Birthday card for my sister

This is a birthday card for my little sisters' 60th birthday.  The background papers are from Clip Art Fairy and I coloured the Magnolia image with copics.  The inside of the card was also decorated.

The flowers are all from Wild Orchid, as are the small pearl hearts which I've used on each corner.  The leaves have been cut with my Martha Stewart Punch. The diamond swirl is from stash and the cream lace, peach sheer ruffle ribbon, Stardust Stickles and May Arts string/loop ribbon are all from Ribbon Girl.  I will enter this for the Wild Orchid Challenge 'anything goes' and The Pink Elephant Challenge ' Buttons, Ribbon, Lace'

Inspired by violets .....

6th February - At last, I've found time to make some cards!!  I coloured one of Andreas' Hanglar stamps with Copics at the Durham crop last Friday night - this little gardening girl with her cart and gardening equipment has been mounted on some green card which tones with her boots! The background paper is by Wendy at the Clipart Fairy.

I added some 22mm guipure lace above the strip of green card and added some 25mm mauve satin ribbon.  I added quite a lot of Stardust Stickles to enhance the image. Lace, ribbon and stickles all from Ribbon Girl

Violet coloured flowers from Wild Orchid have been placed on top of green leaves made with my favourite Martha Stewart leaf punch - I also used the leaves as 'corners' and enhanced them with a violet coloured rhinestone.  I will enter this card into the Daring Cardmakers challenge and also the Just Magnolia and Hanglar & Stanglar challenge 'with ribbons'
Oh dear, it's so long since I made a card, I've just noticed I didn't shape the ends of the satin ribbon before photographing the card lol!

A few of my favourite things

This card using 'a few of my favourite things' has that cute little LOTV bear carrying a gorgeous flower and a card.  My favourite things are ribbon, lace, flowers and sparkle AND little bears so this card has it all!

I coloured the image with copics and used plenty of Stardust stickles, especially on the flower

The background paper is called Lilac Eve with butterflies and flowers from the Clipart Fairy and it is a perfect match for the 32mm wide silk ribbon which ties into a beautiful soft bow.  I added a little sparkly butterfly from stash and some self adhesive pearls from here.    The flowers are from Wild Orchid and the silk ribbon, white cotton lace and stickles are from Ribbon Girl    I will enter this card into the LOTV challenge

Sparkly Lilac Fairy Card

Sorry for the poor photo - bad light, masses of snow (see post below)  I followed the sketch by Bev in this weeks LOTV Challenge.  I will also enter it into the Ribbon Girl lilac/pink/white colour challenge.

This card was made using a LOTV diecut image - the wings were trimmed so as to fit the oval nestie then it was matted onto a white scalloped background.  The tutu and the wings were highlighted with Stardust Stickles. The background papers (lilac eve) are digital downloads from Clipart Fairy.    I used a die from My Favourite Things to make the scalloped white strip under the 38mm wide white spotted organza ribbon.  To finish I added self adhesive gemstone swirls (from stash) plus three lilac tinged flowers and some sparkly silver leaves (as usual cut off from artificial foliage!)  I just love sparkle!!

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.

A Pink Bauble Card with Bells and Ribbons

The background paper and bauble shape were from http://www.theclipartfairy.com/ which I printed out then mounted the background paper onto some fuschia cardstock, then a scalloped card blank.

I cut out the pink bauble, glittered it with Stickles. Then I added lots of pale pink dewdrops, silver bells, wide pink and white spotted organza ribbon and narrow pale pink ribbon from Ribbon Girl.

New Baby Card

I made this baby card  for Alisons new baby boy using digital background paper, shaper frame and the giraffe graphic from Clip Art Fairy.  They were all resized in photoshop and sampled to make the text colour match.  If you don't use photoshop, you can still use the papers and graphics after printing. some of which have to be cut out before using.  The cotton lace is from Ribbon Girl and I used liberal amounts of Stickles glitter (not as messy as glue and glitter, but leave it to dry in a safe place before handling)  I added some little flowers to finish the card off

Snowpeople Card

This gorgeous snowpeople image, the background paper and the shaper are all digital downloads from the clipart fairy.  I resized them in photoshop then printed out an extra snowpeople motif, cut it out and stuck it on with foam pads. 

I embellished the card with butterfly guipure lace and blue May Arts loopy ribbon (both from the Ribbon Girl. ) Then I pulled apart a couple of silk christmas roses, removed the plastic stamens, fastened them back together with a brad, added a self adhesive Prima pearl from 3djean.  and then used a copics pen to draw in stamens.  I then added glue and plenty of glitter!  My glittery side took over and I then glittered every piece of the snowpeople's snow and added the most glittery, sparkly holly leaves, which as usual, I had cut from a spray of artificial decorative holly - never leave me in a room with my scissors if there is a vase of artificial flowers about - they'll soon have bits missing!!  Apologies to the scrapbook shop at Durham for the amount of glitter I left on their carpet ......  the finishing touch to the card was a couple of jade coloured pearlised heart from the Ribbon Girl!

Jade Snowman Card

This is my entry for the lotv Thursday challenge number 66   a Christmas card in untraditional colours - and also for the pink elephant challenge - a card with aqua - I chose a card with a serrated edge.  The snowman, the backing paper and the shape are from The Clipart Fairy.  I put them all in photoshop and resized them, then made an extra snowman, cut it out and stuck it on the original snowman using foam pads.  I added as much glitter as I possibly could (I discovered that if you add too much the paper buckles !!!) then stuck on 4 greeny/blue shiny gems I pinched from my daughters stash.

I chose jade satin ribbon which I tied around the card, then made a bow to which I stuck a single christmas rose (from an artificial flower spray) and added a couple of tear-drop pins (all from ribbon girl)  In photoshop I sampled the colour of the background paper and then used it when I typed the greeting, which was printed, glittered and tucked in under the bow.  I am really pleased with the card, it turned out just as I had hoped it would and it only took me about an hour and a half to finish  so I'm getting faster - and another hour cleaning up the kitchen !!