So Many Scallops...

As Laura and all the other nurses at the Care Home she works at are being made redundant she has asked me to make her a few cards with 'Good Luck' and if possible a nursing theme. This is the first of a batch of three and I must make one for Laura too or I will be in big trouble.

Luckily both the girl this card is for and Laura have got new jobs so my card is also one to say 'Congratulations'.

The cardbase is a large scalloped edged white circle folded in half. Then it has straight edged smaller circles matted over the top. To echo the dotty DCWV paper I added gems to the scalloped edge.

The image was stamped on to an oval shape and then matted on to a scalloped oval.

Materials used:

• Woodware clear stamp set
• DCWV paper
• dard blue card
• Promarkers
• tag cut using cuttlebug die
• gems, peel off sentiment and organza ribbon from stash
• oval nesties

Challenges:

• Creative Card Crew - ribbons and gems
• My Time to Craft - So many scallops!
• Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - tags

Just realised that not very long ago one of the sample cards I made for Joanna Sheen using one of the Lofty Celebrations rubber stamp sets had a similar layout and papers to my nurse card.
I really love these large scalloped circles that can be folded in half to form a card. I have tried to cut them on my Cricut, but it doesn't work the scallops become too large. The ones I've used so far have been bought in a set at Whichcraft in Doncaster. I have seen some gorgeous Magnolia themed cards on show there using these circles.

oooooooooooooooooooooooh only two more sleeps now to the NEC - don't think I will be able to sleep tonight I am so excited.

Have a great day everyone.

Ann xxx

Happy Anniversary

This is another of the large sized sample cards I did for Joanna Sheen's new Favourite Flowers range of stamps. I just think this rose stamp is so gorgeous and so romantic.

Materials used:

• Joanna Sheen stamp Roses from the Hothouse Flowers set
• pearlescent card in two shades of burgandy
• roses paper by Anna Griffin
• rub on sentiment and organza ribbon from stash
• Fiskars Shapeboss to create heart embossed frame
• tag cut using cuttlebug die
  

Challenges:

• Rainbow Lady's Challenge Blog - Anniversaries
• Fun with shapes - borders and frames

Thanks for looking again and for the wonderful comments I receive each day. It's amazing how they really do make you feel good about yourself.

Only 3 more sleeps to the NEC and I've already got a plan of action involving Just rite stamps and a certain snowflake die. Oooooooooooh so many lovely things it's gonna be tough deciding which to get.

Pink Elephant Day...

Can't believe Monday has come round again and it's time for a new challenge at the Pink Elephant.

This week is a colour challenge and our colours are Brown (yes that is brown in the photo), Yellow, Neutral and one colour of your choice. I chose to use a sheet of 12" x 12" card that was part of the stash in a Docraft's goody bag. It made the whole card so easy to create as all the essential colours were there and waiting for me. An added bonus was that the card was reversable making it easy to create contrasting cuttlebug panels using the plain distressed side.

I decided to combine our challenge with the sketch challenge at Pollycraft. I just love Pollycraft stamps and Paula's sketch is so cute and easy to use (which is how I like them). Thank you so much Paula.

Materials used:

• Stamp Winter Reflection by Pollycraft
• reversable patterned card by Docrafts
• brown card,gems and organza ribbon from stash
• snowflake cut using Quickcutz die
• Promarkers
  
• scalloped edge and plain circular nesties
• sentiment stamp from stash
  

Challenges :

• The Pink Elephant - colour challenge - brown, yellow, neutral and one to choose.
• Pollycraft - sketch

• Creative Card Crew - snowflakes

Have a great day everyone - only 4 more sleeps till the NEC - not that I'm excited or anything!!!