Dolly Mixtures Cards - Coleen and Cheryl

LOVE the new Craftwork Cards "Dolly Mixtures" papers!!! My mum got both the Coleen and Cheryl packs and I just had to try them out. I have to admit the Coleen papers are my favorite, the wee Scottie dogs are adorable! I used the dog patterned paper for my first card, mounting it onto some pink card and then a 5 x 5" card blank.  I remembered there was a doggie stencil from Craftwork Cards so I used it to cut a black dog to match the background paper, tying a little bit of pink ribbon around its neck to add some detail.

I decided to keep things relatively simple as the backing paper was quite busy so I used three of the co-ordinating flags that come in the paper pack in the to corner of my card. To complete, I added two rows of mint green Candi, black stitching detail around the flags and a "With Love" greeting tag.

Now here's my Cheryl card! I went for a similar layout as my dog card but used some purple and orange-yellow flowers that I cut using one of the Craftwork Cards stencils as a template, embellishing with purple Candi centers. For the background I tore the floral patterned paper from the Cheryl paper pad and inked the edges with purple ink before mounting onto dark purple card and then a 5 x 5" card black. I added small orange-yellow brads to the top and bottom corner and curled the edges to give a more distressed look.

To complete the card I added two of the co-ordinating flags and a gold and white die-cut message tag, also from Craftwork Cards. Hope you like them!

Personalised Thank You Card

Morning everyone! Hoping the weather is decidedly better wherever you are today, absolutely chucking it down here! I made this card last week for a friend of my mum who gave my sister and me gifts for Easter. I used a photo of the two of us as the focal point, as she hasn't seen us in a while, and took the dominant colours in the photo as the colour scheme for the card.

I mounted a peach dotted paper from a Craftwork Cards mixed stack onto some brown cardstock and then onto a 6 x 6" white card blank. Behind the photo I added some gold Mirri card and a brown frame that I die-cut using the smallest X-Cut Ornate Frame die. I also die-cut the "Thank You" greeting from some peach card and added it along the top and bottom of the card in brown banners, which I edged with clear glitter glue. To complete I made some layered flowers using the Glorious Gerbera dies and some brown brads, and added some smaller punched flowers with peach pearl gem centers.

Kraft Notes Birthday Card

First day back at uni today, oh how I hate getting up for 9am lectures first thing on a Monday morning! Anyway, I've realised that I'm a bit behind blog-wise so this is me finally getting caught up with things. This is a Forever Friends Kraft Notes card that I made using the docraft Creativity Club Sketch 269. I started by mounting up a square of the pink spotty paper onto some silver Mirri card and then onto a 5 x 5" square card.

I used on of the checkered papers from the Kraft Notes 12 x 12" pack which I cut into a circle and then layered over with strips of co-ordinating patterned papers from the range. The greetings tag is from the Kraft Notes Ultimate Die-Cut pack, which I mounted onto blue card and embellished with some blue gemstones. To complete, I added some pale blue Candi from Craftwork Cards and some clear glitter glue around the edges of the strips to add a bit of sparkle.

Two Gorjuss Birthday Cards

Finally off on holiday from uni, nice little two week break for Easter which means that I've had plenty of crafting time! Here's a couple of girly birthday cards that I made using the DoCraft Creativity Club Daily Sketches and the Gorjuss Ulimate Die Cut Pack. For the first one I combined one of the smaller Gorjuss images with the old Papermania Henbury Lane papers. My mum bought some coloured twine the other day and the purple and white one matched the colours in the papers perfectly!

I made layered flowers using the Gorjuss papers and the Glorious Gerbera dies, joining the layers together using some purple pearl gem brads. The greetings banner is from the Gorjuss pack, which I then stamped with the exclusive Creativity Club greetings stamps and embellished with pearl gems. To complete I added pearl gems to the image and some grey gemstones to the top and bottom corners. For my second card I used the beautiful teal coloured paper from the Gorjuss pack and one of the co-ordinating coloured images.

I cut a circle of floral patterned paper from the Gorjuss Neutrals pack and mounted this off-center behind the image. The flowers were made using the Petal Posy dies which I layered up and joined together with metallic blue brads. To complete I added a stamped greeting and some pale blue gemstones in the top corner.