Boys Football Card

Finally for the cards I made in March is one for my nephew who loves football:

I used a 6x6" square card and used an Elzybells rubber stamp for the footballer, which I coloured in with Copics. I matted the image onto red and black pearlised paper which I embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder. I used a Martha Stewart rings border punch to cut a decorative strip for the middle of the card, which I wrapped striped ribbon around. I used a football sheet of 12x12" paper (cut to size!) for the background but this is quite old so I don't know who made it! I then finished the card with an "8" candle cut with a Quickutz Die, corners cut with an EK Success punch and a Craftwork Cards "Oh my Words" Sentiment.

Valentines Bag

I am a bit late for this post, I made a Valentines Bag a week ago for the Elzybells challenge to create a Valentines treat/gift but I have been neglecting my blog a bit as there's still so much to do in our new home!

I made the bag using two nestabilities scalloped hearts. I cut a strip of card and scored a line along each side before folding it into a v-shape. I then added double sided tape along the scored edges and attached the hearts. I then used my Martha Stewart punch to make the handle and finally cut a Nestabilities heart for the front of the bag.

I used all Elzybells stamps on this; the Mini Tags clear set for the tag and sentiment; the heart was from the Hey Cupcake clear set; and the flowers are the very cute Mini Daisy Trio.

I found out four days ago that we are moving house in three weeks time! Plus on top of that the whole house needs re-decorating and carpeting before we move in. Therefore I have been flat out trying to organise things and today I'm concentrating on Christmas! I need to get all my Christmas cards done in the next few days and get presents wrapped then packed for moving. I made these cards a few days ago:

For this card I used the Eskimo and wording stamps from Elzybells. I coloured the Eskimo image with Lyra Polycolour Pencils. The papers are from a Papermania 8x8" paper pack from last year and the snowflakes were punched with a Martha Stewart punch.



For this card, I used a Whiff Of Joy stamp of Henry Mouse, coloured with Copics. The wording stamp is Magnolia. The papers are from Daisy & Dandelion.

This stamp is from Elzybells and is so sweet! I coloured her with Copics ans used a blue chalk pencil around her to add a bit of sky. I added some Snowflakes punched from Glitter Card using a Martha Stewart Punch and then for speed, used a die-cut greeting from a Daisy & Dandelion paper pack.

Boys Birthday Card..

I was forced into cardmaking a few days ago (thank goodness!) to make a card for my nephews 7th birthday. He likes football so I used an Elzybells Stamp as I don't have many boy-ish stamps!

This stamp is very handy as it's good for young or old. I also used the football stamp as an embellishment as I didn't think I'd be able to get away with ribbon, gems or pearls! I used a 6x6" card and the paper was Karen Foster Designs called "Soccer Ball Collage". I used an EK Success punch to break up the background and a Personal Impressions clear stamp for the sentiment.

Twins 1st Birthday Cards

Today I had to make 1st Birthday cards for twins, a boy and a girl. I was stuck at first and wasted £12.99 on a Giraffe die as I thought I could use a giraffe but I then thought it would be too plain. I went through my stamps and found two Elzybells stamps that I thought would be perfect as they both had two bears on which could each resemble the twins.

I used large 8"x8" square cards so I had lots of room as the images are quite big. Both images are from Elzybells and have been coloured with Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour Pencils, blended with Sansodor. The wording was done on the computer so I could personalise it. The patterned cardstock is DCWV from an 8x8" glittered mat stack. I used a Quickutz Die for the photo corners on the top card and added Papermania gems/dots to the cards too.

Three charity cards

Sorry it has been so long since I posted anything on my blog. I have been really busy but have made a few cards so I just need to get round to uploading the photos.

A couple of weeks ago I made some cards to take to take to my local hospital as they have a charity table in the physio department raising money for the local hospice. I took them on the Wednesday when I had an appointment and when I went back last Wednesday, the bottom two had sold which I was really pleased about. Maybe the Nurse one didn't sell as everyone who goes there is ill rather than visiting ill people!

I will keep this brief as there are three cards! They are all on small 5" square cards and I tried to keep them quite simple. The Nurse is a stamp from The Greeting Farm called Nurse Anya. I also used a paper printed from Pink Petticoat. The bear on the bottom two is from Elzybells. On the green and pink card, the paper is from Papermania and the border punch is Fiskars Apron Lace. On the white and purple card, the background cardstock is DCWV and the border punch used was Martha Stewart Valentines Lace.

