Flying High

This card was made with white cardstock, coloured with Dyan Reaveley's inks, which are lovely, I cut out the edges of the front with a Fiskars Punch edge punch, the rhinestones are green Kaiser Basic's and the butterflies are Spellbinders Shapabilities, "Butterflys",and the stamp "flying high" was a free stamp that I got  with an issue of "Craft Stamper",  the butterflies were cut out of the front paper and stuck down with double sided tape, so that they looked like they are flying, Dyan's inks are very loud but I think that they work with these butterflies.

Be Happy!

This card - White on White - was inspired by Joy Taylor of www.jtcardmaking.blogspot.com, I used white card stock embossed with my new Cuttlebug E.folder "honeycomb" which has the large honecomb as well as the smaller one, however I used the large on the base card and the smaller one on the three ribbon sections, that I snipped with a scissors, I hand cut a heart, which I embossed with a Cuttlebug e.folder "Polka Dots", and used two small fabric flowers and a clear rhinestone for the centre, I also used a small punched butterfly and a Marianne Creatables die to cut  "be happy"  I am happy with this one.

Just for you

I made this card for the challenge on Simon Says Stamp and Show, their challenge is to use a stamp you love but don't use.   This is a stamp I got a long time ago, but have never used it because I did not know how to arrange it, I used white cardstock and green corrugated card with white cardstock for the top stamped layer, I used Faber and Castell water colour pencils to colour the stamped images and a sticker out of the Issue 7 Cardmaking made simple.

balloons birthday card

Todays card is "Birthday Balloon Card" for a young girls birthday, I don't really do girl cards as I have four grandsons and am more comfortable making boy cards, any here it is.  I used a dark pink cardstock for the base and a piece of designer paper from a kit from "Cardmaking in Easy Steps" Issue 7, I cut out the balloons fron an Easter Egg Template from "about.com/rubberstamping.com" the template had about  8 easter eggs in various sizes I used 2 different sizes and cut them out of scrap paper that was in my scrap bag.   I drew the little crosses with a black gel pen and used a purple ribbon from my stash to make the bow, I used a pink pen to draw the faux stitching around the sides and used the sentiment and the stick on pearls ad rhinestones from the above kid.   I think my little friend will like, Hope so!

Heart and Music card

Here is today's card, Heart and Music, I used red cardstock with music paper from "Cre8tiv' 8 x 8 inch paper pack, together with a heart hand cut from red corrugated card and somme dark blue and silver ribbon, the heart is attached with a small plain peg.   lots of fun and so easy.  I embossed the card with Cuttlebug emb folder "diamonds in the rough" and ink embossed with
Tim Holtz destressed ink "Vintage photo"

umbrella man and birthday card

 I made two cards today, the first is a birthday card for a small girl, I used pink polka dot paper that I had in my stash and an old stamp also from my stash, cupcake and I used a Happy Birthday stamp from Fiskars, also the small hearts on the bottom are on the same Fiskars set, I used the top left hand side corner from a Marianne die and the lace at the bottom is a Nellie Snellon die.  The Umbrella Man card was inspired by Richelle Christensen," californiartgirl.blogspot.com".  She made a tag and I made a card with is quite different I used black cardstock for the base of the card with some masculine paper from my stash, I used a piece of darker blue for the piece at the side which I embossed with a cuttlebug embossing folder "Houndstooth"  I used the Small Sizzex embossing folder the Umbrella Man because I don't have a u.man cutting die so cut out all the pieces by hand, I used a Tim Holtz gear, and a hand stamp and his stamp "enjoy the journey" I used an old watch face, and a small bicycle charm from my stash, I think I bought it from china.   I'm pretty happy with this card, thanks to Richelle's instructions for the Umbrella Man

dressmaking model

This card was made today with inspiration from Chris416ward, u tube,  she used button, cotton reel and ribbon, but I didn't have those so used the dressmaker's model,
Tim Holtz stamps "seamless experience"  together with scraps
of paper and stick on pearls from Kaiser Basics,