creating cards

I have used this weeks freebie download to make this card. The cute wee girl is coloured with Faber-Castell watercolour pencils, the shape i...

Today's card is in CAS style. I have printed congratulations in red on my computer, then used a piece of beautiful grey metallic paper,...

Today's card is in pretty shades of blue and green. I have made it for the challenge at  http://polkadoodle.blogspot.com/    following ...

The challenge at   http://artimpressionsstamps.blogspot.com/ is for a card for a child. I think this simple fairy card fills the bill! Fo...

The challenge this week at  http://thecraftbarnblog.blogspot.com/ is to make a tag using colours from the colour wheel. I have tried to us...

This little girl's birthday card was very easy to put together. The background paper was from my stash,  the deco border stamp is from...

On this card I have used my favourite PB stamp - constellations. The colours were inspired by the PB Saturday blog sample card, and I have a...

I love the colours of this birthday tag. I have embossed part of the front and added my dotted stamp to the top. The edges are swiped with s...

This is the first time I have coloured my new digi - 'Natalie the Poppy Fairy' that I won from The Whimsy blog. I have used mainly c...

I downloaded this delightful 'freebie' image from Whoopsidaisy, and coloured it with copics. I layered it onto a pale green, pattern...

 Here is what she has to say:- Something I have never done before is to do a blog candy. I really do appreciate all my friends in blogl...

This gorgeous image comes from the lovely Pamela at 'Free Vintage Digital Stamps' (see link in my sidebar) I printed it 3 times and...

I hope I can get this one in before the challenge closes at      http://cardpatterns.blogspot.com/ The colours match a lot better IRL - my ...

This is just the most adorable snowman, who can rock on his base. The template can be found at the member's area at Cardmaking Paradise ...

For this card I have used a bauble and chain from the set 'Christmas Decorations and Embellishments' by My Paper World, and the Merr...

Todays card is for the challenge at http://totallypapercrafts.blogspot.com/    for 'Let it snow' I have stamped the background wi...

I was so pleased to see the Cuttlebug Spot Challenges are back again. I missed the first one as we were away, but have entered the current c...

Today's card has  a type of 3d decoupage known as a pyramage I think. It has seven layers all getting progressively smaller. I have laye...

After being away on holiday for over 3 weeks, it is great to get back into cardmaking again. I am now so late with my Christmas card makes!!...

For this card I have used the free digi offered by Letraset. After colouring I cut it out and mounted it following the sketch from Pink Ink....

It has been quite a while since I have been able to update my blog, as we have had family home from overseas to help celebrate our Golden We...

For this card , I have followed the sketch from Stampendous, using lovely autumn colours. The daisy (SU) is stamped with Impress coral pink,...

Craft-room challenge are having a treasure hunt. check it out here http://craft-roomchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/09/treasure-hunt.html

This is such a beautiful sentiment, it only needed the butterfly as a embellishment. I made this for the challenge at http://whimsyinspires...

This card has been made in a similar style that we did at card/coffee group last week. I have embossed the bottom edge with my shell collag...

A very quick post today with this card. I have used a stamp set from Recollections called Going Places, and the background is a very useful ...

Isn't he just the cutest? I won this stamp recently from Chrissy Armstrong, and this is the first chance I have been able to colour him ...

It is so hard to capture a white image on a scanner to show the details, so I had to adjust this a little in PS I have basically followed a...

For this card I have used a pink base card, layered with white card embossed with a Sissex folder.The PB stamp 'constellations' was ...

Just a quick post to enter this in the sketch challenge at http://sketchsaturday.blogspot.com/

Here is my entry for the current ATC Challenge - All thing Summer over at http://atcchallenges.blogspot.com/

This sweet little girl is 'Lola with bird' from Sugar Nellie. I have coloured her with copics (thanks so much Audrey) and layered on...

The beautiful glitter that I used on this card (Crystal Glitter Ritz) does not show up very well in the scan, but I can assure you it is a g...

Another Christmas card, this time with a stamped background of snowflakes (Penny Black) and the tag made with stamps from My Paper World. T...

This is the first of some tags I have been making. I used distress inks for the background and then edged it with gold paint. The wee stamp ...

I have made this lovely butterfly from a template provided by Sara at Cardmaking Paradise (see link on my sidebar) The front is embossed w...

I have been following with interest, The Craft Barn blog this week, which is all about alcohol inks. I tried Andy's technique, and this ...

There are a couple of challenges I can enter this card in. I have used Spellbinders scalloped circles, standard circles, and the stamp is ...

The challenge at The Stampman     http://thestampmanchallenges.blogspot.com/ currently is 'Anything By Tim' I have used my new sta...

After a long overseas trip, it is good to be home again. I have made this Christmas card - first for this year for the challenge over at  ...

Enfys at http://going-buggy.blogspot.com/2011/07/win-cricut-cartridge-and-promarkers.html has some wonderful candy on offer. Why don'...

http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/ This week's challenge is 'distressing' -I have used a stickeroo - "V...

....since I have been posting, as we have been overseas visiting family. However I have found a few lovely challenges, and decided to make ...

http://www.lilypad.inlinkz.com/ has a challenge to use a colour palette. To make mine, I masked off a rectangle and used my chalks to make ...

I have created the background using distress ink, glimmer mist and then my favourite Penny Black stamp 2642K daisy pattern. I found some mat...

I have had a lovely messy time at clas, learning how to use Tim Holtz distress inks. I made several backgrounds, but rather liked the colour...

My eldest grandson is turning 20 soon, so I have been making this card for him. I have used a Penny Black sticker for the image, layered on ...

I almost forgot about this card I had made for the craft barn They have had some lovely ladies demoing different flowers and I was quite t...

This is a change from my last orange shades! I have used the sketch from http://cardpatterns.blogspot.com/ What a lovely layout. I used m...

I seem to have a 'thing' for orange at the moment. This one uses a piece of patterned card from my stash, which I stamped with acoup...

This is such a great sketch - I couldn't resist using it in these lovely bright colours. I have made it for the sketch challenge this we...