Some Small Piggy Smiles

Hi all.

Ever see a card and think I HAVE to do that....and then it takes forever to fin the right occasion to come around??? Well I found such a card...and such an occasion DID come up!!

I was inspired by a couple of Piglet cards here and here. The one on Carla Scraps also came with a very handy tute, so I went from there. My GORJUS niece recently celebrated her 3rd birthday and so this was her card......

I found that everyone I shared this card with smiled, and that is the best thing ever!! I did change a couple of things in Carla's Tutorial in that I left Piglets Torso a single layer and drew on his "belly". This was done by centering and tracing around a "scrap" owl punch piece. I also embossed the white oval the with Cloudy Day EF....made such a difference.

 

 

                                                                                           

 

The grass is done with the Martha Stewart Grass punch and I added the Itty Bitty Banner for the birthday.

 

 

 

To go with the card, I enclosed an UBER cute beaded bracelet/necklace and hair pin set made by my Bestie - Tracey. She is now selling sets like this and many more through e bay and Facebook under Berry-licious. She even does wee earrings too. They are so perfect for the up and coming young gal about town. Please check out her creations if you have the need for something special and unique foe a little princess.

 

 

Thanks for popping by. I so love reading all your comments and appreciate your taking the time to leave them.

 

Stuff used:

CS: (SU) Whisper White, Regal Rose, Pink Pirouette, Tea Party DSP (ret), Pear Pizzaz, Wisteria Wonder, So Saffron, Pool Party, Basic Black

Ink: (SU) Regal Rose, Pink Pirouette (also sponged on all Piglet pieces), Regal Rose SWM for mouth and belly lines

Stamps: (SU) Itty Bitty Banners

Dies and punches: (SU) Oval Framelits, Banner Framelits, Owl Punch, Bird Punch, Word Window Punch, Martha Stewart grass Punch, Carla Craft CP2 Balloon Punch and 1/8" circle punch

Other bits: SU Cloudy Day EF, Dimensionals, Double sided tape

 

Lynda xx

 

               

Little Girls Simply love......

Good afternoon all.

Man have I been slack in posting!! I have been so busy starting out as a demo and then balancing a bunch of birthday's and other celebrations, there is oh so much to show you.

Given that I have a Miss 8 of my own, it goes without saying that I have a lot of little girl's cards and gifts to come up with. One that I have made a couple of times now is a lip gloss/balm butterfly. I find that EVERYONE likes butterflies, no matter what their age. There are many versions of these around in cyberspace, but these are what I have come up with.......

This first one has an orange glitter gloss in it that I picked up from my local Woolworths. It came in a 3 pack (with a pink and a clear one too) I used the colour of the lip gloss as the basis for my colour combination. Here is what the butterfly lip gloss holder looks like with CS only....

 

Seriously, they are very easy to do with the Beautiful Wings Bigz die and they are a massive hit. Here is the card and the small gift together......

 

 

The next set just kept getting added to. Miss 8 picked out the DSP and so this one is a mix of DSP and CS. Purely by chance the gloss colour was the same pink as the DSP!!! The gift was teamed with a small post it pad holder that I have done many times before (search this blog for post it holder for the links). I found the wee bead making set (also a dumb luck find in Big W) and then a ribbon embellishment and away we went. The small stamp on the present on the post it holder is from Pretty Petites, available until March 22nd in SAB with the matching punch. It is VERY cute and is brilliant for large cards and small. The card is a "Z" fold one.

 

 

 

 

Guaranteed smiles I promise.

 

Thanks for popping by. Plenty more to share...soon I hope.

 

Stuff Used:

CS: (SU) Island Indigo, Calypso Coral, Regal Rose, Baja Breeze, Whisper White, Doodlebug DSP "All Wrapped Up"

Ink: (SU) Regal Rose, Baja Breeze

Stamps: (SU) So Happy For You (ret), Pretty Petites (avail SAB 2013)

Punches, Dies, Embossing Folders: (SU) Beautiful Butterflies Bigz die, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, 1 1/4Square Punch, Triple Layer Blossom Punch (ret), Petite Curly Label Punch (avail in SAB 2013), Cloudy Day Textured EF (avail in the new seasonal mini), 1 1/4 Scallop Circle punch, Carla Craft 1" circle punch,  Darice Floral EF

Other bits: Dimensionals, Coloured Glitter CS, Mini Pens fm Reject Shop, Rhinestones fm stash, Foam glitter No 7 fm stash

 

Lynda xx