My first easel card!

Some of my best friends have just announced their engagement & I wanted to make them a special card so I thought I'd try an easel card as I have never tried it before & I always think they look great.
I am going to be their bridesmaid & I know that the colour theme of the wedding is going to be purple & silver. I also know that they want swirls & butterflies on their wedding invitations as they have asked me to help them make them. They asked me if they would put them on their engagement card too!
I used a MS corner punch for the corners of the card & added purple gems to the centres. I stamped a silver swirl using my Inkadinkado Flourish Dot stamps & added clear & purple gems. I punched out four purple vellum butterflies using the MS large monarch butterfly punch. I added silver embossing powder to two of them & heated it with my heat gun & stuck them on top of the plain purple butterflies. I added two gems to the bodies. Finally I added a Craftwork Cards Congratulations sentiment.
I'm really happy with how it turned out & was surprised how much easier an easel card is to make than I had imagined. The photo isn't very good as I took it early this morning when I was in a rush to get to work & the light wasn't very good.
I gave them the card today & they absolutely love it.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion Challenge #23 - Technique Easel Card
Crafts and Me Challenge #13 - Easels

Somas Birthday card

This is the birthday card that I made for Soma, I hope she liked it.
I used my LOTV Unicorn stamp & coloured it in using my Sakura pens. I used a white souffle pen & my pink & yellow glitter ones. I used a water brush on the pink & yellow to soften the colours. I added glitter glue around the edges of the stamp & layered this onto a nestie label & then added it to a card blank. I added card candy & a sentiment to finish it off.
I'd like to enter it into the following challenge:
Craft Your Days Away Challenge #3 - Girly & 
Glitter
Alys Sunday Challenge - Sparkle & Glitter

Another LOTV Baby Card

A friend at work recently had a little boy which they've named Aidan. I immediately reached for my LOTV baby stamp to make them a card! I coloured him in using my Promarkers & added a little bit of glitter. I cut out a frame of blue baby paper using my square nesties. I then added some card candy & his name in peel offs.

I'd like to enter this into the following challenge:

Pennys Paper-Crafty Challenge #38 - Anything Baby

Dragonllews Birthday Card

This is the card that I made for Jenny aka Dragonllew for her birthday.
I simply cut a strip of blue backing paper from my stash to match the blue card blank & a strip of thin white card. I stuck some sticky lace edging on, added the strips & then added a butterfly & Happy Birthday peel off. I didn't have ages to make the card as I remembered I had to make it at the last minute, but I was quite happy with how it has turned out!
I'd like to enter this into the following challenge:
The secret crafter saturday challenge #99 - Clean & simple

My Grandas Birthday Card

It was my Grandas 86th birthday on Wednesday. For as long as I can remember my Granda has had a greenhouse & grown tomatoes so when I saw this image, I knew it was perfect for him. I coloured it using my Promarkers & I added Glossy Accents to the tomatoes. The backing paper is from the Papermania Secret Garden pack & I thought it matched the colours I had used on the picture perfectly. I also added some card candy in matching colours.
I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:
Cards for men Challenge 18 - Long Summer days
Incy Wincy Designs Challenge #58 - Celebrate

Christening card

This is the christening card I made for the christening we went to last Sunday.  I used a LOTV stamp & coloured it in with Promarkers & added some glitter glue. The aperture card was from my stash. I embossed some white card to use as the backing behind the image. I then added some card candy (with glitter added) & a peel off sentiment

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Allsorts Week 68 - New Beginnings
Oldie but a Goodie Challenge 1 - New Beginnings

Another Bear & Butterflies

I made this card following the sketch on Lili of the Valleys Challenge Blog.
I used my LOTV Bear & Butterflies stamp, coloured it in using promarkers & then cut out the image with a circle nestie on my Cuttlebug. I embossed a lilac piece of paper from my stash using a butterflies embossing folder & stuck this to the front of the cardstock & layered the image on top. I cut out a pink & a lilac butterfly using my MS Large Monarch butterfly punch & stuck these together, I added some glitter glue to the centre for the body. I then added two flowers from my stash & added gems to the centre (from Poundland!). Finally I added a strip of pink flowers along the bottom & stuck a Craftwork Cards sentiment to the middle of it. I coloured the sentiment with a lilac dew drop ink pad so it matched the backing paper & butterflies.
I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
LOTV Challenge 63
Stampin with the dragon challenge - the eyes have it
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - Write me a message
Just Cute Bears Challenge # 32 - Embossing
One stitch at a time Challenge #28 - Girly or Colour Scheme
Pollycraft Monday Challenge # 59 - Add a little nature
Passion for Promarker Week 67 - Theme
Stamp Something Challenge - Something Cute