Lets hope tomorrow brings more time to update my blog!

I had to make a thank you card a few days ago so I decided to use my Elzybells Sunflower Girl stamp for the first time. I also used the sunflower for the background. I really enjoyed colouring this in, it was so nice!

The image was coloured in with Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour Pencils and blended with Sansodor. The girl and sunflower images are Elzybells stamps and the "thanks a bunch!" wording is a Penny Black stamp. The green card in the background is from a DCWV pad and it was cut with a Nestabilities Scallop Rectangle Die.

My Mums Birthday

August is the month of most of the family birthdays including mine! This card I made for my Mums birthday that was last week.

I chose my new Elzybells Picking Strawberrys stamp as it's elegant and pretty and I teamed it up with a Magnolia strawberry paper. I also had to use one of my new Martha Stewart punches and chose one called "Doily Lace" which I used down the side. Because it didn't show much on the white card, I used a piece of red(ish) cardstock behind it.

The inside:

I really enjoyed using the little Elzybells Strawberry too, it's so versatile and great for backgrounds too!

Fathers Day rushed card!

I was so busy this weekend that the Fathers Day card for my Dad was made in a bit of a rush! I went through my box of stamped images already coloured and went for the footballer.

The image and football are from Elzybells and the wording is from an Elzybells clear set. Inside it is stamped with Happy Fathers Day. The image was coloured with Koh-i-Noor pencils (also from Elzybells) and the boots were accented with Glossy Accents. The glittery paper was bought a long time ago from Craftwork Cards.

Teenage boy card!

Every card maker knows that mens cards are hard to make, but I had a real dilemma last week when trying to work out what to do for our step-nephew's 15th birthday. Luckily he does karate and I managed to find an old Elzybells stamp that I owned of a bear doing karate (this has now been re-released so is available from Elzybells). Otherwise I wouldn't have had a clue what to do for his card. I tried to keep it quite simple so it wasn't too cute, it was horrible not being able to use adhesive gems or ribbon! The stamped image is Elzybells, coloured in with Copic Ciao markers. The red card is core'dinations. The Happy Birthday message is from Elzybells and the background stamped image was from Elzybells some time ago so may not be available. The brads are Dovecraft.

Wedding Card

I had to make a wedding card for my Brother-In-Law this week. They went to the US to get married so I made it a "Just Married" card as they will be getting the card afterwards. I bought three new wedding stamps and in the end decided my favourite was the Elzybells bride and groom. After I coloured the image, I chose a pink theme to go with the colours and then the whole thing just turned out to be VERY PINK!! I usually add the inside message onto an insert inside the card, but I decided to make it a bit more interesting (and colourful) this time. I stamped the message onto white cardstock then added it to the Bazzill dotted cardstock. I then added the punched out flowers and hearts to keep it all flat inside. All of the rubber stamps I used were from Elzybells, the pink cardstock is Bazzill, the ribbon is Dovecraft, the brads are Papermania, and the flowers are Prima. The image was coloured with Coloursoft pencils.

Elzybells Cookies

This card I made when my children were still at the zoo. I have quite a few new gorgeous Elzybells stamps that I haven't had time to try yet so I finally got round to using this set. These stamps (the girl, wording and cookies) all came from the Elzybells "Just Desserts" clear stamp set. I coloured the girl with coloursoft pencils and used Core'dinations cardstock. The only thing I'm not happy with really is my choice of card colour, I couldn't find a colour to match the girls dress!

Sarah Kay (again!)

A couple of weeks ago, I was lucky enough to have my husband take the kids to the zoo for an afternoon so I was able to get to work on a card idea that I had in my mind. I had pulled out a turquoise-ish paper that I thought would go with a Sarah Kay image that I had coloured and I wanted to put it together. Anyway, I am quite happy with the result as it is again a bit different to anything I had made, which was the aim again. The only thing I wasn't so happy with was the ribbon.. it was the wrong shade of turquoise! The stamped image was again the Sarah Kay "Precious Moments" clear stamp, coloured in with Copic Ciao markers. The wording stamp was from Elzybells; the paper was from Doodlebug; the cardstock was Core'dinations; the flowers from Prima and the large brad from Papermania.