My first machine sewn card!:)

My lovely husband gave me a mini easy-to-use lightweight sewing machine for Christmas so that I can add some extra detail to my cards and projects :) so here is my first one! I CASEd a similar version made by my upline Liz Shannon, just in time to give it to my husband today for his birthday :)

Zoo babies birth announcement

This is essentially CASEd from the European Stampin Up Convention :) it's a mini blackboard and easel and I've used zoo babies and the white chalk board marker with black paper as the background. I'm very excited to give this to our Godson :)

Fun with the 'Christmas Star'

The 'Christmas Star' stamp is great value and is really beautiful. I've had fun today with my friend Lauren - we took on the maths challenge of making the 3D decoration work :) lots of angles and tabs! The projects today range from very simple to a 3D envelope and Christmas decoration - I hope you like!

Convention Swap!

I've just come back from the brilliant Stampin Up Convention! I spent the weekend with fellow demonstrators and we learnt lots of useful things and saw loads of beautiful projects. One of the options is to take 'swaps' with you - you make lots of card fronts and you swap them with other Demonstrators card fronts and come home with lots of ideas. This is my swap - simple but bright. I hope you like it......

A Christmas Giftcard

My upline, the lovely Liz Shannon did this in her class a long time ago and I revived it for one of my Christmas Classes this year. Using a combination of Christmas DSP, regular card stock and using a top note die means you can create a card with a pocket for a gift card on the front, and when you open it you've still got the usual space to write your Christmas Card inside. I love this technique :) 

Birthday Basics Dress Up

I received a lovely swap that was very similar to this card, but I wanted to use the brilliant Birthday Basics paper which is just GORGEOUS! The colours are Raspberry Ripple, Crisp Canteloupe and Very Vanilla :)

Vintage vintage!

A return to my daubing/sponging addiction!:) I LOVED making this card and the way it folds is a bit random probably because I was a bit haphazard in its creation. The colour palette is pool party and soft suede on very vanilla. I used the lattice and designer frames embossing folders, and the stamp sets 'Everything Eleanor', 'Creative Elements' and 'Very Vintage' wheel. The ribbon is Crochet Trim :)