Handmade flowers

Oh, me and my famous handmade flowers... I just don't seem to stop!!!

This paper was given by my daughter's Japanese friend and I love it. The leaves at the bottom have been punched out from my Carla craft mini punch. Have added pop up glitter glue to the flower centres to make it look more attractive.

Instead of making cards, all I do these days is make flowers, flowers and more flowers!!!

Embossed tea pots

I have manually embossed these teapots with a stencil from Spotlight. The flowers on the bottom right have been made by yours truly... while the blue flowers on the top left have been cut out from a ribbon.
I ran over the teapots with chalk and glitter glue (which is not visible inspite of using hubby's camera).
I wish my blog friends lived close enough so that we could sometimes share a cuppa together.
Never mind, I am lucky enough to know such a wonderful bunch of ladies... and that is enough to be grateful for, I guess.

Embossing - dry stencil embossing

I have dry embossed this card with brass stencils and coloured it with pearlised chalks. Then I gently ran over the teapot and cups with glitter glue and metallic pens. 
It looks better in person... thanks to my poor camera. :(
To fill in the empty space at the bottom I have used the Mary Engelbreit teapots punch.
Manual embossing can be a bit laborious sometimes... but the end results are always fun.

Penny Black Stamp - Triple play

My daughter and I loved this Penny Black stamp the moment we saw it. She stamped it on white card stock and coloured it with her Maped pencils. She is much better at stamping than I ever will be... 
I adorned it with paper from Hallmark and some ribbon from my stash.  Another attempt at making a boy's card.

Partly recyled again - gift wrap and wall paper

The inspiration for this card has come from one of the quick makes I saw at Sandra's blog when I visited it for the very first time. Thank you, Sandra...


 I have die cut the hearts from Sizzix and guess what I have used to make the hearts? The silver paper has been recycled from gift wrap while the creamy hearts have been die cut from a beautiful wall paper roll I bought for barely 2 or 3 pounds in a hardware shop in the suburbs of London.  To make it look posh, I used pearlised baby blue card stock - which sadly cannot be seen in this image.


The hearts at the bottom have been punched using Carla craft minis. It looks much better in person as the pattern on the wall paper cannot be seen in this poor image. What a pity!

Some cards for charity requested by Charity Crafter

Hi, dear blogger pals, this is one of the many cards that my mum made. She always manages to make cards for me to sell.  It will go to http://www.gsdlifeline.com/ which is a UK based charity that supports dogs. This was in response to Leigh (www.charitycrafter.blogspot.com/) who requested if cards could be donated to this charity.

This is a bunch of 20 cards - all packed with matching envelopes in individual plastic seal bags that I will be sending to the above charity. Sorry the picture quality is not very good. 

Am soooo.... excited!!! :-) 

Award from Sandra

I am so delighted to receive this sweet , sweet award from Sandra

I feel honoured and so motivated - infact I was on a high yesterday and my ten year old daughter could notice it. It is my first award so it is extra special.

Now I better follow the rules pertaining to this award:

1. Thank the person who gave you this award - Sandra - http://www.rosepetalcreations.blogspot.com/
It means the world to me because it is my first award from such a lovely person.

2. Put it on your blog - which I have.

3. List three things about yourself:

I am addicted to paper and card making.
I enjoy having my charity card sales.
I love visiting other blogs and looking at the wonderful creations.

4. Post a favourite picture:

5. Pass this award to 5 other bloggers. I would like to pass this on to:

Amanda

Dallas

Lorraine

Terry

Jennifer

Thank you, my dear blogger pals for making me richer and happier!