My First Blog Award

Thank Gemma from Gems Little Creations for my first ever blog award which I so willingly accept :-)
Thank you soooooooooooooooooo much Gemma for recognising me! So here is the link to gems lovely blog - very inspirational
http://gemslittlecreations.blogspot.com/

and now I need to pass it on!

So I am giving this award to
http://craftingcaz.blogspot.com/
http://cardmakingwithanne.blogspot.com/
and finally
http://molecraft.blogspot.com/
so thank you for your inspiration and please accept your award.


SO

Right back to the award, this award comes with a few conditions,

1. You have been tagged.....do you accept?? Yes i do accept......now create a post and show the award *tick*
2. Link back to the lovely person who gave you the award *tick*
3. Now Choose 3-5 bloggers to tag and pass the award on to them....I'm going for followers who have under 100 followers!!
4.  Now go and tell them about their award so off I go!

Thanks for looking

Hugs from Cuddles xxx

Origami Butterflies

I made this card for a friend who recently lost her mum.

I used a pearlescent paper in green and purple and a marble effect paper in similar colours. I used the easibox score board to create the octagons and shape for the card, them simply layered up. The butterfly boarder is punched using a ek butterfly border punch and the flowers are a papermania punch. Finally I embellished it with pearls. To make the butterflies use a 2 or 3 inch square and fold diagionally. Crease well. Then fold again to create aright angled triangle. Crease well and unfold this fold only. Then with point facing down, fold up and above first fold made. Finally, make a fold at a 45 degree angle at each side. You need to make two for each butterfly. I got the instructions from a magazine, the new Hunkydory one if it helps.

Hope you like and thanks for looking

Hugs from Cuddles

Cards for the boys

Aren't these great? Thanks Gemma for the fantastic ideas!

Pretty cards

Just some pretty cards to share. Really simple techniques of paper folding fans and matting and layering using the country companions papers and nestibilities.

More matting and layering with Country Companions papers and an x cut corner punch. Add some bling and it's a really simple card! Just loving the seam binding instead of ribbons - so much easier to work with!

Use some scraps cut into triangles to cover a square card, draw on your false stiching and add a topper and embellishments! Simples!

Hope you like and thanks for looking!

Hugs and Cuddles!

It's a mans world too!

Another card using my Kanban retro car/vehicle stamps that my hubby chose for me for Christmas!
It's a fancy folding, and matting and layering, but it looks really good.

Thanks for looking

Hugs and Cuddles!