Engagement Card & Towel Cake

Here is an engagement card & towel cake I made - the card I made on my pc using a tatty ted image and text and then cut out using my cuttlebug and nesties! and then I just added some 'bling' and stickles for some added 'prettiness'...

and here is the towel cake - sorry for the poor quality photos - taken at night!! I'm hoping to improve the quality of my photos very soon!

Contents of the cake are: towel bale consisting of 2 bath towels, 2 hand towels, and 2 flannels, a bottle of champagne, and 2 champagne flutes and the cake was decorated with personalised hearts (the couples initials) and snowflakes as the couple who got engaged live in france and run a skiing holiday company!

30th Birthday Card and hamper

It was my friend Natalie's 30th Birthday back in January and I made her a couple of cards and a hamper! Here is the first card I made her - isn't the image cute - he's called theodore!!!! and he's the creation of a very talented lady and you can find lots of her creations here at Little Musings...

and the second card I made her was using some stamped cocktail images from craftwork cards and given to me by the lovely Mrs Tidge!!

and then here is the 'cocktail' hamper I made her...

Another Christmas Card...

and another Christmas card... I actually added some stickles glitter glue to the snowflakes embossed on the white card after I'd taken this photo...

Christmas Card - Hello Kitty...

My husband asked me to make his boss a Hello Kitty Christmas Card as she apparently loves Hello Kitty! I did my best to oblige and here is the result...

I used some red dotty paper & ran a piece of white card through my cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder! The image was actually a small tag/card and I embellished using glossy accents for her coat & hair bow and Stickles for her collar & coat hem and the sentiment... I also added some snowflakes cut with my Martha Stewart punch and some card candy covered in more stickles to finish it off...

Birthday Card for my niece...

I made this card for my niece's 14th birthday in December - I love this image as it looks like me (black hair!) and my two nieces so it was very fitting! So I coloured the image in photoshop & used glossy accents & stickles glitter to highlight the images and the same with the printed out sentiments & hearts which I also glittered with stickles and as her birthday was in December I decided to also add some snowflakes - and scalloped circles cut & embossed using my lovely Cuttlebug...

Christmas Cards I made...

Finally getting round to updating my blog - its been ages! Anyway here are some photos of some more Christmas Cards I made - I totally ran out of time so if you didn't get a card from me I am sooooo sorry!! I promise to do better next Christmas as my plan is to make Christmas cards throughout the year!!

I made these two cards for my nieces and personalised them with their names using digital images which I embellished by using glossy accents and stickles glitter glue for the santa hats, also used my swiss dots cuttlebug folder to emboss the red & white paper and used my cuttlebug scalloped rectangles to cut the shapes. The scalloped cards were from Craftwork Cards & I also used the digital santa download from Pollycraft...

Made these for my mum & dad & my brother & SIL...

and here are a selection of other christmas cards I made...

made a couple of these!

think I made about 6 of these!

I made about 6 of these too!

and also made several of these!!

Birthday Card for my 'Granny-in-law'

Here's a birthday card I made recently for my hubby's Granny - I used a pre-printed card (think its Kanban?) kindly donated by Glittermum and using my Cuttlebug I cut two Scallop circles, the pink oval & pink flow and the letters for 'Granny' - the image is a freebie I downloaded and I'm sorry but I can't remember where from!! I coloured it in photoshopto match the printed card & then printed and used stickles glitter in the centre of the flowers & Glossy accents on the flower petals & leaves & also on the 'Granny' letters, the 'Birthday Wishes' sentiment is a pre-printed one from CraftworkCards - really pleased with how it turned out especially the image!!

More Xmas Cards...

Been really busy over the weekend making up the remainder 21 cards for my mum's order!! Here are some more Penguin ones & a couple of Snowflake ones too - am loving my Cuttlebug Swiss dots embossing folder...

I have glittered the tag too..


and a couple of snowflake cards...

and some more penguin cards but this time in red & white & using my new Nesties labels ...

and 10 Robin Cards - Phew!!! Thats the 30 all done!!! YAY!!! I really hope my mum likes them all!!!

Just need to make my own crimbo cards to send now but think I might need a break from christmas cards for a few days!!!!

Penguin Christmas Cards

Well I have been busy making Christmas cards for an order for my mum!! Here are 9 completed so far - only got another 21 to make!! Love this penguin which was a freebie from Pollycraft!! My Cuttlebug has been put to good use as I have used it to make the scallop circles, the oval sentiment tags, the holly & also used the swiss dots embossing folder for two of the card blanks as well as some of the scallops!! I made the snowflakes using my new Martha Stewart punch bought at the NEC last friday and I love it! I have got another 4 cards almost completed so will post photos once done!!

Birthday Card for my mum...

Thought I'd make a pocket card for my mum's birthday which is today - used 2 different coloured cards to make up the pocket - a pale blue one & a pale green one to match with the embellishments I used and I used this tutuorial...

Gorjuss Girls Cards for lovely MSE/CP friends...

Here are a couple of cards I made for my lovely MSE/CP friends Rainmac and Mumhug! The lilac one was for Mumhug who has been having a tough time at the mo so I sent her some images to keep her busy!! And the pink one was for Rainmac to thank her for sending me some lovely stamped images!!

The image is thanks to another MSE/CP friend Rusty!! and the lovely butterfly backing papers are free printables from Artymiss!!

Girly Birthday Card using Wordle

Here's a birthday card made to order using Wordle and decoupage - the backing papers & image from CraftyCardmaking and I just changed the colours using my pc - sorry its not a great picture...

Good Luck Card

Made this Good Luck card for my lovely friend Janey who starts her new job at the Beeb today! woop woop!! First time I've ever used a Gorjuss Girl image & I'm loving her - she's sooo pretty!!! Matched her colours to the Papermania paper I've used! Also used Making memories Jumbo blossoms & crystal brads! Also stamped the 'Good Luck' sentiment which is good going for me as I don't usually 'stamp'!!

Birthday Card

Here's another pocket card - this time for my friend's birthday! Loving this image and colour theme!

Xmas Cards - Non-traditional!

Here are a couple of Xmas cards I made a little while ago for the Crafty Place Christmas Card Challenge - haven't had a chance to post them before now!! The challenge was to make a Christmas card not using Red, Gold or Green - I first made the Green penguin one & then realised it was Green LOL! so made the Pink one too! The lovely Snowflake embellishments are courtesy of the lovely Craftygranny and OAP, the scalloped circle is courtesy of the lovely Flourgirl and papers are freebies from Funkyfairys and gorgeous penguin image is a freebie from Pollycraft

Anniversary card & Funky Fairys 'Black/White' Challenge card...

A double-pocket card using these instructions and papers downloaded from Funky Fairys! Created for my hubby as its our anniversary...