My Top 5 cards 0f 2011

 I posted my cards of 2011 by month yesterday, but today I am posting my favourite 5 cards ... you probably can believe how hard it is to choose so few favourites!

 If I was ever pushed into only picking 1 favourite stamp, it would beSugar Nellie's  Amelia ... I just love her.  I teamed her up here with Prima papers and use a mosiac technique ... loved the effect and will definitely repeat it.

 I LOVE these papers, they are my colours.  The image is one of Krista's digis, I just love her artwork.

 Those papers again!!! This time teamed with another Sugar Nellie, Hazel, she is absolutely adorable.

 Oh .. another Sugar nellie!!!  I do like arty stamps and the Leanne Ellis range are great for arty stamps.  This is Be One Traveller, and the papers are SU.

 Finally something a bit more vintagey, and my favourite colour combinations, blue and brown.  The stamp is a big Hero Arts stamp.

New Home

Its the last Sweet Stampin' challenge of 2011 and this week our challenge is "new beginnings" now that can be a new baby, new home, a wedding etc, just remember to include something stamped.

Our sponsor this week is the lovely Angela from Angel Crafts

Angela is giving one lucky winner a beautiful embellishment pack as the prize...these are lovely. you can check them out here and see what other goodies Angela has on offer, there's a fabby sale!!

I made this card for a friend who has recently moved house.  I used a house set from Waltzing Mouse stamps, love this set, but haven't used it yet ... quite new stash!!  I stamped the porch and popped it up onto 3d pads to give it a bit of depth.  Both the house and porch were stamped onto Bo Bunny papers and I added a bit of pencil to add some colour.  The house was cut out and layered upto Bo Bunny papers.  Finally some brads ... very simple really.

Challenges:

The Secret Crafter - anything goes
Delicious Doodles - anything goes
My Mum's Craft Shop - anything goes
Scrapbook sisters - anything goes
Aud's Sentiments - anything goes
Bearly Mine - anything goes

For Fun - New

Allsorts - New Beginnings

2011 in cards

 I have been looking through my cards from 2011 finding my top 5 for Debby's top 5 starting tomorrow.  So I thought I would share 2011 in months ... favourite card for each month (or favourites!!!) ... I have tried not to be too Sugar based!!

 January

 February

 March

 April

 May

 June

 July

August

September

October

 November

 December

I'll be back tomorrow with my Sweet Stampin card and my top 5 cards of 2011 ... not shown them here!!!

A quickie ...

To be honest I have had the flower panel made for a while, just not found the time to do something with it!!

I found this painting on metal foil technique whilst doing Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of Christmas ... and did it scare me!!!  However I made a tag using the technique and at the same time embossed this panel.  I finally got round to finishing it off last week ... painting the details, distressing and embossing it.  Today i finally got round to putting it onto a card.  I do like the effect of the vintage photo embossed over the paint ... will be having another go at this technique.

Challenge -
The Stampman -use a technique you've not used before