Book card

I went to the SECC Christmas Craft Fair yesterday with my friend Dawn and it was like two children discovering Christmas, we really had a great time looking at everything that was there and having a good old 'chinwag'.   Our best time was when we were actually spending money to buy what we wanted to.
I got quite a few things and now that I have left the fair, I have remembered loads of other things that I wanted to get, oh well, there is always next year or the local craft shop!!

Anyway, onto my purchases which were a Spellbinders Labels Four die, I really wanted this die as there is a card on Christina Griffiths' blog - card-making-magic.com  which I wanted to make, so I was so pleased to have been able to get it.  I also bought a Card Stand die, so that I would be able to make my card stand up properly.

Here is the link for the actual card, you have to have Spellbinders Label Four in order to make this card.

As this was the first time that I tried this card out, I thought I would just go with white to see how it turned out.  I must admit, I was rather pleased with myself.

I created a small corsage for this side of the card and introduced a bit of colour with the pink tulips and roses.   I sprinkled the flowers with glamour dust just to give them a bit of sparkle. Christina sells corsages on her own site, however, you could try making your own as I did.  Not perfect but passable for my first try at doing a corsage.

Embossed sentiment 'Best Time of the Year', due to the flash and angle that I was trying to take the picture at, it didn't come out exactly as I would have hoped.  I used a silver plated butterfly and put a swirl at the bottom of the butterfly.  The butterfly is actually silver looking but it just didn't come out as well when photographed.

Down the centre of the card I used white seam binding and over the top I used a beautiful embellished ribbon of pearls, I also put a small piece of ribbon on top and a silver dazzler to finish off.

I do hope that you like my card.

New Baby Girl

Another card that I have just finished is this Baby Girl card.  There was a lot of cut out that had to be done for this card, as the amount of decoupage that had to be completed was never-ending.  Although, once it was finished it did look quite pretty.

For embellishments to the card, I added small flowers round the insides of the card and various pieces of decoupage.  I used Cosmic Shimmer, Glitter Jewels, Icicle Sparkles rather than just a glitter.  This glitter is my new best friend along with Cosmic Shimmer, Specialist Acrylic Glue.  I must admit at the moment anything that has Cosmic Shimmer on it, is a friend of mine.  So anyway, enough of the talking, here is my card.  (Again, I am sorry that the pictures haven't come out the way that I wanted them to, but I hope that you can see enough of the card to see how lovely it turned out by the end).

I do hope that you like my card and that you can see where I have put all the amazing sparkles.

Birthday Card for Sandra

Hi, This is the second (similar) card that I made for my friend Sandra for her birthday. I am going to enter this card into the Allsorts Challenge - Anything Goes. I am entering this card into the Forever Friends: Monthly Challenge - Anything Goes. I am also going to enter this card into the Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Flower Power. The only differences between this one and the last one is that there are more flowers on the card and I also attached 3 decorative hat pins into the flowers. The sentiments were also changed to To a Special Friend and Happy Birthday.

Close up image of flowers

  Close up image of ribbon