90th Birthday Card

The colours look a bit washed out in these photos, the card was more pink than it looks here.  I created the background using Spellbinders 'Fancy Lattice' die, laying it onto some silver mirror card.  The flowers are made using Woodware's 'Poinsettia Corner' stamp - I stamped them using silver embossing powder and coloured them over using Spun Sugar distress ink.  I used Cosmic Shimmer's PVA pearls to decorate round the frame.  The pennant shape is hand-cut with some chipboard numbers added in the centre.

60th Birthday Card

I used a piece of Hunkydory's patterned cardstock for the bottom half of this card which I had left over from one of the kits.  I added a plain piece of card for the top half which I embossed with the 'Birds and Swirls' Cuttlebug embossing folder and coloured over with Spun Sugar Distress Ink.  I added a border across to hide the join between the two pieces of card.

I used my favourite Spellbinder's set - Majestic Labels 25 for the main topper.  I backed the frame onto a piece of silver mirror card and added a '60' in the middle which I covered over using Cosmic Shimmer PVA pearls glue in 'Silver Sparkle'.

The flowers are stamped and embossed with silver embossing powder and come from Woodware's 'Poinsettia Corner' stamp set.  I coloured them using Spun Sugar distress ink so they look like more of a generic flower.  I added some Silver Sparkle PVA into the centres of the flowers.

I finished off by adding a few pearls into the corners using Cosmic Pearl PVA.

Vintage Christmas

I like the vintage look of this Christmas card.  I used a couple of decorative Christmas papers for the background of the card.  The main topper uses the free stamp set from 'Creative Stamping' magazine.  I stamped onto the 'waste' from Spellbinders Majestic Labels 25 and coloured in the birds using Spectrum Noir pencils.  I added some pearls using Cosmic Shimmer PVA pearls in pearl gold colour round the outside of the frame.

The poinsettia is Woodware's 'Poinsettia Corner' stamp.  I stamped it twice onto a red paper using gold embossing powder and layered it up to give it a bit more dimension.  The leaves are handcut and coloured using Evergreen Bough Distress Ink.

Christmas Robin

I'm trying to use up all my Christmas craft bits this year rather than buy anything new.  This card is made using a Hunkydory topper from last years 'Rockin' Snowglobes' kit:

I turned a 5" card blank into an easel card.  I added my topper and a piece of card for a border on the top part of the card.  The poinsettia is stamped with silver embossing powder using Woodwares 'Poinsettia Corner' stamp (which is the only new Christmas item I've bought this year) and is coloured using Barn Door and Evergreen Bough Distress Inks. 

For the bottom part of the card I stamped a snowflake in silver embossing powder and coloured round the edges using Tumbled Glass Distress Ink.  I added a border and sentiment across the middle of the card to act as the 'stopper' for the easel.

 I added a couple of pearls in the bottom corner and the middle of the poinsettia using Cosmic Shimmers' PVA pearls in silver sparkle.

Christmas Card

My first Christmas card of the year:

I used Spellbinders Majestic Labels 25 for this card (I'm not obsessed with this set honest, I realised most of the cards I've made so far have been using this frame ;p).  I cut out an apperture using the frame and covered it with acetate.  I used Spellbinders 2012 Christmas dies to cut out the baubles and backed them onto a piece of black card.  I stuck them onto the acetate and used the Cosmic Shimmer 'sparkle' PVA pearls to make the strand for them.

The poinsettia was stamped from Woodware 'Poinsettia Corner' stamp set and coloured using Spectrum Noir pencils.  I added a couple of die cut swirls to around the flower.  Finished off with a sentiment and a few more of the PVA pears in the top and bottom corners of the card.