Little Angels

I've another Christmas card to share with you today, this time made using some of a Forever Friends paper stack that came in a recent Papercraft Essentials magazine.  I followed the super sketch over at Cute Card Thursday to create the following card:

The decoupage and backing papers were all from the Paper stack.

Gold linen card was used for matting and layering and for the die cut shapes,

Marianne Snowflakes dies, Memorybox Christmas Tree die, Nellie Snellen oval die and Spellbinders Persian Motifs dies were used.

Gems on the Christmas Tree from my stash.

Sentiment from Lili of the Valley stamped in Pine Needles Distress Ink.

I would also like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Diva's By Design - Let's Get Cute

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Lots of Layers

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards Challenge - Stripes

PaperPlay Challenges - Snowflakes

The Crafty Bloggers Network - Christmas Anything Goes

Forever Friends Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafty Cardmakers - Use more than one die and/or punch

21st Birthday Easel

My card for today is an easel card, I love this style of card.

Martha Stewart Vintage Floral Punch Around The Page (I've wanted this punch for ages, I'm very happy!!)

Centura Pearl card

Backing paper came free in a magazine, it's gorgeous.

Joanna Sheen Cameo stamp used to create the butterfly lace corner, heat embossed with white fine detail embossing powder.

Spellbinders floral oval dies, largest embossed with a cuttlebug embossing folder.

Marianne die used to create large butterfly, flourishes and large flower.  Memory box die use to create smaller flowers.

Pearls from my stash used to complete the card.

I also made a box for the card:

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Polka Doodles - Flowers

The Ribbon Girl - Add pearls

Songbird Challenge - String of pearls

Crafty Cardmakers - Winged things

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop - Lace and Pearls (I hope my lace stamp counts)

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Case It

Flutterby Wednesday - Birthday card with a butterfly or fairy

Crafts and Me Challenge - Add a flower

My Mum's Craft Shop - Anything Goes

The CD Sunday Challenge - Zodiac

Good Evening

My card for today follows the theme over at the CD Sunday Challenge and the fab sketch over at Willow Sketchie Challenge:

This lovely image is from Joanna Sheen's Enchanted Dreams cd-rom.  This just happens to be my star sign, and I love this image and the gorgeous colours.  I printed the image onto glossy photo paper.  The backing paper, also from the cd-rom, is printed onto a pearlescent paper for a softer look.  The other panel is core'dinations card, embossed using Divine Swirls embossing folder and then sanded slightly.  The ribbon border is 2 different widths of organza ribbon gathered.  I decided to try my hand at making flowers from the ribbon, and am quite pleased with how they've turned out.  I then threaded a hat pin with some co-ordinating beads which I added to the flowers.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Crafts and Me Challenge - Use pins

PaperPlay Challenges - Ribbon every which way

TotallyPaperCrafts Challenge - Make your own flowers

Allsorts Challenge - Needles and pins

Crafty Cardmakers - Use beads

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

Relax

Hello

A warm welcome to my new followers.

My card for today follows the current sketch at Willow Sketchie Challenge:

The image is from Crafty Sentiments coloured using coloursoft pencils. I added glossy accents to the bubbles although you can't really see it in the photo. This is layered onto a mat cut from core'dinations cardstock using a Nellie Snellen die.  The backing papers are printed from Joanna Sheen's house mouse cd-rom and the ribbon is from my stash.

My card is for the following challenges:

Willow Sketchie Challenge - Sketch

Crafty Sentiments Design - Water Themed

Crafty Cardmakers - No Floral Embellishments