Blue and Pink Christmas Card .................

My pink and blue Christmas card is unusual but I think it looks pretty.  The image stamp and sentiment are both from Lili of the Valley and I am entering this card into the 'bright and sparkly' challenge over at LOTV challenge.

The image which I coloured with copics was stitched around the edge then I added loads of Stardust Stickles, a piece of blue twill stripe ribbon, and some gorgeous aqua and silver sparkle ribbon.

I finished with an arrangement of pink/white 30mm rose, 10mm rose buds, pink/white pretty blossoms, rose leaves, white paper frond cut with a Magnolia doohickey die and some green leaves cut with my Martha Stewart punch. Last embellishment was some stick on gems in the corners.  This is my DT card for Papertake Weekly - the challenge this week  is First Christmas (card of the PTW year!!) so please pop over and feast your eyes on the gorgeous creations by the PTW ladies - and do enter this weeks challenge and you will have another card finished ready to add to your Christmas card box!

Image and sentiment - LOTV

Mulberry Flowers, Twill Stripe Ribbon, Sparkle Ribbon - all from http://www.ribbongirl.co.uk/

See you soon, Mary G x

Red and orange, clean and simple .......

I made this card for the Less is More challenge 'red and orange' and it is clean, lots of white space, and simple, just an embossed Christmas tree (using an embossing folder which we've had for a few years and never used) mounted onto an orange and then a red background with a tiny piece of red twill stripe ribbon and stamped the sentiment straight onto the card  - then I went just a little bit overboard with the sparklies .....

I do like it, and was oh so tempted to add a gorgeous bow but I restrained myself lol!

See you soon, Mary G x

Tilda is in the pink .............

Here is a Christmas card in a non-traditional colour  - yes, it's salmon pink!  I've coloured the Magnolia Tilda in with pink copics and used loads of stickles to make her glitter.  I've gone to town on this card and even stitched around the image and frame!

I didn't need any excuse to get out my brand new Magnolia heart branch die to enhance my flower arrangement (small rose and some white pretty blossoms), and even managed to squeeze on a gorgeous snowflake cut with my new Magnolia die (I got a mistletoe branch and the snowflake in one pack - it'll be beans on toast for the rest of the month lol!!)  The background paper looks like sheet music, but toned in with everything.

I used 38mm white guipure lace and pink twill stripe ribbon to finish the card, plus some self adhesive clear sparklies and a light spraying of irridescent glitter from Crafters Companion  - looks even better in real life!  I popped one clear gem into the middle of the delicate snowflake, it really is very pretty and I can see it will be used lots.

Guipure lace, twill ribbon, pretty blossoms all from Ribbon Girl

I will enter this card into the Just Magnolia challenge which is to use pink - I think this fits the bill!! Also into A Gem of a Challenge .

A Happy Bearthday Card ....

I made this boy birthday card is for the Lili of the Valley challenge sketch here - I coloured the very cute bears with prisma pencils.  The green button, apple green divine twine, celery green twill stripe ribbon and black dewdrops are all from the Ribbon Girl - I had to restrain myself from adding piles and piles of flowers lol and instead went for a strip of paper lace which I made with a Martha Stewart punch - several attempts were needed before I got a perfect piece and the floor was littered with the punched scraps!!

And don't forget ladies, Lili of the Valley are launching another set of Christmas stamps tonight 5th September at midnight .... don't miss it!

Mary G x

Rainy Day George .......

Meet George - one of our new range of Molly Blooms rubber stamps - they are really cute!  George has been coloured with Copics and matted onto green card.  The background paper is October Afternoon and the ribbon is twill stripe in Celery Green.  I tied a bronze umbrella charm onto the bow with natural button twine.  I don't do many boy cards and would rather have stuck on some lovely flowers and pearls but I finished the card with some pale lime green polka dot buttons and button twine instead!  Molly Blooms stamps, ribbon, charm, buttons and button twine are all from here. I am entering this into Totally Gorjuss Challenge 'Button It', Creative Card Crew 'Something Green'; This is my DT card for Ribbon Girl Colour Challenge No 6 'Green and Yellow' ; For Fun Challenges - A Bit of the Green

Turquoise Challenge

This is for the Daring Cardmakers challenge for December 'Turquoise'. in conjunction with flourish with a bling, I coloured the Magnolia image with copics then cut it out with nesties and matted onto turquoise card.  The background paper for the card is from Nitwits and to add more texture, I stickled around the hearts on the background and I used a cuttlebug folder to emboss white paper and a Martha Stewart edge punch to make some paper 'lace'.  A few self adhesive pearls from here were placed in the corner.  The card was finished off with more stickles and a twill stripe ribbon - both from Ribbon Girl

A Sunny Hedgehog Birthday Card .....

I've been waiting for better light to take photographs, but alas, had to do this with a snowy background this afternoon.  This bright and sunny birthday card has a cute Penny Black stamp which I coloured with Copics and enhanced with Stardust Stickles.  The sentiment was computer generated onto the digital background paper.  I'm entering this into Papertake Weekly cut it out challenge and also I followed the sketch in this weeks Penny Black challenge and used digital background papers 'chalky lemon' from the Clipart Fairy. To mask the join I used yellow twill stripe ribbon from here.   The coloured Penny Black image and the toning yellow card background were cut with nestabilities on the sizzix machine.  I added a wide yellow satin ribbon and a bow plus a couple of golden yellow fancy pins - all ribbons, pins and stickles from here

I printed out an extra sheet of the background paper and punched paper flowers which I shaped by nipping the petals, then fastened two flowers together with a yellow brad after which plenty of stardust stickles were added.