Flowers and butterflies

Still trying to use up more of my card making stuff and have made 3 more cards using flowers and butterflies.

It is nice to have some cards in stock now, so I won't be caught out on birthdays again!  Will need to do more Christmas cards again.

A bit early for Christmas cards?

As part of my 'stash busting', I've been trying to make 50 cards before buying anything else, including card blanks.  I've therefore made some Christmas cards to use up some of the stacks of Christmas stuff I have.  Here is the first batch. 

Some of them are better than others.  I think my favourite is the one with the large star and the worst is the red and white one.

Big flowers and butterflies

Whilst searching through my craft stuff I found some big paper flowers that I bought years ago which I thought I should try to use as part of the 'stash busting' challenge. I made a card using the flower and added some butterflies and a sentiment.  I was so pleased with it, I made some more!

'Glass Painted' cards

Recently I joined the 'Stash Busting' forum on the Money Saving Expert website with the aim of creating 50 cards before buying any new items. I have found this to be a very useful exercise as it has forced me to actually make some cards! Here are a few I made using a pack of cards with acetate inners to do glass painting style cards.  I am quite pleased with the outcome.

Christmas Cards 2013

Here are my Christmas cards from 2013 as I've not had a chance to show them yet.  Very simple design so I could make lots in a short period, but very effective I feel!

Finally back in action!!!

Finally managed to get life sorted to do crafty stuff again :o) Some of the stuff I've been making will be Christmas presents so better not add that yet.  Instead, below are two Christmas cards I thought I had better start making.

Nice and simple to make here. We've just had 'The Range' open a shop near us so I thought it would be rude not to visit and I got these lovely scalloped edge cards in a pack of 50 from there.  The paper is cut out using a scalloped edge hole punch and several embellishments were added from my large stash.  Hopefully I'll be adding more makes soon!
 

More butterfly cards

I haven't made any cards for a while so decided to make a few this evening.  Here's a couple I came up with.  They are very simple designs, but I am a very simple person when it comes to crafting and am not very good at doing complex things.  But at least it proves you can get a good effect with minimal effort :o)

More cards

Here's todays selection of random birthday cards I've made.  I love trying out new cards and these were all really easy to make with leftover bits from my craft stash.  I definitely have too much in my collection at the moment so need some more time now to make some more! 

Quick and Easy Cards

Here's a couple more quick cards made with the stickers I got from The Range.  A few shapes cut out with my scalloped square hole punch plus a sentiment from the Works. Simple but pretty!

Boofle cards

I saw some Boofle cards on another blog and thought how simple yet effective they were. I bought a sheet of Boofle die-cut images and the Boofle small paper pack from Hobbycraft and set to work.  These cards were made with minimal effort but have turned out really well.  I added a few extra embellishments most of which came from The Works to produce a set of fun Boofle cards.

A couple of cards

These were a couple more cards I made over last weekend.  I got these butterflies from The Works who have a really good new range at the moment.  The alphabet stickers are Papermania ones I got from Hobbycraft and the squares were cut on my sister's BigShot.


The card below is simply made using a set of robot stickers I got from The Range.  They had some brilliant sets of stickers last time I went in and thought these were great for more boyish cards.

Jungle cards

I went to the Range at the weekend with my sister which meant I bought too many stickers again!  I do love the stickers that they sell there.The card above was made using a set of really cute giraffe and tiger stickers and some die cut shapes of paper.  I added some flower embelishments from the same set and then put a silver sentiment on to finish it off.

This card was made using a set of puffy stickers also from the Range which I added to some strips of sticky ribbon.  I wasn't too sure about this one and am still not convinced it works, I finished it with a silver sentiment at the bottom.

Easy Cards

Whilst at the NEC show, I bought a pad of paper for £1 because of these brilliant slogans on some of the pages.  I thought they would make great cards for any occassion and so have kept them really simple with just the picture layered on silver and pink backing.  I found it hard to stick the first one straight so went for a different approach with the second one which I think I prefer!

Butterfly Card

A nice simple card again using a big shot die cut flower paper with a butterfly sticker on top.  Sticky ribbon, a sentiment card and some flower stickers finish the look.

Froggy card

A bit of an escape from the norm with a card without butterflies!  I thought these frogs were so cute and so bought a pack of them.  Half have got crowns and the rest bow-ties. I punched three scalloped edge squares and stuck them down and added the frogs and some flower stickers to the central one.  I used some sticky ribbon along the bottom and added a silver sentiment sticker to finish.

Mum card

As its coming up for Mother's day, I've had a go at making some cards for mums.  This card uses 3 scallop edged squares punched from purple spotted paper.  On the middle one I added the word 'Mum' using silver peel-off stickers. The flowers are actually wooden flowers which I have coloured purple using an ink pad and then stuck down.  I'm quite pleased with the simple design.

Butterfly card

Not the best picture, but one of my favourite layouts.  I've used 3 scalloped squares punched out of patterned paper and added them to my card.  I used sticky ribbon down the left side of the card and added a sentiment I got from The Works.  The butterfly was part of a present from a friend at work who knows I like crafting; it came from Hobbycraft. A couple of embellishments and a finished card.

Love Cards

Here are two Valentines cards I made this year.  Not my best theme as I have never 'done' Valentines Day, but I think they turned out okay.  They could easily be used for other occassions anyway!  I rely a lot in my cards on using a scalloped square punch and patterned paper as I really like the look. Sticky ribbon, stickers and embellishments complete the cards.

Christmas Cards - a little late I know...

Having a sister with a Big Shot turned out to be very useful before Christmas when I was able to cut out these nested squares to make an easy load of Christmas cards.  Add some embellishment and you're done!

Cute Birthday Cards

I bought a selection of 4" x 4" backing papers from ebay and this one was included which had 4 squares from the 'Naughty but Nice' theme (I think!).  I cut the 4 squares out and added some pretty backing paper to some white cards to produce some cute girly birthday cards.