Baby Girl

One of my friends is due to give birth to her daughter any day now so I thought I had better pull my finger out and make her card.

I wanted to keep the card quite simple and uncluttered, so I decided on a decoupage as the main focus and a twisted easel style to give it a more special feel.

  

 It feels like ages since I have done a decoupage.  It was quite therapeutic doing one today.

I love a little sparkle, so I have edged this one with clear iridescent glitter glue and added a few touches here and there to highlight the heart balloons.

I have used a very delicate pink pen to draw in faux stitching all the way around the base and front of the card and who can make a baby card without buttons.

I am entering this card for the Buttons and stitching challenge at Creative Inspirations and for the Clean and simple challenge at Cute Card Thursday

Xmas Vintage

Now I'm not really sure what I am doing when it comes  to vintage, but I love to have a go.  This is my first card for a while and it was so good to do some crafting for a change.

I went with a red green and cream theme as, to me, these are classic Christmas colours.  I bought the decoupage boy last Christmas and the papers were my one paper treat to myself this year.  I have 3 drawers full of paper and have promised myself that i will use some up before I buy any more.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge Blog - Light up the night.  The little boy is carrying a candle lamp

My Time To Craft - Vintage Cards

Saturday Challenge - Christmas

Elfin Pink

I've had a number of commission cards to make over the last few weeks and I have been using the challenges as inspiration.

As well as my ever present glitter glue, all of the papers that I used came from Papermania's "Naughty and Nice Christmas" and the elf decoupage is a Toread from Readdy Crafts. I made this card using the sketch from this weeks challenge over at Friday Sketchers.

Red Gold and Cream

I'm so proud of this card, I had to show it off. I made it in response to a challenge over at My Time to Craft. We were given a sketch to follow and having recently bought the Daisy and Dandelion "A winters tale" as part of a goody bag, I knew exactly what I was going to do.

Photography isn't my strong point, so I wasn't able to show the finer details such as the sentiment (which says "Merry Christmas") or the detailing of the decoupage. I have covered the whole of the outside of the card in the deep red paper covered in snowflakes. I might have a go at doing something inside the card as well later.

The ribbon is cream and gold and is from LLB. I've had the flowers for ages so I don't know who made them. I did edge them in gold pen to match in with some of the other elements that I had edged.

Purple Flower Power

I don't know what type of flower these are, but I think they are lovely. I made this card in response to challenge 43 over at SCSC. We were given a sketch to work from and this is what I made.

The decoupage flower is one that I bought an put together a while ago. I also used purple and silver mirror board. I embossed the top layer of mirror board using a Cuttlebug embossing folder and used a length of purple organza ribbon and a length of silver lame ribbon to finish it off.

Pink and Blue

A few weeks ago, I discovered an addiction to die cut decoupage. The result was a CD box full of ready made decoupage just in case I ever needed to make a quick card. I'm doing well enough to admit that I was addicted now lol.

Anyway, I have decided that I need to use some of them up if I want to buy some more and this is what I have made. I think they are cute and I am already on the lookout for more from this range. I don't usually make two cards the same, but I thought a variation on a theme was warranted here. :-)