Pink and Brown cupcakes

This card I have used one of the Joy Crafts new Vintage Flourishes dies, this one the Cupcake 6003/0021

For this I have also used the Marianne Creatables Designer Doily LR0130 which I mounted on brown card.  The cupcakes are mounted on some embossed card, with the Brocade Craft concepts embossing folder.  The happy birthday banner is cut freehand with a variety of patterned pastel papers and threaded on some pink embroidery floss that I tied in a knot each end.  The words are done with some letter dots I have had for quite a while.  Finally a brown ribbon with pink hearts and three sparkly dots.  

Crosses

I have made two cards using the Marianne Creatables cross LR0252 die for Fat Cats Card Corner, one I have made very simplistic and one is definitely over the top!!!!

The first one I have kept very simple

I have mounted the cross on sapphire blue foil card, and then mounted that on the Bradshaw Couture Creations Embossing folder. This too is mounted on more of the sapphire blue foil card.  Finally I finished it off with some tiny wee sapphire gems and some peel craft words for the sentiment.  

The second is completely the other end of the spectrum!

This one I cut the cross out in gold foil card and threaded some cream lace on both axis and popped a pearl in the middle.  

This is mounted on the Marianne Creatables floral Circle die 129.  I have mounted this out on some foam pads.  The paper in the background is a Anna Griffin designer paper, with a piece of cream lace.  The flowers are made with the Cheery Lynn Build a flower #2 die set, in some cream pearlised paper, with the Nellie Snellen stamen punch in gold and a pearl in the middle.  The leaves are the Marianne Creatables Anja leaves 1 die.  Finally the sentiment is done of the computer and mounted on some gold foil card, then some flourishes done with tiny pearls.  

Merry Christmas Songbook

I can't believe how fast the last month has gone, and how long it has taken me to get back to my blog.  It has been crazy!  Anyway, I finally made it, so thought I would put a Christmas Card I have just made.  Another one for Fat Cats Card Corner.

I have used the Marianne Creatables Open Book die which I printed on the music for We wish you a Merry Christmas, and the Sentiment.  I have mounted in on the Crafts Concept Fancy Frame Embossing folder.  Behind that I have used some Christmas patterned paper.  I smudged a bit of gold ink pad on the page edges, to highlight the embossed pages.  

The Roses I used the Cherry Lynn Build a flower #2 and also the leaves, It is very easy to make really lovely Roses with these petal shapes.  

21st Birthday Card

I have made a card for a friends daughter who is turning 21 and having a party.  I decided to have a go at a swing card.  I found a great template here which meant I draw my own template.

I used a pretty pink designer paper, and thought the black trim would look more youthful.

I made the two borders with the Spellbinder Partisian Accents die set, and threaded pink narrow ribbon through the base.  I made the flowers with a pear punch for the petals and a sun punch for the centres.  Some black ribbon tied in loops and punched leaves to finish it off.  

The two Sentiments at the front and back were done on the computer.  I have used the Memory Box Kaleidoscope butterfly cut out also in black one at the front and one at the back of the swing part.  Finally the number was done on my Silhouette Cameo.

Blue Owl

Another card for Fat Cats Card Corner.  This one is using the Little Owlette die by Die Versions.  

I have used the die to do the blue centre owl, but have also used it in the background.  I lightly inked the die, and then used it to emboss the card for the background, doing random embosses all over it.  The frame around the owl is made with the 

Cards using some recycled materials

A group I belong to have a monthly Theme and Technique which we can make a card for if we wish.  This months was Theme: using recycled materials, and the Technique was to revisit punches and dies you have and look at a different way to make a flower with it.  

This card I have used some paper that was around a flower bouquet that I was given some time ago, which has this lovely dreamy floral pattern on one side and a plain mauve on the back.  I have used it for the background and framed it with the other side colour.  The birdcage is the Gilded Birdcage by Crafty Individuals, which I have use some card that I recycled from an Easter egg box last Easter, which was a lovely rich purple colour.  I then used the Marianne creatables flower set LR0145.  I used the largest size, and cut 4 out for each flower.  I have then cut a slit between every petal towards the centre but not quite to the hole in the centre.  Then I moulded them to make the into a cup shape, and layered them onto a mauve brad, alternating the petals.  I put a bit of stickles.  The sentiment is the centre of the Couture creations Fleur de Frame nesting die set.  The bird is from the Marianne Creatables Bird on a Branch die.  The leaves are from the Cheery Lynn build a Flower #2 die set.  

This one, the green and white patterned card is cut from a tissue box, which I have mounted on the Cuttlebug Wicker Weave embossing folder.  The feathers were saved from a card my daughter was given last birthday. The flower is supposed to be a begonia from the Cheery Lynn Build a flower #2 set.  The sentiment is cut with a Spellbinders ribbon tag trio, and some white ribbon.  Quite a simple card this one.  

Flower Doily

These two cards were done with the Marianne Creatables Flower doily and flower die set I have done for Fat Cats Card Corner.

The first one is done with pink and cream card, I have done the doily in the cream and backed it in the pink.  I have done a doily in pink and then cut out four of the lattice parts to form the corners.  The words are done with another Marianne Creatables die, Just for you Thanks LR0224 Die, and then the bottom border is done with a Die-namics die Faux Crochet border die.  

The flower is made with the die that comes with the set also, I have used 5 of them cut out, and have shaped each one slightly, more so as I worked into the centre, so that the middle two are quite cupped.  Then I have layered them one inside the other.  Finally I put some pearls.

The second card is a black and white card with a butterfly and the flower done slightly differently.

I have backed the white flower doily  which I cut the centre out of the doily and then backed it with black card, so that it showed the black around the cut out centre, and then filled in behind that with white card so that you couldn't see the ribbon.  The sentiment is done on the computer and then cut out with the Spellbinder fancy tag 2 die, again backed in black.  The flower I have cut out a black one and a white one and put them together, alternating the petals.  In the centre of the doily I have put the Kaleidoscope Butterfly Die, again backed with black card.