Clean and Bright Butterflies

Spring will soon be here!!!

I loved doing this card, don't know why particularly but I did.
I had no idea what I was going to do when I started but loved the finish. Again there is a mixture of old and new. I did a bit of sponging under the butterfly and a bit of thumping on the little butterflies. It was for one of my granddaughters and she loved it.

The card size is 5x7 and I extended the polka dot embossing.
 

The materials used are:

Card stock: Daffodil Delight, Whisper White

Ink: Daffodil Delight, Tangerine Tango

DSP: Irresistibly yours (retired)

Stamp sets: Birthday Banners, Papillon Potpourri

Embossing folders: Perfect Polka Dots (retired)

Punches: Bitty Butterfly

Framelits: Bunch of Banners

Thinlits: Butterflies
Accessories: Basic Rhinestones, Wink of Stella

I have never enjoyed a hobby more and would love to help you get started. If you'd like to have a go and live in the Walsall area of the West Midlands contact me and I would be pleased to help you.

Will be back again soon with more cards

Love Annette x

Lego Fun

Memories Of The Past

Today's card took me back to when I was young, Lego was my favourite thing for years and it carried on when I had my eldest son. He was a demon for lego and had loads. My other 2 children not so much, they played with it more when Stephen was helping them.  My nephew seems to carried on the banner and so have two of my grand daughters except they fight over the pieces all the time and it's hard to get them to  share.  There is only 12 months between them and it's like having twins.
I saw a similar card on Pinterest and decided this would be good for Jack.  Sorry I don't have the name of the person who posted it but if it's you! thank you for the inspiration, let me know who you are and I will gladly give you the credit.

I know it's an old stamp set and you can't get it anymore, but I felt it was the right one for this card along with the non SU background.

The materials used are: 

Card Stock: Daffodil Delight, Pacific Point, Real Red

Markers: Daffodil Delight, Pacific Point, Real Red

Stamp Sets: Happiest Birthday Wishes (retired)

Embossing Folders: Brick Wall, Happy Birthday (cuttlebug)

Accessories: Brights candy dots (retired)

Will be back again soon with more cards

Love Annette x

Build A Birthday meets Wild About Flowers

A Touch Of Spring 

When making this card it was a really miserable day and I needed to do something light an cheery.

I love Perfect Plum but very rarely use it so decided that was going to be my main colour. The wild about flowers came to mind as the one stamp in this set reminds me a of a Thistle (I'm not very good with flowers, so sorry if it's wrong). But if it's right please let me know!

Once I'd finished it I was quite pleased.  I'm also trying to use up some of my old stash so hence the ribbon.

The materials used are:

Card Stock: perfect plum, whisper white

Ink: perfect plum, wild wasabi

Stamp Sets: build a birthday, wild about flowers

Embossing Folders: softly falling

Framelits: layering ovals

Ribbon: grosgrain stitched (retired)

Accessories: wink of stella

Will be back again soon with more cards

Love Annette x

Grateful Bunch meets Rose Wonder

For Someone Special

I am still trying to use DSP and ribbon as I have a cupboard full and don't usually tend to go for it, but one of my NEW YEAR resolutions was to try, so here goes.  It's handy to have old DSP as a lot of the main colours are not included in up to date DSP, they tend to be the new colours.
This card was made for someone I've known now for a few years and really enjoy being with so wanted a nice bright happy card, as she brightens my life up when I see her.

The materials used are:

Card Stock: pear pizzazz, pool party, whisper white

Card Base: NSU

DSP: frosty white (retired), sycamore street (retired)

Ink: pool party, rich razzleberry, tangerine tango, versa mark

Stamp Sets: grateful bunch, rose wonder

Embossing Powder: pool party (retired)

Punches: blossom bunch

Framelits: secret garden (retired)

Thinlits: rose garden

Ribbon: ruffled (retired)

Accessories: basic pearls

Will be back again soon with more cards

Love Annette x

Three Cheers!!

Hip Hip Hooray

Well our eldest Grandson has a birthday again and it makes me feel really old, so far as to say, this is his last year as a teenager. But I must admit he has grown up more this year than any other which makes me so proud to say Happy Birthday Kieran.

I had no idea what I was going to do for his card this year so I just put my hand into the dies box and out popped the party pop up die and this is what I came up with, hope you like it. You could change the dsp background for a more up to date one.

The materials used are:

Card stock: emerald envy, glimmer paper (retired) Whisper white thick, whisper white

DSP: it’s my party (retired)

Stamp set: starburst sayings

Thinlits: party pop up

Punch: classic label

Accessories: rhinestones NSU

Will be back again soon with more cards

Love Annette x

Flourish meets Birthday Blooms

Happy New Year to You All

Well it's been a while and I have no real excuse for it except that with being really busy this last few months I cased most of my christmas cards and so didn't put them up as they belonged to other people. (Lost my mojo for a while).
Here's the first showing for this year and I hope you like it.  It's so easy to do with next to no work involved as its nearly all die cutting.

The materials used are:

Card stock: sweet sugarplum,whisper white, wild wasabi 

Card base: NSU

Ink: sweet sugarplum

Embossing folder: elegant dots

Framelits: layering ovals

Thinlits: flourish

Stamp set: birthday blooms

Ribbon: ruched
Accessories: sequin trim

Will be back again soon with more cards

Love Annette x

Spooky Birthday

Halloween Birthday Girl

I made this themed card for my Daughter-Inlaw this year as her birthday is 31st October. Unfortunately quite a lot of it is made with retired stock but I wanted to use the old DSP from the 13-15 catalogue because I liked the pattern.  I bought the spider webs to use as doily type backgrounds but didn't get round to using them when they were in the Catalogue so thought I try one on this card.

The materials used are:

Card Stock: Coastal Cabana (retired), Whisper White

DSP: In Colors 13-15 (retired)

Ink: Coastal Cabana (retired), VersaMark

Stamp Sets: Petite Pairs (retired)

Embossing Powder: Clear

Embossing Folders: Sparkle

Framelits: Layering Circles, Lots of Labels

Accessories:Spider Webs (retired)

Will be back again soon with more cards

Love Annette x