Paper Plane

 Here's a birthday card made from a Lawn Fawn stamp, a scrap of patterned paper and a sun ray stencil.

I'd like to enter: 

Cherry Ripe

 I'm back! 

My teaching work has finished for the summer (although I'm still doing some exam marking) and, hopefully, I've now got some time to craft and blog. 

I made this to enter some challenges while building up my stock of birthday cards.

The stamp is Penny Black.

I'd like to enter:

Favourite fruit 

Use a colouring medium

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Anything Goes 

Heart Balloons Birthday

 Valentines' Day is my daughter's birthday , and I always like to include some hearts in her birthday card design. 

This is not my original design - I CASEd this card  by Nicol Spohr, changing colours, patterns and sentiments. 

I'd like to enter:

Double D  signs of love 

Give a Crafter a Cookie  happy hearts 

Little Red Wagon  just the way you are 

Cat in a Box

 Here's a birthday card I made for my son, featuring our lovely cat, Smudge. 

I'd like to enter:

Shopping Our Stash  Bent out of shape 

Crafty Animals

Three Times Trees

Suddenly, it's Christmas! And I'm short of cards. So I made three using the same Paper Smooches stamp and some scraps of patterned paper.

I'd like to enter:

Make My Monday  Christmas trees 

Sweet Stampin  Christmas 

 

Snowflake

 

Here's a snowflake, cut on my Silhouette, using an SVG I designed several years ago. I embossed it using Frantage for the speckled/ distressed effect. I layered it onto scraps of patterned text paper and patterned vellum and added a gem and a stamped sentiment. 

Id like to enter:

Try it on Tuesday  snowflakes 

Cat with a Balloon

 Here's quite a minimalist birthday card with a cat (Stampin Up) and a balloon (Avery Elle), some paper piecing and a restrained black, white and yellow palette. 

I'd like to enter:

Antlers

 Decided to combine my need for Christmas cards with a couple of challenges. The reindeer is a Flora and Fauna stamp and the wobbly circle and snowflake were just leftovers I had hanging around. 

I'd like to enter:

Jingle Belles  leftovers 

Fab n Funky  cas

Stay Warm

 

A little while ago I had a great time splattering diluted white acrylic paint at coloured card, and I'm using some here. I can't really decide whether the splatters are stars or snow ...maybe both? The cocoa-drinking polar bear and sentiment are MFT stamps. 

I'd like to enter:

Jumping Squirrel

 

Here's an autumnal birthday card I made using Lawn Fawn stamps.

I'd like to enter:

Fab n Funky  colours of autumn 

Sparkles Monthly  autumn leaves