Charisma Cardz challenge- How old?

Hi everyone! This week I made my first "commission" for my cousins 18th Birthday card from my grandparents. I was stumped for a while, boys cards are so hard, but then I looked through my stash and found the perfect thing! Can you tell what it is?

Its a star shaped weight from a helium balloon! My mam got a balloon for her 50th Birthday and I kept the weight after the balloon went down. I added stick on numbers and sewed the star onto my card.

Sorry for the shine on the photo. I would like to enter this card for the Charisma Cardz challenge- How old?  Bye for now =) x

Tatty Teddy =D

I got this gorgeous Tatty Teddy stamp free from this months issue to Docrafts magazine and couldn't wait to ink it up!

The spotty paper is from Craftworkcards, dark blue paper and ribbon from The Works, the flowers are from Simply Yours and the sentiment is from my stash. It's a friend's birthday in a few weeks so she will be getting this card... Hope she likes it!

I would like to enter this card for the following challenges:
The Crafty Pad- Spots and dots
Sunday sketch and stamp- Sketch

Hope everyone has had a great weekend! Bye for now =)
Hayley x

Cards for the cousins

My cousins live 200+ miles away and every Easter we send an "update" card, telling them what we are up to and money wallets with cheques so they can buy themselves an Easter treat. This year I decided to make the card and wallets myself. I don't really have any fancy stamps, embellishments or cutters yet, I'm currently building my creative stash but I used whatever I could get my hands on and I'm quite pleased with the result. I apologise in advance for the terrible pictures.

To make the card I took some various blue, yellow and pink papers I had tucked away, cut them into strips and wove them together. I cut an egg shaped hole in the front of the card with my craft knife and stuck the ribbon then the woven paper to the inside with double sided tape. I tied the ribbon into a bow, added a cross shaped brad and stamped a "Happy Easter stamp underneath. on the inside I attached a leaf to cover the woven paper. Not too bad for a first attempt!

The money wallets are simply pealescent card cut into the envelope shape, with my cousins' names in gold or silver stickers. The slip is linen card with Happy Easter in stickers and a pastle card easter egg decorated with glitter glue.

I had a second go at making the woven easter egg card for my neighbor and the second attempt looks so much better:

I used some floral papers I had lying in my craft box and pink ribbon that I couldn't use for my three male cousins' cards. I think second time around it went much smoother and I hope my neighbor likes it. I guess practise really does make perfect =)