Gift card holders

Gift card holders

These are three gift card holders I made. I designed a template similar to those I’ve seen for criss-cross cards. Each was personalised with the name of the recipient! I used coordinating papers and added gems.

I would like to enter these for the following challenges
Do you stack up- rainbow of colours, use at least three. Another wonderful inspiration photo!

Bunny Zoe crafts- fancy folds
Designed to delight- pretty gift card holder

Birthday box

Birthday box

I made this gift box for the card I made in my last post. I’m hoping the box will be reused!!
I glittered the turquoise card I used.

I printed the paper and added a digi from the paper shelter. I used a floral font. I added gems to make it extra special.

I would like to enter the following challenges
Top tip Tuesday- gift
Fairytale challenge- gift or gift box
Card crafters circle- celebration
Paper sundaes- celebrate
Totally Gorjuss- for someone special
Sparkles forum challenge- anything but a Christmas card
Corrosive challenges- anything except Christmas

Birthday card for hubby

Birthday card for hubby

Not got much time to post this while hubby not about so sorry that this is heavy on photos and light on text!!

I decided on a squirrel theme! A lot of the elements were from the Nitwits Go Nuts collection although I made the hearts papers.

The digi is from Sylvia Zett and is coloured with Promarkers. I used clear ink and turquoise Perfect Pearls on the background to the image. One of the layers is brown funky foam with glitter spray on it which I mounted with foam pads.

The heart embellishment is a velvet button painted with blue pearlescent ink.

My sentiment is in a font which has little squirrels on it!! The leaf and heart embellishments are from stash. The sentiment is mounted on glittered funky foam on foam pads.
If you lift up the easel there is a little squirrel waving at you!!

This shows the easel effect!

This is the back of the card using the heart paper I made.

I would like to enter the following challenges
Some odd girls- easel cards
Here come the boys- for the man in your life
Nettie G’s Digital challenge- Happy Birthday
Lexi’s Creations- One for the lads

Christmas post

Christmas post

Another Christmas card and another cute LOTV die cut. I made and printed the papers, used lots of stickles and glimmer misted my snowflakes.
I would like to enter the following challenges
Lili of the valley- anything goes
Rainbow Lady’s Challenge blog- cards for men
4 Crafty Chicks- snowflakes
Charisma Cardz challenge- snowflakes
Totally Papercrafts challenge- Christmas
Our Craft Lounge- cute critters

Mice Christmas!

Mice Christmas!

Another Christmas card!

Some more papers designed on computer to match the colours in the challenges and to work with the sketch. Everything else basically stash. The edge of the card was coloured with green distress ink and perfect pearls. The digi is a freebie.

The digi was coloured with Promarkers and the snow is flowersoft and glitter.
I would like to enter the following challenges
Christmas blog challenge- Christmas mouse
Forever Friends Challenge- bling bling
Top Tip Tuesday- anything goes Christmas
CRAFT challenge- cute
Charisma Cardz- cutesy
Color throwdown

 

Non-traditional Christmas

Non-traditional Christmas

I used this a Stelje digi and made the papers on my computer for the wonderful layout sketch I used from sketchy colours.

 The glitter is Icy stickles.

I used mirror mosaic, glossy accents and perfect pearls for the embellishment. The edges of the card were coloured using alcohol ink and then I used perfect pearls.

I would like to enter the following challenges

One stitch at a time- use a digi
Crafty Catz- use a digi
Jellypark challenges- non-traditional Christmas colours
Top Tip Tuesday- anything Christmas
Sir Stampalot challenge- blue and green
Sketchy colors sketch- shame I missed the deadline!!

With thanks

With thanks

As it is Thanksgiving time I thought I would make a thank you card. My colours and papers were inspired by the amazing picture at the end of this post and I decided to work to a challenge sketch (also at the end of the post).

The ribbon reel challenge photo inspired me to design papers in these colours and to use a cute digi with a flower and butterflys and swirls (like butterfly wing patterns). I added gemstones to the papers.  I had to flip the sentiment to the other side from the sketch so you could see butterflies on the paper.

