A card at last!!

This is the first card I've made for a couple of months now - I'm ashamed to say I've bought cards for most birthdays and other occasions so far this year :( I've just been too busy, and have got out of the habit. I've tidied up my card making area now, and now work has quietened down a bit I'm hoping to start making cards again.

This card is for one of Amelie's little friends, Jacob. He was the first born to the group of five of us who met at antenatal classes and still keep in touch. It's his party this afternoon - a hall full of toddlers sounds like the recipe for a headache, so wish me luck!

The cat die-cut is Moggi from Lili of the Valley. The paper is from a stack I've had in the drawer for ages but haven't used! I've sparkled the card up a bit with some glitter glue on the number 2 (which is cut with my Sizzlits "Round-A-Bout" alphabet set), the candles and the centres of the circles on the patterned paper.

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Mum- no peeking!!!

This is my mum's birthday card - it's her birthday on Saturday (the day before Mother's day, so I've got to come up with another card to post at the same time - help!!), but I'm posting it today to qualify for the Cute Card Thursday challenge. The challenge was to create a celebration card following a sketch by Katharina. I know mum reads my blog, but I've texted her to tell her not to peek before Saturday LOL!!

It's a hybrid card made with Photoshop (Scrap Girls supplies). Once I'd printed it, I printed the tag again and the flower again twice and I've decoupaged those to add some depth to the card, and added some diamond glaze to the centre of the flower.

Now I've just got to do the Mother's Day card (plus one for my MIL), and a birthday card for mum's hubby, whose birthday is on Friday!! I just hope Amelie has a nice long sleep this lunchtime LOL!!

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A new card at last!

It's been such a hectic week, what with covering extra hours at work, having loads of lessons to prep for my own modules and now Amelie being poorly, that I haven't really had any time for crafting :( Still, as I couldn't go to work today as Amelie was too poorly for creche, I managed to (almost) make a card while she had her nap and I've finished it off this evening. Apologies for the rubbish photo - I'll replace it tomorrow if I can get a better one in daylight! The layout is for Sketch Saturday, and I've incorporated two other challenges too. Cute Card Thursday's challenge is using punches - the snowflake embellishments are made with x-cut punches - and Secret Crafter is to use either dry or heat embossing, in this case the lilac part of the card is embossed with a Cuttlebug folder.

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Same stamp, different card!

I've used the same snow couple stamp here, but with a very different colour scheme. In what I think is a record for me, I've managed to combine four challenges into one card!! I'd love to have the time to make individual cards for all the challenges, but I'm just too busy at the moment, so have to combine if I want to enter more than one! Anyway, the challenges are: Penny Black (funky Christmas - an xmas card using a non-traditional, modern colour scheme), Secret Crafter (decoupage - although the photo doesn't show it that well, the stamped image has three decoupage layers), Cute Card Thursday (snowflakes) and Sketch Saturday (the layout sketch).

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Double challenge and a new technique!

I love trying new techniques, and when I saw this one described on the Cuttlebug challenge blog I knew I had to try it! It involves inking the inside of a Cuttlebug embossing folder, so that when you emboss the card, the non-embossed areas of the card take on the ink colour, and the embossed areas stay the colour of the base card. I've used the DeVine swirls folder with this technique for the four backing panels on this card. The ink pad was a Distress Ink in Tattered Rose, which I've also used direct-to-paper for the coloured panels. The fairy is an Anita's outline sticker, coloured with watercolour pencils.

The double challenge is for Secret Crafter (the layout sketch) and Cute Card Thursday, whose theme was "fairies and angels".

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Three challenges in one card (just!)

I've actually managed to combine three challenges in this card, which I'm pretty chuffed with! The layout is for the fab sketch from Friday Sketchers, the theme is for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge, whose theme this week is "Thanks a Bunch" and I just about manage the Cute Card Thursday challenge, which is "Buttons and Bows" - ok, so just one bow, but hopefully it'll be enough to count! The patterned paper is from the DCVW floral stack, which I love, and the main image is coloured with twinkling H2Os as usual! The card blank is chalked to match the lilac colour scheme.

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Cute Card Thursday Challenge 30

My first Christmas card of the year! The stamp is a Penny Black one I got at Ally Pally last weekend, and it's coloured in with Twinkling H2Os as usual! It was supposed to be for two challenges - Penny Black Saturday (theme - Seasons) and Cute Card Thursday (theme - Christmas Creatures). However, I haven't been organised enough to get it finished in time for the PB challenge, so it's just for Cute Card Thursday!

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Cute Card Thursday Challenge 27

My first card using my new Nestability circle die set, which I'm completely in love with! This is for the Cute Card Thursday challenge this week, which is "Cats and Dogs". I love this image of Fluffles (coloured with twinkling H2Os) and the sentiment that goes with it - I'm in complete agreement! The papers are DCWV Floral Stack and matching plain cardstack.

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