Butterfly amongst the flowers

This card started off with me wanting to use a Hero Arts flowers set and playing with metallic rubons (haven't used them in a while). The colouring has a lovely sheen which doesn't show up in the scan. Crafty Bitz butterfly; Fiskars border punch; Franchville purple paper; green paper and gold cord from my stash. I used this as a birthday card for a fried who has beautiful, butterfly-attracting garden.

Happy Mother's Day to my mum

Here's the card I made for my mum for Mother's Day. The tiles, swirls and small text are Inkadinkadoo stamps and the 'Happy' is from Paper Xtra; SU paper; brad and ribbon from my stash. I stamped the sentiment in pale pink and clear embossed it it didn't stand out enough so I tried running a white gel pen over the embossing and then did a second embossed layer - I'm quite happy with how it turned out.

Fire-breathing dragon

I bought the most wonderful set of Elusive Images dragon stamps and made this for a friend's birthday. Can't wait to use the other two dragons and they come with some great sentiments too. Dragon is embossed in bronze; patterned papers are SU; decorative edge scissors; eyelets from my stash.

Cat in a hat (with a matching scarf of course!)

I've been making birthday cards for a friend's two nieces for several years and I always have fun coming up with ideas for them. My friend loves hats and is an amateur millliner so I thought this would be a perfect image for a card from her. Isn't the Pink Cat Studio stamp just the cutest?! Kitty cat is coloured using Versacubes and a SU blender pen; sentiment uses two Studio G sets; Basic Grey Euphoria paper over blue mulberry paper; Kindyglitz; ribbons from my stash.

Dazzle and style dress

I was watching "27 Dresses" with a friend whilst I made this. Hmmm... wonder where I got the inspiration. ;-) Stamps are all from a Hero Arts set; SU papers and card; Kaisercraft pearls; ribbon from my stash.

Flowery Congratulations

One of my friends has just gotten a promotion and this is her congrats card. I have to give credit to Katie (Pretty-n-Ink) for the design as I made it a SU class that she held earlier this month. All materials are SU (flower is Pick a Petal stamp set) except for the Grace Taylor sentiment.

Butterfly-watching cats

A birthday card for a cat loving friend. I made this not long after I went to a faux silk technique class. I thought this gorgeous Coronado Island stamp would work well with it. Renoir sentiment sticker; ribbon from my stash. You can't really tell from the pic but the white cardstock has a fine rib texture that adds a bit of interest to an otherwise plain white background.

iPod for the birthday boy

A friend asked me to make birthday cards for her two kids. This one's for her son's 15th birthday. Main and background images from the web and I've digitally added the sentiment and added diamond glaze to the screen; Stampendous musical note stamped with Versamark; treble clef charm on a wooden star, brads on corrugated card and cord all from my stash.

Shoes for the birthday girl

One of my friends asked me to make birthday cards for her two kids. This one's for her daughter's 12th birthday. Stamping Bella coloured with Tombows; my favourite Inkadinkadoo birthday stamp; DCWV patterned paper; ribbon and clip from my stash.

Celebrating with a gift

This is one of those exasperating cards where my first idea just didn't work out and I wasn't sure how to fix it. I started off with the pink papers and sentiment which came as a freebie from a UK magazine. Everything I did with it originally was just too pink. A few days later I sat down with it again and added lots of colour - that sure made a difference! I love the green paper with the rainbow dots and think it gave this card the oomph that it needed. The gift box is cut from a border strip and topped with a flower brad. I've used two ribbons - the pink stripe is folded inside a silver edged white organza. I'm so glad it's finally finished!