Silver Wedding

Here's two cards made for a family Silver Wedding celebration. The first card was for my MIL to give and the second one is from our family. I was pleased to be able to play with my new toy - a Grand Calibur machine.

I used some white Linen effect Cored'inations card here, cut on the diagonal and then embossed the pink for some added texture. The embossing didn't quite line up so I covered the worst bit with punched flowers!

                Just love the heart die from Memory Box!


All the materials are from stash.

Tools used:

Card 1
Spellbinders Shapeabilities - Parisian Accents
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder - Divine Swirls
Cuttlebug Alphabet 
Martha Stewart Craft Punch - Cornflower

Card 2
Cuttlebug Embossing Folders - Birds & Swirls,  Love Language (A2 Combo)
Craft Concepts Universal Embossing Folder - Dragonfly
Memory Box die - La Rue Heart
Cuttlebug Alphabet
Spellbinders Shapeabilities - Fleur de Lis Doily Accents

I'd like to enter the following challenges:
Paperake Weekly - Anything Goes
Oldie But a Goodie - Die Cuts & Punches (Old - Cornflower punch & Alphabet Die)
Crafts and Me - Favourite Colour Combo  (pink/white)
2Sisters Challenge - Anything Goes
Creative Card Challenges2 - Anything Goes
One Stop Craft Challenge - Celebrations



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Gardener's World - 80th Birthday Card

This is a recent commission card and fairly new territory for me. i.e. CD crafting. I used the 'From the Heart of the Garden' CD by Jane Shasky (from Joanna Sheen) and printed out various papers, toppers and sentiments. I probably have enough left to make another two cards.

I used Centura Pearl in a taupe/pale coffee shade for the base card. The miniature flower pots were cut in half before attaching to the sentiment. I think they were from Hobbycraft.

Inside of card - the Sun charm was included in an assorted pack from Bunny Zoe's Crafts and tied on to some knotted raffia. The photo I took of the right-hand side didn't come out at all which is a shame because my DH had made a miniature fork and trowel to stand in another mini terracotta pot to decorate the greeting/dedication section.

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes


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On Your Birthday

A very long overdue post from me - not sure where the time has gone to and my card mojo still not much in evidence. This is a male card I recently did and I'm quite pleased with the end result. I've long been reading the lovely Sue Wilson's blog and have watched/recorded many of her recent Spellbinder shows on Create & Craft. Here is my first attempt in this style and already I've realised that I'm going to have to get a lot more Spellbinder dies (oh dear - what a shame!!). So far I only have the Fleur de Lis and the Pendants that are suitable. I shall just have to trawl the net for more supplies - a hard job I know but someone's gotta to do it!

Brown Card - Papermania Premium Textured

Cream Card Blank

Cream Raffia Lace - PaperCellar

Brad - American Crafts Elements 

Tools used:

Spellbinders Fleur de Lis

Cuttlebug Folder - Swiss Dots

Martha Stewart Edge Punch - Traditional Scallop

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be ...

Happy Valentines Day and I hope you had some nice romantic surprises. This is the card I made for my DH. I used a cute Margaret Sherry image which came as a freebie with Cardmaking & Papercraft magazine. The images were already stamped ready to be coloured. I also used the Berry Fizz glitter which was part of the same freebie. The glitter stripes behind the main image are PaperCellar glitter borders - very nice and easy to use. The tiny hearts above the cat are from the punched heart border.

A quick peek at the inside. This is as 'soppy' as I get but I chanced upon this Robert Browning quotation and thought it was very fitting.

Image - Margaret Sherry Collection   (magazine freebie)

Sentiment - from Bentley Bear by Adam Pescott (magazine freebie)

Glitter Borders - PaperCellar

White, Pink card & Gems from Stash

Tools used:  Martha Stewart Lace Heart Edge Punch

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Forever Friends challenge - Valentine

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Penny's Challenges #72 - Love is in the Air

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Love is in the Air

Bunny Zoe's challenge - Celebrations

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Lilac Criss Cross Card

Oh dear, we're now into February and this is my first post of 2012. Time just seems to fly by and I don't seem to be back into card-making mode as yet so this share is one I made before Christmas.  Speaking of Christmas, I was lucky enough to receive some lovely crafting goodies (which haven't been touched yet) including five LOTV stamps and three Martha Stewart punches.  Am hoping to have a good sort/tidy-up of stash next week and take it from there.

DPs - Dovecraft Back to Basics & magazine freebie stack

Image - LOTV Cute Squares

Lilac card, ribbon, flowers & buttons from stash

Cupcake Stamp

Tools used:

Shapeabilities Fleur de Lis Pendant

Nellies Multi Frame Die MFD027 2-corners-1

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LOTV Girl

Long time and no posts from me. Hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas and managed a bit of downtime/crafting time after all the hectic rush to be ready for the big day. We now have New Year to look forward to although we don't particularly celebrate in our house. DH and I prefer to stay at home and watch Jools' Hootenanny complete with non-alcoholic fizz. Such party animals!!

This was a quick make using a Papermania scalloped edge card blank and one of my favourite LOTV die-cut squares.

Papermania Card Blank

Image - Lili of the Valley die-cut square

DP - My  Mind's Eye (magazine freebie)

Ribbon from stash

Tools used:

Nestabilities Plain Circles and Butterfly Circles

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Kick Stand Card

Here is my first attempt at a Kick-Stand card. I really liked this style of card when I saw it on Bev Rochester's fantastic blog and I've added a link to her post  HERE  which includes a video tutorial.

I'm also loving my new Memory Box die which is so intricate but well worth the effort. Just had to use it twice!!  I managed to salvage the LOTV image from a previous project that didn't work out and have 'hidden the join' by framing it with Labels Eight. A bit of Martha punching, some ribbon, roses and Glamour Dust to finish off.

and a sideways view

White Base Card - Core'dinations Linen

Lilac card, ribbon & flowers from Stash

Image - LOTV Cute Square

DPs - Dovecraft Back to Basics II

Gems - Papermania Mosaics

Tools used:

Memory Box Die - Valerian Flourish

Martha Stewart Border Punch - Eyelet Lace

Nestabilities - Labels Eight

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenge:

Lili of the Valley - Anything Goes - week 122

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