Just Add Love

This is the box I made for Just Add Ink's challenge this week. I followed the directions from a magazine, but they can also be found here.

I used the CM Valentine Additions for the gorgeous "love" paper, and matching Cranberry cardstock. It's for fudge, which I made last night. A flavour of my own concoction called "love is in the air" which involves mini marshmallows and strawberry flavouring. Yum! Unfortunately it's not fully set. But still tastes good!!!

Love is in the Air

This is the card I have made for my other half. It's filled with "Love tokens" on the inside, perforated so that he can tear them off.

It is for One Stop Craft Challenge this week.

To create it, I used cranberry cardstock, the CM Valentine Additions, and the "Love" template to cut out the letters. It matches the box of fudge I made him too. Yum!

My first ATC!

I have been looking at ATCs for a while, and have been wanting to try making them. What I enjoyed the most about making this one is that it was SO QUICK! From whoa to go, it took me 15 minutes. And it was so much fun... I knew what I wanted to try adn I just tried it, without worrying to much about whether it looked "right" or not.

This little ATC is for this week's One Stop Craft Challenge.

ABC Christmas

The challenge for ABC Christmas this week is to make your card black and white. Plus you have to use the little digi freebie they have posted on their site. It's very cute! I enjoyed being forced out of my confort zone and using something new - so thank you ABC!

Plus I tried something else new too - I have been wanting to try making a tri-shutter card for ages, and I found this tutorial online. It was easy to follow and the measurements worked very well. Thanks!

The cardstock and Designer Prints are all Creative Memories. I made the scalloped edge around the main image by punching a scallop circle and cutting it into pizza segments, then glueing them around the outside of the back. The sentiment stamp is a local Montarga favourite.

JAI Inspiration challenge

Just Add Ink's challenge this week was to be inspired by a very pretty picture of a Sunflower. I loved the bright fresh colours, but have so little in the way of brights, that I decided to go with the theme of flowers instead. So here is my floral card - Whisper White cardstock, Cottage Garden DSP, and the Scallop flower is the wonderful Rich Razzleberry. I tied a ribbon on the card! Yay! This is the very first time! (Shhh!)

I used a sketch from a magazine I borrowed form the library.

Chocolate Chip Box and Bow

This was so much fun! I used a guide in a Paper crafting magazine that I borrowed from the library to teach me how to make these cute (and surprisingly sturdy) origami boxes plus the bow ontop. Actually, the measurements for the bow were just ridiculous (240mm x 150mm??), and the instructions were undecipherable, so I went online and found a tutorial here. Great! Thank you Kim.

I am entering my "bowed" creation into Pals Paper Arts challenge this week. I think their rules are any project - I'm not sure if it has to be a card. I hope not. Anyway, the box is for fudge, which is something I have been perfecting recently, and I have to say - my oh my - after the third batch, it's tasting pretty good.

Ingredients for the project: Chocolate Chip DSP and Chocolate Chip cardstock. Both Stampin Up.

Birthday Bird

I used the sketch from Peachy Keen Stamps this week to design this little square card for a friend of Mum's whose birthday is this weekend.

The papers are from SU's Cottage Garden pack, the punches are CM's double circle punch and SU's XL Bird punch. A cute and simple card, it was very quick to make.