Mother's Day Decoupage...

Another huge card using the large decoupage sheets that Kanban do. I rather like this Mummy Teddy having her breakfast in bed - my daughter is going away for the weekend so it looks like I'm making my own this year.

The borders were made using the lattice die from one of the cuttlebug border sets. This one is my favourite from the set (hmmmmmm actually I quite like the floral ones too). I finished each of the borders of with a pearl trimmed bow.

My card is just right for the Mother's Day Challenge at the Lili of the Valley challenge and at Tanda Teasers. At the Mother and Daughters challenge we were asked to create a border. I hope my two lattice borders count for this.

At the ABC challenge we have reached the letter F and this time round the alphabet the team there want us to show flowers somewhere on our cards. Check out Mummy Ted's vase of tulips that were delivered with her breakfast in bed.

E is for Easter...

Just sneaking in on the last day yet again with my entry for the ABC challenge which this week was the letter E and the topic chosen was Easter. A very appropriate one as Easter is really not that far away.

Infact this very weekend we are having a fun Easter Blog hop at the Pink Elephant Challenge - I do hope lots of people will join in as we have worked so hard to ensure it's a fun event for everyone. Loads of prizes too - wish I could enter!!!

Today's Easter card is a very simple one using an egg patterned paper from the Spring DCWV stack and a very cute chick stamp from a clear set of stamps by Woodware.

The Pink Elephant Challenge 6

This week our challenge at the Pink Elephant is all about buttons!

I love buttons on cards and I especially love how they look with ribbon threaded through the centre and then tied in a knot. So for my contribution this week I decided to create a card with a floral focal point featuring a button and ribbon in the centre.


I created my flower using my Cricut Expression machine. Each section of the flower was cut a quarter of an inch larger than the previous one. I wanted to create depth on the flower and I also wanted each layer to show a little of the layer below - especially the silver layer.

Each part of the flower was embossed using the Swiss Dots folder and then I attached thick foam pads the outer edge of the flowers.







By attaching foam pads to just the outer edge of the petals it means that when the brad is attached in the centre the flower is pulled in just like a real one. The outer edge of the petals remain very much in 3D.

To finish the flower I added a lilac button to match the Kanban floral paper used to create the background.

I also used my Cricut to cut silver leaves to attach under the flower leading the eye into the centre (hopefully).




The layout of the card is taken from the amazing sketch that was the featured challenge at Card Positioning Systems last week. I was too late to enter their challenge, but I love the sketch. It's amazing and so useful. I have seen some fabulous work by both the team there and others that entered the challenge.



I used border peel offs on my lilac card and on my yellow sunshine version featured below to capture the swirl on the sketch. On both cards I have used backing papers by Kanban - I really like the positive and negative effect on these papers.

I can't believe it is already week 6 at the Pink Elephant. We have seen such amazing work over the past few weeks from everyone entering our challenges. Hoping it continues long into the future.

Don't forget it's the Easter Blog Hop on Friday (well very late Friday - probably Saturday morning for us here in the UK). We have some fantastic prizes and great games going on - don't miss the fun.