Happy Birthday Irene...

A card for my Vintage loving friend who is celebrating her birthday today. Have a brilliant day Irene.

Materials:

• card, vellum and paper used in matting and layering from stash
• Fiskers Border Punch
• vintage patterned paper was freebie in recent magazine
• double ended die cut tag by Cuttlebug
• embellishments (yet another part of these earrings that Laura gave me - watch out for more bits coming soon - each earring could have been on QVC and sold as a vintage embellishment collection!
• image from Carol Anne's Boutique (thank for all the amazing free images Carol - they are brilliant.)
• organza ribbon (originally from chocolate box).

Congratulations...

My daughter asked for a card to give to her friend who has just qualified as a nurse and got her first job. Luckily I had an email from PC Crafter with a link to one of their new clipart sets with this lovely nurse image. I couldn't resist buying the set and using the image to make this card. I hope Laura approves - it hasn't got as much pink as she normally likes so I may have to go back to the drawing board!!

Naturally it had to cover some challenges too:

• 'Everyone emboss' at the Creative Card Crew
• 'Open theme' at Saturday Surprise - my favourite thing being embossing using the Cuttlebug folders.

Materials used:

• Clipart from PC Crafter


• Green and white card and silver mirri card from stash.


• Cuttlebuy 'Congratulations' folder


• green ribbon and gems from stash

Update - card passed stringent quality control!!!

Wine glasses...

Yeah, this week is my turn to do the tutorial at the Pink Elephant. I chose to do some decorated wine glasses ready for those hot summer days we're all longing for - well I'm forever hopeful. This summer has got to be a good one!!

If you like to see more pictures and hear about how I made the set pop over to the Pink Elephant to find out more.

As I'm also trying to fit in as many challenges as I possible can this week I'm also going to enter my project at My Time to Craft where the challenge is to make anything but a card.

Love you...

Phew been so short of time today - I nearly didn't get chance to put this card on. Just a simple card to say 'love you' - something we should all say far more often to people we love whether it be mums, daughters or even husbands!

Of course it had to fit in with some challenges too:

• 'Four legged friends' at Rainbow Lady's Challenge Blog
• 'Three different shapes' at Penny Black Saturday Challenge - I have 6 squares, 2 triangles and an abundance of hearts.
• 'Farm yard friends' at Daring Cardmakers - I think I could be pushing my luck on this one, but the image is one of the Greater Spotted Sheep Dog famous for rounding up sheep by giving them hearts and saying 'I love ewe so much so please get into single file and walk nicely into the pen'.

Materials used:

• DCWV paper and card
• Penny Black stamp
• 'love you' rub on from stash

Thank you card...

This is a card made for my friend, Anne, who I spent the other weekend with. We have been friends for as long as I can remember and without getting too soppy she means a lot to me.

Of course being 'challenge mad' it had to fit in with a couple of those too!

Challenges:

• The sketch at Cutie Sunday (whoops maybe there should be a cute stamp on there somewhere!)


• 'Flowers' at The Secret Crafter (my flowers are teabag folded ones - really into adding those to cards since the Cuttlebug Spot challenge last week)


• 'Don't quote me but... at Caardvarks

Materials:

• qoute stamps by Stamp Magic (I bought years ago as a single stamp but it now seems as if you have to buy a whole sheet - very nice though)


• patterned paper freebie from Craft's Beautiful Mag


• card, paper, peel offs and brads from stash

Happy Birthday Laura...

Yes today is my daughter Laura's birthday and it's also Pink Elephant Day so the card I made for her is also for our challenge.

This week is recipe week and the recipe is to use...

circles - scallops and punches!

I used a nestability circle, a the heart shaped punched frame and billions of scallops created by nestability dies.

The Art Deco image of the glamourous lady is a stamp by Hearts in Touch. It is actually part of a whole sheet of unmounted stamps everyone of which I absolutely love.

To accompany Laura's card I've also made her a wall hanging of 'love' quotes on decorated circles as a little extra for her birthday.



I made one of these before when she was at Granada Uni and she loved it, but when she came home she left it for one of her friends who was staying on and since then has pestered me endlessly to make her another.

I'm not keen on doing the same thing twice so I guess I put it off for a while. However, I think this one is the new improved version as I now have the circle nestability die and I've added so much bling you need dark glasses to look directly at it!!

The gold hanger at the top is actually part of some earrings that Laura gave me last week. Beautiful earrings that wouldn't hang properly, but oh wow they are superb for pulling to bits to use on cards 'n' stuff.

The sentiments are all computer generated and then centered and cut out using the nestability largest scalloped circle. Check out the bling - wow!

I actually have some packs of gemstone letters (bought in a sale), which I now wish I had bought more off, because I've found that by carefully cutting between the gemstones you can use each stone individually and on each sheet of letters you get thousands of gems (well alot!).

The pink central frame is made using a corner punch. I saw the technique for this explained on Becca Feeken's blog Amazing Paper Grace quite some time ago. Becca made some stunning cards using corner punches to make frames and was kind enough to share instructions for how to do the frames with visitors to her blog. If you have never seen Becca's work do pop over there - you will be amazed at her talent.

Well have a fantastic day everyone and I do hope you'll have chance to join us this week at the Pink Elephant. All the DT love visiting everyone's blogs and seeing the amazing samples everyone does - there is just so much talent out there.