Pam's 60th Birthday

My very good friend Pam is 60 today and here is the card that I made for her. Very simple but you know sometimes when you make a card and you just love it....well this was one of them cards!!

Decoupaged rose, nesties, Cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder, Martha Stewart corner punch, gems, yellow Promarker and computer generated greetings, lots of love and voilà the card is made.

Hope she likes it!!

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First Card of 2011

Well I didn't realise it had been so long since I had blogged. Opps!! Well I am going to try and blog more often even if it's just to show off my cards.

January has been quite a month so far with unwanted guests under the floorboards at Christmas. We had rats!!!! We have now hopefully got rid of them and found where they were coming in!!!

Right now down to my cards. Here is a card that I made for my great niece.

The image was one that I had stamped sometime ago and coloured it in using promarkers. Nesties were used to cut and matt it. Backing paper was from my stash as were the gems. The greeting is from Craftwork Cards.

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Bubble Trees & Baubles

5th November and another craft class at the Glitterpot with Jane Gill. This time using her Bubble tree and bauble stamps and peel offs.

This first card was using the bubble tree stamp. The card was an A5 card stuck together on the shorter edge. A ribbon tied to the side. The bubble tree was decorated with various gems, brads, stickles and seed beads. The greeting was embossed using a Crafts Too embossing folder.

This card is a triangular card again using various brads, buttons, gems etc to decorate it.
In the morning we did the bauble. This first card was done on a tall A4 sheet. Decorated again with brads, beads, buttons, seed beads and stickles. A ribbon was used and a bow. A gold peel off finishes the card off.
This was a c6 card. A piece of separate card was embossed using a Crafts Too folder. The bauble used is a peel off and decorated as the above.
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Trees, Trees and more trees

On the 3oth October I had another craft class at the Glitterpot with Pam. The class again was ran by Jane Gill and the theme was 'trees'.

In the morning class we made the following 2 trees. Although you can't tell from the picture, they are both tall cards made from folding an A4 sheet of card vertically.

The first one was made by cutting a base tree and then using strips of different coloured green card/paper, stick together to form a layered tree. The edges were cut with a Martha Stewart edger. A few eyelets and gems were added. Trunk made from a piece of card and a ribbon tied round. The letters were embossed from a Crafts Too embossing folder and then stickles added. The word 'Christmas' was a stamp.

This card, again is an A4 tall card. The tree is made from a triangular template. Each layer was then cut again, an inch shorter than the previous layer. These again were edged with a Martha Stewart punch. The tree was then stuck together and then stuck on the base card. A ribbon was tied round the top and then the discarded snowflakes for the punch edge were used to decorate it. The greeting was stamped and then the word 'tree' which hasn't come out well was agin done with the Crafts Too embossing folder.

In the afternoon we made cards using Jane's own stamp set. The tree stamp comes in bits and is very versatile.

With the first card, the tree was stamped and embossed. The middle bits were then cut away. The tree was then layered onto another piece of card. The message was stamped onto shrink plastic and then shrunk down. It was then tied to the tree. The side panel edge was punched using a Martha Stewart edger. A piece of ribbon was then tied round and the panel stuck to the left hand side of the card. The rosette was made with a strip of paper, concertinered into a rosette shape. A couple of gems were then added to finish it off.

This tree was made with the same stamp but different bits of the tree were stamped onto different coloured paper. You can then assemble the tree as you like as long as it's a tree shape. A few gems and sparkly stickers were used to decorate the tree. A piece of ribbon was used to finish it off. The card is a mini DL card.

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Some Family Cards

Over the last week or so I have been trying to catch up with the rest of the cards for the year for my family and friends so that I can start on some Christmas ones.

The first card is for my niece Samantha who is 18. She is a bit of a tomboy and plays a lot of football. I thought this image from Kenny K suited her. I coloured her with promarkers. The paper etc was from my stash. The greeting is computer generated. I used a Martha Stewart edging punch, a piece of ri.bbon, a flower and some card candy to finish it off.

This card is for my oldest niece, another Sam. The image was from a few I got from Kaz at Appleby Magna. I just stuck it onto a piece of card and cut it out. The backing paper was from a magazine that had Art Deco. I added some gems and a peel off greeting.

This card is for my brother in law. The image of course is a flipping image decoupage. The paper and card is from my stash. I used a greeting from Craftwork Cards and some card candy to finish it off.
The following 2 cards are for the anniversaries of my very good friends Cyd and Fel and my nephew and his wife. The first card uses an Cuttlebug embossing folder nested on black card. Black ribbon added and a stamped greeting.

This card is a bought topper matted onto silver card. Sizzix hearts and a silver peel off. The paper is from my stash. The edge was cut using a Martha Stewart punch.

This card was made for my mother in law. If was from a pad of paper - can't remember which one..oops! Added a flower and ribbon. It's a bit fussy but hopefully she will like it.

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Glitterpot Class - 22nd October - Afternoon

The afternoon class at the Glitterpot was again with Jackie. This time we used Sizzix dies - Snowman and Deer. Some more DP and embellishments and a ribbon.

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Glitterpot Class - 22nd October

This was a class with Jackie Huckstepp at the Glitterpot. We were using embossing folders. The DP and card was rounded at the edges. The embossing folders used were from Crafts Too - Christmas Greeting. This was then roughed. Labels 1 was used to cut the mats. The white one was embossed with Cuttlebug swiss dots. Little snowflakes were added with ribbon and gems.

The next one was the NOEL Crafts Too embossing folder. DP paper used together with some embellishments. Another bit of ribbon to finish it off.

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