Happy Days Birthday Card

Right, now that I've regained the feeling in my fingers (so damn cold outside today!) I guess I ought to show you one of my latest makes. I loved Creativity Club Sketch #261 and thought that it would work great with the Papermania Happy Days range and one of the Kraft card mannequins from Craftwork Cards.

I had to tweak the sketch a little bit to accommodate the mannequin but the diagonal strips of paper and the flags were elements from the sketch. All the papers I used were from the Happy Days range and I particularly love the floral patterned paper that I used on the dress as it ties in well with the colours in the background paper. I embellished the dress with small gemstones and a piece of red sating ribbon that I found in my stash. The greetings tag is from CWC and I mounted it onto the red zig-zag paper from the Happy Days range to tie in with the colour scheme. To finish I added some blue, red and yellow buttons from the Papermania Vintage Notes range (to tie in with the haberdashery theme!) and went round the edges of the flags and the dress with clear glitter glue to add some sparkle!

Anyone would think I liked this sketch...

I was flicking through some of the Docraft Creativity Club exclusive sketches and I found the one that I used for my mum's Mother's Day card...cue a burst of inspiration! For my first card I used the gorgeous DCWV All About Girls Stack...

I picked out colours from my chosen papers to use in the background, a vivid purple and a cream textured cardstock that I tore and then inked the edges in cyan. I decided to mount the papers onto silver Mirri card to give a border between them and break the patterns up a bit. The message tag is a die-cut one from Craftwork Cards that I double mounted and decorated with purple gems. The sketch has a flower element in the bottom corner so I made a wee flower using the Glorious Gerbera dies and a button from the Vintage Notes range that matched the colours in the papers. To finish I added a punched butterfly in cyan glitter card and some CWC Candi.

I used another of the DCWV stacks for my second card, the aptly named Safari Chic stack! The colours are great; combining browns with splashes of orange and green for a bit of contrast.

For this card I mounted the papers on gold Mirri card and used a pale green card in the background, inking the edges of the cream card with Chestnut ink this time. I used another of the CWC message tags, with gold text this time, and some of their green and gold spotty Candi. I kept the flower more simple this time, using plain brown and orange papers with another Vintage Notes button. To complete I added a punched green shimmer card butterfly and some pale green gems.

Kraft Notes Gift Box

Thankfully the snow's all melted now and the road out from my flat is no longer a health and safety hazard! I braved my way to lectures yesterday so that I could present my friend with a belated birthday present, a Bare Basics box that I decorated with the new FF Kraft Notes range.

The flowers were made using the Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms dies which I embellished with brads, pearls and buttons to add a bit of sparkle. The message at the center is a Craftwork Cards greeting mounted on some peach card to tie in with the checkered background and flowers. Sets of three blue gems added a final bit of bling to the top and I decorated the sides in co-ordinating coloured papers from the Kraft Notes range, mounted onto silver Mirri card. I love decorating these boxes because you can used them to put your gift in and then they can be used as a jewellery box or something of the like too!

Gorjuss Thank You Card

Brr it's cold outside today!!! I like snow as much as the next person but not when I've got to walk to a 9 o'clock lecture in it! Anyway, cosied up inside now with a cup of tea and thought I'd put up another of my makes from the weekend. I loved this little black and white sketch-style image in the Gorjuss Ultimate Die-Cut Pack and thought that I could work it in combination with the sketch challenge that I used for my Mother's Day card.

I stuck to a blue colour scheme, mounting a selection of the papers from the Gorjuss range on silver Mirri card to add a bit more of a contrast. I also used the striped paper to tie in with the ribbon in the top corner of the image and the self-adhesive lettering that I used to spell out the greeting. The flower was made in the same way as the one on the Mother's Day card, using the Glorious Gerbera dies and folding the ends of the petal behind. I added a scalloped circle in black and a cream button to the center to tie in with the black and cream in the image. To complete I added some cream and black spotty buttons and some blue pearl gems.

Mother's Day Card

Happy Mother's Day! Here's the card that I made my amazing mum using the new Kraft Notes range that I got in my first batch of Docraft Designer goodies. I also used one of the sketch layouts that are exclusive to Docraft Creativity Club members and I thought would work really well with the co-ordinating papers in the Kraft Notes 6 x 6" pack. I chose a 6 x 6" card blank and layered up some silver Mirri card followed by the butterfly Kraft Notes paper.

Next I cut squares and rectangles of patterned paper in varying sizes and mounted them on silver Mirri card in a similar arrangement to the sketch, adding some stitching detail along the edge. The flower in the corner was made by die-cutting the largest and second largest flowers in the Glorious Gerbera pack and folding the petals over to give some dimension. To complete the flower I added a co-ordinating coloured button from the Vintage Notes range. The final touches were a message tag from Craftwork Cards, a punched butterfly in the button paper from the Kraft Notes range and some wee pink love heart buttons that I found in my mum's stash.

First Docrafts Designer makes...DONE!

This is it, my first month as a designer for the Docrafts team! I received so many wonderful goodies to play with from the new March ranges including the new Gorjuss character and papers, which are so versatile and easy to use! The projects will have to stay under wraps for the time being but I've had so much fun creating them. That's all for now, will have to leave you all in suspense!