Monday, March 1, 2010

Loving the Butterflies

I'm back again with some more butterflies this time. I am loving the butterflies from the new Butterfly Prints set, especially because there is no cutting out involved thanks to the co-ordinating punch. I have a couple of cards to share, the first one being a case from the current mini catalogue. I have gone with the soft colours of Pink Pirouette and Perfect Plum, a lovely combination.

Here is my take on the card:-
Now the next card is really out of my comfort zone because I don't often reach for the dark greens much, saw this colour combo so thought I would give it a go, not sure if I am 100% happy with it but it's okay. This was also from a sketch that I came across in a magazine.

Well this is it:-


Looks like we have finally have some sun come out today, the last few days have been very wet and constant showers, good for card making though. Bye for now.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Another Batch

Here are some more of the RAK cards that I sent out to members of my stamping group which I can now post onto my blog!! I was surprised how quick they were received by everyone, well done to the posties.
I hope you are not tired of the Kraft card yet as these cards were all made with the same papers and cardstock which makes it very quick and easy when you can make them altogether.
The cards that follow are ones received by Fiona, Katie and Nikki:-

Fiona:-
Katie:-
Nikki:-
And there we have it, lovely, plain and simple cards that were just a delight to make. I loved these cards so much that I decided to make some for myself!!

Friday, February 19, 2010

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.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

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.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

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.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

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!

Friday, January 29, 2010

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.