Slugs and snails

I am more of a girlie card maker but as you see I do make the odd mans/boys card. My problem is I find I want to add bling all the time, it's just not the same on a male card. I was reading some lovely tips on the "I'm a crafters companion" facebook page after posting this card where some of the ladies have used twine, buttons and card candi, I will certainly give them a try. This card is simple matting and layering, along with a lovely stamped image and just perfect for a little boy. This card is entered into the creative inspirations blog challenge.

Girlie chat

I made this card purely for fun, it will go in my box of stock ready for our village Gala where I will hopefully have a stall to sell some of my cards. I started this card with the stamped image, it's from the new Swalk range from crafters companion. I thought it would be nice to use for a friend. After colouring the image with my spectrum noir pens I matted the image onto a piece of card, I then placed pretty papers onto the same colour card in two sizes. Once my layers were done I used one of my cutting dies and placed it onto the small rectangle and placed my stamped topper on. To finish off the card I added some card candi and a couple of gems. A simple card that I'm sure any friend would love to recieve.

Sweet gift

I made this little box for my mum when she was a little under the weather. I will admit it took me a little while but I really enjoyed it. I hadn't done much distressing before but I will certainly be doing more in the future. I found the idea from a site while searching for that something a little bit special and this is what I found Tea light card instructions, it was just the thing. I started off with my stamped image, I coloured and placed the image on to a piece of shaped card which I cut using one of my dies from a piece of printed paper. I then cut all the pieces needed to make the project and layered printed paper onto the card pieces followed by distressing with a Tim Holtz ink pad. After stamping my sentiment topper and die cutting my embellisment shapes I was ready to put it together. Once complete I filled with a few of mum's favourite chocolates and sent it off in the post. Mum was thrilled and it certainly helped cheer her up. I have entered this project in the My time to craft challenge

Sunshine and Rain

When I made this card I wasn't sure what my idea would finish looking like, so I just went for it. I chose two backing papers from the Adorable cd, layered one on top of the other and folded the two opposite corners. I used a brush with a Tim Holtz ink pad to colour the turned down corners. After stamping out my image onto watercolour card I used my watercolour pens to colour and put it through my die cutting machine and finished off with stressing the edges with ink. I used some die shapes to cut the ribbon border and the rosette from white card and used the same Tim Holtz ink pad to colour to help tone things in. I placed green ribbon through the holes on the ribbon border and added green die cut swirls to the rosette. A sentiment and two little gems finished the card off nicely I thought. I have entered this card in the Crafters companion blog challenge

Ocean and Waves

This card I made for my Dad for Father's day for this year. I am a little early I know, but I have lots to do in the coming month so thought it best to make sure it was done. I used a Kanban stamp and used a Tim Holtz ink pad to stamp it out so I could just highlight the outlines of the image.I then cut two shapes, one of which I embossed using one of my embossing folders and inked around the edges to add more colour. I placed the larger shape onto a card which I had layered with some backing paper I got from one of my many crafting cd's. I then placed the circle shape over the stamped image and placed it onto the card using foam pads. To finish off I used some card candi and a sentiment. I have entered this card in the Cards for men challenge

Embellish delight

A card I made using a free backing paper download from Crafters Companion website. Embellishments I used from my craft stash.Finishing with a stamped sentiment, hope you like it.The free backing papers helped with my colour scheme as I am not very good with colours.