Happy Birthday Annie

I was too late to send a birthday card to Annie but maybe this card will help to put things right. Annie does the most wonderful cards and her blog http://inknrubba.blogspot.com/ is one of my favourite places to visit. Monday was her birthday and she set a birthday challenge...

'make a girly birthday card with flowers on it and pretty papers'

Well mine has the flowers and the backing paper with leaves and lady birds is pretty in it's own way so I do hope she will like this card. I've added 'Happy Day' as I'm rather late for the actual birthday!!! The flowers are 'Jolees' and came as a little gift with some stamps that I ordered from America and the paper is part of a sheet in the 12" x 12" DCWV Spring collection.

Ismaki - Challenge 12

Trust me to do last week's Ismaki challenge this week - I don't know - I suppose I will have to blame my age!! Anyway does it really matter? I really enjoyed myself making these cards and want to say thank you so much to everyone involved in creating the wonderful card maps and ideas on http://ismaki.wordpress.com/ . I will certainly do more using these maps in the future.

Both cards are on a lilac theme and use papers from the DCWV Floral Matt Stack. One is a Magnolia Tilda stamp and the other a really sweet Cuddly Buddly that a friend stamped for me. Thank you Irene!!!

Tanda Teaser-Butterfly Blue

Back from my holidays and really looking forward to doing some challenges again. This card is for the Tanda Teaser challenge which involved using the theme of butterflies and the colour blue in the design.

Great I thought I've got masses of butterfly stamps - spoilt for choice for this one. As it turned out I ended up using just one stamp with a verse on about butterflies and happiness. I stamped on to blue vellum, matted on to pearle card and then mounted on to some beautiful K&Co butterfly blue paper.

the butterfly in the corner is a peel off on the blue vellum - would have preferred to have stamped a butterfly but for some reason the stamping wasn't going too well on the vellum!!!