Last day of the March Madness Card challenge - an assortment of cards

Well here I am on day 31 at the end of my card a day challenge for March.  It's been a fun month and I've got lots of lovely cards to show for it too, although it has been hard work to get them made, photographed, uploaded and blogged about, and being sick for a couple of days didn't really help, but I made it through!

Looking back at all the cards I did make, I've counted up them all and actually made 54 different cards, and including multiples of the same design, there were over 100 cards, so quite a productive month.  I'll certainly have plenty to take to the Washington International Spring Bazaar on April 17th.

For my last day I've made five new cards.  It started off with a first birthday card, then I added an 18th and 21st birthday cards followed by a sweet sixteen, and finally two quick thank you cards to try out a new rubber stamp!

I hope you've enjoyed following my creativity and I'll start thinking about another challenge for later in the year.

March Madness - Day 5 - An Elephant never forgets!

So here we are on day five of my card making challenge and today I've been up early as I've got a lot to do today. I had a look through my rubber stamp collection and chose a stamp that I brought a while ago but hadn't got around to using yet (much like some items in my closet!!).

I paired the cute stamp with an elepahnt on it with some chinzy floral paper and cardstock in pink and blue, and just love the red ribbon and bow!

Today I'm off to the Frederick basket Company in downtown Frederick, MD which is a fabulous little store that sells amazing items that are assembled into beautiful gift baskets. They also sell my cards there. Today is a special unvieling of a new mural for the store and so all the local artists that are featured in the store are invited to come in. Would be great to see you there if you can make it!

Here's my creation for today! hope you like it!

March Madness - Day 3 - Glamour Girl Card

Day 3 of the challenge and today I decided to make a card inspired by watching the Oscars over the weekend. Seeing all of Hollywood turned out in their most glamorous outfits!

What glamour girl doesn't like a bit of sparkle, so for this card I used some sparkle card, cut into a frame around the fancy stickers. I added some extra bling with more crytals and a filgeree stamp inside and on the envelope.

Hope you like it! Let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions for a card you'd like me to make. If I make a card from your idea, I'll send it to you!

March Madness - Day one!

Ok, so here is the first of hopefully 31 cards that I'll make during the month of March. This one was made with a pack of robot stickers that I picked up on a recent visit to Michaels, and loved! I teamed them with an assortment of colored paper & card to complement the colors in them.

I love the way its turned out and am now thinking up ideas for more cards. If you have any suggestions or ideas for cards, color schemes etc then throw them my way, it will add to the challenge and may help me as I get near to the end of the month and my brain starts to hurt!

Let me know what you think!

A New Year, Some New cards!

Well now that Christmas and New Year both seem a long time ago, its time to get back in the craft room and create some more cards. Trying to keep organised, I've started to make up the cards for my family and friends birthdays and special occassions in 2011.

So far I have all of January and February's done and will get started on March this weekend.

Here is what I've made so far!