Green Flutterby

I really don't seem to find the time to do much card making - I think it's because I haven't got room to spread all my stuff out. And when I do try to do something I end up perched on my bed trying to cut or colour and have to keep trotting off to get the bits I need which rather sucks the fun out of it. You can see all the squalor of crafty bits on top of my chest of drawers in the photo. Anyway I have been making some ATC's over a period of time (perched on my bed) and yesterday finally got round to finishing them. I was then stuck with the dilemma of what to do with them so I decided to mount them onto cards. They are not the best but I am quite pleased with the way they turned out.
It was a learning experience and I think I will do better next time. I quite like the idea of ATC's as toppers that you could just make and store and then pop them on a card when required.

The C's won the day

Thanks for voting everyone - it was a landslide victory for card C. so it has been finished off with an insert and popped in an envelope - I shall let you know how it was received. Angela makes beautiful cards herself so it's always a bit stressful sending one of my cards to her. As you can see from the inside of the card pictured on the left, I used a slightly bigger scottie dog die cut than the one I mentioned previously (The same size as a McVities Chocolate Hobnob) Thank you for the comments regarding the problems enlarging photo B. I had the same problem and don't really know what the answer is. When I told Holly the results of the votes she was surprised that Card A didn't get one single vote - although her personal choice was C. she thought A was better than B IRL (In real life). I haven't done much card making in the last couple of days but I have tried making some ATC's (Artists trading cards) but I haven't finished them yet and I think I would be too shy to trade my paltry efforts anyway.

Angela's Birthday

It's my cousin Angela's birthday on Wednesday and when I got my tiny little scottie dog die cuts from eBay this morning, that was the jumping off point for creating her card. She loves Radley handbags (who doesn't?) and I thought a card featuring a handbag and the Radley logo (a little black scottie dog) would fit the bill. Here is a photo of the die cuts. I have placed them next to a McVities chocolate hobnob to give a sense of scale.

However the best laid plans of mice and men etc. I went off at a tangent finally producing 3 cards, all with handbags but none of them using the scottie dog. I think once I've chosen which one to send, I will put the scottie dog inside with the phrase "Hope your birthday is bags of fun" Anyway If you'd like to help me choose which card to send her there is a little poll over on the side. Cast your votes now. (Voting is now over and the poll has been removed)

On Card A I have used a Happy Birthday and small mosaic cuttlebug folder to emboss and coloured in the image with a sakura glaze pen in turquoise and pebeo gloss touch in yellow.

Card B Uses Paper from Lola's Boudoir and the image stamp is coloured in with a sakura glaze pen in red and pebeo gloss touch in pink.

Card C uses pink daisy paper from the Blooming Doodles collection and the centres of the flowers are picked out with PaperMania adhesive stones in Pink.

All 3 use the Blooming Doodles handbag image stamp from Pink Petticoat.

Lola Rose

I have decided to re-start my card blog using Blogger (I was fiddling about learning how to use it to help a friend who wants to start blogging) I really like it so I've decided to stick with it. Anyway my exciting card news is that I sent two of my photos to the Pink Petticoat Customer Gallery and they are on display there. Here are the two cards - Carol's Birthday Card and a Thank You card for Linda . I need to crack on with a few more card projects this week, more birthdays more thank yous. I don't know how some people find the time to make so many cards, I think they must be born organised because I know I always feel guilty and that I should be doing something else :)