Just card and ribbons too...

Both my cards for today are just card with no added fancy papers and therefore they both fit the challenge at http://www.dutchdare-cardchallenges.blogspot.com/.

As I have embellished each of them with ribbon they also fit the challenge at http://rainbowladyschallengeblog.blogspot.com/.




Materials used:

• Fiskars snowflake border punch
• silver mirri card
• cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder
• white paper and card
• blue paper
• snowman stamp by imaginesce
• snowflake stand out punch
• pink gem from stash
• pink glitter card
• sentiment from stash

Please excuse poor quality of photos - it is such a dull day here.

Autumn Ismaki Sketch...

Another autumnal card using Joanna Sheen's fabulous CD 'The Cardmaker's Year'. I really love this CD - I know it's been out for ages but it's new to me and I just really like the way the images are sorted into months of the year. Really cool idea.

My card is fits the challenge at http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/ this week which is to make a card using Autumn as the theme. I have used this week's sketch at http://ismaki.wordpress.com/ which was designed by Isabelle Norris. I'm sorry Isabelle but I don't feel to have done your sketch justice - I've had one of those times when things started out well but went down hill rapidly!!! I'm only half pleased with the finished card.

Materials used:

• brown base card
• burnt orange card
• Joanna Sheen CD 'The Cardmaker's Year'.
• embossed leaf punch
• orange vellum and brown pearlescent paper (for leaves)
• brown brads
• Hero Arts clear sentiment stamps

Penny Black ATC...

It's ages since I entered the challenge at http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/, which is crazy because I love Penny Black stamps. Anyway the challenge this week is to create and ATC and of course you have to use at least one Penny Black stamp.

The stamp I have used is one I bought at a craft show a little while back and for some reason I just never got round to using it. Could it be that I buy too much stuff? - any of my friends reading this are now nodding their heads wisely and saying we told you so!!! The stamp is called 'Burst of stars' and the quote is a clear stamp on a set by Cloud Nine Designs.

Materials used:

• 'Burst of stars' Penny Black stamp
• 'You never know when you are making a memory' quote clear stamp
• Black corrugated card
• Vintage earthy brown paper DCWV
• vellum
• brown brads
• Adirondack 'ginger' ink pad
• Versefine Black ink pad