merry christmas......

Oh my I don't usually get time to make my christmas cards. I believe  there are many of you out there that have the same problem.

Well I have just finished 100!!!!!! christmas cards in around 2 weeks and these are going out in the mail in bulk to our Australian defence force members who are serving overseas :)  Was very honoured to be able to contribute in a small way.

Birthday Girl Party

My SIL wanted me to do some craft at her daughter's 8th birthday recently.  As time wouldn't permit the girls making the whole bag, I had them ready and they attached the flowers - these were cut with my Cricut - didn't have my gorgeous Papertrey flower dies at this time :(  

Just a close up - so very excited with how they turned out.....cute cute and SO popular at the party.  The rave reviews from the kids and their mums was just so exciting!

Now so the girls had something to "do" I made 3 little cards and stamped 3 Papertrey butterflies on a piece of cardstock.  Each girl coloured their butterflies and lucky me cut them out by HAND!! - 3 days later my new Papertrey butterfly die arrived ;) We then attached each butterfly with foam mounting tape to the centre of the cards and the cards fit snuggly in the paper handbags.  Such fun!!!!!!!!!!

Belated - Wedding Update Card

Forgot to upload this one....it was way back in December last year, my daughter's wedding cermony & reception venue fell through a month before the wedding!!! So hence the need for a "Wedding Update" invitation.  I 'whipped' these up very quickly and thought they were quite effective considering their simplicity.

Mother's Birthday Card

Not sure if I uploaded this before....getting forgetful in my "old" age! I had only just bought this punch, so had fun playing with it and Papertrey Heart Prints

Girlfriends Birthday

I just love the Papertrey Beautiful Bloom 2 dies!!! I am so very glad I bought all 3 sets and went mad making heaps of these 'scrunchy' flowers.  From those flowers came the inspiration for this card. Amazingly I just sat down and ideas just kept popping into my head. Love the end result, if I do say so myself :)

With Sympathy.....

I made this recently for a my husband's long time friend, who lost his father.

Happy Birthday Friend

I made this a while ago now and recently sent it to a Papertrey friend in the USA.  I was very happy with her glowing compliments :)