Over at the Allsorts Challenge blog the theme of the week is ladies and the special cards we create for them. I'm busy making Mother's Day cards at the moment so it seemed appropriate to show one of the cards I've made to enter this challenge.
This was such a simple card to make using Tonic dies from the large verso set of hearts I bought recently and really pretty pink papers. The corner die cut embellishments were created using some of the bits that fall out of the main die cut - two little bits together to create a small heart finished off with a gem stone.
Ann xxx
These little books are selling like hot cakes at my daughter's work place, which is great cause it's bringing in lots of money for the Little Acorns night shelter in Goa. We've raised over a thousand pounds now - not all from my card making I better add, but every little helps as they say. We'll be handing the money over when we go on holiday.
The original book that I made for Laura which led to people asking to buy one had a paper clay sunflower on like the one in the middle of the photo, but these books have different flowers. The blue one is a wooden flower and the one on the left a paper one.
So glad I remembered the hundreds of ladybirds hiding in my stash from my Dawn Bibby days. You may have been there too - you know when you get brainwashed into buying the TSV and end up with 100 ladybirds in red and about another 200 in lime green that you have no idea what to do with, but Dawn said they were wonderful so you handed over your credit card details.
Anyway 10 years later the ladybirds have been used - only another 97 to go. Do you think I better stock up again?
The stamped elements are all from a lovely set of stamps by Inky Doodles and the various shades of blue card are all from my snippets box.
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Ann xxx
Oh my goodness this card has been voted as a pick of the week HERE - what a fantastic surprise - made my day - nope made my whole week!
This is my latest version using my lovely Coppernob shoe template. It's more or less the same design as in the post below, but more girly and with punched flowers rather than ones cut from the designer paper. The punched flower echoes the pattern of the designer paper by DCWV and I've added gems black fluffy feathers, a swirly die cut and some silver peel offs to trim the shoe. By printing the sentiments and name on acetate it doesn't how small the piece of card is or how thick the card. I attach the acetate by folding it around the small piece of card and sticking it down on the back. I like the slight bend you get on the acetate by happy accident.
I'm entering this card into Brenda's blog celebration as my second version of a card using one of my favourite craft items. If you haven't checked this out do pop over here to check it out. There are some fabulous prizes up for grabs and superb projects on show too.
Just check out what's on offer...
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Ann xxx
