Happy Birthday Irene...

A card for my Vintage loving friend who is celebrating her birthday today. Have a brilliant day Irene.

Materials:

• card, vellum and paper used in matting and layering from stash
• Fiskers Border Punch
• vintage patterned paper was freebie in recent magazine
• double ended die cut tag by Cuttlebug
• embellishments (yet another part of these earrings that Laura gave me - watch out for more bits coming soon - each earring could have been on QVC and sold as a vintage embellishment collection!
• image from Carol Anne's Boutique (thank for all the amazing free images Carol - they are brilliant.)
• organza ribbon (originally from chocolate box).

Congratulations...

My daughter asked for a card to give to her friend who has just qualified as a nurse and got her first job. Luckily I had an email from PC Crafter with a link to one of their new clipart sets with this lovely nurse image. I couldn't resist buying the set and using the image to make this card. I hope Laura approves - it hasn't got as much pink as she normally likes so I may have to go back to the drawing board!!

Naturally it had to cover some challenges too:

• 'Everyone emboss' at the Creative Card Crew
• 'Open theme' at Saturday Surprise - my favourite thing being embossing using the Cuttlebug folders.

Materials used:

• Clipart from PC Crafter


• Green and white card and silver mirri card from stash.


• Cuttlebuy 'Congratulations' folder


• green ribbon and gems from stash

Update - card passed stringent quality control!!!

Wine glasses...

Yeah, this week is my turn to do the tutorial at the Pink Elephant. I chose to do some decorated wine glasses ready for those hot summer days we're all longing for - well I'm forever hopeful. This summer has got to be a good one!!

If you like to see more pictures and hear about how I made the set pop over to the Pink Elephant to find out more.

As I'm also trying to fit in as many challenges as I possible can this week I'm also going to enter my project at My Time to Craft where the challenge is to make anything but a card.