Mother's Day Cards

Well it's been a while since I shared any cards with you all because I've been otherwise engaged with my 9 week old baby! As you can imagine I haven't had much spare time for crafting so had to make some Mother's Day cards fairly quickly. I don't normally use toppers but think I will be using then more now! 

I used Michael Powell toppers for these cards and I think that although they are simple, they are effective. I really enjoyed making them too and little man was good as gold whilst I was doing it! 

Thanks for looking!

Katie xx

Blue Bauble Cards

Hi again,

I'm back again with a few more Christmas Cards to show you. Usually I make all my cards individually and don't do two the same. This year, as I am a bit behind, once I have found a layout that works I have done a few more that are similar. When I counted up how many I had done, I found I wasn't as far behind as I thought. That was until someone at work asked if I could make him 10 or 12!

I then had to get my skates on! A lot of my cards have cute images etc, so I tried to do some that were a bit more manly for him. I also wanted to do some quick ones to get them done. Here are a few that I came up with...

I have had the blue bauble stickers for years and not known what to do with them so was pleased when I had an idea! The man at work seemed to like them, so they must be ok!

I would like to enter the second card into the following challenge:

• Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes (+ Clean and Simple) 
• Divas by Design - Feeling Festive

Thanks for looking. I'll be back with more soon!

Katie xx

12 Days of Christmas Cards

Hi Everyone,

Well I have been busy making Christmas Cards so thought it was time that I shared some with you. These cards I made using the 12 Days of Christmas papers that I received free with one of the DoCrafts Creativity Magazines. I really liked the papers when I received them, but when I sat down to use them, I really struggled with what to do with them! I didn't have anything else in the range and felt that nothing else I really had went with the papers.

Inspiration struck in the end and I cut out the baubles from one of the papers for the central image and used lots of silver to add some sparkle.

As I was pleased with how the card turned out, I did another one with gold accents instead. 

I have since used these papers for a few other cards and will share them at some point too. I hope you like these cards and if you have also used these papers for your cards I would love to see how you have used them. I will be adding more of my Christmas Cards so keep checking back!

Thanks for looking

Katie xx

Chocolate Birthday Card!

Hi everyone,

Just a quick post this evening to show you a card I made using the Hot Diggity Dog collection. I made this card for a friend who is a big fan of chocolate so thought this cute image would be perfect!

Today I have been making more Christmas cards so will share some of those with you next week.

Thanks for looking.

Katie xx

Gorjuss Birthday Card

Evening everyone,

Today I am going to share a card that I made for my sister-in-law using the Gorjuss range.

I used papers from one of the paper packs and one of the mini decoupage packs. Think these are really good value and can be used to make a quick card if needed. The little flowers and butterflies are actually from the paper pack packaging as the idea is that everything can be used which is great. 

I have a few friends' birthdays coming up and I think I'll dig these papers out again to use for those.

Thanks for looking

Katie xx

Dad's Birthday Card

Hi everyone,

After the horrid "morning" sickness, the first card that I made was for my Dad's birthday. I had completely gone off card making or any kind of crafting with the sickness, so wasn't sure how this card would turn out. Was really pleased that it turned out so well though.

I used the "Home to Nest" range from DoCrafts for this card including papers and the notelet. The leaf embellishment was from my stash and so were the letters. Since starting more mini scrapbooks and smashbooking, I have acquired quite a collection of different alphabet stickers and thought this would make a change from the usual "Happy Birthday". I also used kraft card to mat everything onto. I think it makes a nice contrast with the white card.

Well I hope you like this card, and I will be back soon with more cards I have been making.

Thanks for looking.

Katie xx

I'm back with a Baby Boy Card!

Well firstly I must apologise for not posting anything for such a hideously long time, but I do have a good reason! It is because I am pregnant! I had a really rough first 4 months with terrible nausea and sickness and didn't even go near my laptop for most of that time let alone do anything useful on it! I am now 5 months and feeling much better and have even started crafting again.

So appropriately I thought I would share a Baby Boy card I made for a friend. Lots of my friends seem to be having babies at the moment!

I used a mix of things from my stash for this card, firstly picking the forever friends bear image and bunting and then picking papers and other elements to go with it. I wanted to keep the colours fairly soft and was pleased with how it turned out!

I made my first two Christmas cards last night, so will share them with you shortly. I hope to be back to regular blogging now (although I can't guarantee that will continue after February as I may have my hands full!) I am hoping to make some things for the baby though so will share those with you too. Hopefully my lovely followers and some new people will still be around and haven't deserted me after my long absence!

Thanks for looking

Katie xx