Hello Yellow!

This very simple card and gift bag were made for yet another challenge on Mustang Sarah's blog, here.

The pipe-cleaner handle on the bag reminds me of fluffy caterpillars :-) It doesn't really stand out in the picture, but the bag has white dashed lines around the flower and along the edges that are more noticeable in real life.

I used magnets that came in the mail on the back of some advertising to clasp the bag.

The stamped sentiment and flourish bit are from MFT's Boho Blossoms, as is the flower on the bag and on the background of the card.

These really look better in real life. I will try to get a better photo in the daylight some time.

Paper Piecing

This is another one for a challenge on Mustang Sarah's blog, which was to use paper piecing. I'd never done it before, but had been meaning to for a while. I cut the dress, skirt and top from various Two Scoops papers.

Je T'aime

I finally received the 30 little VersaColour ink pad cubes yesterday that were a free gift with a magazine subscription! Yay! Such beautiful colours.

I used three for this card: Magenta for the MFT Boho Blossoms heart, and Turquoise for the "Je T'aime", which is from Meet Me at the Cafe by MFT. I clear embossed both. The third was called vanilla and I swiped it around the edges of the white card. The paper is Two Scoops by Basic Grey, which I have been really reluctant to cut into - silly really.

The card was made for a sketch challenge on Mustang Sarah's blog. She has some lovely cards made with the Birds Galore stamps from Inkadinkado, which I recently purchased from a US online store and are on their way to me now. :-) I'm getting quite good at buying things for myself now. It's not something I do a lot of.

Waiting For A Bluebell Drip

That's the name of this House Mouse stamp. I think it is so cute.

This card is for this week's copycatcards challenge which is to use a punch and a stamp. I stamped the image twice and coloured them with watercolour paints, then used my heart punch to punch out a few bits of one of the images.

Don't Croak

Love this frog - love most frogs, I think they're gorgeous creatures. I did it for the challenge here on A Lil' Bit of Me. The card was to have green and ribbon on it. This is meant to be a get well card. :-) The frog is clipart from Microsoft Publisher and I used my Cuttlebug for the background again.

Teabag Note

This was done for this week's copycatcards challenge "It's Hip to be Square", meaning we couldn't use anything round on it. I hope letters don't count. :-)

It's just a simple teabag fold, and a pretty post-it note for the background.

Glittery Swirly Mushroom

Another card with the cuttlebug! Just a simple one. I did this quickly last night. I had stamped, coloured in and cut out the mushroom a while ago so I just had to stick it to a card. I like the sparkles, which are much easier to see in the big picture.