Karen's Easter cross

When I saw that the theme for this week's Karen's doodles challenge is 'Easter' I had a look at their digis and couldn't resist buying the Easter cross, so I'm entering this card into their challenge.

Having made quite a few Easter cards (and sold a lot of them to raise money for Tearfund) I've had a few more requests, so I need to make more - good job Easter is late this year - gives me a bit more time!

The base card is a slightly textured pale lemon. The image was coloured with copics and the sentiments computer generated and printed, backing with a gold card that is a cross between matt and mirror.

This is also for:

Ann's creative nook 129: Easter
Aly's: happy spring
Creative cottage 35: spring has sprung
Wags n whiskers 50: spring
Mami doodles 22: celebrate spring
Paper pretties 146: spring
Polka doodles 12: the spring has sprung
My Sheri 50: spring
Paper playtime 42: digi Monday - anything goes

Super sketchy Sunday Easter card

This is for the sketch on 365 day 27:

I've made a very simple Easter card using components from the QVC Kanban kit I bought recently, rounding the corners of the card blank with a PM punch (because of the double thickness of the card I had to stand on the punch!).

This is also for:

Ann's creative nook 129: Easter
Aly's: happy spring
Creative cottage 35: spring has sprung
Wags n whiskers 50: spring
Mami doodles 22: celebrate spring
Paper pretties 146: spring
Crafty calendar 18: spring
Prairie fairy Fridays 49: oh so spring
Totally Gorjuss 73: spring is sprung!
My Sheri 50: spring
Stamping vacation: occasion oasis challenge - Easter
Colour create 67: pastels - optional extra: Easter
Crafts and me 27: anything goes

Less is more ... more white

For week 8 on Less is more this sketch is provided:

So I used an A4 tall card and embossed the top part with a cuttlebug embossing folder so that the front was debossed and the back embossed. The strip across the bottom is a piece of slightly foiled white card - just a hint of sheen to it. It's always difficult to get flash pictures at night, particularly when the card is predominantly white, so I'm sorry the quality isn't up to much - the card is much better irl:


The ribbon across the front and back is wired and has a very sparkly look that just doesn't show much here. The image is one that was left over from a kit. I haven't yet decided what insert to put in it - it could be 'Happy Anniversary' or 'Congratulations on your Wedding Day'.


This is also for:

365 day 26: ABC of crafting: STW - W is for white (and I think the ribbon might qualify for T for toile)
Stamping vacation: white space challenge - one layer
Stamping vacation: clean and simple challenge - no tools except a cuttlebug folder
Dutch dare card 105: celebration

My perfect day

'My perfect day' is the theme of Gez's lovely CJ for the group on BF forum. For my DLO I've chosen to share a crafting day with our granddaughters.

The background paper is one that I've had for ages - the sort that you buy because you know it will be useful, but until now have never used it ... and then today it was perfect for what I wanted for the CJ because bright pink and orange seem to figure in the girls' colouring in, particularly Faye's. All three of the girls really enjoyed a stamping session.

The wording was done on my dymo letratag - and just the addition of sticky ribbons, flowers, gems and a slotted brad with ribbon to finish it off. I've kept it simple to let the photos speak for themselves and because I didn't want to hide too much of the background paper.


Gez asked us to supply a photo of ourself, so I thought I would put me with mini pictures of the girls around me.
I'm linking this for:

Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: think warm - warm colours
Sketchy colors 64: pink, orange and white
Lexi 36: ribbons but no bows or knots
Picture perfect creations speciality challenge 5: show us your creative space
Tuesday throwdown 41: anything but a card
Crafts and me 27: anything goes
Shabby tea room 54: bingo - 3 in a row - I chose one of the diagonals - brads, flowers, ribbon

Just because

This card uses the Mami doodles Paddy's frame digi coloured with copics, with the additon of some pearls and the 'just because' Anna Griffin sentiment stamp. The corners have been rounded with a PM punch.

This is for:

Our daily bread 54: frame it
Pollycraft 85: swirls and pearls
Crafty catz 75: pearls and swirls
Alota 55: include colour green somewhere
Crafty purple frog: going green
Sarah Hurley 35: go green
Cupcake: monochromatic
Crafts and me 27: anything goes

Gift cards for baby

Two more cards very similar to the previous one - another entry for Stampin' sisters in Christ 81 and Crafts 4 eternity R12 technique/theme challenge, both of which call for something that is hidden - again, the tag inside the pocket has semi-circular slits top and bottom to accommodate a store gift card.

The background paper for the baby boy card is American Crafts the goods Jack.

