Embossed Butterflies

This month the colour challenge on The Ribbon Girl Blog is Pink and Cream.  I am currently restocking my for sale box and needed some female get well cards so made these two cards in the colour theme.

 

The card blanks were embossed with a Crafts Too embossing folder and then embellished with stamped butterflies which had been watercoloured and glittered with stardust stickles.  The sentiment was Personal Impressions and the sentiment mats punched with SU punches.  The butterfly stamp was also Stampin' Up.

I also made a quick congratulations card at the same time -

The last of April's Christmas cards

And these are the final few cards that I made in April.

 

Patterned papers are a mixture of  Hot off the Press, Brenda Pinnick and Papermania.  All the stamps used are PennyBlacks.

A girl and her dog - ATDML scraplift challenge

The last challenge for the ATDML cybercrop was a scraplift challenge and you had to choose a layout from the June Gallery to scraplift.  I chose this layout by Suzanne Torr and I also combined it with this week's challenge on UKS (criteria was - animals, lots of embellishments, use blue and to have a concentrated area on the layout).

I have very few photographs of animals but remembered that I had these photographs of my little sis' with her baby Toby.

I used Bo Bunny Kitchen Spice papers and lots of Martha Stewart punches.  The alphabet stickers are Pink Paislee and Adornit.

Yet more Christmas cards

Some more cards from my mammoth session in April -

The patterned papers are a mixture of magazine freebies, DCWV and Papermania.  The stamped swirl is Stampin' Up and the images are all Penny Blacks.  The sentiments are a mixture of Personal Impressions, Cuddly Buddly and Wild Rose Studio.

ATDML Class 4 - Mini book by Karen Moss

This class was to make a mini book using just one sheet of cardstock and some double sided patterned paper.  I rarely make mini books but wanted to make one about our recent stay in The Netherlands with the Jansen family.

I used Paper Trunk 'Maybe Baby' for the cover of my book.

The inside cover -

The back pages -

To decorate my pages I used a woodware scroll punch and I also doodled flowers on polka dot paper and cut them out.

I added a prima e-bling pearl to the flower on the front cover and used organza ribbon from my stash to make the tie. 

Thankyou Karen for a great class.

Shimelle 4x6 photo love May - Debden Dining

This month we are up to five photographs for Shimelle's 4x6 photo love

I did my layout about the lovely meals we always have at our weekends away at Debden.  I used Sarah's Cards January kit - Fancy Pants 'Happy Together'

I must apologise for the strangeness of this post but I have had to revert to the old editor on blogger to get my photos uploaded - hope this is just a blip as I hate the old editor - I can't put in links properly or get my photos in the order that I would like them :(

ATDML Class Five - Caledonian Canal

Class five was a lovely grid format page by Jane Hewitt and it was another opportunity for me this weekend to use more of the mini tripleprint photographs. 

I used October Afternoon Seaside papers and lots of alphabet stickers including October Afternoon, Pink Paislee, Cosmo Cricket and Doodlebug.   The photographs are from our boat trip on the Caledonian Canal in 2005.

Thankyou Jane for a lovely class.