Latest Cards

I've had to make 2 cards recently, so thought I'd upload the photos tonight. The first one was a thank you card for someone that helped us out recently.

This thank you card uses a background from the Blossoms and Butterflies DCWV matstack, with the Stampin' Up Trendy Trees punched out with the Oval punch and layered on the scalloped oval. The trees are in Old Olive, Melon Mambo and More Mustard. I was quite pleased with this one, although after it had been delivered, I thought how it would have looked nice with some Chocolate Chip ribbon as well.

The next card is a birthday card for one of Tabitha's friends. I'm afraid the colours on this photo are quite poor. I may try and retake the picture tomorrow in daylight to improve it.
This card has been made with the Big Bold Birthday stamp set that I got today :-). I've used Red Red, Summer Sun and Cameo Coral for this one.

Edit: The second image has been taken in daylight and is much more representative of the colours. I also added another stamped image to the card as I felt it needed something else.

Just as a last minute addition, I found this photo of another Thank You card I made for a friend.

This one uses the Simply Said stamp set, my favourite one so far, and I've used the Melon Mambo colour. I really like this card, it's so simple but very pretty.

Please let me know what you think. I think I make cards with varying degrees of success, I need to work on being a bit more consistent.

My first craft post

I wanted to show you what I made for the last day of school. I went to a Stampin' Up party and these were demonstrated, and I thought they were ideal treat boxes to give to Tabitha's helpers at school and her teacher. I made them and filled them with a selection of chocolates. I also made one for a little girl in Tabitha's class, who is the closest thing she has to a friend. I wanted to make sure she knew how much I appreciated what she did for Tabitha every day.

They are 2468 boxes, made from Very Vanilla cardstock, and stamped with the Simply Said set. The ribbon is Chocolate Chip, and the sentiments are from the Trendy Trees set of stamps.

Once I'd decided to do these for Tabitha, Ellie decided she needed some for her teachers too, so I had to make 10 in total. Here are the ones I made for her.

Two of these are in Whisper white, with three in Very Vanilla. They are stamped with either Simply Said, or Trendy Trees, and the ribbon fixing is Chocolate Chip again.

My husband told me I should label them so that people knew they had been made and not bought, but I don't have a stamp. I told him if he thought that, he should buy me a personalised stamp, after all there are websites that supply them. I'm now waiting to see if he took the hint. Fingers crossed. x