The card today is the last of the four cards that I made to put into the card gift box.

It started with the pink patterned paper label and went with the pierced circle on top. I wanted to add some patterned paper behind the label but also wanted to emboss the background, so used a strip of paper and cut out a fish tail and then you could still see the background.

I added 3 small strips of paper, which I cut these into a fishtail as well, under the label to add a little more colour and chose some blue patterned paper for the flowers and butterflies.

I kept the embellishments simple and just added some gems to the flowers and butterflies to make them sparkle.


Hope you are having a great week.

I have already showed you the first two cards of the four that I had put in the card gift boxes and today I have the third card.

Today's card is the second of the four cards that I made for the card gift boxes I posted here.

For this card, I wanted to use a doily as part of the main focal point and decided to use a Die-namics pierced circle in front of it.

I just used a small strip of patterned paper on the background, as the doily takes up a lot of the card and added two stars to balance out the card.

For the sentiment, I used the Clearly Besotted Tag Along stamp set on a tag from the coordinating Tag Along die set. I added a little heart under the sentiment and made it shiny with some Glossy accents.

I decided to add some little stars to break up the circle a bit and added some stickles glitter to make them sparkle.

Today I have the first of four cards that I have made for the card boxes that I showed in this post last week.

For the card, I decided to use the Clearly Besotted you're a hoot owl for the main image. Before choosing the ink colour, I chose the patterned paper from the American Crafts Soho Garden paper pad. I went with Memento cottage ivy, it is slightly darker than the papers but worked fine.

I didn't add to much patterned paper but enough to add plenty of colour. I decided to emboss the background as it was too plain without and used the die-namics pierced circle to add the faux stitching to the circle.

On the owl, I added a little heart to the centre which I added some stickles glitter to add some sparkle and also added some glossy accents to the eyes to bring them out.

For the sentiment, I used the Clearly Besotted tag it stamp set and then stamped it on one of the tags from the tag it die set.

I had seen a picture of this little cake made out of paper and a battery operated candle on Pinterest and was really intrigued by it and wanted to give it at making one for my mums birthday, which was at the end of December.

For a few Christmas presents, I decided to make some handmade cards and wanted to make some boxes to store them in.

I decided to make them with the envelope punch board. I found a tutorial on YouTube by Lizy Bartaby where she makes a card box that was big enough for UK c6 size envelopes, as most tutorials on YouTube are for US size 51/2 x 41/4 cards.


The box fitted 4-5 cards and envelopes depending on how much embellishments the cards have on them.

I also used the envelope punch board to make some bows like I have made for these boxes in my last post.