Christmas Challenge

This is Poya (one of Toread's friends).

I made this card for the August Christmas Card challenge set by Julie. The challenge was that you should make a Christmas card, with glitter and some of our precious ribbon, but NO Christmas Trees anywhere on the card. Poya was such a cutie sitting in the centre of his little Holly Wreath so I knew he had to be part of my design. I cut out the decoupage image and then mounted Poya onto Gold Mirri card to which I added some red ribbon and then mounted the gold onto Red Mirri card. Then I stuck the layers onto the red cardstock which had already been stamped with a gold leaf in the background. I then stamped the large Inkadinkadoo 'Merry Christmas' stamp which I stamped in black and then added a layer of glitter over the top of all the lettering and then added the flowers in coordinating colours with buttons in the centre.

Anniversary Card

This is an anniversary card for a very special couple. This is some more decoupage designs that I bought from Marij, they are called Toread and Friends. Aren't they too cute??? I don't think I've ever seen these in any local stores so as soon as I saw them I thought I really have to buy these as I might not get the opportunity to get them again, which was when Marij kindly gave me her website address and said I could also purchase them online.

This is a couple of close-up images of the above card so that you can see their faces up close (so sweet) and so that you can see the detail in the background papers aswell. I was just totally smitten with these little cuties, that I would love to find out now from Marij, if these are actually available anywhere as rubber stamps also.

I hope you like these cards, there will definitely be more from Toread in the very near future... believe me... I bought a book-ful of decoupage sheets and although I've never really been a huge fan of all that cutting and delicate snipping, I think that these are definitely worth the effort.