A little later than intended...

... but I think I promised to show some Mother's Day cards that I made.  Eventually got round to photographing them and here they are:

The butterfly stamp is by Papertrey Ink, pretty much everything else is from Stampin' Up!, except the yellow buttons on the first card, I think.  I had made a third one with a pink and green theme, but somebody snapped it up at the craft fair :)

Btw, I was a very happy bunny last Monday!  I had entered one of my many daffodil cards in a challenge over at A Passion for Papertrey, and lo and behold, it was chosen as one of the top three :))))  If you look closely over at my sidebar, you will notice that I'm now sporting a rather snazzy blinkie - thanks again to Kate, Aimes and Caryn :)

Well, I wish I had more to show, but have not found a minute to get any cards made.  And my fingers are itching, I'm desperate to get stamping, but general busy-ness dictates otherwise.  Hopefully I'll find some time soon, but right now, I'm off to get a head start on dinner.  Till next time, thanks for looking!

Cute Cards

Here's another wee batch of cards that I made recently, using a Sugar Nellie image I've had for a while now, but never inked, let alone coloured in - not very good of me! ;-)



I coloured the image with watercolour pencils for all three cards, still my favourite colouring medium by far, probably because it's the most forgiving ;-)

I have a spring fair coming up this weekend, hopefully somebody will like these wee cuties!  I've also made a few more mother's day cards, which I'll show you tomorrow.  Till then, thanks for looking!

Daffodils

Spring is coming, and I've been playing around with PTI's Year of Flowers: Daffodil set - I love that big daffodil image!!!  On some of the cards, I coloured the flowers in with Copics (yes, I gave in at some point and bought a few, but we don't have the best working relationship...), on others, I tried some paper piecing.

This card is probably my favourite, and I'm going to enter it in a couple of challenges: firstly, Daring Cardmakers with "Jonquils and Daffodils for March" and secondly, A Passion for Papertrey with "Piece out, Man" (paper piecing).

I stamped the daffodil image on Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie and So Saffron patterned papers from Stampin' Up! and then carefully cut out the individual bits and assembled the flower.  Added a scallop edged Pumpkin Pie border to the bottom, with some linen thread and a button, stamped on a sentiment and inked liberally round all the edges - done!  Very warm and spring-y, and I like it :)

Here are some more daffodil cards:



Hope you enjoyed the splash of colour, thanks for stopping by!

And Now Some Woolly Stuff

You might remember from a few posts ago that I signed up to crochet some granny squares for Sarah London's Crochet A Rainbow project.  Well, I stopped at just over 30 and have now posted them to Australia.  I could have kept going and happily neglected everything else, craft- and otherwise, they are so addictive to make!  Here's the bundle of colourfulness that's currently winging its way to the other hemisphere (apologies for the photo quality, the light wasn't great):

I hope they will bring some brightness back in the recipients' lives.

Well, that's it from me for a little while, we're off to see my folks in Germany on Sunday.  The schools, for reasons best known to themselves, thought it was a good idea to give the kids a 10-day break in the middle of February - not really a month known for reliable weather here... So we're making the most of it with a week's room and board at my parents and hopefully a visit or two to my brother's as well to meet my baby nephew :)

See you when I get back, thanks for stopping by!

And Some More Papercrafts...

I had promised a couple more calendars a while ago, and here they finally are:

These are hopefully delighting both sets of grandparents and have been made using SU! Perfect Plum and Old Olive (which tie in nicely with the colours in the photo).  The first one uses Just Believe, the second Sweet Summer (SAB set).

Thanks for looking :)

Papercrafts first...

Without much ado, here are some cards I made recently:

This first card uses a new Stampin' Up! SAB set, with the flower heads stamped, watercoloured and then cut out and popped up.

The second card uses a few of my Papertrey goodies that I got with some Christmas money.  I love the teacup set and I'm so pleased that there is a matching die, so I don't have to cut out all the twiddly, fiddly bits :)

And last, but not least, another (mainly) Stampin' Up! card, using some old designer paper and Flight of the Butterfly stamp set.

Thanks for looking!

Granny Square Donations

Following on from my last post, I've been busy crocheting colourful granny squares to donate to Sarah London's efforts.  It's been fun using bright, cheery colours! :)  This is my selection so far:

I'm going to make another 4 in the blue and green colourway, and then add a few solid colour ones as well.  Hopefully I'll have a nice little parcel ready to send to Australia by next week :)