Lime and Liquorice

The idea for this came from a card I saw on Julie Hickey's blog. I love using squares but usually don't leave a border round the edge.

The papers are from the Glitz and Glamour collection and the Carnival collection. The butterflies were punched using a Martha Stewart punch and the scalloped oval with a Stampin' Up punch. The greeting in the centre is an oval message. Needless to say everything I used is from Craftwork Cards.

And again....

Here is yet another gap card mad with Elegant Rectangles. I love the combination of orange and lime. The striped paper is from the Glitz and Glamour collection, the lime paper is from the Carnival collection and the scalloped circle was cut with a Stampin' Up punch and is finished off with an In Circle messag. The flowers are from my Flower Store and have Card Candy centres embellished with glitter glue.

All paper and card is from Craftwork Cards - there's a surprise!!

And again.....

Another gap card but this time I used Beautiful Butterflies to fill the gap. The back of the card is a lime Elegant Rectangle and the front is a Hot Pink one. The striped paper is from the Glitz and Glamour collection and the lime foiled paper is from the Carnival collection. I punched the scalloped circle with a Stampin' Up punch and added an In Circle message to the centre. The card was finished off with three pieces of hot pink Card Candy down the left hand side.

Elegant Rectangles are my favourite Craftwork Cards product at the moment.

Another Gap Card

Here is another gap card. This time I have used a hot pink Elegant Rectangle for the back of the card and a lime one for the front. The striped paper is from the Glitz and Glamour collection and the pink foiled paper is from the Carnival collection. The flowers were from my Flower Store and I punched the butterfly and scalloped circle from matching lime card. The circle was finished off with an In Circle message and the flowers were finished off with pink Card Candy covered in glitter glue.

It goes without saying that everything used was from Craftwork Cards apart from the butterfly punch (Martha Stewart) and the scalloped circle punch (Stampin' Up).

ATC - J

Here the ATCs I made for the Alphabet ATC Swap on my card group. I wasn't sure what to use for the letter J and finally opted for 'Jewels'.

The background paper is by Prima and I inked the edges with a Versamagic ink pad in Sahara Sand. I cut pieces of card from a DCWV Linen Closet stack for the large daisies and stamped these with a large Fancy Pants background stamp before cutting the daisies using a Spellbinders die. The small daisies were punched out. After sticking all of the daisies onto the ATCs using a glue pen I added self-adhesive jewels. I would normally have used foam pads for the large daisies to add dimension but the card was quite thin and I thought it was better to stick it down flat.

Owls

Here is another card which I made for a swap on my card group. Once again I have used Elegant Rectangles as a base card. The papers are some fab 12 x 12s that I got from Craftwork Cards and are manufactured by My Mind's Eye (Quite Contrary collection).

The scalloped circle was punched with my Stampin' Up punch and I added an In Circle message to the middle of it. I also edged the panel of owls with glitter glue - I always said I couldn't use glitter glue for edging but I am improving with practice!!

Gap Card

Here is a 'Gap' card that I have made for a swap on my card group. This type of card was thought up by Julie Hickey and Paula Pascual and it really is lovely. The idea is to cut out a section of card to create a gap. This is then joined using die cut flowers or other embellishments.

I used two Elegant Rectangles as my base card and decorated the front one with spotted paper from the Glitz and Glamour collection and lime paper from the Carnival collection. I used matching flowers to fill the gap and added lime Card Candy embellished with glitter glue to the the centre of each. The scalloped oval was puched from the section of card that I cut out to create the gap and a I added an Oval Message to the centreof it.