With Love on Your Wedding Day

I was asked to be a guest designer for this month at the Penny Black and More challenge blog.  The challenge is Anything Goes and I made this wedding card for a friend.

 The stamp is from T for Transparent set 'Hugs' and the heart dies are a mixture of Cheery Lynn and Sizzix dies.  The sentiment is from Crafty Impressions and the image was coloured with Promarkers.  I coloured a second image which was fussy cut and decoupaged over the base image.

I had coloured a spare image just in case I accidentally cut off a tail whilst fussy-cutting, so I used that spare image for an engagement card.

If you get a chance, do join in with the challenge - there are always some lovely prizes on offer and you never know you might get asked to be a guest designer.  Thank you Penny Black and More, I love your monthly challenges and it was lovely to be asked to be a guest designer for you.

Happy Birthday Syreeta!!

It is my blogging (and real life) friend Syreeta's birthday today - I hope she has a lovely day and that we will catch up real soon so that I can give her a birthday pressie.  But I did put her card in the post so fingers crossed it has arrived on time.  I actually made this card right under her nose whilst we were away together on our crafty retreat!!

I used Penny Black's Party King for my main image and coloured it with Promarkers.  The patterned paper is Craft Creations and the 40 is Glitter Thickers.  The sentiment is by Penny Black and I cut all the mats with Spellbinder and Memory Box dies.  The bling is from Majorcrafts. 

I hope you have a lovely birthday Sy and also your son Cameron too who shares this day with you.  Look forward to seeing you real soon xxx

Wedding Easel Card

I recently made this card for my cousin who got married a couple of weekends ago

I used a lovely stamp from Lili of the Valley and made an easel card.

I coloured the image with Promarkers and used liquid pearls as an accent. The sentiment is also by Lili of the Valley.

  I punched hearts with the Stampin Up Itty Bitty accent punch from glitter cardstock to support the easel.

The papers are magazine freebies and the swirl was cut with a Cheery Lynn die.

Favourite Five Cards of 2010

As well as taking part in the favourite five Christmas cards, I am also participating in Debby's Favourite Five Cards of 2010 challenge.

It was really difficult to choose out of all the cards that I have made this year which were my faves, but these are the ones that I chose in the end.

 

My most used stamp this year has been Penny Black Feline Count, so I have chosen this card that I made for Lisa's 40th birthday.  Lisa is one of my friends from the Twilight Addicts social group on UKS so a vampire kitty for her birthday card was most appropriate.

This card I gave to my dear niece Milly for her birthday.

This card I gave to my fellow Dizzy Dot Lynne on her birthday.

 This is the card that I made for my hubby Richard for his birthday

 And this is the card that I made him for Valentines Day.  I hadn't shown this one before as it was made before I had a blog.

I used a sweet Penny Black hedgie stamp and Basic Grey Blush papers.  The two sentiments were printed and Twilighters will recognise the second sentiment - one of my favourite quotes from the saga.  The hearts were punched from coredinations cardstock, embossed with the Swiss Dots cuttlebug folder and then sanded to reveal the pink core.

Thank you for taking the time to look at my favourite five cards and I look forward to taking a peek at other people's favourite five.

Karen xxx

Favourite Five Christmas Cards

I have decided to join in with Debby's favourite five and post my favourite five Christmas cards from this year and then on New Years Eve I will post my favourite five cards from this year.

It was difficult limiting myself to just five cards but these are the five that I chose in the end.

This was the card for my sister Lucinda and her family.  I used a Cuddly Buddly stamp and Martha Stewart deep edge snowflake punch.  The small snowflakes were cut from glitter cardstock with a cuttlebug die.

And a close up

This card I made for Richard

I made an easel card using large scalloped circle dies from Go Kreate and decorated with a sweet Penny Black hedgies.  The snow is done using Woodware fluffy stuff.

My next card was made for a challenge that I had with my friend Wendy, I challenged her to make me a cute card as she dislikes doing cute stuff and I would make her a traditional card as I tend to usually make cute cards.  This is what I came up with for her.

I used a stamp from Blue Moon and embossed it with red glitter.  The background was stamped using various stamps from Penny Black 'T for transparent' Crystalline set in red, black and white ink.  I highlighted all the centres of the snowflakes with glitter.

I don't get much time to cross stitch cards these days but did manage earlier this year whilst on holiday to get this sweet Winnie the Pooh card stitched.

And finally I made these cards in November and loved making them, they are so cute - I will definitely use this design again next year

Happy Anniversary Lucinda and Jason

Hope you have a really lovely day and that Jason is feeling a bit better now.

I have already shared the card that I made for their anniversary here.  So this is the card that I made for them last year - my very first easel card.

This was one of my fave stamps from Penny Black last year and with an anniversary just before Christmas I can always use one of the cute christmas couple stamps for their card.

The papers used are one of the Basic Grey Christmas ranges but cannot remember which and the mats were cut with nesties

A trio of easel cards

On our Dizzy Dot weekend away, Diane made some gorgeous easel cards using large scalloped dies.  I had a go at making some baby ones using my nesties and these are the result.

And a close up of one

These little cards are a nice way of using up some of the smaller Penny Black images that you get in the clear set.

Thank you for looking.

Penny Black Saturday Challenge Week 127

This week the challenge on Penny Black Saturday Challenge was All My Favourite Things.

I did a card for a winter wedding anniversary

I have used my favourite colour pink and my favourite of my new xmas Penny Black stamps - this delightful hedgie couple is from Jolly Friends t for transparent set.  They are so cute and I have a feeling that they might end up on DHs Christmas card this year.  I don't make many easel cards but I was impressed with the wonderful scalloped circle Christmas cards that my team mate Diane was making at the weekend and borrowed some of her large circle cutters so that I could make some of my own (I hope she might show some of the cards that she made at the weekend on her blog soon - they were really lovely).  The ribbon threading die was also borrowed from Diane and I think it is a Marianne D die.  The little snowflakes are punched from pink glitter card with a Martha Stewart border punch.  The congratulations is a HOTP stamp and I used Stampin Up punches to mount the stamped greeting on.  The pink swirly paper is from Craft Creations.  For the snow on the umbrella I have used Woodware Fluffy Stuff which was lightly glittered with Stardust Stickles, I used Icicle stickles under the hedgies feet.  So lots of faves included in this card - the stamped image, colour pink, stickles and glitter cardstock.  The card is very sparkly in real life but sadly has not been captured by my photographs - if there is a knack to photographing glittery things I certainly don't have it LOL!!

A close up of the watercoloured image -

Thank you for taking the time to look.