With a cherry on top!

Here is a card I made for a work colleague's birthday.  The stamp is a freebie from Simply Homemade.  Papers are Making Memories. 

At last...some crafting!

As you will know, if you read my blog regularly, I have been without a proper craft work area for several months.  However it is now finished and I am in the process of re-instating my stash!  Last night I decided to stop shelf stacking and make something.  We received a couple of late Christmas presents last week, so I made these two thank you cards using some Simply Fabulous Collection 'Meg' papers from Making Memories.  I've had these papers for a very long time,but they are so fresh and pretty, I like to go back to them every now and again.  The 'thanks' stamp is Studio G.

Here is a the new craft area before the stuff started to go back in, it looks like a lot of space, but I have an awful lot of paper, fabric and bits and pieces.

and finally... I managed to make a card for Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Card Challenge, this week the challenge is a 'square card' which is my favourite kind.  Papers are Winter Wings from Websters Pages with some stickles to lift the medallion embellisment.

 

I'll be back with an update on the shelves and hopefully somemore crafting!

A Girl's Best Friend

This week on Daring Card Makers it's the beginning of a new month and therefore it's time for a new birthstone to inspire our card making. 
The birthstone for April is the

Diamond

"How you decide to use the birthstone is up to you, it may be a card for someone who has a birthday during this month, featuring "diamonds. or it may be a card that refers to the meaning or mythology surrounding the stone - anything goes, really as long as somehow the birthstone is hinted at."

I thought that 'hinting' was quite a good idea and, of course, diamonds must mean Marilyn Monroe and Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend!

I've had these papers for a very long time, they are from the Meg Collection from Making  Memories, the font for the sentiment is, of course, Hollywood.  The 'diamonds' and 'sapphires' are from a vintage brooch which has been kicking around in my junk box for  two or three years.  I also tried out a sketch from Fiskarettes which is part of a competition, but you have to make an original project so I can't submit this one.

DCM Shaped Card

The Daring Cardmakers have thrown out a challenge to make a shaped card, so here is mine.


It's my MIL's birthday tomorrow and we are getting her a new chair as she is having some difficulty getting out of the one she has at the moment. When I saw this template at Stampington, I knew it was ideal. I printed the template, cut it out and copied it onto the lilac card, because my printer wont take card, after I had cut it out of the card, I stamped all over it with the Inkadinkadoo stamp I have with all the herbs on it. I made the 'cushions' from the 'Simply Fabulous' Making Memories paper pad cut with decorative scissors.

A dare and a challenge

On my list of cards to make is one for my SIL's birthday. I used the 'Beads'

dare from Daring Cardmakers and the DiRo Challenge on Bubbly Funk Forum to incorporate printed paper, ribbon a chipboard word and a black and white colour scheme. I didn't have a suitable chipboard word and all my letters are too big to make a word without making a ginormous card, so one letter will have to do. It's an odd letter too as it doesn't really look like anything, hopefully having the name will give a clue! The papers are Dovecraft - Kate Knight 'A hint of pink', chipboard jigsaw alphabet by making memories and I outlined with sakura pens.