Flowery thanks

Hello lovely people,

No time for countdowns today as my little grey cells are entirely focussed on getting my coursework finished and submitted by the end of Friday!

While I am working hard on that last essay, it's time for a new challenge at In The Pink and our theme is...

PEARLS

Don't forget we want to see more pink than any other colour!

Our fabulous sponsor this time is Live and Love Crafts with a £10 voucher (excl. p&p)

I'm back to CAS with this card.

This was one of those occasions where I had a clear design in my head and amazingly it all came together how I wanted without any faffing around...that doesn't happen often with me and CAS cards...

...maybe I'm getting better at them!

It's wonderfully rewarding to make a card with so few elements and I do think you can never have too many word dies and little flower dies in your stash!

Card recipe;

DP: Romance and roses - available as digi download from Nitwit Collections

Dies: Thanks word - Paper Smooches, flowers - Joy! Crafts
Pearls: Hot pink pearls - Kaisercraft

If you haven't already done so then do pop over to In The Pink and check out the gorgeous creations from the rest of the Pink Ladies.

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Heart of hearts

Hello lovely people,

There's another weekend gone and I hope you all had a good one.

I decided to start making a few romantic cards with Valentine's Day in mind and first up I wanted to have a play with a lovely new die I bought.

I definitely find myself leaning towards CAS creations with this die as you can see...

I used a pearlescent card behind the die and a darker pink heart covered with Wink of Stella popped back into one of the heart shaped holes.  I finished the hint of bling with a single tiny gem.

At least I remembered to stamp the sentiment before I got too far with the card design, just in case I messed it up!

Card recipe;

Dies: Heart of hearts - Impression Obsession

Pearlescent card: from stash

Sentiment: A little sentimental - Clearly Besotted

I'm off to Bath for 2 study days this week and then I shall be beavering away with coursework as my deadline for part 2 of my course is looming on the horizon...2 weeks to go!

I wish you all a good week ahead :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Bauble gift bag

Hello lovely people,

Even though I am on my career break, I wouldn't dream of missing the annual work Christmas lunch at Pizza Hut which is happening today!
We always have the all-you-can-eat buffet so how many slices of pizza do you reckon I can eat?!
And how much exercise will I need to do to work it all off?!

While I'm off stuffing my face, it's Creative Inspirations challenge time and this week we have the theme...

WRAP IT UP

I have made a gift bag, which is designed to match a handmade present...but you'll have to wait until next week to see that!

As usual I couldn't resist the gorgeous Christmas papers from Maja Design; there are some lovely reds in the collection too but I have used just the brown and blue ones here.

The bauble die was a freebie with a card magazine and the border was a little something that fell in my basket a few months ago but hadn't yet been used!

Bag recipe;

DP: Home for the Holidays - Maja Design (available from Live and Love Crafts)

Twine: Dusky blue button twine - The Ribbon Girl

Tag: Christmas sentiment tags - LOTV

Dies: Border die - Joy! Crafts, Christmas bauble - Marianne Design

The DT have made some wonderful samples to inspire you so pop over to Creative Inspirations to take a look :-)

Tune in again tomorrow to find out how much pizza I managed to eat!

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,