Quick and Easy - allegedly!

The Wednesday night crafting group I go to decided that this week we would make some quick and easy cards. The spec was that we would all make one card with everything prepared and ready to make.

 So Dawn went first with these sweet baby cards.

This one gave me some grief as I ended up stuck up with glue trying to get those tiny pink flowers fixed on!

Next was my turn.

Obviously Stampin'Up had to come into mine somewhere so I used the Garden Whimsy stamp set, WW, Brocade Blue and Night of Navy cardstock and Night of Navy ink. The eyelet punch made the fancy edge and the scalloped oval punch cut down made the hinge....and yes I did resort to peel-offs. Well I don 't care what anyone says, they always come in handy and can often give a card the finishing touch it needs

Then Pam made this lovely sheep card. It was amazing how many different sheep were produced between the 6 of us!

Ailsa made 2 cards as her mum, Judith hadn't had time due to visiting relatives.

Both of Ailsa's used Stampin' Up stamp sets. The first was Pocket Silhouettes and the second was Tree Trimmings. Yes I'm afraid we did make a Christmas card. Actually we make them quite regularly and have quite a stockpile of them now.

Ailsa made her own card in yellow which I much preferred but she did her usual trick of making her card, then checking to see what stock she had and discovered she didn't have enough for us all to make yellow ones. Not to worry, I really liked the card and I'm going to have a go at a yellow one myself.

We finished these cards so quickly, we had time on our hands, so Dawn produced yet another Christmas card for us all to make. This one was using one of the lovely Lili of the Valley stamps which we are all mad about at the moment.

Well that's the end of our quick and easy designs. Some were quicker and easier than others but hopefully something's inspired you!

Thanks for looking,

Long time no blog....

I know it's been ages since I blogged and I would apologise but at this time of the year a teacher has much to do!!!! Anyway following feelings of guilt after my firend, Carrie, asked me to check out he brand new blog, I thought I'd make time for a quick blog.
So my first card is my daughter, Carrie's birthday card. (not the other one...I know it's confusing but try to keep up!) She's not likely to read this as she has no internet connection which would pose a problem if she were trying to read it!!!!! Well here it is. I cased it from the ILWS gallery here.

I hope she likes it cos I'm still a bit unsure about it myself.

Here's the recipe:

CS - WW, melon mambo and ballet blue

Ink - melon mambo, ballet blue and rich razzleberry

The flowers are from the Pretties Kit, coloured with melon mambo ( used a blender pen and the ink pad) and ballet blue and the ribbon is melon mambo.

The butterfly is from Flight of the Butterfly and the background stamping is done with Pocket Silhouette stamps which I've had for ages and finally got round to using.

The next two cards have been made using the hostess Level 1 set from the mini catalogue - Studio Sketches. I made them a while ago and have a feeling I may have cased them too, but goodness knows where from. So if you recognise them as yours, let me know and I'll add a link.

Can't seem to make this align left so recipe may look a bit odd.

CS - VV, basic grey and rose red

Ink - basic grey and rose red

Backing paper from Bella Bleu DSP

CS - VV, certainly celery and close to cocoa

Ink - certainly celery and close to cocoa

Ribbons - certainly celery and chocolate chip

Backing paper and sentiment from Love Stories scrappin kit.

That's all for today folks but there'll be more soon ....I promise.

Thanks for looking. x

Signs of Spring

Well I hope so anyway!
I have 2 butterfly cards for you today, both made using the Flight of the Butterfly stamp set and the butterfly punch which are in this month's Perfect Pairs promotion.
Buy the stamp set for £23.95 and you will get a whopping 20% reduction on the matching butterfly punch.
(For other stamp sets and punches in this promotion please click on the Perfect Pairs image on the right)

Both my cards are cased from Monica's lovely creation which you can see here.

The first one is more or less an exact copy using regal rose, old olive and whisper white card stock, regal rose, old olive, certainly celery and basic black inks and old olive ribbon.
As well as the Flight of the Butterfly stamp set, I have also used Pocket Silhouettes.

The second card card stock is only orange and green galore. The paper is from the Sunny day scrapping kit. The inks are green galore and pink passion and I've coloured some white ribbon using my pink passion marker pen. The sentiment is from Basic Phrases and I've used the word window punch for it.