Flowers, Flowers, Flowers!

Here is a sweet easel-style card I have made using The Greeting Farm's 'Dahlia'. I just love her! I have coloured her with watercoloured pencils and highlighted parts of the stamp using glossy accents to really make the image 'pop' (I am loving glossy accents and seem to be using it all the time now!). I love flowers, bling and pearls so I have used heaps of them for this card. For the dark blue background I have used core'dinations paper which I embossed then lightly sanded it back to make the embossing stand out. I also finally pulled out my sewing machine and had a go at stitching! (the green panels are stitched). For my bow in the corner I tied it using the 'bow easy'.

Let me know what you think!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
- Card Patterns; Sketch challenge
- Stamp Something; 'Cute somethings'. I think Dahlia is pretty darn cute!
- Splendid Stamping With The Greeting Farm; 'Pop!'. I have used glossy accents to make my project pop!
- Paper Cutz Challenge; 'It's your choice'
- One Stop Craft Challenge; 'More than one fold'. I have used an easel-style card.

Close up of the top half of the card showing Dahlia with glossy accents:

Bottom of card:

Side view of the easel-style card:

Pink Sweet Pea Stamps Easel Card!

Here is a card that I have made that features lots of my favourite things; Sweet Pea Stamps, flowers, bling and pink! It is a round easel-style card which are really fun to make and it is a great way to display your card. For my image I have stamped "The Dragonfly", designed by Ching Chou Kuik from Sweet Pea Stamps. My stamped sentiment is also from Sweet Pea Stamps and it comes with another stamp called "The Moth".
I am entering this card into the following challenges:
- "In A Sweet Pea Dream". 'Things with wings'. This is the new Sweet Pea Stamps blog and there are great challenges to enter.
- Sweet Pea Stampers. 'Easel Card'. There are lots of gorgeous design team cards to look at for inspiration!
- Stamp Something. 'Stamp something with some pink'. Another great blog. My favourite colour is pink so this was a good challenge for me!
- Crafty Purple Frog Challenges. 'Anything Goes'. Great theme for a challenge!

Here is my card:

Here is a close up picture of the top half of the card:

The bottom half of the card:

Close up of my Sweet Pea Stamp. I have used stickles on the dragonfly's wings:

Side view of my easel-card:

Halloween Treat Box!

Here is a cute little Halloween treat box that I made for The Cuttlebug Spot (theme is 'Halloween Treats') and Stamp Something ('Halloween Somethings'). I normally just make cards so this is something a little different and fun! I recently bought some new dies for my Cuttlebug so I had a bit of a play with them for this box. I used my Cricut machine and 'Tags, Bags, Boxes and More' cartridge to cut out the base of the box. The gorgeous stamps I have used are from Hooked on Craft and I have coloured them in with copics. I finished off my Halloween treat box with bling!

This cute little ghost is holding a toffee apple lolly and he can be purchased here. In the background I have used 'Gem Rox' Cuttlebug embossing folder:

For this side of my treat box I have used 'Halloween Sign' Cuttlebug die and embossing set. Once I embossed the sign I rubbed it a little with a sandpaper block to give it a bit of an 'aged' look. In the background I have used 'Forest Branches' Cuttlebug embossing folder:



On this side of my box I have a very cute little Halloween kitty and he is holding his own treat bag! He can be purchsed here. For the background I used 'Tiny Bubbles' Cuttlebug embossing folder:

On the last side of my box I have used two cute bats which are part of a Cuttlebug 'Disney Halloween' die cut and embossing set. I have also used 'Pumpkin Harvest' Cuttlebug embossing folder in the background:

Top of the box with bling:

The inside of the box is the best bit becuase it opens up to reveal.......Yummy treats!!!:

I hope you have enjoyed my post. Think I am going to go and enjoy some of those treats now.....!