Easter Cards - part 3

And some more Easter cards from me (I don't usually make this many but I needed a lot this year for my fundraiser the other week).

For these I used an Easter cross stamp from Stamping All Day.

The sentiments are a mixture of Pink Petticoat, Woodware and Stamps Away.  The flower punches are all from Stampin' Up.

I only made four of these as I was running out of time but wished I had made more as I sold these four straight away.  I'm not sure who the sentiment is by as I got it one year at Ally Pally - it was from one of those stalls with boxes and boxes of unmounted stamps and you had to wade through them all with a mirror to find the sentiment that you wanted - I seem to remember that Wendy and Sy really helped me that day to find Easter sentiments.  The flowers decorating the cards are a new stamp from Stampin' Up called 'Grateful Bunch' and it comes with a co-ordinating punch for three different sized daisies.

And if you are wondering where Beat the Christmas Rush has got to this month - don't worry, I have a blog post planned for the 30th - I wanted to get Easter out of the way before posting Christmas stuff!!

Easter cards - part 2

Some more Easter cards using Penny Black stamps from T for transparent set "Garden Friends"

The patterned paper is a magazine freebie and the sentiments are from Pink Petticoat

I'm entering the cards into the Penny Black and More challenge - Feature a Creature and Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Easter

Easter cards - part 1

My blog has been a little bit neglected just lately and in the meantime my 'to be blogged' book is filling up with entries.  So I am going to make a valiant effort to get back to some more regular entries.

Today I have some Easter cards which are perfect for this month's challenge on Penny Black Saturday Challenge which is Easter.  They are also great for the challenge on Penny Black and More which is Feature a Creature.

I used Penny Black stamp 'Seeing Your Face'

For the first three I used freebie papers from a craft magazine (sorry I have no idea of what range they are from).  The sentiment is by Stamps Away and the little flowers are a Stampin Up punch.

The other cards I used a large stamped sentiment from Woodware and again flower punches from Stampin Up.

Memorandum Monday (except it's Tuesday!!)

I'm a day late for Sian's Memorandum Monday but I have a good excuse and a note from my Mum!!

The weekend was spent getting prepared for a fundraiser that I did yesterday for Children With Cancer Fund.  I had cards to put inserts in and package up and lots of baby chicks to finish stuffing and sewing up.  In fact I was so busy I never took any photographs of what I was up to.  I did take a little break on Saturday evening to visit Mum and Dad though and we watched Saving Mr Banks as there was nothing on TV.  I'm not sure Dad was overly impressed with Mum and I singing along to all the songs LOL!!

Anyway Monday was a busy day and a new fundraiser for me, I usually do one in September with Christmas cards at my parents' home.  This time we sold mainly Easter cards plus knitted goods, post it note pads, tissue covers and other cards.  We did really well and raised £97 with our stall and over the course of the morning I was given a further £190 in donations from individuals and groups.

Here are all my ducks in a row

And some of my Easter cards (I will share them soon on the blog) and the other knitted toys we had.

So I'm now having a bit of chillout time and planning what I can make for my next fundraiser - I sold all the post it note pads, so they are next on my list!!

Easter Cards - Part 3

And here are my final Easter cards for this year (I had actually made more than this but a friend popped round and bought a load before I had chance to take photographs of them LOL!!).

The stamps are all Penny Black and the sentiments are a printable from Pink Petticoat.   The patterned papers are all magazine freebies.

Easter Cards Part 2

More Easter cards from me today, this time using some Penny Black images that I coloured in ages ago, tucked them away in an envelope and didn't do anything with them.  And how do I know they are old???  Well they had been coloured using Derwent watercolour pencils and I have barely used them since I stared my Promarker obsession!!

The papers used are all magazine freebies and the tiny flower punch is from Stampin' Up

The sentiment stamp on the small cards is from Stampin' Up and on the other two cards is a printable from Pink Petticoat.

Easter Cards Part 1

In the run up to Easter I will share some of the Easter cards that I have made this year. 

For my first batch I used a stamp from Stamping All Day.  I coloured the stamp with Promarkers and highlighted the flower centres with gold stickles.  I then die cut the image with a stitched rectangle die and mounted it on a mat cut from the same die set, which was then mounted onto an embossed mat.

 For the next three, I mounted the die cut image onto a mat die cut using a Spellbinder die.

The sentiments are all from Pink Petticoat

More Easter Cards

The last of the Easter cards that I had made -

I had some images left over so made a couple of get well soon cards

Supplies used -

• Penny Black stamps
• Promarkers
• SU sentiments, punches
• Woodware scalloped oval punch
• Martha Stewart border punch
• Free magazine papers

Easter cards

I used some Pink Petticoat digi-stamps for these cards.

Supplies

• Lakeland patterned papers
• Pink Petticoat digi-stamps
• Martha Stewart border punch
• Spellbinder nestablities
• Martha Stewart butterfly punch

Week 12 - 52 cards challenge

Week 12  was a colour prompt

I used some digistamps from Pink Petticoat which I coloured with Promarkers and some free magazine patterned papers.

Other supplies

• Spellbinder nestabilities
• Martha Stewart butterfly punch
• Martha Stewart border punches

52 cards challenge - week 9

Week 9 was a picture prompt

And I made the following cards using free magazine papers and a Penny Black stamp -

And this is my Christmas one for the prompt -