Thailand wedding

First I have a slight announcement. The Hobby House is having a fun challenge this month where you can enter both old and new creations. All that is required is that you use one of their toppers on your creation! What’s great is that even us on the design team get to enter! Another reason for me to get my stuff added to the blog this month, hehe. Their toppers really are quite fantastic and I have loved using them over the past year, long before I asked to join their team. Check out the challenge here and the toppers here!

The reason I went to Thailand last month was because a friend of mine was getting married there. The wedding was absolutely beautiful! When I got back home I made her this card and the matching box for it.

The card is made with various bits from my stash as well as a Hobby House topper and pearls, flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and various punches by Martha Stewart. The tiny little jar was bought at a crafting faire last year and inside I put sand I brought with me from the beach the wedding was held on, in Hua Hin.

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The box is made with flowers and pearls from Wild Orchid Crafts. A bigger jar of sand from the beach with a tiny little bow made from a hanging strap on one of my jumpers; it was the only one I cound find that was thin enough, heh. The punches are from Martha Stewart, the paper from Pion, the dies are spellbinders and the ribbon is from The Ribbon Girl.

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Here is a photo of the card in the box. The ribbon around the edge of the box is from Wild Orchid Crafts.

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This has been entered into the following challenges:

The Hobby House – Special Christmas Event
Cute Card Thursday – Celebrations
Crafty Creations – Anything Goes
Creative Inspirations – Anything Goes

Be my bunny

A day off work. A day to craft. I have made so many cards recently where I have used pre coloured images that it was time I coloured some myself again. This is the card I made this morning.

The stamp is by Lili of the Valley, the ribbon and bow are from Wild Orchid Crafts. I have used copics to colour the images. Off the top of my head I believe the colours I used were: C1, C3, C5, E50, E51, E53, G40, G82, G94, R11, R24, R29, R97, B000, B0 and a mix I have made of B000 and B00. The image has been put on foam stickers to raise it slightly from the card base.

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I have entered this card into the following challenges:

Lili’s Little Fairies – Clean n simple
Creative Inspirations – Anything goes with an option of hearts
Bearly-Mine Challenges – Anything goes

Lovephant

Here is my first project as a member of Paper Playtime‘s design team. For our challenge this week, we have the theme “anything goes”.

I made this card using paper from Pion (the back of a fancy one), a paper pad I’ve had for years and I cannot remember where the one with the hearts are from as I used bits I had left over from last year. The reason that the background looks a bit bright is that the paper is shimmering so got caught in the light, and it is the same paper I have used the back of for the deep red lines and leaves which also look dull. Their colour is more similar to the colour of the bow, that’s how far off it is! Anyway, enough rambling. The elephant is a pre coloured image from Lili of the Valley and the sentiment stamp is also from there. All flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

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This card has been entered into the following challenges:

Totally Papercrafts – Love is in the air
Divas by Design – Anything goes
Simon Says Stamp – Anything goes (second entry)
Cute Card Thursday – Something Old