Cardmaker of the year 2010 entries - Sizzix

I only made one entry for sizzix again, because I ran out of time which is a shame as I have loads of dies. I used a fab Mo's digital pencil image which is Kai playing in leaves which I thought would look fab with all the leaf die cutters I had. Mo's fabulous images can be found here
The papers I used were again from one of Summer Driggs fabulous kits (thanks for giving) which can be found here
I literally made a round frame out of brown card and stuck my various leaves onto it after that had been distressed with Tim Holtz inks.

Thanks for looking!!!

Paula. x

Cardmaker of the year 2010 entries - Sugar Nellie

I made this card in a DL style just to be a bit different. I love my square cards but sometimes like to shake it up a bit Lol! The gorjuss girl stamp can be found here. The papers I used are from a love and wedding scrapbook kit from DCWV that I really love although most of my favourite papers are now used up as I've had it ages. It looks a bit gothic being black and red but I played on that with the font used etc as I quite like the weird and wonderful!

Thanks for looking!!!

Paula. x

Cardmaker of the year 2010 entries - X-cut and crafters companion

I entered these categories but wasn't too impressed with my efforts as I was running out of time Lol.

For the X-cut one I used my 2 flower punches and my new scallop border punch. The papers I used were a 6x6 paperstack I've had for ages by making memories. I don't like it very much to be honest but sent it off anyway.

For the crafters companion category I used a popcorn bear stamp that I bought in the sale and used some papers from one of my forever friends paperstacks. It's a cute card but again, nothing special.

Thanks for looking!!!

Paula. x

Cardmaker of the year 2010 entries - Papercellar

I made one entry for this category using their wedding paperstack which is a lovely selection of muted pink and green papers although I personally don't think it looks very weddingy at all!

Anyway, I used a gorgeous wooden House Mouse stamp which my mum and dad found brand new in a charity shop - what a find!!! I came accross the lovely sentiment which tied in great with the sewing theme and I searched high and low for some decent looking fake thimble and needle charms. I ended up finding these plastic silver flatback buttons on ebay which look fab. I cut up my papers to make it look a bit like a patchwork quilt and used a lot of my Tim Holtz distress inks. I love the tape measure twill ribbon that I managed to find on some crafty website but I can't remember where Lol! I think it was the first House Mouse stamp I had ever coloured in so I was still getting the hang of the colours and shading etc! It probably cost me about £20+ to make this card by the time I'd bought all the bits and pieces for it but I was pleased with the way it turned out!

Thanks for looking!!!

Paula. x

Cardmaker of the year 2010 entries - Woodware

This is my entry for the woodware category. I bought some screw headed brads so though I would either make a tool box or a spaceship themed card but decided to settle on the tool box.
I had no template so I just kinda threw a few bits together and kinda hoped for the best. I found some wood effect printable paper which I printed onto both side of study white card and I used my score board and bone folder to emboss the lines in the wood. I glued it together as I thought it might fall to bits if I used DST. The screw brads were just for show. The tools were ones I found on a free kids printable colouring in webite which I just printed onto sturdy white card and coloured in. The tape measure I made from some twill and just stuck a bit of silver card on the end. I did make a small blue mini notebook that went with it that had a fake coffee cup stain on it so the greeting could be wrote inside that but I only made that just before I posted it off so there's no picture of that I'm afraid! It was a faff to make although the worst bit was making the box to put it in which is just soooo boring to make Lol!

Thanks for looking!!!

Paula.x

Cardmaker of the year 2010 entries - Flowersoft

I entered the flowersoft with this card although I'd never used it before and I don't think I will again as I just didn't like working with it at all. No matter what I did it didn't seem to look like flowers Lol! Still, I was reasonably happy with the way the card turned out.
The papers are again from funky fairy downloadables which are no more but the fab image is from Mo's digital pencil with can be found here - this image is called Mummu's nissu but I thought it would look fab in my fake windows that I got for free from here
I made a 3d window frame and played around with the printable stuff to make opening shutters, added lace for curtains and acetate. and made a window box out of extra shutter bits that I printed out. It was a bit of a faff but I thought it looked ok once I'd finished! It doesn't photograph well as I kept getting reflections off the acetate but again, you get the idea!

Thanks for looking!!!

Paula. x

Cardmaker of the year 2010 entries - LOTV

I entered 3 in the LOTV category - I so would have loved to have won some free stamps as I love their images but never mind - better luck next year!!! The get well card that won that had a little pack of tissues with it was just adorable!!! All the LOTV stamps can be found here

The first I made was made with Thomas with flowers - a cute fat cat holding a large bunch of flowers. I think the papers were a freebie 6x6 MME paperstack that I got free with a magazine.

The 2nd is made with sailing boat stamp which is a very cute stamp with a boy holding a very large boat. I used another one os Summer Driggs fabulous free downloadable kits (Freedom isn't free) which can be found here I did quite a lot f distressing with my Tim Holtz stuff on this one!

The 3rd is made with Ted - Big star which is one of their fab Xmas ones. The papers I used were a mixture of different funky fairy downloadables which again, is sadly no more - including the fab circle sentiment. I really went to town with icicle stickles glitter glue on it for lots of fab sparkle! I'm afraid it doesn't photograpg very well due to the silver shiny card but you get the idea!