Card for my son's teacher and a survival kit...

This is a card I have made for my son's reception teacher to say thank you for everything this past year. I used paper by Imaginisce (the red stip across the middle is the design on other side of the beige paper and attached with brads), the sheets of paper was done with a cute Imaginisce stamp and chalked then a brad added, the boy on the pencil is a Magnolia stamped image and coloured with Whispers pens and a waterbrush. My son is going to make his own thank you card.

This is a little funny gift, a Teacher's Survival Kit. The bag contains:

A Tissue - to wipe away the tears, yours and theirs.

Shiny Penny - to remind you each child shines in their own special way

Paper Clip - to hold everything together

Crayon - to colour your day bright and cheerful

Elastic Band - to remind you to be flexible

Jigsaw Piece - because without you the class wouldn't be complete

Marbles - to replace the ones you may lose

Eraser - to remind you everyone makes mistakes and they can be erased

Starburst Sweet - to give you a burst of energy when you need it

Teabag – relax with a well-deserved cuppa

Another pocket card but it's not square this time!!!

This is a big pocket card using 2 A5 card blanks. The papers are from the new Lemonade range by Baisc Grey (as are the stickers).

I made my first wallet...

This is my first ever wallet, made using the brilliant tutorial from the lovely craftygranny. I decorated the wallet with some very pretty DCWV floral paper and a Tilda stamped image. The lace ribbon was given to me by OAP as part of the stash swap over on Crafty Place and it is gorgeous. I've made it to hold some stamped images and I'm going to send it to a very special lady who sent me lots of images x

A Daisy Card for Daisy!

I made this cute daisy card for a little girl called Daisy. The papers and decoupage image are by Daisy and Dandelion and the lettering is by Basic Grey (Archaic).

Trying new colouring methods...

I have some Whispers brush pens and have always used them straight from the pen onto the card to colour an image. I wanted to try something subtler so had a go adding the ink from the brush pen to an acrylic block and picking up the ink with a waterbrush pen and then colouring. The image on the left is how I would normally colour and the one on the right is done with a waterpen. I love the subtleness and colour shading, think I'm going to have to play a bit more with the waterpen!

My Pink Card and ATC Swaps

This is the card that I made for the Crafty Place June 'Pink' Card Swap. I used Basic Grey Urban Prairie papers and a template from Craftwork Cards to cut out the owls and the branch.

This is the ATC I made for the Crafty Place June 'Feeling Blue' ATC Swap. I used more Basic Grey papers and the owl template again.
This is a little tag card I sent to npsmama from MSE. I used Basic Grey Offbeat papers.

Cards I Received Today...

My lovely postlady bought me these beautiful cards today...

This one is from the lovely Gemm, it's her PINK card swap. It's gorgeous with loads of layering x

This card is from Mary (MSE/Crafty Place). She is having huge problems with her PC and so sent me this very pretty note to let me know what she's been up to. Mary has been keeping herself more than busy making snowmen out of socks and has very kindly sent me instructions so I can have a go...