Whiff of Joy City girl newbie

Another lovely purchase from the craft show was the Whiff of Joy city girl collection - i was lucky enough to get them all from theHobby House, where the lovely bev rochester was demoing- what a treat that was - her cards are even more fabby up close, Bev also showed me Jane's lovley mo manning card samples too - had to have a couple of those stamps as well!! wel how could i resist after seeong all the lovely samples - thanks Bev for all your help and advice - now have lots of lovely charms and centre pieces for my flowers and some lovely tattaered angels pearl spray to spray onto my flowers - wow i am going to be busy!

Made this card and she fits a fwof the challenges around this week, so i am entering her in

friday sketchers - jaques has gave ua a fabby sketch to follow

Whimsy Blog hop - delicious Carousel stamps - hop on!

Pop on over to the Whimsy Stamps and take part in their amazing blog hop - it runs from Sunday 14th until Wed 17th March - they have some of the delicious new Carousel images , ribbon and gems up for grabs - you have to check out all the DT's cards - they are all just superb and the difference in the cards using different colours is just a delight to see.

Lili of the valley Mother's Day Card

After a very successful jaunt to the Craft show at the SECC, Glasgow last weekend, i managed to get my hands on some of the lovely new rubber stamps from Lili of the valley (14 new stamps,woo hoo!!), so watch this space space for lots of them appearing on some cards, a fabby selection of stamps, that cover loads of occasions

Decided that the lili of the valley  challenge was a must this week - the challenge was an Easel card, they are so popular at the moment and so easy to make. loved the little bear with the flower and thought he'd be perfect for Mother's day,so made my mum this card, paper is papermania forever friends pad, and image coloured with distress inks, added a little glitter to flower and butterflies,made up some paper flowers, which were also inked with the new spun sugar distress ink, stampin up sentiment and doodled some faux stitching aroung my image.  Hope Mum likes it!

This card fits a few blog challenges this week:-

Lots of mixed requirements this week, cupcake craft looking for lots of flowers - so this fits the bill, cute daisy may are needing a card for Mother's Day, LOTV asked for the ever popular Easel card style, the cute and girly is after something with spring colours, the cercret crafter have launched some new stamp designs and their challeng is anything goes, which  is also the same challenge over at ooh la la.

lili of the valley #48 - Easel Card
cute daisymay - Mother's Day
cupcakecraft challenges- Flower power - floral paper,image holding flower and handmade flowers
bythecuteandgirly - spring is in the air
the secret crafter saturday challenge - anything goes this week
ooh-la-la-creations challenges#49 -anything goes

Handbags

A selection of handbags i made for a class which i had last night - really easy to make but quite effective when finished, used a woodware cherry punch to make my flowers, which are quite dimensional, Stampin up oval stamp and matching punch used for the sentiment and fancy handle is courtesy of the Martha Stewart double border punch - everyone seemed to like making these and just in time for Mother's day too - would be lovely with miniature toiletries or some delish sweeties in them! Think i'll leave my samples lying around and MAYBE(doubt it) some of my cherubs will put something nice in them for me!

Penny Black Tiny wishes Card

Made this card for a couple of challenges over on the docrafts forum - one was the Penny Black challenge which was to be spotty paper, PB animal image, and ribbon. the other challenge was the sunday stamping one and you were to stamp an image and decoupage it, stamped this lovely hedgie from the PB tiny wishes clear set 3 times and decoupaged it and added some glamour dust glitter,ribbon and sentiment - love the tiny wishes set as they are all a decent size

Some New Cards

Just made a few cards for fun - treated myself to the new cat stamp and thought i'd have a play - made this card for a friend i haven't seen in a wee while, just to let her know that i was thinking of her.