Two more....

I recently showed you this layout;

The next two layouts are made from the same kit from my Scrapbook Sisters fortnightly class.

Hope you like them!

Birthday Cards

We have so many family birthdays in April that making cards for them all has kept me quite busy! So here are a couple of examples of cards that I have been making.

First is a 50th Birthday card for my husband who was born on St Georges Day and is quite proud of the fact! The knight, castle, princess and castle wall are all from a set of Woodware stamps that Scrapbook Sisters ordered in for me. The gold 50 was cut on the Cricut, the shield I cut myself and the dragon was cut from a St Georges Day card!

The second card was for my sons 19th Birthday. It was taken from an idea that I saw in Making Cards magazine and I have used an image from a comic book and downloaded an image of a brick wall. I love these big Happy Birthday peel offs they look great on a bigger card.

I made this birthday card for my nephew using one of my favourite House Mouse stamps which I have had for many years but gets used again and again, the backing paper is Basic Grey and the image is coloured with Copics.......but then I realised that it was actually his 30th Birthday this year, so...........

.........I made this one instead! I used Woodware Chippies as templates for the 30 and the frame shape and cut the stars on my trusty Cricut, the backing papers are Doodlebug glittered cardstock and Basic Grey.

There were also another couple of Birthday cards but in my card making marathon I forgot to photograph them!

Ruby Wedding Card

I was asked to make a Ruby Wedding Card for my brother in law to give to some good friends of his. The couple have been through a tough time recently as he has had a serious illness and spent a long time in hospital so I wanted to make a special card for them to celebrate their anniversary.

Please excuse my inky hands in the first photo!

I spent quite a long time cutting the aperture into the right place on the Cricut but at least it gave me lots of labels to use on the inside of the card. I printed the greeting on the first label by printing first on to plain printer paper and then attaching the label with repositionable Herma and running it through the printer again. I added the little corner of flowers and leaves and used My Minds Eye patterned papers.

I hope they like it but as their anniversary is not until next month it will be a while before I find out!

I would be happy to hear your comments.

One of my favourite papers.....

Now, it's pretty well known amongst my scrapping friends that I have had a bit of an addiction to Basic Grey papers but I have to say that they now don't quite hold the place in my heart that they once did and there are a couple of ranges of papers that I have taken a liking to. One is We Are Memory Keepers White Out and the other is Fancy Pants Summer Soiree. I have used Summer Soiree for lots of layouts and this is the most recent one.

I have to confess that this is not my own design but it is a scraplift from Scrapbook Trends magazine.

The photographs were taken last year on a day out to Mudeford in Dorset last year to visit my mum and dad who were holidaying there.

Copic Colour Challenge 62 - just in time!!!

I haven't participated in many challenges recently but have decided it's time to do a few more - so late yesterday evening I decided to make a start - I finished around midnight and uploading to my blog with an hour to spare!

Here are this weeks colours for the challenge;

This is my card;

Sorry about the cat in the background - he doesn't like to be left out! Hope you like it!

I really like this one.

Holly was recently asked by a couple of friends who are keen photographers to be a model for them. She was very happy to help them out and in spite of getting scratched by the shrubs and twigs at the park she thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience. In my layout I have used one of the photos from the shoot and some Bo Bunny papers.

I have only added a Scenic Route rub-on, a piece of cotton lace and one of my favourite Tim Holtz stamps. I resisted the urge to add anything else and embraced the white space!

Here's the last two......

Here are the last two layouts from March's Limited Edition class .

I've been a bad blogger and not updated much recently although I have been inspired to finished many of my unfinished layouts so I have lots to show over the next few weeks.