Come rain or shine

Just thought I would share these quick and easy cards with you.  Yes, they are using the toppers and stamps from the recent seaside collection designed by Michael Powell.   I think even if it does rain you can still enjoy the fun fair and harbour views of the sea side.  

To create the cards I have matt and layered the toppers onto navy cardstock.  Then taken a separate strip of card and embossed it using my big shot and embossing folder, the dotty one!  To create the little squares I have first inked up the stamp using my versamark (the clear sticky one) and heated gold embossing powder to make the picture stand out.  I did this to the whole picture then just cut out the squares I wanted with my scallop punch, and layered them onto the card.  A gem inbetween gives added interest.  I do hope you like them... this layout will work well with whatevertoppers or stamped images you have.  Thank you for stopping by X x

New Baby

Hello... Really sorry it has been so long since I have posted, but family life has been quite hectic!

As you might guess by the photos, yes we have had a new baby... and friends have had new babies too ~ all boys! so I have been busy knitting the little socks you can see and making a card gift box to give them away.

I do hope that you like them.  I have never knitted a pair of socks in my life, it was quite exciting watch them come together before my knitting pins!

The stamp I have used id from lily of the valley, it comes with the sentiment too which is really sweet. 

This is a view of the inside.  These are the dimensions for the basic card
Outer card in white 24.5cm by 15cm scored at 11cm in from each side.
For the box I used white card again 20cm by 22cm, scored at 8cm 10cm 18cm and 20cm on the longest side.
Score at 2cm 4cm 16cm and 18cm on the shortest side. I cut away the corners and stuck it together with the opening at the top.
Remember to stick your ribbon on before you matt and layer the pretty paper!  Shapes have been cut using nestabilities label six.

Pirates beware

It was Oliver's birthday over the week end and I was asked to put together a 'birthday workshop'. There were six boys and one little girl. We had a brilliant time making this gable box to hold 'pirate treasure', and the post it holder in the form of a framed treasure map (which I found whilst blog hopping and downloaded for free!) Thank you too to the mums who helped to cut and stamp and stick - they were my treasures.

To make the flag we used the curly label punch. We folded the paper in half then put it into the punch but not all the way to the fold, hence we were then able to wrap it around our flag pole cut from the woodland walk paper collection (it looks just like real wood). The children were very pleased with their results. I hope you are too.

If you are interested in a children's crafty birthday party then just drop me an email: stampin-pinkbutterflies@gmail.com Thank you for reading x x