On my cute image I coloured with Promarkers. I used stickles to highlight the flower and glossy accents to give him a shiny nose. I used blue perfect pearls on my rabbit. I used alcohol inks and glimmer mist dabbed onto the background.

I would like to enter this card for the following challenges.
Digital Tuesday Challenge- cute and cuddly
Charisma cardz- cutesy challenge
My mums craft shop- gratitude
Digistamps 4 joy- with gratitude
fussy and fancy- with gratitude and feature a sentiment
The ribbon reel challenge- inspiration picture

Karens doodle snetherlands- sketch

First attempt at sewing on card!

First attempt at sewing on card!

This is a winter birthday card I made with my own papers made on computer again.

These are more lily papers I made on the computer. I sewed the papers to pink card using running stitch but on the top and side of the sentiment I used an embroidery flower stitch. I used lavender distress ink and perfect pearls on the edges of the card.

I used alcohol inks and glimmer mist to colour the lace and added gems and some WOC flowers.

I coloured the image with Promarkers and stickles for the fur trim. I used lavender distress ink and perfect pearls for the background and added gems. I used another piece of the lace over pink ribbon.
I would like to enter this card for the following challenges

Top Tip Tuesday- make your own background papers
The secret crafter saturday challenge- flowers, ribbon and lace
Crafty ann’s challenge blog- floral frenzy
Digi doodle shop’s best- Winter
Pile it on challenge- keep warm
Anything goes challenge- stitches
ooh la la creations challenges- stitching
Catered crop recipe I used

  • Stamps: girl
  • Colors: pink
  • Inks:  Distress Ink, markers
  • Tools:  sewing machine
  • Embellishments: gemstones, glimmer mists, glitter, lace,
First box

First box

This is my first box for the birthday card I made yesterday. I’m pleased with it as I had to make up how to do it!!

I made the background paper with sentiment on the computer. I tied the bow and stuck it on the wreath. I used distress inks to colour card and the punched two butterflies. I curled the wings, layered them and added gems to the body.  I added a cluster of flowers from WOC.

I would like to enter this for the following challenges
Bearly mine challenge- anything but a card
Craft your passion- bingo (flowers, bling on butterfly and free is using distress inks)
Crafty Ribbon Challenge- bingo (glitter on butterflies, flowers and gems on butterflies)
Joyful stamper inspire me Fridays- always anything goes

Sweet Blossom birthday card

Sweet Blossom birthday card

This birthday easel card has taken me ages!

I found a free Lily digi and used it to make the frame for Sweet Blossom on my computer.

On the base of the card I used more paper I’d made with the same digi. The butterfly was made using a MS punch (thanks for the inspiration Coops). I coloured some pink card with glimmer mists and Perfect pearls and then punched two butterflies and layered them with a slight uplift on the top one. I added gems to the body.
The raised card with sentiment was decorated with corners, flowers a ribbon and sliding buckle (WOCs) I also used distress inks to colour some lace for the background.

 Another photo to show the 3D effect on the butterfly!

I decorated my flower frame with some additional WOC flowers and used a small butterfly punch in same way to make the little butterflys and added them in frame and added them to give a 3D effect on the top of the card.
Sweet Blossom was coloured with Promarkers and inside the frame I used distress inks and covered with Perfect Pearls.

Around the edge of my backing paper on the top of the card I used Stickles glitter and WOC corners. The edges of the cards were coloured with distress ink and Perfect Pearls.

I’d like to enter the following challenges
Top Tip Tuesday- Create your own background papers
Nettie Gs dand ydigital gems-recipe (1 image, 2 flowers and 3 pearls…..I’m not sure if more is allowed, if not please delete my entry!)
Paper crafting journey- use a digi
Sew Many Challenges- 2 different digi papers
The Squirrel and the Fox- hatand/ or flowers
Ginger Loft Challenge- bingo, bottom row. Glitter, ribbon and flowers.
Card cupids- more than one fold
Birthday sundaes- bithday card
Bunny Zoe Crafts- lace it up
Scrap book sisters- anything goes
Simon says stamps- anything goes

Thanks to everyone who reads and comments on my cards. As a new crafter it really helps to keep me going on the days when it is all going wrong!!