Friendship

Sentiment stamp is SU

I cut a piece of vellum using an X-Cut doily die and mounted half of it over a luggage tag. To add a bit more definition to it I cut a semi-circle (the same patterned paper I used as a mat on the left-hand side) and attached that under the vellum.

Balloons

I made this card for my husband's recent birthday, we've been on a couple of hot-air balloon rides in the past so I knew he'd like the theme.

Balloon and landscape die are both Memory Box, sentiment die is PTI.
It's an 8 x 8 inch card and I gently curved the balloons before mounting on foam pads.

Birthday

Centre panel is Papermania
Sentiment and patterned paper by Craftwork Cards

How Are You?

Paper is Pebbles Inc
Greeting is American Crafts

Take Care

Sentiment stamps are Waltzingmouse

I've used three different kinds of vellum layered up. The first one has white leaves printed on, the second is quite a heavy-weight vellum, the third is tracing paper.

Years ago a friendly craft-shop owner recommended buying a pad of tracing paper instead of individual sheets of vellum, it's much cheaper but obviously more delicate.

I aligned the three pieces of vellum and folded them about an inch in, then used this inch to attach at the back of the card only. The front of the card is quite floaty but the weight of the sentiment panel is holding the layers down, it solves the issue of trying to hide adhesive under vellum.

Thinking Of You

Butterfly is by Quickutz
Sentiment is Simon Says Stamp
A little hard to photograph but the right-hand side is vellum so in real life it looks more delicate.

Love

Butterfly is by Quickutz
Sentiment is by Simon Says Stamp

Cherish

'Cherish' stamp is by Basic Grey
The background stamp is SU 'En Francais'
I've heat embossed both with gold detail embossing powder, Cherish was stamped on vellum.

Butterfly die set is an old one by Quickutz, loved it when I bought it years ago and then cut so many for a wedding that I couldn't stand the sight of it!

Sunflowers

Another image from Lily of the Valley, I've added some ink (and went a bit mad with a stamp from SU - French Foliage, should have done it a tad more sparingly but hey-ho).
The sentiment is Tattered Lace

Hello

Sentiment sticker is by Pebbles Inc
Embossing folder is Cuttlebug

I was tidying up my craft desk today and literally picked up these few scraps together, then decided the colours would go together to make a very quick card.

Birthday

Nothing exciting but it's all I've got today I'm afraid.
Image is Lili of the Valley
Sentiment is Jane's Script by Woodware

Best Wishes

Another dull old day which means my colours are out of whack.

Image is Lili Of The Valley, I've added some glitter.
Sentiment stamp is 'Jane's Script' and I've mounted it using SU punches

Birthday

'Happy' stamp is from a Waltzingmouse set
Birthday die is PTI
Embossing folder is SU
Banner die is Die-namics

(nicer colours in real life, these dark days don't do much for photographing cards do they?)

Papermania papers and sentiment is Die-namics

Hello

Hello die is by Memory Box
Brads are Papermania

Celebrate

Topper is by Papermania
It was a struggle to find something to fit across without obscuring the roses or the writing, nothing looked quite right. I'm still not happy with the 'celebrate' but it was the only thing I had that didn't make it all look un-balanced.

The bottom left and top right corners have been sprinkled with Frantage embossing enamel. I love this stuff but have found it doesn't like melting through multiple layers! Also much easier using a hairdryer style heat-gun rather than the long thin type, the heat is spread gently so it doesn't blow the speckles off before they have chance to melt.

Good Luck

Papers and topper are by Papermania
Sentiment stamp is SU
Die is 'Elegant Flourishes' by Sizzix

Love

Patterned paper and rose both a recent magazine freebie
Sentiment is a Memory Box die
I added the gems to try and distract from the fact I glued the sentiment on slightly wonky...

Best Wishes

My stamping is poor on this one but never mind!
The french text stamp is SU
Shell/ fossil stamps and the sentiment stamp are all Hero Arts

Mini Album

My friend recently became a grandmother for the first time so I made this mini-album for the new arrival.

Everything I used, except for the ribbon, is by Papermania, including the acetate album.