I like the way that I can just put it on a shelf and it looks pretty and sorts my earring out at the same time? 

Also in Ikea, you can get large Ribba frames and so I thought that would work if you had large amount of earrings.

 what do you think? 

Paper - Cosmo Cricket De Lovely | Stamp - My Pink Stamper Fabulous Phrases | Butterfly, scallop square and label - template | Ribbon - Hobbycraft | Gems - Dovecraft.

The butterfly on the second card was made by simply tracing around a larger butterfly template and then added the black line inside to stop the butterfly from being to plain.

Paper - Basic Grey Lemonade | Stamp - My Pink Stamper Fabulous Phrases | Twine - The Ribbon Reel | Brads - Papermania | Buttons - Vintage.

You can make some simple cards look really pretty by just using some pretty patterned papers and not having to go overboard with embellishments.

I recently bought some doilies from Joanna Sheen and really wanted to make a card with them so when I needed to make a card for one of our nieces I thought I would give them a go.

I think that scallop circle could have done with being a bit bigger but I like the doily. 

The scallop circle was something that I created because I wanted to use a eyelet scallop circle but I didn't have the die. I drew around the Nestabilities lacey circles die and cut it out and then used my crop a dile to create the eyelet holes. Some of the holes were slightly off centre but I think it worked quite well. 

Paper - Dovecraft Tea Party | Stamps - Amy R  It's your birthday and  Dovecraft Tea House | Ink - Versamagic | Doily- Joanna Sheen | Buttons - Papermania | Ribbon - Hobbycraft | Scallop circle - handmade | Thread - Sew Easy | button twine - The Ribbon Girl.

Hope your week in going well. 

 Today is 5 years since we got married in Malta. We have had a lot of ups and downs over the 5 years but I can definitely say that we are at a good point, well I know I am! 

OK, so I am going to be honest,  like many people these days, we struggle with the finances and have really had to learn how to deal with it, but whether it was giving up the caffeine or whether something in me just clicked but it doesn't seem to matter whether we have money or none, it doesn't seem to affect me like it used to do.  Every little thing used to effect me and I used to take it to heart but my husband has really helped by listening to me when I just need to put things into perspective. 

I know I am rambling but I wanted to say that. 

So this is the card that I made for Mark. 

I chose to use the sketch 123 from Skipping Stones Designs.

I thought that I would use lots of different stamps to create the background image rather than just using a patterned paper and tried to use ink that went with the papers.

Paper - My Mind's Eye Lime Twist out of the blue and fly a kite | Stamps - My Pink Stamper, My Mind's eye, Hero Arts, Clare Curd, Paula Pascual | Stars and Hearts - punches | white gel pen | Ink - versamagic and colorbox.

 So it's Good Friday and it's almost end of the first week of the school holidays. We have been trying to keep Hollie entertained and we have been making things and baking things.

Fist we made some small chocolate eggs using an egg mould that I found in the 99p shop and Hollie really enjoyed eating them!

And we thought we would show the little bit of face painting that they did at nursery last week. Little pink Hollie bunny.

So I thought that I would also show a card I have made. It was made using the Echo Park Summer Days papers and I think it is great with all the colours. I decided to try using two label one dies to make a frame rather than just a label and I think it works well. The butterfly was made from a template that I have in my stash. 

Paper - Echo Park Summer Days | Stamp - My Pink Stamper Fabulous Phrases | Twine - Donna Flower | Frame - Spellbinders Nestabilities Label one | Border punch - Fiskars apron lace | Circle - 2 inch punch | Butterfly - template | Button and gems - local craft shop.

I used the sketch 234 from Mojo Monday for this card.  I decided to try combing the three embossing folders for the background rather than using patterned papers and kept it white. The idea of using kites came from one of the patterned papers in the fly a kite papers, I used the small kite from the paper but made the big one to go with it.

Paper - My Minds Eye Out of the blue and Fly a kite | Stamp - Amy R stamps It's your birthday | Twine - The Ribbon Reel | Embossing folders - Cuttlebug seeing spots, candy stripes and stars.