Card and a gift!!!!!

A few months ago in Papercraft Essentials, I came across this card with 4 drawers underneath and so I thought that I would really like to have a go at that.  I started to follow the instructions and it was a bit easier than I thought that it would be.  So here it is, some of my friends are going to be 30 this year so I decided to add some tealight candles into the drawer and I will get a little candle holder to go with it.  As far as I can see it is the perfect present. I hope you like her.

I used blue plain card from the Paper Mill Shop as the solid background and the spotted blue paper is from the Me to You paperstack.  I stamped music notes on to white cardstock and put that on the right hand side stamped using tumbled glass from the Ranger Ink distressed range. 

The stamp is from Lili of the Valley and is called never to old for cupcake.  I really really like her and coloured her in using Promarkers.  The reason I did this stamp and the music was so that I could enter her into a challenge for music and dance. I then distressed around the edges of the stamped image in tumbled glass.

The flowers were from Creative Memories Reflection Series and I love the softness of the colours.  I made up a little bouquet with a few of them as over at Saturday Sketches this was the sketch that I used.

I decorated the bottom of the easel card with the same card and then I added a paper tag again from Creative Memories Reflection Series so that I can write to the recipient who she is for.

This was the sketch that I used but I flipped it around.

  The challenges that I have entered this card into is

Sketch Saturday - The above sketch.
Cute Card Thursday - Music and Dance.

Hope to see you again later.

Love Bex xxxxx

Lavender and Lace

This card I have made for my daughter to give to her little sister for her 1st birthday.  I thought that I would tie in making this card with the challenge over at Lili's Little Fairies.

The backing paper is from Forever Friends With Love. I didn't have any actual lace and so I made some up using a Martha Stewart punch scalloped edge all around the page.  The image is Lili of the Valley Millie with balloons and I coloured her in using Promarkers.  The sentiment is from Lili of the Valley also and the sister is from papermania.  The dark flower is from Creative Memories, the lighter purple is created using the blossom punch from Creative Memories, and the middle flower is from a set of 4 nature punches from Creative Memories.  The purple paper that the image is matted on is from the paper mill shop.

Lili of the Valley - -Challenge #3 Lavender and Lace


Love Bex xxx

My Favourite LOTV stamp

This is the card I have made for my sister and her husband for my little girls 1st birthday at the end of the month.  I have also incorporated it into a couple of challenges so it was really a card killing 2 birds with 1 stone kind of thing.  This is my favourite Lili of the Valley stamp but I haven't really done very much with her, but it does remind me of Chloe who is just learning to walk so it was the perfect card.

To make the card, I used taffy pink cardstock from Creative Memories and the pink script backing paper was from some paper that I had in my collection. The silver paper was what I bought from WHSmith.  The circles I cut out by using the Creative Memories Cutting system which I just love using.  The stamp is from Lili of the Valley (LOTV) as is the sentiment.  Niece came from papermania words collection.  I coloured her in using Promarkers.

Challenges I am entering this card in is
  Lili of the Valley Challenge#2 - Favourite Lili of the Valley Stamp
Delightful Sketches Challenge - Pink, Black and Silver

Baby Shower

These were the baby shower thank you cards that I did for my friend.  The card was pearlescent from AnneMariedesign.com and I used the free baby carriage from the cuttlebug. The paper was Mon Petit baby shower from a shop that has now closed down.

You must be spoilt because here I am again. I told you I hadn't been busy doing nothing.  One of my good friends had a baby shower end of September and she asked me to make the thank you cards for her.  I made 20 and they were in packs of 10. Unfortunately, they are stuck on the other camera and so I will get them on here as soon as possible.  I also made a mum to be card as baby showers really are becoming popular over here.  Here is one of the cards I made

This was so much fun to make.  The stamp is  'Expecting Nikki' from ladybuginkcrafts.  The other one I did was in blue but that is the one I gave to my friend and the picture is stuck on the camera.  The background card is pink lemonade cardstock from Creative Memories, The circle was cut out using the Creative Memories Cutting system and the letters were done using the sissix Broadway Melody die cuts and that paper is Mon Petit Pregnancy from Provo Craft.  I was so upset to discover on holiday that the place I got it from had closed down.  Why are the craft shops closing? It is so sad.  The image was coloured in using Promarkers.

Love Bex

Challenge #101 Bring on the Music - Lullaby

Well, I thought that I would be brave this week and enter my first challenge and being a lover of all things Lili Of The Valley, I just had to do something with one of their stamps.  A lot of my friends are at the stage of having babies and so am constantly trying to think of new ideas for designs of cards.  It could also be that I have just had a baby that I like to do them.

I was inspired by Brahms Lullaby for this card as it is one that I often hum to my girls when trying to get them to sleep.  I had been passed on a backing stamp with the lullaby music by Hero Arts so stamped this on to a tag that I had die cut using the Cuttlebug Ironworks die cut and embossing set. I used the baby blanket Lili Of The Valley stamp as it looked like a baby getting ready for a sleep and coloured it using Promarker pens. The sentiment was also from the circular stamps from Lili of the valley.  The backing paper was some that I had leftover from doing previous cards so don't know who it is by I am afraid. Sorry it has been a little while since been on here but I have been busy doing orders and also getting ready for my sisters graduation and wedding. Shall be posting again soon