Making Handmade Cards - GDT

These are the first cards I've made for Making-Handmade-Cards. I have recently joined the design team and there's lots of papers and images available in the form of downloadable kits. I'm sure most of you have heard of Making Handmade Cards, but for those who haven't you can subscribe to the newsletter and download some freebies here! You'll also be first to know about new ekits and be able to get lots of bonuses too!
Anyway, here are my cards!

I knew I wanted a row of flowers and some butterflies hovering when I saw the kit! I wasn't sure whether to go for acetate to dangle the butterflies, pieces of folded paper to mount them on or whether to use wire! I went for the coiled wire in the end!









This is the Refresher ekit! There are some great backing papers, flowers and butterflies in different sizes, corners and alphabet circles all in 3 main colour options. Keep an eye out for it over at making-handmade-cards.com

Elzybells Challenge - using the colours of your countrys flag!

The next Elzybells challenge is up now on the Elzybells blog! The challenge this week is to use the colours of your countries flag - red white and blue in our case!


I used the fab Mechanic Ted for mine and the sentiment is from the mini tags clear set.

PTW - Dawnys Sketch #18

It's time for one of Dawnys fab sketches again this week! :) The challenge is being sponsored by Simon Says Stamp! So make sure you to pop over and enter your card by Monday - there's a $20 voucher and free shipping as a prize!! woohooo!! Check it out here!
Here's my card for this week!





I used the fab Mini messages - a little hello set from Elzybells.

Great British Competition card!

Over on craftbubble there's a Great British card making competition. The idea is to make cards based on fab things about GB. However I had in my head that it was things associated with GB so I used the Union Jack colours and a rain theme with the fab Whiff of Joy image - I love this image!



I really loved how the card turned out but wanted to use the matching greeting, 'It's raining love and birthday wishes'. The only problem was I hadn't left a space for the greeting and it didn't seem to work where ever I tried to place it, so I decided to make a little tab to pull out with the greeting hidden!



Excuse me leather sofa lol I usually take the pics upstairs!!!

Elzybells blog candy winner!!

Well doesn't time fly?! We're nearly at the end of June already! And the month long Elzybells blog birthday celebrations are almost over :(
I offered this set as blog candy:

And the winner of the fabby stamps drawn from a hat by my son Jayden (well actually a mixing bowl lol!!) is PinkLilacs So congrats to you! Please can you email me with your postal address and I'll get them sent off to you! :)
Thanks to everyone else who entered too - I hope you enjoyed the celebrations!?! :)

Elzybells Release day - June 24th!

Woohooo!!! It's release day over at Elzybells!! Here's my projects for todays sneak peeks! The stamps I've used through the sneak peeks are listed below if you want to get your order in the queue! lol
Don't forget I have Elzy stamps to give away! You can enter here! It's open until tomorrow so be quick!! Don't forget to visit the rest of the teams blogs!





The stamps I've used are
Rubadubdub - clear set
Best Things clear set
Pamper yourself rubber set
Bubbles border clear stamp
Dont forget there's 10% off orders in June too - so get yours in quick!! lol

PTW and Raspberry Ribbons!

Here's my card - a joint one this week! Raspberry Ribbons challenge is to make a monochrome card - I chose to do mine in pinks. And PTW is delightful downloads - so a downloaded image or papers! We were each given an image from Digistamp boutique to make our cards this week. The challenge is sponsored by Sally Ann so do pop over and have a go!