Lovely lace meets butterfly basics

Hello there, so glad you dropped by

Today I'm showing you a card I made for a special friend of mine, it was her birthday last month, but as I said the other day I'm way behind with my blogging. When we went to see them last weekend (had a wonderful time, we just love Wales) she wanted to know how I did the colouring of the flowers and and leaves and of course all I did was show it debossed side up and coloured in the on the other side with my markers.

The materials used are:

Markers: So Saffron, Wild Wasabi

Card Stock: Whisper White, White Vellum

Card base: none SU

Stamp Sets: Butterfly Basics

Embossing Folders: Lovely Lace

Ribbon: Taffeta So Saffron (retired)

Thinlits: Butterflies

Accessories: Basic Pearls

Will be back again soon with more cards

Love Annette x

Baby Girl 2

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Hope you're all having a good Easter, the weather is really nice, don't you think.

Well I've had a lot going on over the last couple of weeks and will be quite busy over the next couple as well. So while I have 5 minutes for myself here's my favourite of the new baby cards, I really enjoyed making this one. Again there's some retired items used but these could easily be swapped for up to date items.

The materials used are:

Ink: Blushing bride

Embossing powder: Blushing bride

Card Stock: Whisper white, Blushing bride

Card base: none SU

DSP: In colours 10 — 12 (retired)

Stamps: Something for baby

Sentiment: Computer generated

Framelits: Apothecary accents, baby’s first, circles, starburst

Punches: Itty bitty shape (retired)

Embossing folder: Perfect polka dots

Ribbon: Pleated satin blushing bride (retired)

Accessories: Basic pearls

Will be back again soon with more cards

Love Annette x

Baby boy

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This is the second of my baby cards, which I've been making for my friend.  It's the only boy card, in my day you knew what you were having when it was born and not before, my how times have changed.  I love this one even though I've  used a lot of retired products, the Zoo babies stamp set is so cute. Sorry about the light, I still need to get better and taking the pic's.

The materials used are:

Ink: bashful blue (retired)

Card stock: bashful blue (retired), whisper white

Card base: none SU

Stamps: a dozen thoughts, zoo babies, gingham wheel (retired)

Framelits: ovals collection

Punches: corner (not su!), modern label

Embossing folders: scallops (retired), perfect polka dots

Ribbon: grosgrain marina mist (retired)

Accessories: pearl basic jewels

Will be back again soon with more cards

Love Annette x

Baby girl 1

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This is the first of two new baby girl cards I was asked to make for a friend of mine, she has 3 friends who are all pregnant at the moment. So glad my days of nappies and sleepless nights are well and truly over.  I've used a lot of old items in making these cards but they could very well be brought up to date with the current DSP etc. Hope you like it and let me know what you think about the new text colours here, are they OK?

The materials used are:

Ink: Pink Pirouette

Card stock: pink pirouette

Card base: none SU

DSP: subtle stack (retired), Irresistibly yours

Stamps: baby we’ve grown

Thinlits: chalk talk, scalloped circle (none SU)

Punches: 1³/₄” circle

Ribbon: grosgrain pretty in pink (retired)

Accessories: basic pearls

Will be back again soon with more cards

Love Annette x

Loving Sisters

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I'm showing the card I made for my sister today, she always likes her cards to be a little different and she really liked this one. 

The materials used are:

Ink: Baked Brown Sugar, Coastal Cabana, Real Red

Card Base: None SU

DSP: Fresh Prints

Stamps: Big Day, Relationships none SU

Punches: Modern Label, Ornate tag topper

Ribbon: Sycamore Street ¹/₄” Pool Party (retired)

Accessories: Basic Rhinestones

Will be back again soon with more cards

Love Annette x

Guy greetings

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I have a man card today, it was my brother in-laws birthday a couple of weeks ago and this is what I created for him. I gave it a worn look and was pleased with the result.

The materials used are:

Ink pads: Soft Suede

Card Stock: Soft Suede, Naturals Ivory

Stamp Sets: Guy Greetings

Ribbon: Grosgrain Early Expresso (retired)

Accessories: Candy Dots Soft Suede

Thinlits: Deckle Rectangle (not SU)

Will be back again soon with more cards

Love Annette

Charming, blast from the past

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Well this is a blast from the past, I made this quite some time ago at a class i went to at my friend Peg's.  So you may have seen this card on her blog.  I loved it at the time and so did it again recently. I am not putting up so many cards at the moment as I have bought a new computer and it's taking me some time to come to grips with it as it's my first Mac so not used to the OS yet.

The materials used are:

Ink pads: Crumb Cake, Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry

Card Stock: Rich Razzleberry, Very Vanilla

Stamp Sets: Charming (retired)

Embossing Folders: Perfect Polka Dots

Templates: A6 Oval

Will be back again soon with more cards

Love Annette