The City Crafter - Hats off to you!

I decided to make his and her card for this challenge using my stash of gorgeous Graphic 45 vintage paper. You can find the City Crafter challenge here.

This is the 'her' card

The hard part was actually cutting this beautiful paper and choosing which paper to use. I often hang on to paper because I can't bring myself to cut it up!
I also used some Basic Grey paper. The diamond background is made using hat netting, the flower is from Kaisercraft. I chose not to put a sentiment as the card was already quite busy.

I am also entering this in the Simon Says Stamp challenge - favourite tools. I love my cuttlebug - there are so many affordable dies around now and I especially love the new stamp sets that co-ordinate with dies!

Another Runway Inspired card

While I was away I malso made another card for the Runway Inspired challenge .
I turned the image 90 degrees anti -clockwise.

I stamped the Kaisercraft image on the card and coloured with distress inks. I dyed some lace and card for the trim and added some gems and metal flowers. I added the silver corner because I felt the card needed a bit of balance.

The Playdate Cafe

I made this card while I was at our beach house with limited supplies, for the Playdate Cafe PDCC126

I have used Kaisercraft paper a charm from an old birthday card
and random ribbon and button. The sentiment (which is blurry in the photo) is a sticker, mounted and edged with ink.

Another Runway Inspired

I made this card for the Runway Inspire challenge Ric#9.  I was inspired by the white on white, green colour block, and the print, which also had butterflies and flowers on it. The Card and gems are  Kaisercraft, the paper is Basic Grey 'sweet threads'. I hand embossed the green paper and used a folder for the panel of white card. The butterfly is made using sizzix 'build a butterfly. I decorated butterfly with kindy glitz and jewellery wire for antennae.

Play Date Cafe - take two!

This is my second attempt for the Play Date Cafe PDCC125 Black and white with a splash of brown.

I used Some Bella! paper and the gorgeous black and white card is from an old birthday card.  The bunny image came from a sewing template I found on the internet. I machine stitched around the bunny (need practice at this) , cut it out and inked the edges with antique linen distress ink. I used a Kaisercraft gem for eye and a random button for the tail.

The sentiment is from Pink Petticoat.

The eggs were just for the phot and got eaten straight afterwards!!!!

I also want to enter this in Just Add Ink  JAI #111Easter challenge

The Play Date Cafe PDCC125

I love this photo for the Play Date Cafe PDCC125 challenge.


















Here is my card - I think I will be doing another one, because it ended up very different from what I had 1st planned.

I used a mixture of Basic Grey "little black dress"and Kaisercraft net paper and Basic grey rose and old sequin leaves.

Tim Holtz *12 tags of 2012 * April

I finally got around to making a tag for the Tim Holtz 12 tags of 2012:-

This is Tim's tag:-

And here is mine:-

I used collections chipboard, manila tag, 7 gypsy hinges, random ribbon, and elements.
I stamped a Kaisercraft old writing stamp on embossing folder, embossed,  then used distress inks to colour the tag. the chipboard has been inked with distress inks and then clear embossed.
I guess it's not too bad for a 1st attempt. I had fun doing it and getting my fingers dirty!

I will also enter this in the Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes challenge