Fimo

The panel on this card was made with some Fimo I'd had for ages and thought I really must try to do something with. I wanted something simple, so I rolled it out thinly and pressed a Cuttlebug embossing die onto the surface. It made a very fine, clear impression, and I trimmed round it before poking holes in the corners with a cocktail stick and baking it. Some printable paper from funkyhand.com, and I'd completed a simple but striking card.

Birthday Card for the Queen

This was made for a competition, which asked for a birthday card to mark the 83rd birthday of Her Majesty the Queen. I based mine on an embroidered book cover stitched by the first Queen Elizabeth when she was a girl. It was worked in stumpwork, with metallic threads - I used foam pads and glitter!

Christening card

Next month is the baptism of a friend's little girl, so I wanted to make a special card for the occasion. I had the idea of a string of bunting spelling out Miranda's name, and originally thought the bunnies could hold it in their mouths. This would have made for a very low-level card, though! So I cut some birds freehand and strung the bunting from their beaks, and added a cut-out pram and grass. The letters were printed out onto different shades of coloured card, snipped into triangles, and stuck along a length of thread with seed beads in between.

Rainbow cupcake

This was made for a competition which asked for a card with a rainbow. I used up some of my stash of ribbon making a striped background, and added a cupcake on foam pads, onto which I'd added several rainbow gems. The white background makes it look fresh and pretty.

Sour Cream pouch

Over on http://www.pinkpetticoat.blogspot.com/ there was a challenge to make a 'sour cream carton' using Pink Petticoat papers, and decorate it. This ended up being much brighter than I had planned, and the pale pink heart paper is a bit lost under the paper-pieces trees and owls! I wanted a design that would make use of the twisting sides of the pouch, and went for the tree because they fill the upper part of the sides as they widen. I added a cheerful greeting printed out from the computer. The owl and tree pattersn are from the latest issue of Creativity magazine.

You are a Princess

This card uses some of the latest stamps from http://www.kirstenlappingdesigns.com/. Both the castle and the girl come from the 'Princesses' set, as do the small words on the ribbon. The background paper came in a pack from a pound shop - it's so pretty I wish I could remember which one! The buttons which spell 'Princess' were part of the prize from Craftime, and I thought they'd go beatutifully with these images. I added some sequin flowers and gem butterfly to the watercoloured images, and tied it all together with a ribbon.

Pink Petticoat challenge

This card was made for a challange over on Pink Petticoat. We were to dress up our backgrounds, but I don't know if it's very visible here! I printed out two Pink Petticoat papers and added red glitter dots to the lower spotty paper. The ribbon is a freebie from www.shabbyprincess.com and the flowers is a freebie from Pink Petticoat - I 'painted' them with PVA and sprinkled coloured glitters over the flowers, leaves and vase. I doodled a black and white check frame for the image, to match the ribbon, and coloured the peel-off black to contrast with the paper.