Happy International Women's Day!

Hi All,

just a quick uplifting card to wish you all a wonderful day ...

Don't let life ruffle your feathers!

Have a great day!
hugs
Monika xxx

what I used:
peacock die - cover gift from issue 147 of Simply Cards & Papercraft
feather and sentiment stamp - past issue of Creative Stamping

Birdie Is Back

... and this time he's having a party.

Hi Everyone,

It is Inspiration time again over at the STAMPlorations Blog. Today I'm sharing a card that made itself. Have you ever had one of these? I was looking for some pink card the other day and found a gelli plate print which was left over from before Christmas last year, the time was right for it to be used ...

... to cut the stitched border balloons, current cover gift of Simply Cards & Papercraft, and my stitched border piece at the bottom of my card, well it is actually the other part of the one I used for this card here. The rest was easy. Birdie from the Small Birds set was given a party hat from the Party Mates set and fuzzy cut before sitting pretty just above my sentiment from the Party Time set. I then simply doodles some lines for my balloons and my card was done.

I really like how you can use the Party Mates set and combine it with other sets for some fun cards. It a sort of reminds me of Tim Holtz' Crazy Birds and their accessories.

Pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog for more inspiration. This is also where you can find and link up with any other current challenges or simply comment to win draws. Each month we invite you to CASE any of our cards featured in the Inpiration Post and link them up for your chance to win a prize. By the way you can use any type of stamps you like to CASE our projects, and we'd be over the moon if you were to use STAMPlorations stamps, but you don't have to. Hope to see you in the Inspiration Case Playground to have fun and enjoy!

Have a lovely day!

hugs
Monika xxx

here is what I used:
Stamp sets by STAMPlorations, links are in the text

   

Border die - Lil-inkers (in the UK available from Make the Day Special)

Just For Fun

Hi All,

Just a fun card I made for the CASology Line Challenge.

I made this card using an off cut I had from a card which is due to be posted next week Friday.

Wishing you a lovely weekend!
Hugs
Monika xxx

balloon die - current cover gift of Simply Cards & Papercraft Magazine
sentiment from Party Time set by STAMPlorations

Cute As A Button

Hi Everybody,
Thanks so much for your lovely comments. Sorry to hear that quite a few of you had difficulties joining my site, not sure what is happening there. Any suggestions are welcome!!!!
Today I got a grungy Baby Boy card I want to share with you. We went round the shops yesterday to have a look at baby clothes and what we could get as a present for Nick's nephew and his wife. The tiny jeans and checked shirts were so cute, I had to take my inspiration from them.

I was working with the Baby Greetings set by Woodware, the Grid stamp by Kaisercraft and the stars which came with a magazine from Practical Publishing, would have been either Papercraft Essentials or Simply Cards & Papercraft. A bit of stamping, colouring, fuzzy cutting and punching and the card was done.
Just heard, he has arrived and both mother and baby are fine!!!
It doesn't get any newer than this, hence I'm linking up at the 'What's New challenge over at Crafty Calendar and the Anything Goes Challenge at Cardz4Guyz.
That's it from me for today
Back soon with more inspiration. Have a lovely day!
hugs
Monika xxx