Forever Friends for Mothers Day

I bought an A4 Forever Friends paper pad recently and decided to decoupage the images within.
This first one I cut at 6" square and matted onto an 8x8 card covered with the floral paper from the set. I then cut out some extra flowers and added them over the corner.



The image below was cut into a square and mounted onto another square which I edged with my new Round the edge Martha Stewart punch. Again I layered this onto an 8x8 card covered with another of the floral papers. A few punched retro daisies and butterflies surround a disc ready for a message.



I loved this image and used most of the image background. I used a Martha Stewart deep edge punch along one edge and added some plain pink from the pack behind. A few card candy finished the edge. Stamping up scalloped circle and circle punch are ready for a message on this one too.



And the last one I kept tone on tone. I punched the edge with the other Martha Stewart deep edge punch and put the same blue backing paper inside the card. I used the retro daisy punch in 2 sizes and added the SU layered circles ready for a greeting. Card Candy was added along the punched edge and in the smaller daisy centres.

Another TSV - Tim Holtz

TSV on Tuesday was this kit by Tim Holtz.

Contents were his new book which is fab plus lots of mediums to play with.

I'm looking forward to trying out some new techniques.

Fave Colours

Hi Girls,

Please tell me your fave colours :)

Fairy Dust

Another image of Lynn's cut out and coloured here with copics and mounted onto some scraps left from the February Scrapaholix kit.
The message was from a stamp I've had for a while.

Easel Cards

Had fun making these easel cards, which I learned how to make at Julie Hickey's workshop recently.
Stamped images kindly given to me by Lynn - Thank-You! and coloured with my copics.
Papers from BG Sugar Rush for this first one plus some flowers from my stash. Butterflies cut with the Martha Stewart punch recently purchased.

Side view showing the card candy providing the hold point.

The papers below were leftovers from the February Scrapaholix kit by UpsyDaisy (thought she was a character from In the night garden!) Again punched with Martha Stewart Punches and flowers from my stash tinted with Copics and chalks.

The hold point on this one was the birthday greeting which I added stickle accents to.

A Challenge

Anyone up for a challenge?

I was asked to make some cards for an ex-colleague of mine. She looked at my website and asked me to use the image below, Penny Black's - Evening Glow, but to make her into a skiier!



The ladies the cards are for will be 40, so I decided to adapt the image as requested but leave the "glam" factor. I stamped the image 4 times and coloured them in with my copic markers.
Then I cut skis from white card and coloured them pale blue. I decoupaged the dress and front leg onto the base image then added the skis, drew in the ski poles and added glitter for the earrings and necklace.



To finish the cards, I used BG Sugar Rush papers and alphabets.
I edged the paper with my new Martha Stewart deep edge punches, stamped trees (Clarity Stamps) and added card candy



These are the finished cards which are 8x8in.



Now, the challenge, just for fun, choose any stamp at random and make it into a ski themed card. The results should be very interesting :)

My Guy

Lynn very kindly gave me some stamped images recently and I coloured this one using my copic markers. I am pleased with the way you can shade things so easily without leaving brushstrokes.
I used some paper from Jill's (Cardinal Colours) that I bought ages ago for male cards and added some buttons to finish.

Made this for Roberts birthday on Thursday so will add message later :)