You are a peach ..........

I made this card for the challenge over at Lils Little Fairies ' peaches and cream' - I used a LOTV diecut of this cute little girl with her pet sitting next to a pot of flowers.  I cut it down a little to fit inside this pretty heart edged nestie.  I decided to make a step card and used Pion papers on a dark peach card background.  All edges were inked with a new white dabber from Tim Holtz - if only I had realised that the top was not screwed on securely, it wouldn't have dripped down my hand, my cardigan, the table, the floor, Andreas hands ........ oh dear  -  thank goodness for paper hankies!! and I'll not forget to check next time I use it.

I added Peach seam binding and cream 18mm zig zag lace plus a pretty blossom flower.  The main card was finished with three stick on pearls from stash.

The sentiment from Papertrey Ink was stamped in cocoa brown ink and the inside of the card was decorated to compliment the front.   The ready printed die cuts are a real boon when you need a card in a particular colour  (especially as  I had already decided on this particular Pion paper - I just matched up the colours with the printed image - simples!

Birthday wishes in white with one other colour .......

Inspired by the current Just Magnolia challenge 'White plus one other colour.....' I have made this card in white and lilac.  The image has been coloured with copics and I have used white and  silver striped organza ribbon and 32mm white cotton lace over a fairly plain lilac/white spotted backing paper.

I used my magnolia leaf die and our new swirl die and distressed all edges with purple ink, plus a 30mm mulberry rose coloured with the same ink, some pretty blossoms and rosebuds.

I added a silver colour charm suspended on a piece of plum purple Divine Bakers Twine  and then some stardust stickles

The final touches were one small clear sparkly gem on the little Hanglar girl's dress and a sentiment from Papertrey stamped in purple ink

Striped Organza, Cotton Lace, Divine Twine, Charm and Mulberry Flowers all from Ribbon Girl

See you soon, Mary G x

Go as you please with the option of something dangly .......

The new challenge over at Papertake Weekly is go as you please with the option of something dangly and this is my DT card - please pop over and take a look at the marvellous projects the other DT ladies have made, you will be so inspired to get crafting!!

I have used another LOTV die cut (so quick when time is limited) which I cut with a round nestie and matted onto lilac scalloped

I added some gorgeous lilac cotton scallop lace, mauve rose seam binding and lilac Twinkle ribbon and dangled a christmas tree and a reindeer charm.  The sentiment is a Papertrey ink stamp.

The flowers are 30mm soft purple/white rose, purple two tone and white pretty blossoms, plus white leaves and branches made with Magnolia doohickey die and my Martha Stewart punch, both liberally covered in Stardust Stickles.

I made a matching box and decorated it with the same paper, ribbons and flowers.  I was really pleased with this card and I made it especially for one of my neices who now has two little girls!

Lace, twinkle ribbon, seam binding, mulberry flowers and charms are all from Ribbon Girl

See you soon, Mary G x

Molly Bloom is in the pink .................

This is a 60th birthday card for my friend Catharine.  The actual card was cut with a Go Create die as was the background paper which is from an October Afternoon pad.

I used 'Molly  Sitting' (rubber stamps are now available from our friend Jean at  3D Jean  which I coloured in with prisma pencils blended with Sansador - I normally use copics - but I quite enjoyed using Andrea's new pencils, similar to using watercolour pencils. 

 I added 7mm fuschia satin and 12mm white cotton lace, plus 30mm pink/white roses, 10mm rosebuds and 15mm pink/white pretty blossoms, all from Ribbon Girl.  I watched Bev's video on how to fix flowers and have decanted my crafters pick glue into a small screw top jar - much easier to get some out with a pokey tool than try to squeeze it out of the tube.  The green leaves were punched with my Martha Stewart punches.

Magnolia with Sparkle

This card is based on a design which was in the Winter Magnolia magazine and I made this for the Just Magnolia challenge - anything with SPARKLE - I coloured the image with copics and then cut it out.  I used nestie dies to cut out the scalloped circle and used plenty of stick on pink rhinestones to make it sparkle then some pink stick on pearls.! 

I added white guipure lace pink satin ribbon from Ribbon Girl and flowers from Wild Orchid plus plenty of pink and stardust stickles!

Even the flowers had a bit of stardust stickles to make them sparkle!  Stickles, Lace and Ribbon all from Ribbon Girl  here