Anniversary Card...

Just a very simple anniversary card to have in my box of cards ready for when I need a card fast. The paper I've used is one from the Laura Ashley collection and I have overlaid it with vellum to soften the centre of the design.

The heart is a gold peel off stuck on to vellum and attached to the card with tiny sticky pads hidden under larger sections of gold on the peel off.

My card is for the ABC Challenge where they are starting the alphabet again from the very begining. This week we are on A for Anniversaries.

This challenge is great fun and if you haven't joined in before do have a look. Each week the team choose a theme to accompany the next letter of the alphabet. Last time I missed the beginning of the alphabet and odd ones in between, but this time I'm setting myself a personal challenge to try and take part in the whole alphabet.

Hope I don't regret saying this !!! Knowing my luck the theme for B next week will be something really tricky like errrrrrrrrrrrr bondage or battleships!! Wish me luck.

Peach and Aqua Birthday Card...

I have been waiting all day for good light to try and catch the true colours on this card, but when it got to 3 o'clock I decided to go with the daylight lamp and do the best I could.

Matching colours does not come easily to me so I am quite proud of this my first entry for the challenge at Colour Create where this week the colours to use are Peach and Aqua. I ransacked my stash and found both pearlescent card in both these colours and a matching lighter shade of the aqua.

As you can see I decided to make a step card and out came my new stamp by Pollycraft again. I really love her - I think it's because she reminds me of my daughter when she had her hair in a very similar style a little while ago.

Hmm she wouldn't listen to me when I said it would take ages to grow out and guess what process we are going through now!!! Yep you're right growing it out!!

The challenge at Wednesday Stamper this week is use hearts in a different way.

I used my large and small heart punch to create a flower. The large hearts were run through the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder to give them texture.

The stamen in the centre is a small snowflake punch topped with a gem from my stash.

I think this flower is going to become my favourite embellishment alongside gemstones which means that I can enter it for the challenge at Our Creative Corner where the team want people to use and show work using their favourite embellishments.

The last step of my card contains the verse which is computer generated and originally sourced from a website called Imag-e-nation .

All the steps in my card have been decorated with gems and punched hearts.

At Tanda Teasers this week the theme is Hearts and Flowers so my card is also suitable for that challenge. There are certainly plenty of hearts - think I needed someone at the side of me chanting 'less is more' - lol!

Hope you like my card and I wonder how many of you will notice something really silly that I've done in one of the photos!

Answers on a postcard please or in the comments box - lol!

Penny Black Romance...

Just a very simple card for the challenge at http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/ where this week the theme is Romance. I've used one of the free papers from a recent craft magazine for the background.

The ribbon is threaded through ribbon slots made using my new Sizzix Paddle Punch - hmmmmm I'm not too keen on the size of the hole (looks like it needs Pollifiller!). Will have to have a rethink on using that methinks!!

Materials used:

• aubergine card
• free hearts design paper
• Penny Black mice stamp
• Sizzix Paddle Punch - ribbon slots (or craters)
• organza ribbon from stash