A Card with a hole!...

My friend, Irene, at http://alloccasionscards.blogspot.com/ has been doing the most beautiful cards using paper pricking stencils to decorate the corners of her cards. Seeing her beautiful work led me to dig deep into the back of the craft cupboard to find stencils that I bought years ago.

Unfortunately I didn't have any of the lovely corner ones that Irene has been using, more items to go on the wish list, but I did have quite a few large stencils.

I decided to use this snowy scene one. The challenge at http://www.dutchdare-cardchallenges.blogspot.com/ is to have a hole somewhere in your card and I thought this particular template would lend itself very nicely to creating an apperture card.

I used the Wizard octagonal die to cut the frame for the apperture and the text was computer generated on to white paper and then attached to the inside of the card. As a finishing touch I embellished the corners of the inner with gold corner peel offs and attached a gold organza bow to the front of the card.

Cool Blog Award...

Yeah Elaine has given me this great award for having a cool blog - isn't is just gorgeous. I can't wait to pass it on to 10 people (as instructed) - it's just so pretty.

Well there are just so many cool blogs out there that I could go on forever but I'm going to pass this on to blogs that I visit every day and these are (in no particularly order - oh I must stop watching silly TV programmes)...

Rica at http://ricas-haven.blogspot.com/

Irene at http://alloccasionscards.blogspot.com/

Max at http://maxscraftcreations.blogspot.com/

Sue at http://creativitylady.blogspot.com/

Suzanne at http://suzannelily.wordpress.com/

Ann at http://craftblogspiritofcreativity.blogspot.com/

Chrissie at http://chrissiescreations.blogspot.com/

Edna at http://www.ednasplace.blogspot.com/

Wendy at http://craftblog.craftybutterfly.co.uk/

Anne at http://cardmakingtranquility.blogspot.com/

Oh dear I've had to leave so many out - so sorry to any friends missed - please feel free if you are visiting my blog to pick up the award anyway! I'm sure no one will mind and if you're a friend of mine you're bound to be cool anyway.

Snowmen with a splash of pink...

There seems to be a lot of challenges this week involving snowmen, which is great cause I love snowmen and have loads of snowmen stamps to choose from. This card is a special one for my daughter who is a pink fanatic. It's also perfect for the challenge at http://www.daringcardmakers.blogspot.com/ where they are 'dreaming of a WHITE (and splash of pink Christmas!)'. I think I may have got a bit more than a splash here, but as my daughter says 'you can never have too much pink'!

The card is also great for Cynthia's challenge at http://rainbowladyschallengeblog.blogspot.com/ and the challenge at http://ourcreativecorner6.blogspot.com/ as both these challenges are about snowmen.


The stamp I've used is from an unmounted sheet of rubber that I bought ages ago and I really can't remember who it was by, but it contains the most fantastic snowmen. The little sign in the snowman's hand says 'S'mores' - I'm not sure what they are, but I'm guessing toasted marshmallows. If anyone can help with that or the name of the stamps I'd be very grateful.

Materials used:

• Pink glitter card (lots of!)
• white card
• silver mirri card
• Wizard standard circle die
• snowflake die and punch
• gems from stash
• silver letters and sentiment peel offs
• pearlescent water colour paints