Thank you...

It's Laura's last day tomorrow at the Care Home she has been working at for the past year. The other nurses and manager have been really good to her and she wanted a special 'Thank you' card to give them.

I'm hoping this 8" x 8" card will be special enough. Although I must admit to being a bit worried as there is no pink in it! What was I thinking of? There will be trouble!

Materials used:

• paper and card from 'All dressed up' stack by DCWV
• plain black card and black glitter card
• oval scalloped nestie
• floral stamp by Magenta (only part of stamp has been used - this stamp is just so useful)
  
• Pearlex paints - metallic and pastel set
  
• Anita's glitter border stickers
• ribbon coloured using Promarker pen
• gold peel off sentiment from stash

Challenges:

• Sketch Saturday - I used the basic elements of the sketch, but I did miss some of the features as a punched border would not have worked with my patterned border.
  
• Cuttlebug Challenge - Give Thanks
• Simon Says - Give Thanks
• The Pink Elephant - Be Thankful
  

Thank you for looking and have a great day everyone.

Purple Flowers...

A card I made using one of the fantastic sketches from the Stampin Out Alzheirmer's event. There is still time to donate to this worthy cause and take part in the events over there.

Jen Tapler, the creator of Paper Craft Planet, organised the event and had a goal of raising $5,000 - that figure has been smashed and the total is now way over $6,000. It would be great to reach $10,000 by Sunday night when the event closes.

It really is great fun with a purpose - so pop over there and donate $5 (£3.23 using Paypal for us Brits). There are loads of sponsors who have been so generous donating loads of things to both pick up for free and also prizes to win. I just love the cupcake template freebie - I really must give that go this weekend.

Anyway sorry for rambling back to my card which is also for the challenges at:

• ABC Challenge - the letter P for pearls (used on the Martha Stewart punched border, on the flower centres and top left of image)
• Creative Inspirations - favourite stamped image (now this was a tough one to decide, but I do love this Magenta stamp and it is one that you can do so much with so I think it will be one of my favourites for years to come.)
• Cute Card Thursday - Bit o' Bling (pearls again although I tend to think of bling as being more sparkly than pearls so if I get time I will do a sparkly one too. Cute Card Thursday is one of my favourite challenges.)

Materials used:

• Magenta stamp
• Promarkers
• Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder
• Martha Stewart border punch
• Purple papers and pearls from stash

Thanks for looking and have a great weekend everyone.

Love...

This is a card my daughter asked me to make for her to give to her boyfriend. She wanted a similar card to the one I showed yesterday but no pink and no cute girls!

The stamp I've used is a Magenta one and was part of a collection I bought very cheaply on ebay ( I love ebay).


On this card to do the charm I decided to try out die cut words and shrink plastic. This is one of the words from the Cuttlebug Love Combo set and as you can see it worked a treat.

At http://thecuttlebugspot.blogspot.com/ this week they are celebrating love and the challenge is to use the word 'love' on your card. Mine may be tiny but it's extra cute - well I think so!

Materials used:

• Red pearlescent card


• Black base card


• Magenta stamp


• Cuttlebug Love Combo Set


• Wizard heart die


• Shrink plastic


• black organza ribbon and pearls from stash.

My card is also perfect for the challenge at http://caardvarks.blogspot.com/ where the theme is 'Hearts'.

Autumn flowers...

The challenge at http://cuttlebugchallenge.blogspot.com/ is to think about Halloween or Autumn. I haven't got any Halloween embossing folders - I love them but like most in the UK we don't go to town on Halloween. Wish we did if only for the sake of using black and orange together - what a stunning colour combination that is?

I haven't really got a specifically Autumn embossing folder either but I picked out this one, stylized flowers, to use with some fabulous mottled copper card that I have in my stash. The stamp is by Magenta and I used metallic Pearl Ex-Press Watercolour Palette to colour the flowers and leaves. The flowers are decoupaged with a copper brad in the final layer to give the card more depth. I've left it without a sentiment - to be truthful I wasn't sure where to put it and another reason was that it seemed like a good card to leave 'open' to any occasion.

Materials used:

• copper effect card
• black card
• cream slightly flecked card
• stylized flowers embossing folder
• Floral Magenta rubber stamp
• Pearl Ex-Press watercolour palette in metallic colours
• black organza ribbon
• copper brads