Wine and dangly earrings!

Hi bloggers,
I'm here with a retirement card I was asked to make for someone who likes a glass of wine and dangly earrings!  They also wanted a pair of earrings on the card! Well,  I thought for ages how I could make the earrings part of the card without looking as though I'd just stuck them on!  Then I thought of this digi image of Alyssa relaxing, she has a glass of wine and I put the earrings in a bag, as though it was part of the pampering in the bathroom.  Do you think I got away with that?  I couldn't think what else to do lol!
I coloured the image with my promarkers,  paper pieced the bath and added glossy accents to the wine glass and bottle. Some stickles on the bubbles and pearls here and there finished off the card.  I hope she likes it anyway.
I'd like to enter my card in the ilovepromarkers.blogspot.co.uk challenge which is 'Digi does it'.
Thanks for looking and I'll be back soon hopefully!!
Hugs, Karen xx

New Sketch at last!!

Hi crafters,
I've got an easel card to show you and I've used a new sketch, yeah! It's another layout from a card we made at my workshop and I've embossed all the layers with various embossing folders. I coloured the Magnolia  stamp with my promarkers and added a bit of stickles, I added some WOC flowers and I added the baby boy wording from a Sissix die I've never used! I'll definitely be using it again though!

It's hard to take a good photo of an easel card so here's a sideview of my card!
                 

Some ribbon and pearls finished off the card and I made a box with the baby's name on the bunting!
I'd like to enter my card in the 'Anything goes' challenge at    Crafting from the heart and My Time to Craft,  which is 'No designer papers.
Thanks for  looking and I'll be back with a retirement card soon,
Hugs, Karen xx

Gardening lady

Hi there crafters,
Hope you're all having a lovely weekend.
I'm here with a card I was asked to make with  a gardening theme and this digi by Lisa was perfect!
I decided to use my favourite sketch for the last time, before you get fed up of seeing it in my cards lol!
I will look for a new sketch this week, I promise!
I added some flowers this time to match the colours in the image, with some Cheery Lynn leaves. A little glossy accent, glitter and ribbon finished it off and I'm told the lady absolutely loved her card!
I'd like to enter my card in the 'Love to Create' challenge which is 'Say it with flowers'.
Thanks for looking,
Hugs, Karen xx

18th and All Dressed Up

Hi crafters,
I made this 18th birthday card recently with a gorgeous digi image from 'All dressed up' which I coloured with my promarkers. I used my favourite sketch (again lol!) and used various embossing folders on the layers.
I added plenty of pearls and glitter to finish it off and found the gorgeous pearl ribbon in my stash. I nearly added some flowers but stopped myself just in time, hee hee!
I'd like to enter my card in the 'Anything goes' challenge at Crafting from the heart.
Thanks for looking and enjoy the weekend,
Hugs, Karen xx

Can't help falling in love!

Hi crafters,
This is my Wedding Anniversary card for hubby-we celebrate 19 years of wedded bliss on Monday! Can't believe it's been that long! Our first dance was to Elvis as I am a big fan, so when I saw this stencil recently at Port Sunlight, I had to have it!!
I wasn't sure what I was going to do with it but thanks to our last cardmaking workshop, when we played with distress inks, I knew what to do!
I inked the stencil with Antique Linen and Dusty Concord, then stamped a swirl around the edges and embossed it with some holographic embossing powder. Bit different but I'm really pleased with how it turned out!
I added some music notes and ribbon, embossed the background and printed out some words from the song we danced to lol.
I'd like to enter this card in the 'Anything Goes' challenge at Crafting From The Heart.
I hope hubby likes it!
Thanks for looking,
Hugs, Karen xx

Little sis card

Hi crafters,
This is a card I made for my sister's birthday and I've used one of my favourite girly stamps, Uptown Girls from Stamping Bella.
I've used some lotv and Basic Grey papers and paper pieced the dresses to match!
I've used some plain white flowers and added some punched flowers to the centres with a pearl. I added glossy accent to their wine glasses and added some blusher with chalk- still can't use promarkers to give rosy cheeks!  A couple of polka dot buttons, a charm and pearls finished off the card.
I'd like to enter this card in the creativecardcrew challenge which is 'Girly'.
Thanks for looking,
Hugs, Karen xx

Cute Welsh Wedding

Hi crafters,
I made this wedding card for a friend this week and used a fold that I learnt at my workshop ages ago and I haven't used it for ages! Definitely going to use it again though now I've found the instructions!
I used a LOTV stamp and coloured it with my promarkers.  I used various embossing folders and added a matching ribbon, glitter and flowers, of course!
I added a sentiment with the name of the couple getting married as well as the wedding date. You can just about see it as it was really difficult to take a photo of the card because of all the folds!
I'd like to enter this card in the Passion for Promarkers challenge which is 'so sentimental'.
Thanks for looking,
Hugs Karen xx