Scraps Away!

 

I've been trying to use up all those scrappy, left over bits of patterned paper that I just can't throw away.

I've manage to mix and match a few together to make some more birthday cards

Clearly Besotted Roses

Here's another set of stamps and dies that have been sorely neglected! These are from the Clearly Besotted Merci Beaucoup set that I won back in June 2016

I've dug out some embossing folders that haven't been used for a while to team them up together and make a few more birthday cards

Cards Galore!

Getting into the swing of stash busting now and trying to be more inventive with different designs to use up old stuff

The charity card pile is now getting bigger and I have plenty in stock for my own use.

However, I have just bought a job lot of 500 5 x 7" white card blanks from eBay at a great price - they should keep me going for a while!

More Roses!

These big cabbage roses have been made using the Altenew layered dies that were free with issue 174 of Simply Cards & Papercraft magazine.

They look great with 3 different shades of card to give them a real feeling of depth and texture!

Our boiler went wrong last weekend and we had no heat for 2 days, It cost £250 to fix, but was well worth it. With the Beast from East cold snap on the way, I am hoping to stay in, keep warm and craft!

Lucky Me!

I was lucky enough to win this stamp and die set from Quick Cards Magazine - it is called Merci Beaucoup by Clearly Besotted stamps,

There are 2 roses with 6 different sentiments - first I had a play stamping, cutting and colouring the roses with promarkers.

Then I had to make a thank you card to the magazine for the prize (worth £25!). 

and finished off with some other cards for friends and family. Die cutting the rose, really makes it stand out and I like the effect for CAS cards. I will definitely be entering more competitions in the future!

Day 9 - March ATC Challenge,A Heart of Roses

This is a decoupage atc - not something I do very often because I find them fiddly and difficult to keep even! It also has one of my favourite ways of filling space - 3 dots of  'Perfect Pearls'. 

I have several bottles of perfect pearls in many different colours and often use them as a finishing touch on a card

Day 6 - March ATC Challenge, pink roses

This vintage style ATC has a paper pierced heart ( stamp from Craft Stamper Mag) with wooden roses embellishment that has been softly coloured to match the rest. The background stamping was made with one of my favourite stamps. It is a corner garland and I have used it so many times over the years!

More Vintage Style Birthday Cards

On a bit of a roll at the moment mojo wise! 

All my cards seem to be of a vintage theme and feature birds, flowers ribbons and butterflies

Can You Smell the Roses?

You can't go wrong with lovely blooms of roses on birthday cards can you? 

I cannot resist sniffing any roses that are by the path, as I walk by people houses. No perfume really captures their fabulous smell!

Summer Days

I made this card after looking at the layout at Inspirational Card Sketches. I've had these lovely brown paper roses for a while and glammed them up with a bit stickles glitter glue. I've made this for my niece - hope she likes it!