Just gone fishing...

Men are famously difficult to make cards for, so I was a bit stumped when it came to making my Dad's Fathers Day card (I know I'm a little early lol). I was in my local crafty shop when I found the perfect stamp by Daisy and Dandelion, my Dad likes fishing although he doesn't do it often. So without further ado here is what I came up with:

Papers are from stash, stamp is coloured with promarkers, sorry forgot to note which markers I used. I would like to enter this card for the Charisma Cards challenge which this week is Boy oh boy (cards for boys/men)
Hope everyone has a great bank holiday weekend!
Hayley x

Thank you Teacher card

As I'm looking at selling my cards at school fairs this summer, I decided to have a go at making Thank you cards for teachers. Here is my attempt. Sorry about the photos, I have to get better at taking pics of my cards!

Papers and apple border are a free gift from this months Simply cards and papercraft magazine. Thankyou stamp is Docrafts, bear stamp is Fizzymoon and I printed the sentiment off my computer. I'm quite pleased with it for a first effort and I'll be making some more later =]

A busy weekend

Sorry everyone, its just a quick post tonight! I've had a very crafty weekend, especially yesterday and got a few cards done.

Sorry the pic isn't very detailed, I tried a few different styles of cards and some of them are the same but different papers/colours. I made some more cards today but they are not on the picture cos I took it last night. I'll try to upload them tomorrow. I'm feeling very productive at the moment so I'm making the most of it! The reason I've started mass producing cards is I've decided to take the plunge and start trying to sell my cards. Yikes! I'm thinking of setting up stall at the local school summer fairs and I suppose I can sell to family and friends but I'm a little embarrassed and daunted. So my lovely followers... do you have any advice or tips? Please let me know. Excited and scared in equal measures...

Hayley x

Something a little different...

I tried something different today and had a go at papering a plain wooden jewerly/trinket box. It took me just over an hour and it was a lot of fun, even though I nearly choked on the spray glue, I'll remember to open a window next time!

I used papers from Craftwork Cards, made the flowers using my flower punch and coloured the stamp with Promarkers. I'm going to try putting the box on Ebay later but for now I'm entering it in this weeks Polkadoodles challenge which is: anything but a card!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!
Hayley x

Red and yellow

Morning, hope everyone is having a good day! I made this a couple of days ago and have been meaning to upload it.

I made border across the bottom using my flower punch, red card and stick on pearls.  I coloured the stamp with Promarkers and crimped the card with a pair of zig zag scissors. The sentiment is from a pack from The Works.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Crafty Catz- Anything goes
Divas by design- One for the girls
My time to craft- Toybox treasures

18th Birthday cake card

It's my cousins 18th Birthday next month and when I saw this card in Quick Cards magazine I knew it was perfect! So you send the card like this:

Then you pull the stars on the top and it pops out like this:

I still need to find some big numbers so I can put 18 on the bottom panel. I made this card using papers, ribbon and glitter from my stash and I made the bunting from scrap paper, ribbon and stick on letters. The topper is made from strips of acetate and stick on stars.

I'm entering this card for the following challenges:

Crafts and me- Anything goes
Simon says stamp- Sparkle and shine
A spoonful of sugar- Anything goes
Lexis Creations- Spots and stripes

Thanks for dropping by =]
Hayley x

Inchies

Hi everyone, hope you are all having a good day! This post is maybe a little late as I made this card two days ago and hadn't had a chance to blog until today. This is the first time I've used inchies on a card but I'm really pleased with the outcome so I will be using them again!

I made the flowers using my flower punch and stuck a gem in the middle of each one. I think everything I used on the card was from my stash... The pearls and checky paper are from The Works but I can't remember where the other stuff came from, sorry.

I'm entering this card for the following challenges:
LOTV- Ribbons and bows
Papertake Weekly- Fancy a punch
The Spotlight Challenge- Inchies