More cards from the weekend away....

Here are some cards I made on my weekend away, I was inspired to make a card as it was my daughters 2nd birthday on the Sunday so I needed to stop scrapbooking and think cards instead!
So this is the card that I made for Ava, not that I have written on it as yet, but hey she's only 2 she does not understand....yet!!! She was so funny opening her presents it was over in 5 minutes! She would get a present rip off the paper then chuck it on the floor and grab for the next one with no interest at all to what we had bought her! So she is certainly not going to worry about a card!
This card uses a set that you have not yet seen and was given to us by Stampin' Up!, yes I know it is a truly gorgeous set and may well be available in the new catalogue as a hostess set! So you may even be able to get it for free, we will know in just a matter of days!!!! The official count down is.....21 days away!!! That is if you pre book a party or even a stamp-a-stack with me for the month of April or May and then I will send you out a new catalogue for FREE as soon as I recieve them OTHERWISE arrange to pre pay the $10 by the 1st April and I will also post you out your NEW catalogue in the post, or drop it over depending where you live!


Back to the birthday card the set is called 'Time Well Spent'. I have coloured in with the Wonderful Watercolour Crayons and an Aqua Painter then cut the shapes out sticking them down with Stampin Dimensionals to lift them. The cardstock used is one of my favourites Old Olive. I have also used the butterfly from the set 'Small Sayings' which is out of the Summer Mini Catalogue which ends this month. Images stamped with black ink.

This card also uses the same set as the previous card and was coloured in all the same, except the flower is coated in Crsytal Effects thus mang it shiny! The cardstock used was Really Rust which I have not really used before and someone else had used it in a card (Machelle) and it looked great, so I have now ordered myself some cardstock and an ink pad in Really Rust! The other cardstock is Close To Cocoa and the Grosgrain Ribbon Chocolate Chip 5/8" from the Summer Mini Catalogue, it is nice and easy to use the thicker ribbon too.

I have used the 'Love Matters' stamp set from the Summer Mini Catologue for this card with Chocolate Chip, Pretty in Pink and Cranberry Crisp cardstock. Main images stamped in black ink with the butterfly from the 'Small Sayings' set and inked in Lavender Lace. The ribbon is from Ribbon Originals 'Flirty' - from the Summer Catalogue, I can not express how gorgeous these ribbons actually are, they are stunning (page 19 mini catalogue).