Today I intended to spent a few hours tidying my craft room but I came across this little ballerina bear topper that I made a while back.  The tidying stopped and I found myself inspired to make this card for a friend’s ballet mad daughter.  I used a Crafters Companion Gemini Create a Card Cut On Edge die to cut the design into the card blank then added some Fuchsia Centura Pearl cardstock behind the design.  I added a strip of the cardstock with a piece of ribbon and bow attached and a birthday greeting in co-ordinating colours.  I love the design of the Cut on the Edge die, it is so pretty.

It’s Gin Time

It’s my daughter’s birthday this week and I noticed an early birthday present in her kitchen, a bottle of purple coloured violet gin.  That gave me the idea to make this gin inspired birthday card for her.  I used the gorgeous papers from Crafters Companion Roaring Twenties collection and a stamp from the Quirky Prosecco range of stamps which are so much fun to use.  The bottle is made using Tonic’s A Good Year die set and the glasses are some generic dies I have purchased at some point.  Inside I have used another stamp from crafter’s Companion’s Quirky Prosecco range, it says “I am smiling because you are my daughter, I am laughing because there is nothing you can do about it”.  I hope she likes it.

A Few Recent Cards

It has been a while since I have posted on here so I thought I would post a few of my recent projects as a catch up.  I have been enjoying using dies and other products from a range of different companies recently but I think my style is still fun/quirky and my favourite technique is definitely still die cutting.  I don’t seem to have done much scrapbooking for a while as my printer has been down but that is certainly something I want to reconnect with.