March Madness - Day 4 -Woodland Trust Inspired card

Hooray, I got my first request for a card for my challenge. The suggestion came from Kerry who had the wonderful idea to make a card inspired by the Woodland Trust about saving the woodlands in the UK.

What a great reason to make a card! With this in mind I scoured my crafting supplies for everything 'woodsy' and came up with this beautiful card. As a thank you to Kerry I'll be mailing her the card.

The Woodland Trust has a fabulous website with tons of information on how you can help do your bit to save woodlands, and today March 4th is acyually 'Wear your Wellies' day. A fun event held by the trust. Check it out here

Send me your suggestions for a card and I'll send you the card!

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 2

I'm having fun making these new cards. I find my heads full of idea's as I go to bed so when I get up in the morning I have to go and create a new card! When I start getting up in the middle of the night to make them, I'll get worried.

So todays card is a special one for my Mum. She loves to garden and I have inherited my green thumb from her and also love to spend time in the garden. For this card I pulled out my embossing tools and lightbox which I haven't used in a while and also used a flower punch and some silk flowers.

I'm not sure if I can wait until Mothers day in the UK on April 3rd to send this card to my Mum!

Do you have any suggestions for cards that you'd like me to make? Send me your ideas and if I choose to make a card using them, I'll send you the card! Time to get your thinking caps on!

So here's my special card for my special Mum!

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!

March Madness - A Card Making Challenge!

In an attempt to blog more regularly I have come up with a challenge for myself for the month of March. Starting tomorrow on the 1st of the month my goal is to create at least one new card each day for the whole of March, and share my creations on here with everyone. By the end of the month I should have at least 31 cards!

I'm excited to see what I can come up with and whether having a target will have an adverse effect on my creative juices! We'll have to wait and see. Following a recent trip to Michaels craft store and ith my bulging drawers of crafting supplies It will be good to put them all to use and see what I come up with.

Do you fancy joining me on my challenge? you could get all your cards for the year made in one month!

Card Making Class - Pretty Fairy Card

I thought that I'd share the creative process of making some of my cards and record each of the steps that I take in creating each of my hand made cards.

Today I started off with selecting a packet of stickers that I purchased from Michaels the other day. I took my color pallet from the colors found in the fairy stickers and chose a tangerine orange envelope, powder blue cardstock, shimmering orange paper and a pink and orange check patterned paper.

I started by folding and cutting my blue cardstock to the right size to fit my envelope. I cut the card using a guillotine. I then cut the orange paper, check paper and shimmer paper to size. To attach the layers i use sticky tabs that I cut into three and place along the edge of each piece as shown below. Then the layers of paper are added to the card.

Once the main part of the card was made, I began on the decoration. To mount the fairy stickers onto the card I cut out three small ovals using a creative memories cutting system. I placed the fairies on the larger ovals and the 'I believe in fairies' on the smaller one. To attach them to the card I used 3d foam tape cut into small pieces on the back.

To complete the card I added a tangerine paper insert, using the guillotine to cut the paper to size, and attached it inside the card with some more sticky tabs. I used a rubber stamp and pink ink pad to stamp the sentiment 'Happy Birthday' inside and decorated it with the remaining stickers.

Finally I put a sticker with my website on the back of the card and place it in a cello protective packet to keep it in perfect condition until it gets sold.

I hope you found this useful and that you get some ideas to make your own cards.

New Custom cards

I love making all kinds of cards, especially when someone asks me to make a custom card for them. this week I've made three custom cards including a beach themed 50th birthday card, a fashionista's 30th birthday card and a dog lovers birthday card.

Here's what I created for each of them.

A fun beach theme card complete with glistening sand and a bright and cheery '50'. A fun polka dot bikini and flipflops complete the card.

What fashionista doesn't love shoes, dresses, purses and pearls? I used stamps to decorate the background of the card and made 3d dresses and shoes to decorate the card.

This Andy Worhol inspired card was made for Brittany who has a Pug and a French Bulldog. I love the way it came out and the 3d images just make them pop from the background colors.