My card for today was for the challenge over at the Mad Crafter's Giggles group over on Facebook and the theme was in the kitchen. I did consider one of the lovely House Mouse decoupage sheets, but as I tend to use those a lot I fancied doing something different. While looking through the thousands of different sheets I have at my disposal I came across this decoupage sheet from craftsuprint and I was instantly drawn to the cute image, so this is what I made.

I just think the image is adorable and to be honest I really didn't notice the Christmas tree in the back ground until I was about to pop a Happy Birthday sentiment on it lol. I didn't want to detract from the main image, so I kept the background plain with just some white embossed card and silver mirror card matting and layering. The sentiment I printed and foiled myself and I added a few clear gems to the corners to finish off. I think it's lovely and I can now say I've made a start on my Christmas cards for this year, even though it was unintentional.

Another challenge I took part in was to make something with wheels on it, and I had been waiting for an excuse to use this sheet from craftsuprint for a little while. I think this would be great for anyone that is in to their Motorcross, but especially a youngster as I think it's quite a modern image.

I printed the sheet onto super smooth paper and cut it all out, matted the main image on to silver mirror paper and then layered the decoupage up using foam tape. I chose to add Happy Birthday as the sentiment, but it does come with a few options for you to choose from. I think it's a great card and I'm happy to say I won the challenge with my entry. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you'll visit again for more crafty makes.

Today I have some news I want to share with you all, I am now a member of the design team for LEJ Designs...how great is that!! I'm so chuffed to have been asked to join the team, and I only hope I can do the very talented Lindsay's designs the justice they deserve. My first project was either vintage or retro and I chose to go with the vintage theme.

I chose to use the Vintage Avenue Gentleman digital stamp and I coloured him using a combination of Tria Markers and Promarkers. The papers are from Making handmade Cards and were from the Perfect Gentleman kit which I got as a monthly download as a club member.I used a Sizzix framelits to cut him out and add the frame and the top hat and cane were cut on my Cricut Machine. I added black grosgrain ribbon and some black Card Candi to complete the card. Thanks for looking and please visit the LEJ Design Challenge Blog to see all the other design team members creations and take part, the digi jackpot for using a LEJ Design digi is 4 this week. Thanks for visiting and I hope you'll stop by again for more crafty makes.

Today I wanted to show you a card that I made for the daily challenge over at the Mad Crafter's Giggles group on Facebook. The theme we were set by the previous day's winner was twins and I really didn't feel like making something that was all cute and cuddly...so this is what I came up with.

I love Alice in Wonderland and have seen some beautiful stamps that sadly I don't think I could do justice and so I purchased the A Very Important Date Book by My Paper Stash which has wonderful toppers, papers and decoupage all with the Alice in Wonderland theme and was recently a free gift (just pay p&p) over at Crafting website and set about using the wonderful Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum topper. The chequered papers and the spotted border cam with the book too, so all I have added is the square card blank and black card for the matting and layering. The little foiled sentiment is by Kanban and I added a few black Card Candi to finish. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will visit again for more crafty makes.

Today I wanted to show you a card using two of Debbi Moore's CD's. I used the shabby chic birds and also the new words of inspiration CD. I chose the sheets I wanted to use from the shabby chic birds, covered an A5 card blank with the backing paper and cut out and assembled the decoupage. I added 4 pearls to where faux ones with on the decoupaged topper and I also added some black felt trim across the card.

I mounted the decoupaged topper on to the card using foam tape and I had planned to add a die cut birdcage to the side, but once I had cut it out and placed it where I wanted it to go I didn't like the look of it, so I needed to find something to fill the gap. I received the words of inspiration CD the other day and really hadn't had a chance to look at it properly, but I decided it might have just what I was looking for and so that's where the sentiment topper came from. Thanks for looking and I hope you'll visit again for more crafty makes.

Today is the start of the 9th challenge over at the Crafty-Emblies blog  which is anything goes and our task for this month was to make a hanging decoration. I struggled with what to do, but I decided I would do this.

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Here is a closer view for you too.

I made the 3D stars using the Docrafts Digital Designer, and although I found them a little fiddly they aren't that hard to to make, as long as you ensure you have nice crisp ceases on you folds. I glittered the Emblies stars by covering with a glue pen all over the wood and adding the glitter to it. I then attached everthing to a piece of ribbon, alternating the 3D stars, Tatty Teddies and Emblies as I worked down. The glittered stars are lovely, and the photos really don't do them justice as they really sparkle in the light. I hope I've showed yet another way of using the beautiful Emblies and how they can be used in so many ways. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will join in the challenge over at Crafty-Emblies.

I have missed a few days I know, just haven't been in a great place and my mojo has gone off and left me lol. I know all us crafters have days where nothing goes right and things don't turn out well...just seems to happen when you have things you need to get done! Anyway here is a card that I made for the challenge over at Mad Crafter's Giggles, this is the new group that was formally known as Craftymess. The theme was silhouette and I wasn't sure what I was going to do, I had several options open to me and I chose to use another sheet from Craftsuprint.

The sheets comprises of the main image, the topper and a couple of sentiments, so really not much to do to create a card, but I do really like it. I mounted the main image on the some silver mirror paper and then on to some back card, I added ribbon around the bottom and then mounted on to a white A5 card blank. I added the sentiment using 1mm foam tape and then the topper using 2mm foam tape, so that the topper overlays the sentiment. I added a few black gems to add a little sparkle and to finish it off, a very quick and easy, but pretty card I think. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you'll visit again for more crafty makes.

Today I have two cards that I would like to show you. I made these cards again a sheet and a kit from craftsuprint for some dear friends that my Husband has know since he was a child. In fact they were like second parents to him in his formative years, so I wanted to make them something nice. They were having a double celebration as it was their Diamond Wedding Anniversary and Mary's 80th Birthday.

I didn't have a lot of choice for the Anniversary, maybe because it's a huge milestone and not something that many people get to achieve (especially nowdays), so I chose this one to make. I printed the sheet on to a 160gsm super smooth decoupage paper, mounted the topper on to silver mirror paper, then on to some mauve pearlised card and I put that on to a white pearlised A5 card blank which I made from Centura pearl, so it has slight silver undertones in it.

I mounted the decoupage using foam tape and added a little glitter with a glue pen and finally some little gems, for what I think is a pretty and tasteful card. I then started on the 80th Birthday card.

I printed all the sheets on to 250gsm super smooth card and made it up following the very easy instructions. The card I think looks very impressive and it was very well received, which it always nice as it make all the effort worth while. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you'll visit again for more crafty makes.