Week 2 Christmas in July challenge at Ideal Papercrafts

This week we are asked to make a pop-up style card for a child.
I used my KNK Maxx machine and a great set of SVG files from Sugar Gem Crafts to  make my card and I did have fun making this card. I usually am hesitant to make construction type cards but with this great file from Sugar Gem and my great cutting machine it was not as difficult as I thought it would be.

Christmas in July Card challenge at Ideal Papercrafts

This month I am taking part in a challenge over at Ideal Papercrafts.
Here is the first card for week 1.
We were asked to pick the flag colours from a country competing in the olympics to inspire us for our card and to also if possible add something which helps show which country.
I chose Ireland - orange, green and white. I added the irish gaelic word for Chritmas which is "Nollag" and also added three shamrocks.

Hybrid Cards

Lately I have started to enjoy making what is called "Hybrid" Greetings Cards. It is combining digital art with papercrafts.  I think I am enjoying it because it is so much quicker than stamping and colouring in an image. Plus the image can be made to any size you want it to be.
So today I decided to take part in a challenge from  The Hybrid Chick blog to use ribbons on a card.

For my card I used digital products from a kit called Sweet Songs by Viva Artistry.

Calendar Pages for Rosy

I have now finally finished the calendar pages to send to my Stamp-penpal in USA. Here are the last six months of the year, with this being for next year - 2012:

Calendar Swap with Rosy

It has been quite some time since I shared any of my papercrafts so I thought I would share the six Calendar pages I have made so far this year. I am doing a swap with a Stamping/Email Pal in the USA. We have never met but enjoy our friendship via emails.
We decided on making our pages have the theme of Flowers and Insects. I am using an old calendar stamp by Hero Arts for the base of the dates and the numbers are a set of alphas and numbers by Hero Arts.Also I am using an old set of Flowers of the Year by Hero Arts. These stamps for each month have that month's flower on them.  I am enjoying making these and posting one off each month to my friend in the USA.

Here are the pages I have made for the first six months of 2012:

Summer Cyber Crop at Ideal Papercrafts - Card Challenge

Ideal papercrafts is holding their March Cybercrop and the theme is Summer - well Summer is officially over but it is nice to do summery scrapbook pages.
I always enjoy doing the card challenges and for this one we had to have the following on our card:  Sticker, Stamping and String.
It was good to dig out the loopy brads as I hardly ever use them and still have oodles of them in different colours. 

First card for 2011 for a challenge

This is a card created using a Sketch challenge at Christian Paper Crafts.
Once I would never use a sketch for my card making but now I enjoy doing so. This card is made ready for sending to my sister-in-law for her 70th Birthday later this month. Blenda's favourite colour is green which is why I chose these colours for the card.