Happy Birthdays in Red

I'm terrible for hoarding papers and not wanting to use them. I decided to break into my stash and use one of my favourites. These are the 3 cards I made:

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
4 Crafty Chicks: Birthday
The Paper Shelter: Anything Goes

I'm entering this one in these two challenges:
Cupcake Craft Challenges: Lots of Layers
By the Cute & Girly Challenges: Flowers

I'm entering this last one in the challenge:
Crafts & Me Challenges: Use a Digi

Something New

I needed to make a birthday card for my friend, which is always problematic because she is very creative and makes beautiful cards! No pressure, then. 

We both sell cards at work, and last week she joked that I'd give her one of her own cards for her birthday, or maybe give her one of my old cards that has been at the back of the display for ages because nobody wants to buy it...

Anyway, we were due to go on a wet felting course the day after her birthday, and had been talking about trying out felting for a while, so I thought I'd have a go at a small piece of felting for a card. I tried to follow an online tutorial, but I had to try to roll up the felt in bits of cardboard because I didn't have anything to use as a rolling mat. It sort of worked, but probably only because it was such a small piece of felt!

I added beads and some metallic embroidery thread on the flowers, and used green eyelash yarn for the stems. Here's what I came up with:

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Cupcake Craft Challenges - Make a Scene

Paper Pretties - Try a New Technique

The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes

Get Well Soon

I made this card for a friend of mine, who needed a Get Well card for a very close friend of hers. I used my new wisteria ink pad, and Lavinia stamps, and added some stickles and gems.

I'm entering this in the Cupcake Craft Challenge 'Fairytales' challenge, the Simon Says Stamp 'Anything Goes' challenge & the Heck of a Challenge 'First Challenge - Anything Goes' challenge.

Flower Trees

Lately I've been trying to make 2 of every card rather than one, cutting down on the time I spend planning and faffing! Anyway, I made a flower tree and got a bit carried away - ended up making 6, in different colours:

I used ink dusters for the background, a digi for the tree, and then inked up some white paper scraps to punch flowers out of, as the inked colour looked more mottled and interesting than just using coloured card.

I'm entering the red one in the following challenges:
Anything Goes - Make Your Own Background
Crafty Creations - A Summer Scene
Cupcake Craft Challenges - Flowers

Things With Wings

I bought some new Lavinia stamps a couple of weeks ago - love their images! Here's a card I made with a couple of new stamps:

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

The Squirrel & The Fox "Things With Wings"
Cupcake Craft Challenges "Spring is in the air"

The Dark Side

Hi! I made this card for the Cupcake Craft Challenge 'The Darkside', partly because I really LOVE purple & black together, and partly because it makes me think of the Tim Minchin song 'Dark Side', which makes me laugh!

I love the Lavinia stamps, but I haven't quite got the hang of the way Tracey Dutton uses Liquid Pearls with glitter. It looks stunning on her creations, but I only seem to get a blobby mess! But at least the liquid pearls lighten the card a bit, as there is a lot of purple and black going on!

I'm also entering this card in the Flutterby Wednesday challenge