The background for the baby girl card is BG sugar rush.

This is also for:

365 cards day 25: ABC of crafting: PQR - P for polka dots
Truly scrumptious 53: tag it!
C.R.A.F.T. 95: new baby

Thank you gift card

There are a couple of challenges that call for something hidden:

Stampin' sisters in Christ 81 and Crafts 4 eternity R12 technique/theme challenge.

The pocket on this card houses a tag that can incorporate a store gift card - you can just see the little semi-circular cut (there is another one towards the base of the tag) to accommodate the gift card. The background paper is BG euphoria.

This is also for:

365 cards day 25: ABC of crafting: PQR - P for polka dots
Truly scrumptious 53: tag it!
Craft your passion 50: show your appreciation

Yellow and white Easter

Another Easter card (I've made quite a few over the last couple of days), this time with Forever Friends spring time paper, some sticky ribbon that I've had for ages and a dove and cross stamp, coloured with copics and white sakura pen for the dove, which was then covered with stickles crystal ice. The sentiments were computer generated and printed.

Cupcake inspirations 103 gave me the idea for the colour scheme:


This is also for:


Aly's: happy spring
Card cupids: spring inspired card
Cutie Sunday 136: spring colours/images
Inspiration Avenue: hello spring
Creative cottage 35: spring has sprung
Wags n whiskers 50: spring
Mami doodles 22: celebrate spring
Paper pretties 146: spring
Crafty calendar 18: spring
Whoopsi Daisy: Easter time
Digistamps4joy 15: clean and simple
Hanna and friends 87: spring
Stamp dreams 75: spring colours
Creative stamp friends 21: spring
Stamp with fun 103: spring
Stampin with the dragon: bring on spring
Stamp and create 19: spring break
Prairie fairy Fridays 49: oh so spring
Sew many challenges 48: spring fling
Stamp something: spring somethings
Sukkersott 118: spring, where a bird is part of the design
Totally Gorjuss 73: spring is sprung!
My Sheri 50: spring
Stamping vacation: occasion oasis challenge - Easter
Crafts and me 27: anything goes

CHNC challenge 13: square card

This card is for my own challenge 13 on my Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge blog. My challenge this time is to make a square Christmas card - such an easy peasy challenge. If you haven't yet discovered my Christmas blog, why not hop over there and then join in - it's never too early to start making Christmas cards.

I was running out of time to get this done this week because I've been busy getting cards, including Easter ones yet to be blogged, ready for my sale today to raise money for Tearfund.

So I needed to make a quick card - I used some K & Co Secret Santa paper (I received a whole 12 x 12 pad of this from generous crafting friends at Order of the Opus Gluei). I used rub ons by Kaisercraft for the sentiments and dotted around a few gems and a couple of stars.

I like to try and regularly support other Christmas card challenge blogs, so this is also for:

Sparkle creations Christmas 2011 week 16: recipe: 1 designer paper (OK I cheated a bit by using doubled sided paper), stars and rub ons
Bah! humbug 12: Christmas trees

It's also for:

CCEE 1112: Christmas/winter holiday card
Secret crafter Saturday 127: Christmas in spring

Thinking of you at Easter

I love daffodils, so I've used a beautiful digi image from Crafty Ann - part of a prize I won quite recently - so the digi is for Crafty pad 113: use a digi and Creative card crew: no stamps.

The striped paper is FF spring time and the sentiment was part of a recent QVC Easter kit. I've deliberately kept it simple as I think the daffodils and the sentiment stand well together with nothing else added (although I'm tempted to add something more).

This is for:

Aly's: happy spring
Card cupids: spring inspired card
Cutie Sunday 136: spring colours/images
I did it 47: welcome spring
Inspiration Avenue: hello spring
Creative cottage 35: spring has sprung
Wags n whiskers 50: spring
Mami doodles 22: celebrate spring
Paper pretties 146: spring
Crafty calendar 18: spring
Whoopsi Daisy: Easter time
Ribbon girl colour challenge 6: green & yellow
Sentimental Sundays 47: let's get sentimental
Digistamps4joy 15: clean and simple
Crafts and me 27: anything goes
Paper cutz 83: your choice

Pastel Easter

I love these shaped cards (having originally bought a box of cream and white, I've now also got a box of colours - so I'll be showing lots of these in the future).

I sponged distressed the edges with mustard seed DI - so this is for 365 cards day 23: the ABC of crafting: GHI - I is for ink. It's also for PaperPlay 12: distressing.

I used pastel colours for Colour create 67, which also has the option of Easter.

