My Top Ten Cards Of 2010

Hello everyone, this will probably be my last posting for 2010.

And these are my top 10 cards of 2010!

I have only been making cards since December 2009 so it is more like a top ten of all my cards.

I saw on one of my card making friends’ blogs about the top 10 cards and decided to join in, in the Top 10 Card blog hop. You can read more about the top 10 card blog hop here.

I was hard to pick only ten but here they are:

As you can see I really love pink and easel cards!

I hope you like them too. I’ll be back in the new year and would like to wish you all a blessed, happy, new crafting year!!

Crafty Greetings 

A Christmas, Easel Card for - Stampin for the Weekend

 

Hello everyone, it is Friday and time for a new challenge over at Stampin for the Weekend.

This week the theme is: Christmas

Make a card, gift, home decor or altered item with a Christmas theme.

This is my first Christmas easel card and I just love it!

I used a stamp from Whiff of Joy called: Betty and Henry Winter Mice

And I colored it with this following Promarkers:

Spice and Coral - for the mice’s skin 

Coral, Rose Pink and Dusky Pink - for their tails, and ears

Appel and Meadow Green - for Betty’s hat, gloves and the present Henry is holding.

Maroon and Ruby - for Betty’s dress, Henry’s scarf, gloves hat and ribbon on the present. 

Holly and Forest Green - for Henry’s coat 

Cool Grey 1 - for the shadow all around the stamp

I also used silver glitter glue to put some sparkles to the stamp.

The Tree at the back of the stamp, I cut out of green basil paper, then I embossed it with my Cuttle Bug and then I added Red, Gold and Silver glitter glue to some of the embossed dots. It looks like lights doesn't it?

I also added a gold star to the top.

I glazed the card board snowflakes with 

“Royal Coat Dimensional Magic” and while it was still wet I added dry white glitter. I stuck this in the top left corner.

In the top right corner I stuck a piece of lace with a metal, star charm knotted to it.

This beautiful little Santa Claus I cut out of some beautiful christmas paper, stuck it on a pop-up saying “Ho-Ho-Ho.”

On the bottom strip of the easel card, I stuck a piece of the same lace as in the top right corner of the front of the card.

I also cut out another image as in the bottom right corner of the front card.

This one is just a rain deer saying - “Merry Christmas”

Together they read: “Ho-Ho-Ho Merry Christmas”

I also stuck a metal hart charm next to the rain deer saying “Made with love.”

To help the easel card stand up, I stuck a strip of cardboard christmas leafs decorated with “Royal Coat Dimensional Magic” and glittered with Green dry glitter.

I also stuck another snow flake in the bottom right corner.

That is all for now, Please hop over to Stampin for the Weekend and check out the beautiful DT card!

I would also like to take part in the following challenges:

Ellephantastic  - christmas / winter

Our Daily Bread Designs - christmas

Alphabet - g for glitter

Stampin With The Dragon  - make it sparkle

Wags 'n Whiskers - snowflakes 

Dutch Dare  - christmas

Creative Belli Blog - Christmas themed Embellishments

Freshly Brewed - Merry Christmas

Penny’s paper Crafty Blog -Merry Christmas

Crafty Greetings 

A GDT Easel, Friendship Card

Hi everyone, today I made a GDT card for Corrosive Challenge Blog.

You can read more about me becoming a GDT on Corrosive Challenge Blog here.

I decided to make an easel card! This week Corrosive Challenge has a sketch and I had this beautiful paper.

I love it!

Just a reminder that every time you play along this month your name will be in the drawing for:

$20 GC to Paper Makeup Stamps for rubber or digi stamps

A set of PMS Halloween stamps

Some chipboard and flowers

AND The coveted Guest DT spot for October!

I used one of my new Whiff Of Joy stamps and coloured it with the following Promarkers:

Sandston – for her hair

Dusky Pink – for her skin

Carmine – for her dress

Apple – for her top and shoes

Yellow – for the pattern one her top and book and

Cool Grey – for a shadow all around the s

With the help of my mother, I drew patterns on the scallop.

I absolutely love these flowers!

I bought them at a Scrapbook shop some time ago and it fit this card perfectly.

I wrote “Thank You For Your Friendship” in the top right hand corner.

Here is the inside and bottom strip of the easel card.

I wrote “You Read Me Like A Book”, at the bottom so the two sentences together read: “Thank You For Your Friendship, You Read Me Like A Book”

I still don’t know to whom I’m going to give this card.

But I’ll know when I know!

Please hop over to Corrosive Challenge Blog and take a look at the DT members beautiful crafting.

I also took part in the following challenges with this card:

Alphabet Challenge blog - O for Ovals

Bunny Zoe’s – summer Days

Insy Winsy Dicin – Summer Fun
One shop craft - Summer Fun

Penny paper - ANYTHING GOES!

Sweet Stampin – Pretty In Pink

Dutch Dare Card Challenges - Anything Goes

Greative Card Crew - Cute and Girly

Have a blessed weekend

Crafty Greetings

A Thank You Card For My Ballet Teacher

Hello everybody, hope you’re all well.

This week I made another easel card.

A thank you card for my ballet teacher. She works unbelievably hard at our ballet concerts every two years, and this year is no exception!

We’re going to bring Peter Pan alive on stage and I'm a ‘Pearl’ - this scene takes place in the lake on Peter Pan’s Island and I am also a ‘Rich’ Lost Boy, one of Peter’s friends.

I’m very exited to be a Lost Boy since I'm dancing with Peter Pan, Wendy and Tinkerbell in the same scene.

Danika (my seven year old sister) is a ‘Star’ in a night scene.

Danika fitting her ‘Star-dress’ while my mother is making it.

I will post some more photos of us, when the concert is over.

I thought it would be a good idea to make my ballet teacher a thank you card and give it to her now, while she is working so hard, as encouragement.

After the concert everyone is always full of praises for her and she receives many thank you cards.

So here is my card:

I just love this paper and the stamp fits perfect!

I used the sketch from Sketch Saturday, and flipped it to the right.

I also took part in the following challenges:

Sketch Saturday - Layout

Crafty Creations - Summer Lovin

Stamp Something - Something Flowery

Creatalicious Challenges - Something 3D

Creative Inspirations - Animals

Your Next Stamp - An Easel Card

The Creative Cottage - Touchy Feely

Create 4 Fun - Flowers

Chrisma Cardz Challenge - Something With a Tail

Practical Scrappers - Use 7 or  More
Paperplay Challenges - Anything Goes
Totally Gorjuss - Congratulations

I just love this stamp!

It’s one of my Whiff Of Joy Stamps and I think it fits prefect with a thank you card.

I used my promarkers to colour the stamp. I used the following colours:

Rose Pink - for the elephant (I know elephants are not pink but I think it looks girly)

Carmine - for the hair and end of the little elephant’s tail

Yellow - for the toes of the little elephant and on the flowers

Apple - For the bow tie and green on in the flowers

Sky Blue - for inside the elephant’s eyes

Cool Grey for all around the stamp (to finish it off)

Here I put some of my favourite flowers at the left top corner and right bottom corner.

I wrote “Thank You” at the top right corner.

This is ribbon I once bought at a material shop.

Here is the inside of my card.

I repeated the same textured ribbon on the bottom part of the card, just in a lighter shade of pink.

I also repeated the flowers at the bottom.

I wrote: “For Making Ballet Fun” at the bottom. When you read the two sentiments together is says: “Thank You For Making Ballet Fun.”

Although my teacher expect us to give our best, she still makes ballet fun!

Hope you like my easel card

Have a blessed week

Crafty Greetings