A Card Marathon

Morning all, this may well be the start of quite a few posts (dependent on how many times number 2 asks to " play on the 'puter ") as my Mum asked me to create a set of cards for family and some generics so that she has a chance of remembering people's birthdays this year! (I won't comment on the fact that she's already behind on some of the main members, mainly her father and husband! Feb is a busy month) Anyway, in order to keep everything in order I used an old ice cream box (which I have slightly decorated - must take a photo soon!) and have created about 30 cards, hence the marathon! There are a few more I would like to do but we'll see! So I have about 20 odd cards to show you (I took some from my stash) but I will try to stagger them!


Here's the first one. I recently bought PTI impression plate and this was from one of my first trials. I added a ribbon and stamped the Papermania sentiment on the ribbon.

I want to enter this for these challenges:

Sweet Stampin - Oh so Girly!

Crazy for challenges - Flowers

Papertrey Ink - Make it Monday

Vellum Sentiment Strip Challenge

I managed to finally get hold of something Papertrey Ink! I bought this impression plate from ebay and I must say I do like the results (you might see a few more cards using it again soon!) I impressed the card and then added shaded it with some ink (i think chalks might work better!) I then stamped the sentiment onto the pink vellum and adhered it using double sided tape on the back of the white card. The framing on the back is actually a deep pink IRL!

Papertrey Ink - Make it Monday

Papertrey Ink have just started a new series called Make it Monday and this time we are challenged to make a Go To Sentiment card.  Click here for all the details. I think I should have included Papertrey products in this but seeing as I don't have any ... I loved the idea of this card so I had a go anyway. Enjoy.

Papertrey Ink Tag Download

Finally got my hands on some Papertrey Ink stamps, okay so they're digi's (struggling to afford shipping unfortunately) but they're still stunning.  You can read all about it here.  But anyway here is what I created with these amazing circles.