The image, sentiment and strip of Easter eggs are all lined with gold foiling, which is for DYSU 12: shine on.


Its also for:


Aly's: happy spring
Card cupids: spring inspired card
Cutie Sunday 136: spring colours/images
I did it 47: welcome spring
Inspiration Avenue: hello spring
Creative cottage 35: spring has sprung
Wags n whiskers 50: spring
Mami doodles 22: celebrate spring
Paper pretties 146: spring
Crafty calendar 18: spring
Whoopsi Daisy: Easter time
Cardmakin mamas 17: animals
Crafts and me 27: anything goes
Paper cutz 83: your choice

Easter joy

I've made a few more Easter cards this evening - here is one of them, using a Personal Impressions stamp designed by Gaham Pilkington, coloured with copics. The background paper is Forever Friends springtime and the torn strip of green and white is Papermania Honey & hugs.

This is for the following challenges:

Aly's: happy spring
Card cupids: spring inspired card
Cutie Sunday 136: spring colours/images
I did it 47: welcome spring
Inspiration Avenue: hello spring
Creative cottage 35: spring has sprung
Wags n whiskers 50: spring
Mami doodles 22: celebrate spring
Paper pretties 146: spring
Hanna and friends 87: spring
Stamp dreams 75: spring colours
Creative stamp friends 21: spring
Stamp with fun 103: spring
Stamps R us: celebrate spring
Stamp magic 32: spring flowers
All kinds of cards 24: spring flowers
Our daily bread 53: new life - Easter, flowers etc
Nadia's challenge 2: flowers
Stampin with the dragon: bring on spring
Stamp and create 19: spring break
Crafty calendar 18: spring
Whoopsi Daisy: Easter time
Ribbon girl colour challenge 6: green & yellow
PaperPlay 12: distressing (torn edges of the green and white strip of paper)
Crafts and me 27: anything goes
Paper cutz 83: your choice

Orange sticky note holder

This is another sticky note holder. The card I've used is DCWV pocketful of posies. I can't remember where the embossed topper came from.

Colours are for SPCC 92:



This is for:

Tuesday throwdown 41: anything but a card
Secret crafter Saturday 126: anything but a card
365 cards day 24: ABC of crafting: MNO - O as in orange
Theme Thursday: orange
Crafts and me 27: anything goes
Paper cutz 83: your choice

Paws for thought

I really didn't do much crafting yesterday because I was out for the day. This morning a friend came round for a coffee and chat, which was lovely.

This afternoon I set myself the target of making 16 sticky note holders - strips of card scored in a couple of places in the middle and then wrapped around a sticky note block stuck on the base.

So I thought I would show a couple of them now. I've had the gold foiled card embossed with paws for years (when I first started making cards) - pieces of it have been in my offcuts box - so I thought it was about time I used it. I think the stickers were from Poundland (certainly a long time ago now, so I can't really remember).



So these are for these challenges:

Moving along with the times 91: precious metals (the gold foiling)
Tuesday throwdown 41: anything but a card
Secret crafter Saturday 126: anything but a card
Southern girls: add an animal
Cardmakin mamas 17: animals
Crafts and me 27: anything goes
Paper cutz 83: your choice

Spring green Easter

I don't really feel like doing much tonight, but I've just put together this card, using some BG periphery paper as the background and another torn piece for the strip on the right. The little scalloped topper is one that has been recycled from another card. I thought the PM Easter sentiment stamped on the striped paper (some I found in my offcuts - might use some more of that soon) was just right.

This is for:

Basic Grey 40: something recycled (the little scalloped topper)
Our creative corner: don't throw that away
Pixie cottage 61: green - I've used the colour and recycled
365 card day 22: the ABC of crafting DEF: D for distressing (the torn paper)
Going grey (Scrap-creations): spring has sprung
Aly's: happy spring
Card cupids: spring inspired card
Cutie Sunday 136: spring colours/images
I did it 47: welcome spring
Inspiration Avenue: hello spring
Creative cottage 35: spring has sprung
Wags n whiskers 50: spring
Mami doodles 22: celebrate spring
Stamp dreams 75: spring colours
Creative stamp friends 21: spring
Stamp with fun 103: spring
Stamps R us: celebrate spring
Crafty Ann 36: spring
Raise the bar 58: wishing you a happy spring
Stampin with the dragon: bring on spring
Stamp and create 19: spring break
Crafty calendar 18: spring
Beary sweet 22: spring
Whoopsi Daisy: Easter time
Cooking it up with Katie 53: it's a cute green Easter
Stampavie 133: spring or Easter
Creatalicious 20: create card that is two tone
Ribbon girl colour challenge 6: green & yellow
Crafty purple frog: going green
Delightful: delightful green
Pixie dust studio 66: go green
Freshly brewed 39: spots and dots
Meljen's 50: dots
Guylou's inimitability: I see dots
Paper cutz 83: your choice

Relax and enjoy your birthday with the Simpsons

A very simple card for a great nephew who is a Simpson's fan - a download digi, computer generated sentiment and mounted on a piece of blue mirror card.

