Valentine's Day

Welcome to my two new followers, Swissie of Swissies Verden and Janice Rohde of My Craft Room Makes.  Please pop over to their blogs to see all their lovely creations.

We've spent the last four days in our little caravan in North Devon, shaken about by the gales of Storm Imogen and experiencing rain, hail and snow. We came home yesterday and today we have clear blue skies with the odd puffy, white cloud!  

Onto today's card, a Valentine card for my hubby.  I know blue and white are not the most traditional colours for Valentine cards, but his football team plays in blue and white and the rival football team plays in red and white.  It's been a standing joke in our house that red and white cards are not allowed for hubby! :-)

The heart die cut is 'Heart of Hearts' by Impression Obsession, which I cut out from a snippet of white card. I used four white hearts from the waste in the corners of the the card.  The heart was then layered on squares, die cut with Memory Box 'Stitched Squares'.  The computer generated sentiment was die cut with a Memory Box 'Stitched Rectangle' die.  

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

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 215 ~ Use Snippets

Cardz 4 Guyz Challenge #106 ~ Valentine or Love

CASology Challenge - Week 184 ~ Valentine

Beccy's Place February Challenge

Black Tie Dinner/Dance

Two cards are needed for this weekend for a Black Tie Dinner/Dance, one masculine and one feminine.

The first card is a copy of a card I made in 2013, in the days when my blog was fairly new, I hadn't discovered the blogging community and I think I was the only one looking at my blog!! My card is CASE'd from a card I saw made on YouTube - you can find out the details HERE in my previous post.  The embossing folder I used is a SU one and the buttons are black gems.

For the second card I used a Little Claire silhouette stamp.  I added tiny clear gems to the chandelier.  The embossing folder is Spellbinders 'Dainty Dots'.  A piece of ribbon and three black gems finished off my card.

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

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 214 ~ Used pink snippets

The Craft Barn Weekly Challenge ~ Triplets (3 black gems)

Beccy's Place February Challenge  

Valentine Card

Here is my first Fiskarettes DT project - a Valentine card, although it could be used for a Mother's Day card as that's coming up soon in the UK too.  It still hasn't sunk in that I've made it onto a DT!

For this card I used a Fiskars 'Small heart' lever punch and an  'Interchangeable Border Punch Cartridge - Hearts'.  I added and piece of red ribbon with little hearts on.  The bottom of the card is embossed with a Spellbinders 'Dainty Dots' embossing folder. The sentiment is attached using foam pads and tiny white pearls were added to the punched hearts.

I would like to enter my card for the following challenges:
Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 214 ~ Used red and white snippets

The Craft Barn Weekly Challenge ~ Triplets (3 punched hearts and 3 pearls)

Addicted to CAS Challenge #80 ~ Red
Simon Say Wednesday Challenge ~ Have a Heart
Mod Squad Challenge ~ Hearts and Flowers
Beccy's Place February Challenge

Doing a Happy Dance!

After having to keep it under my hat for a month, I'm finally able to put on my blog that I've been picked as one of the members of the Fiskarettes UK design team for the next four months!  It's my first time on a DT and I'll be making a project each week using Fiskars products which will be put on their Facebook page.  Hopefully this is a link to the Fiskarettes Facebook page, so if you are on Facebook, it would be lovely if you would 'Like' their page to see what other DT members are creating.

Back to today's cards.  For the last three years I have kept our Christmas cards with the intention of upcycling suitable ones into new cards.  (Obviously not the handmade ones as they  are safely packed away in a box!) However, they have been sat in a drawer, untouched until this week.  So, here are three cards, upcyling old cards for the first time:

I die cut part of the original card using a Memory Box 'Stitched Square' die, which I then matted on red card. The snowflake is Memory Box 'Twilight Snowflakes' die cut, attached using a foam pad. As the image is quite large, I just added a strip of red and white ribbon and a small sentiment.

I would like to enter this card for the following challenges:

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 214 ~ Used red and white snippets

For this next card, I die cut the image using a Creative Expressions 'Pierced Square' die, matted it on silver, then again on a pearlised ivory card.  The ivory card is the same colour as the figures in the image, although it doesn't really show up in the photograph. This was then attached to the card blank, which I'd covered in patterned silver foil.

The last image I used is quite detailed, so covered a card blank in silver holographic card and, leaving a small border of silver, added a white, Swiss Dots embossed background.  The image is die cut using a Memory Box 'Stitched Rectangle' die, matted on the silver holographic card.  The Memory Box 'Twilight Snowflakes' are attached using foam pads.  The image already has a Christmas greeting at the top, so there was no need to add another.