Custom Christmas Card

This is a card that I custom made for the head teacher at the school I teach at. I used my Cricut and Sure Cuts A Lot 2 to cut the silhouette from a dingbats font. I made the decorative label for the greeting using a corner punch - I have uploaded a video to Youtube with a tutorial to show you how.

The Pink Stamper Design Team 2011

The Pink Stamper has openings for 2 people on her 2011 design team. I love her blog and Youtube videos, subscribing to both, so decided to have a go at the challenge to be on the team. The challenge is to make a card, scrapbook page or other project using my favourite Cricut cartridge and the colours pink, green and brown.

I decided to make a birthday card (you can never have too many of these!) using one of my favourite cartridges - Once Upon A Princess. This cartridge is so versatile and doesn't have to just be 'princessy'. My scraps box provided most of the paper.

Recipe:

• Tall white card
• Making Memories vinyl sticker pink dot paper - cut slightly smaller than the card
• White card rectangle punched around the edge with Stampin' Up Scallop punch and inked with Antique Linen and Walnut Stain Distress Ink. Then embossed with Swiss Dots embossing folder
• Bull rushes and grass (Everyday Paper Doll cartridge) cut at 7" length from green cardstock then beige cardstock
• Butterfly (Once Upon a Princess cartridge) cut at 2 1/2" from various pink paper and cardstock scraps. Parts coloured with Sakura glitter gel pens and antennae made from a piece of copper wire folded in half with brown beads on each end. Butterfly body attached to the card using foam pads
• Brown ribbon wrapped around the card and tied in a knot
• Stampin' Up happy birthday stamped using Versafine Vintage Sepia ink and small flower stamped with pink pen. Punched out using Stampin' Up window punch and edged with a pink pen. Attached to the card using foam pads

Christmas card making workshop

Thursday 18th November 2010 or Friday 26th November 2010

7pm to 10pm

£10 (including all materials)

my home - Norwich (contact me for address and directions)

Come and make Christmas cards using a variety of techniques including stamping and embossing (a selection are shown above). There are still a few places available on both nights so book ASAP

File of cards

I made a file to put handmade cards into. I had made one for my Aunt for Christmas and my cousin has seen it. She wanted one to give to a friend for a birthday present and this is what I made:

Rainbow card

Here's a card I made using the Once Upon A Princess cartridge for my Cricut machine. I was inspired to make the card by a challenge on the Bitten by the Bug 2 blog. I coloured the rainbow with Copic markers then covered with glitter. I used puff paint on the clouds. I think I will send it to my God-daughter for her birthday.

Mermaid birthday card

I have recently bought a Cricut Expression and have had great fun playing with it! This card was made using the Life is a Beach cartridge. I also used my Cuttlebug and the Fiskars ocean embossing plate for the waves. It's my mum's birthday on Monday so I'll probably give it to her!

Wedding card

Mum asked me to make a couple of wedding cards for her, so here is the design I came up with. I love using my Cuttlebug and embossing folders to produce textured backgrounds (it was a bit tricky though as the paper was bigger than the folder so I had to put it through twice!)