The card above is for my parents wedding anniversary in March.
My friend Karen put a link to a site that generates great background designs using different fonts, colours and images, it is called typoGenerator if you would like to try it for yourself. Now, as much as I enjoyed playing about with this program I just had to have a go myself on PSP (paintshop pro), I used lots of layers and came up with this background paper. I love it and it looks so fab that I'm going to make my own backing papers wherever possible now! I hand cut the large hearts and used a punch for the tiny ones, finished with a hand written greeting.
I just found a fab site and this weeks Papertake Weekly Challenge is 'hearts desire' so this will be my entry also.
Well I loved that colour scheme so much that I had to make another card! This is for a friends birthday - not gonna say who cos I don't want to spoil the surprise ;)
I used punched flowers to decorate, used the magnolia gift with flower stamp, then decided I wanted another gift but didn't have a stamp that I could use so I drew the rectangular gift by hand using the magnolia one as inspiration. I think it turned out quite well actually, pity I can't say the same for the wonky photo!...
The following card is for the new arrival in our family, yes I know I made a baby boy card lol, but that was because my hubby's niece said she was having a boy!
Baby (girl) Taylor was born 29.01.08
I have used one of the bunny stamps from Bootiful Stampz these stamps are so versatile!
This weeks challenge over at the Arty Girlz blog is 'pockets'. This is my entry.
My friends daughter will be 16 next month, and she will be old enough to play the lottery, No, I'm not endorsing gambling for teenagers, but its summat both my girls wanted to have a go at when they were 16 just because they could. My friend and I never know what to get each others girls for their birthdays so we send money instead, a lot easier than traipsing around the shops buying a top or jeans that they will want to exchange a week later!So I made this card which houses a lotto ticket and a small envelope for the money.It is made from denim blue pearlescent card, a silver gel pen, scraps of lilac ribbon & pink and white card and a small envelope that I cut from 200gsm vellum, I added a tiny 'for you' sticker to the envelope so that she will know to take the envelope out from the pocket. Hope you like my card.BTW, the lotto ticket in the photo is from last saturdays draw and when I looked at it to use it for the photos I realised that we have won £10, yay! (wish it was £10mil tho)
Yay! Sally from Bootiful Stampz has set her first challenge!...There are NO restrictions as long as one of our Stamps is used.
The challenge for February is to create a Valentines Card. so here is my entry, I wanted to get away from the normal reds and pinks that are associated with valentines, I knew what I was going to write on the front of the card as soon as I knew what the theme was - that phrase just popped in my head!I do so love this pot of bunny stamp! its so versatile.If you would like to take part in this challenge then please click here.Don't have a bunny stamp? well you can get hold of your own by clicking here.
Here is my entry for this weeks Tilda & Co challenge. The theme is 'Baby' and as my hubbys niece is about to have her baby boy any day now this challenge couldn't have come at a better time really because i'd forgotten to make a card ready for the new arrival. I used bazzill cardstock and scraps of paper/mulberry paper, added ribbon and then thread more ribbon through a button/flower from which I made a small charm hanger, the tiny feet were given to me by Donna amongst loads of yummy stash goodies which were in an altoid tin christmas swap that we did in Auntys Forum Incidently, Donna also sent me the tilda with baby stamped image because I don't have that particular stamp. Isn't she kind? Thank you Donna xx 
...rather badly too *insert embarrased smilie here*
This weeks Tilda & Co challenge is 'Shiny Silver' and were asked to try & think outside the box, so I thought about a Tilda mobile phone/bag charm instead of a card, I used silver plated findings and added the little silver flip flops charm so that was the shiny silver bit...now to the magnolia bit, erm, wouldn't it be nice to have Tilda as a charm? I thought. Erm, well in theory yes, but i'm not happy how it's turned out and that's my fault. I've had some shrink plastic for aaaaaages and never got round to trying it so thought i'd give it a go for this challenge. I stamped tilda onto it and used my permanent pens to colour it in, so far so good, then I turned on my heat gun...Whoooooooooa! it curled into a little ball... lol!
I managed to uncurl it while it was still warm then gave it another blast of heat and pressed my acrylic block onto it to flatten it, but it looks tatty now and all out of shape :(
I may have another go and see if the next one turns out better and i'll swap the charms if it does.
Wooohooooo! My lovely friend Sally who runs Auntys Forum has now started producing her own stamps! and wow what a great design they are too, all her own designs, the bunny is becoming a bit of a trade mark of our dear Aunty Sally. You can see the full range of Bootiful Stampz in her store, aptly named Auntys Store. These are selling like hot cakes so if the ones you'd like have sold out, please bookmark the site so you can grab your favourite as soon as its back in stock, and theres more new designs to come too!
Sally very kindly sent me the 'pot of bunny' stamp, it's soooooo cute as i'm sure you'll agree.
I couldn't wait to try it out and have made this card which will fit in perfectly with this weeks Arty Girlz challenge!!! yay!
I also made this card tonight, i'll keep this for my friends little girl, Amelia, who will be 7 this year, altho not til June!!! I've never made a birthday card this early before lol.Also, as luck would have it lol Tilda & Co have set this weeks magnolia challenge to use a number or numbers on your work, how about that for a coincidence eh?!! ;)
