A sad and a happy card

My first personal card this week, was a condolences card.  My friend's Nan passed and I made this for her.  (This is the first hand made card she had received - so I will be making her a more happy one next time !)

Recipe

Papermania papers in black and white.
Black cardstock
Pearls
Sentiment
embossing folder
and sizzix swirls and flower dies.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Cardmakin Mamas - Cut it out challenge
Wags'n'whiskers - black plus ribbons or pearls
crafty ribbons challenge - Bingo board
For your inspiration challenges - challenge 17
papercraft star - flourish





NOW for the happy card.  It is my best friend's birthday and since I moved away we meet up once a month.  This is the card I made for her birthday. My mate lives in North Cornwall.  The gorgeous teal/turquoise colours in this card remind me of the fabulous coastal scenery in a place that will always be dear to my hear.   The gorgeous Sarah Kay image was of course coloured with promarkers.

This is the front of the complete card

This is the back of the complete card

This is the front of the card without it's wrap

This is the inside of the open card

Recipe

Martha Stewart around the edge punches

Magnolia papers

Spellbinder Nestabilities

Sarah Kay stamp

Some ribbon from stashd

Promarkers

Dovecraft chalks

I will be entering this card into the following challenges:

Cardmakin Mamas - Cut it out challenge

Craftycatz weekly challenge:  Anything goes

Charismacardz - cutesy challenge (44)

CES Challenges - Entertain us song or film - Mama's Little baby loves Shortnin Bread

Colour create challenge - 83  Turquoise, deep pink and ivory

Southern Girls - Can you hear music   My song is Shortnin Bread- Mama's little baby loves

DYSU - 44 Teal

I hope you like these two very different cards.

My first never ending card ......... it goes on and on and ....

I decided to set myself a little challenge when I saw Crafters Companion was going be 6 this month.  They had a competition and so I decided to enter a never ending card to showcase their fantastic SWALK images....  The following are the pictures in order of my card .

This is the front

This is the next page

This is the next page

and this is the final page

My recipe was:

2 x DL cards

Green and Red cardstock (from stash)

Magnolia Papers

Papermania Bow

X-Cut Lace Die

Sticky Pearls

SWALK Stamps

Promarkers

Glossy Accents

I am going to enter this card into the following challenges:

Pixie Dust Studio - 97 Birthday

Southern Girls - Stripes and Polka Dots

I love promarkers - Cute

The Sisterhood of Crafters

Anything goes Challenge - Letters

Sweet Stamps Blog

Tuesday throwdown

Craft your Passion - double up

Make it Monday

Simon Says Stamp - be inspired by Nursery Rhymes .....  What are little boys made of

Three little girls playing dress up .........

Hi Everyone, Thanks for dropping in and having a look around.

My card is a Triple Aspect card with all sides decorated.

  

To start I stuck three rectangular cards together, these were made by scoring and folding three A5 sheets of Papermania Card Stock, I chose a different coloured card for each, as I wanted the colours of the background to blend with my chosen promarker colours. 

This is the front of the card

 This is the back of the card

Next I stamped any three little girls - my chosen theme being dressing up - and coloured them with promarkers using the same colours throughout, mounting each one in it's own frame (cut with the Cricut)  These are the close up pictures of the individual frames of the card

My papers are from the Flower Garden Magnolia collection.  I decorated all the separate panels of the card, front and back with these.  My girlies were then mounted and layered onto their respective backgrounds.  A papermania bow was added and three papermania buttons down each side panel. 

Swirls were added to each of the outside back panels (these were cut on the cricut) and three pearls added to each one.

A doily cut using the X-cut Lace die is the centre piece of the back of the card.  Again a pearl is added for dimension.  This was then mounted onto the centre back panel of the card.

Lastly two sentiments from LOTV were stamped and cut using Spellbinders Nestabilities.  These were mounted onto the front of the card using sticky pads.

The folded card ready to go into an envelope

There are several challenges I wish to enter this card into and also one DT call.

The DT call is Craftspot by Kimberley.  She has a fantastic range of victorian inspired crinkled ribbons and bakers twine in her shop, as well as a fantastic set of clear stamps and the creations on her blog are gorgeous.  

The challenges are:  

Lili of the Valley - Inspiration Blog - World Cardmaking Day

Lili of the Valley - Challenge Blog - Button It

Craft Your Passion

CES - totally gorjuss or pretty girls -

Simon Says stamp challenge - sparkle and bling

Papertake Weekly

Crafty Cardmakers - Anything goes

Make it Monday

Divas by Design - Button up

Pretty Little Ribbons Shop - Anything goes

ABC Challenge - A = Anything goes