More RAK cards

As stated in my previous post, I am a member of a lovely stampin up yahoo group and have made some cards to send out as RAK (Random Acts of Kindness). The following cards I can now add to my blog as the recipients have now received them.

The first card is one made for Val:-

Really loving Kraft paper at the present time, as you can tell from previous posts!! This card is also made using the gorgeous Parisian Breeze papers. I love them so much but don't want to use them a lot so I thought making simple cards was the way to go!!

The next card was for Jodene and here it is:-

I really enjoyed making these cards and was inspired by the ones here made by Louise. I tried to change them a bit for not too much as I thought hers were just gorgeous. Thanks for stopping by.

RAK Cards

I recently became a member of a lovely yahoo stamping group where we send and receive RAK (Random Acts of Kindess) cards. The card I am about to show you is my very first RAK from Liz who is a member of the group:-

This card is just gorgeous and I have been eyeing this set off for a while now. Thank you to Liz for the beautiful card.

Now I was required to make a return card to send to Liz and couldn't wait to use the new Butterfly Prints and punch. I set about making this card, which I can now post onto my blog because Liz has received it:-

I was happy with this in the end and really love the DSP. It is a bit hard to see in the photo but I have used Kiwi Kiss as the base followed by a piece of Regal Rose.

Thanks for stopping by.

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!!!