Monday, 19 March 2012

Mother's Day

Here are the cards I made for my mum and mother-in-law.


I have my Promarkers now so am very excited!!

I clearly need to practice my photo-taking...

Looking at these pictures, I realise that the sentiments don't look quite right. Next time I will stamp on to contrasting card and cut out. They look better up close, promise!!

Can I enter the green card into the MSE Spring Challenge?

Thanks

HelenPie x

Monday, 12 March 2012

King of the Road

It's a colleague's birthday on Wednesday so I thought I would give my first birthday card for a male a shot.


He passed his driving test only about a year ago and we often tease him about his motoring skills so I thought that this would be a fitting card:


The fonts are from a collection of letting stamps I have, stamped in bronze and embossed with clear powder.
The sticker was free with a cardmaking magazine this month.
The red card was from my stash and the checked paper was also free in a magazine

Sunday, 4 March 2012

Wedding Invitations: Making Progress

Today has been spent cutting ribbons and applying buckles, and applying double sided tape to mounting paper. My fingers ache!

Here are the beginnings of our invitations with silver embossed lettering, ivory ribbon and diamanté buckle.

Saturday, 3 March 2012

A card for Beth

It's my friend Beth's birthday in a few days so I thought I'd try out my skills and make her a card.

As before, the image is LOTV from a free stack, painted with acrylics. The papers are all from my stash.

I hope she likes it!

I'd like to enter this card into:

Friday, 2 March 2012

My Very First Card

I've been getting impatient and wanting to buy so many stamps, tools and papers! I thought I'd better prove (to myself) that I can create a card with what I already have.


The LOTV image was free with a magazine (Papercraft Inspirations?). I pained it with some acrylic paints I had, mixing the colours myself. The papers are all from my stash and the flower is freehand decoupage.

I wanted to do more with it but am worried about over doing it! I haven't added a sentiment but will probably use the card for mother's day.

I would like to enter this card in to:

Thursday, 1 March 2012

My first blog hop!

I've just taken part in my first "blog hop" Took me a while to figure out what it was!

It is great to see what a vast community of card makers and artists are out there. I feel I have a lot to learn!

The blog hop can be found here at Whimsy Stamps Inspirations.


HelenPie x