreat. Should be a fun packed weekend and a chance to catch up with some fellow members. In the mean time I thought I would show you the card that I made for my Daughters 2nd wedding anniversary a few days ago. I used this image from the Twiggy and Toots CD from Polkadoodles (I love the owls on here). It's and 8x8 card base with gold mirri matting. The flowers are from a Crealies die shaped with a large ball tool and some gems added to the centres. The fern is from a Tattered Lace die and the sentiment from All occasions Dies.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

A 21st Birthday

This is a card that I've made for a friends daughter who is just about to turn 21. I found myself reaching for the Fabulous Fashion CD by Katy Sue (Flower Soft) and used the combination of the Dress, Hat and Handbag (I couldn't make my mind up which to use)

 The images are all decoupaged and then I added die cuts from All Occasion dies and Tonic. The close up below shows the panels and flowers that match, and as you can see I've used the same flowers on the fronts.

Last of all I added the verse for the card to the back, and it's ready to be delivered.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue