Phoenix Inspirations

The monthly Facebook swap this month was a card with a detachable bookmark, it had to incorporate embellishments made with paint sample cards and no other embellishments. Here's my swap It's very similar to yesterday's card card but uses the Blended Bloom stamp. Here's the lovely card I received from my swap partner Tracy Phew - a whole week of posts - lets hope the Internet behaves it's self again next week and I can show you some more of what I have been making. I feel a week of 'man' cards may be on the agenda - in time for Father's Day - see you soon, have a great weekend xx

I love making feature cards - clean and simple is great but layers, fancy folds, ribbon and bling are also great fun too! Here s one such card I have made Not only is this a Bookmark card - it has a removable corner bookmark attached to the front - but it is a tent fold card too Hope you like my effort for today - see you soon xx

As I mentioned yesterday, today was workshop day. We made Tent Cards - a bit like this I have raided my stash drawer for some 6" x 6" Papermania papers for this one - I love polka dots and this is a particularly pretty one don't you think. I also thought that it matched perfectly with the butterfly paper behind it. I used my Precious Butterflies Hostess set and stamped the flourish in Lucky Limeade. I then cut it out to fit into the corners. The butterflies were inked with Blushing Bride and again cut out before mounting with 3D foam pads. A few teeny tiny flowers were added and a load of bling and pearls! Also as promised there is a free step by step tutorial to accompany this card. Just pop on over to The Craft Club Blog  HERE  to take a look. I am going into scrapbook mode now as I am holding a special Easter Scrapbook Workshop next Wednesday. If you live in the Malvern area and you would like to join in click  HERE  for all the details - spaces are going...

Tomorrow morning it's my monthly Tuesday morning workshop and we will be making Tent cards. I have pre-made one as a sample for tomorrow - take a look I used some decorative papers from my stash along with some nesting label dies and flowers. My leaves and teeny tiny flowers are punches and because I have added loads of bling I shall be entering this card in to the  St. Luke's Charity cards Challenge . It's their anniversary this month and they want to see cards with shiny things on them. As this is a workshop make there will be a tutorial on my Craft Club Blog tomorrow morning so please pop back for details of that. Bye for now - Jacqueline xx

The challenge this week at  Gingersnap Creations  is to use a set or line of stamps. One of my Christmas pressies was a sheet of Papermania Urban Stamps. The ones I have used today are the Botanical Print - take a look I wish I had taken a better picture as I made a Tent Card but you can just about see the decoration inside - camera batteries died on me just as had taken this pic! The base is a piece of Kraft card stock and I added some blue polka dot background paper, the tiny butterflies are from the Kraft cs too - I tried to add some liquid pearl drops but they all merged into one long blob! All stamping is done with a Memento ink pad in Rich Cocoa and it has been used to sponge the edges too.. After punching the aperture the piece removed was then placed inside. I am also entering this card into the 'Anything Goes' challenge at  The Kraft Journal  - bye for now - Jacqueline xx