New Home pop-up card

Another idea taken from online inspiration... sorry for the shoddy pics, too impatient to wait for proper daylight! Or tidy up, it would seem!

What do you think??

I've left the front very plain... unfortunately in the light, you can see the heart stamps through the card (grr!). You can't see them normally unless you're looking really hard!

Robots - anniversary card

This card was made with tiny stolen moments when my husband was out of the house! It took weeks to complete, one small step at a time!

We have just celebrated our 7 year anniversary.

I'm the one on the right ;)

These are Stampendous Spots Botz stamps, paper pieced with some glossy accents for shine.

Entering into lots of Anything Goes challenges..
Divas by Design
Papertake Weekly
Papercraft Star
Anything Challenge
Joyful Stamper
Catch The Bug

Hope you've all had a lovely Easter weekend. Back to work tomorrow - boo!

Less is More

Another set of butterflies from me... now that I'm over my fear of this set, I am loving it!

Not the best pic ever, but here's my entry for Less Is More - picture inspiration. Absolutely loving those colours. They haven't shown up so well on my pic, unfortunately!

Long time no see!

I've been neglecting Blogger.. things have been soooo busy! I am not one who likes to lead a busy life - much prefer to be in the slow lane! Fingers crossed things will quieten down again now and I can get back to pootling along in my own sweet time!

I have been looking at others' posts, but haven't been commenting... there are so many beautiful inspirational blogs around, it's hard to keep up!

Here are a couple of cards I made last night, enjoying the serenity of my quiet little home with no interruptions! I'm a bit gutted because there are things I wish I had done slightly differently on each... typical!

I hadn't intended to make this card at all, but it sort of fell together because my original idea looked pants! The stamp is from a gorgeous Hot Off The Press set (three other gorgeous stamps as well) which cost 90p and I love it! I've barely used it as I find it a little intimidating - it's so pretty that I don't know what to do with it! So this is it's debut. The die cut butterfly in the middle is stacked for a bit more depth - it also means there are lots of wings, like it's fluttering fast..

I just wish I had stamped the sentiment a little higher, and that I had stayed with horizontal lines for all 4 of the corner squares... you live and learn.

I've entered this one into Craft Your Passion challenge - monochromatic

I made this one directly afterwards... The same stamp, and a sentiment stamp which came free with a magazine. I coloured the butterflies in with colouring pencils. On this one, I wish I had stamped the sentiment in black! Also... don't tell anyone, but the butterflies were supposed to be in the order of the rainbow... until I lost focus and picked the wrong one! doh!

What do you think?

Several cards, several purposes!

I've been really struggling to get decent photos of my cards lately, no idea why! they seem to end up either too dark, or washed out by the light! so i've got a pile of cards i'd like to share, and i know i won't get around to doing a post a day, so figured i'd just bung them all in one post for today - sorry, photo heavy!

the first two are mothers day cards

This one is for my fantastic mummy!

 This one is for my Mother-in-law :)

The next one is a 'new home' card for my sister. We're helping her move this weekend, so I'll be able to give it to her in person :)

The next one is a birthday card for my husband's Uncle. His initials are NJ and he's 38.

And the last one is for a colleague (and friend) who has had a minor car accident in which she's sustained a leg injury - not nice!

Thanks for looking :)

Vintage new baby card and Leibster Blog award

Having made a 'new baby' card for my nephew, I thought I should probably get on with making one for my brother and sister-in-law!!

I wanted to create something a bit different for them. They're having a little girl, but they're not into the whole 'pink and blue' thing and so I wanted to get away from all of that stuff but still keep it feminine.

I searched "Vintage baby card" on google for ideas and saw this card and totally fell in love!

Here is my take...

What do you think?

I'm entering for the following challenges:

Sunday Stamper - Life

Allsorts challenge - It's your choice

Crafter's Companion - Anything Goes

St Lukes Charity Challenge - Love and lace

I'd also like to say a HUGE thanks to the lovely Loz of Lozadoodle's blog for nominating me for a Leibster Blog Award which is very exciting :)

The idea of the Liebster Blog Award is to spread the love from one small blog (under 200 followers) to other small blogs.

This helps to spread knowledge and readership.

To accept the award, you must:

1) Link back to the person who gave it and thank them for thinking of you.

2) Post the award to your blog.

3) Give the award to 5 bloggers (with less than 200 followers) that you appreciate and value.

4) Leave a comment on the blogs of the five people you have chosen to let them know. 

"Liebster" in German means "dearest", so to carry on the Liebster tradition, I am going to pass the award on to 5 others who I love to visit!

So, if you haven't already then pop over to Loz's blog to see her gorgeous cards, and in no particular order... here are the blogs I'd like to nominate :)

Cathy Fong from Fong's Crafty Place

Gillian from Made With Sparkle

Rach from Mike's Gal

Sue from Sue The Iron

Hettie from Hettiecraft

Now to pop over to their blogs and let them know!

Purple blocks

Here's another quick make; for my sister this time to thank her for a lovely weekend! I asked her to take some of my cards away with her, as I have far too many, and she really liked this one so I wanted to make something similar for her. I then saw this post by Joyce and decided that layout was perfect! And it gave me an opportunity to ink up one of my gorgeous V & A stamps.

A custom insert to match the front... and it's in the post :)

Entered for Allsorts Challenge and Crafters Companion - Anything Goes challenges.

Thanks for stopping by :)