A Trio of Butterflies - Take 2

As promised in my previous post here are some more of the same cards as previously displayed but I changed the papers to come up with a different look. I still wanted to use the Kraft as I just love the neutral colour.

These cards were super quick and easy and I think they came up a treat!!

Here they are:-

I just love this DSP and I think it goes beautifully with butterflies. Hope you like them as much as I enjoyed making these.

A Trio of Butterflies

Back again, this time with three cards I have made using the gorgeous new Butterfly Prints stamp set and co-ordinating punch. Yay, no more cutting out!!!

The following cards were made from previous Mojo Monday sketches which you can find here. I really love using sketches as you don't have to think too much!! You can get a lot of different looks from one sketch just by changing the stamp set and the papers.

Without further ado, here are my trio of cards:-

I kept them very simple and they were so easy to put together. I ended up doing another set of three, but that's another post!!

Happy stamping!

In Full Bloom

I have finally managed to take some photos, edit them and get around to updating my poor neglected blog!!

Here are a set of cards that I had made over the holidays, which were inspired by a submission in the Stamping & Papercraft magazine (Vol. 13 No. 9). The ones in the magazine were submitted by a Hannah Butcher so I would love to give credit to her. The cards were absolutely gorgeous and once I saw them in the magazine I had to track down the two stamp sets used those being In Full Bloom and Winged Things. These sets go together just beautifully.

So without further ado here is my take on the cards:-

Not nearly as elaborate as the ones in the magazine but I still like them. The colours are definitely not my usual but once they were all together they came up a treat.

Hopefully now that two of my children are at school (one has finished and the other one hasn't started yet!!) I should be able to do a bit more creating.

50 "Lolly Bags"...

Some time ago my lovely friend and neighbour asked me if I could make some "lolly" bags for her business promotions and I made these cute bags. The colours I used were Rose Red and Pumpkin Pie (the business colours). I had made some earlier versions of these but the colours where not quite right.

Here they are all lined up and ready to have the lollies added (unfortunately I didn't end up getting a photo of the end product).

I really must apologise for the unedited version of the photos!! Oh, dear don't look too closely at the horrible background. Must download some software.

100 Cards...

I finally managed to get back to this poor blog and even though it is a bit late I thought I would show you what 100 cards look like!!


I made these cards for Christmas presents for my mother and mother-in-law and ended up with 49 in one box and 51 in the other (a neat 100)!! The following photos are not that flash as my new laptop doesn't have photo editing software as yet.


Anyway here they all are (not the whole 100 as I did double-ups of most of the cards):-









The cards range from female/male birthdays, grandchildren and great-grandchildren birthdays to get well and sympathy as well. I then packaged them all up into cute little boxes and even made tabs inside so they were all in their respective categories. The boxes were then finished off with some chrissy ribbon and I also made a tag to go on top. In the end I was very happy with these and I know my mother-in-law was thrilled with hers (she rang me as soon as she received it in the post and thoroughly loved it).

Anyway, happy stamping everybody and hopefully I will get back here more often. I still have several cards to photograph when I can grab the camera from my daughter's clutches long enough to take some pics!!!

Missing Camera Cord

Just a quick post to let you know that at the moment I am missing in action due to my daughter's "misplaced" camera cord.

I have lots of projects and things to share but at the moment still can't find the missing cord to upload the photos onto my computer. Argh!!

Please keep checking, hopefully we may just find it if I get into clean out a room!!!

All Things Baby

Lovely friends of ours have had a gorgeous baby boy "Chase" who is now a few weeks old and here are a couple of things I had made for them.

The first one was a cake which I presented to them at their baby shower. It was filled with all things baby. It is surprising what you can fit inside these pieces, from bibs to lotions and even a cute little nail clipper.

Here is a close up of one of the pieces:-

I have previously made a couple of baby cakes for girls but I did find this one for a boy a bit of a challenge. Didn't really want to decorate it all with flowers!!

Anyway, I also made them a card which I gave them after bub was born. It was a very simple card but simplicity is all you need for babies I think.

That's all for babies at the moment. I can say that I have made a start on some Christmas cards this year, and also working on some Chrissy present ideas.

Thanks for stopping by!!