This is for:

Simon says: happy birthday
Fun at fairy knoll: birthday or thank you
Everybody art 134: happy birthday
Paper pretties 145: masculine card
One stitch at a time 54: something for the boys
Crafty pad 113: use a digi
Digi doodle 51: anything goes
Paper cutz 83: your choice

Girlie card

This girlie card is very similar to one I showed yesterday. The components are from my recently purchased QVC Kanban kit.


This is for:

Woodware USA 19: black, white and ???
Cupcake 134: monochromatic
Simply create 39: monochromatic
My Sheri 49: monochromatic
Simon says: happy birthday
Fun at fairy knoll: birthday or thank you
Everybody art 134: happy birthday
Freshly brewed 39: spots and dots
Meljen's 50: dots
Guylou's inimitability: I see dots
My time to craft 133: ladies day
Papertake: it's a mom thing (or just be girlie)
Paper cutz 83: your choice

Oval pop out card for man

Another Kanban put-together oval pop out card (OK once you've discovered how the pieces fold).




This is for:

Cupcake 134: monochromatic
Simply create 39: monochromatic
My Sheri 49: monochromatic
Simon says: happy birthday
Fun at fairy knoll: birthday or thank you
Everybody art 134: happy birthday
Creative sketches SC24T technique challenge: fancy folds, cuts or punches
Delicious doodles 17: 3 dimensional
Paper pretties 145: masculine card
One stitch at a time 54: something for the boys
Sentimental Sundays 47: let's get sentimental
Paper cutz 83: your choice

Diamond wedding card

Mum needed a diamond wedding anniversary card to send to some friends, so I came up with this simple, but, I hope, stylish card.

This is another card that was difficult to photograph - gave up trying to get it any better. Irl the white is much whiter and the silver is crisper. The inner shape, of course, fits the aperture when closed. The silver sentiment says 'happy anniversary'.

This is for:

Cupcake 134: monochromatic
Simply create 39: monochromatic
My Sheri 49: monochromatic
Craft us crazy 4: celebration
Paper cutz 83: your choice

Scarlet's letter birthday wishes

Having used a piece of BG scarlet's letter for this card the other day, I thought I would use similar for this black, white and red card.

Unfortunately, the photo doesn't make the card look as crisp and dark black as it is irl - so much sun streaming in today (not that I'm complaining - bring it on!).

I can't remember what the paper strip is with the glittered little circles - it'[s been in my scraps box for a long time. The chipboard flower and button was from Poundland.

This is for:

Woodware USA 19: black, white and ???
Simon says: happy birthday
Fun at fairy knoll: birthday or thank you
Everybody art 134: happy birthday
Totally Gorjuss 72: button it
Digital Tuesday 103: button up
Res-Q 74: be like a surgeon - stitching and buttons
Totally papercrafts 58: add buttons
Fiskarettes Monday challenge: flowers
Freshly brewed 39: spots and dots
Meljen's 50: dots
Guylou's inimitability: I see dots
Paper cutz 83: your choice

Buttons for my darling Bella

For this card I've used some of my favourite Bo Bunny paper 'my darling Bella', hence the title of the post. I love this against the deep pink of the background card and the varying shades of pink of the glittered flowers with the buttons (from Poundland) - just the addition of some stitched ribbon and sentiment and the card is done - the paper doesn't need anything else.

This is for:

Fairytale 11: green + pink
Little Claire 3: pink & green
Simon says: happy birthday
Fun at fairy knoll: birthday or thank you
Everybody art 134: happy birthday
Totally Gorjuss 72: button it
My partner in crafting crime 23: 3 or more buttons
Digital Tuesday 103: button up
Top tip Tuesday 26: show me those buttons
Res-Q 74: be like a surgeon - stitching and buttons
Totally papercrafts 58: add buttons
Fiskarettes Monday challenge: flowers
Paper playtime 41: pink & glitter
Lexi 36: ribbons but no bows or knots
Sundays with Crissy 15: stitching
Paper cutz 83: your choice