Lovely Cards By My Lovely Em

I have to start off this post by making an apology!! I mentioned on a comment I had posted on Jodene's blog that my daughter didn't stamp much with me anymore as she had such a busy social life. Well what do you know, she decided to make some cards with me over the Easter weekend (bored I think!!) and prove me wrong.

So I have to show you her lovely creations she made with the gorgeous Butterfly Prints set and the butterfly punch. She made four cards using Vanilla as the base and then made them in different styles by adding one other colour to each card.

So without further ado here they are:-



























I think she did a great job. Em now says that Vanilla is her favourite base colour to use from now on. Let's hope she can spend some more time with me and make lovely cards. I really enjoyed this time we spent together. She will be excited when I show her my blog today, love you Em :)

Happy Mother's Day

A good morning to everyone out there and to all the mums I hope you enjoyed your day yesterday. I had a lovely day starting off with the wonderful handmade gift that my second youngest son presented to me which he had made at school. It was a fantastic shoe magnet which he had decorated which is now on my fridge. He had also bought me a beautiful pendant from his school's mother's day stall (I think he may have had some help from my lovely friend Rob who was helping with the stall!!).

I then received a beautiful handmade card which had some money enclosed (which will definitely go towards new stamps!!) from my lovely daughter together with a bunch of flowers.

The rest of the day was followed by a wonderful BBQ cooked by my eldest son which we enjoyed with some friends. All in all a very nice day. Quite relaxing.

Here are the flowers and card that I received:-

Emily then made her card using the colours of the flowers and this is her beautiful card:-

Emily chose Old Olive for the base card then layered a piece of DSP. She then used a piece of Lovely Lilac followed by Tangerine Tango. You can't see it too well but she had used the Polka Dot background on the white cardstock. The flowers are then stamped with Pumpkin Pie, Pink Passion, Perfect Plum and Elegant Eggplant. The leaves are stamped with Old Olive. The flowers were then finished off with some brads. (Sorry for the not too good pic!).

Loving Pick a Petal

I received my Pick a Petal set last week and got a chance to have a play on the weekend. I really love this set and love the many looks you can get. I took some of my stamping stash out to a friend's place on Friday night and so with limited supplies the following two cards were made.

The first card is one that Emily made and I ended up CASEing hers!! She has some really lovely ideas.

Emily has used the following Stampin' Up! supplies to make this card:-

Cardstock: Bordering Blue; Ballet Blue; Whisper White

Stamps: Pick a Petal; It's Your Birthday

Inks: Tempting Turquoise; Bordering Blue

Punch: Spiral

Here is the card that I made using Emily's design:-

All Stampin' Up Supplies:-

Cardstock: Gable Green; Elegant Eggplant; Whisper White

Stamps: Pick a Petal; It's Your Birthday

Inks: Green Galore; Elegant Eggplant

Punch: Spiral

These colours worked really well together and I was pleasantly surprised with the end product so much so that I ended up using the same colours again for another card (but that's another post!!)

While we are on the Pick a Petal bandwagon, here is another card that Emily had made for her friend, Sarah's birthday on the weekend. She enjoyed a lovely girlie sleepover, pool party and mocktails (too young for cocktails!!). Here is Sarah's card:-

It's a little hard to see the true colours properly as we rushed to take the photo before Emily gave it to Sarah. She used the following Stampin' Up! supplies:-

Cardstock: Bravo Burgundy; Elegant Eggplant; Whisper White

Stamps: Pick a Petal; It's Your Birthday

Inks: Purely Pomegranate; Elegant Eggplant

Punch: Spiral

A Card by Emily

Hi, everyone. I have been out of action for a while due to computer problems. Back up and running now, just have to make some more cards! Hahaha.

Here is a card that Emily made when we were having a play with the Eastern Blooms stamp set. This is turning out to be one of my favourite sets. Although, come to think of it, I have quite a few favourites!!!

Emily is getting quite clever and it is nice to have someone I can make cards with. Especially when I only have one daughter and three boys.

Cardstock: Stampin' Up Bordering Blue, Ballet Blue and Whisper White; DCWV Neutrals Pack (Blue)

Stamps: Eastern Blooms, Occasional Greetings

Inks: Stampin' Up Bordering Blue

Embellishments: Rhinestones

Emily's Card

This is just a quick post to show off a card made by my daughter, Emily. She was so proud of it and wanted me to put it on my blog. So here is her beautiful card:-

Isn't she clever!

Cardstock: Stampin' Up Whisper White, Rose Red, Pink Passion and unknown orange

Stamps: Priceless

Inks: Pink Passion, Pumpkin Pie

Embellishments: Rhinestones