Joy Fold Card - Bear and Mouse

I found this cute little (free) image over at Beccy's Place and just had to make a card with it.  I have made a Joy Fold card using black leather craft card as the base card.  Then a layer of Kaiser Craft - Cabbage Patch and on the right some lovely metallic purple card (Blue Edge Crafts) which I have embossed with the Branches folder.  I coloured the image with my water colour pencils and aqua pen.  Added a touch of gold to his buttons and glasses.

Thanks for all your well wishes.  I am feeling even more human today.  So by Thursday I think I should be bouncing around the place.  lol

Joy Fold Birthday Card - Cracked Stained Glass

Morning everyone, I have had so much fun creating this card this morning. Yes, I know another Joy Fold card, be warned I have another two variations I still want to try. Once again I have used the black leather craft card as my base card and for the topper. I have cut the topper with my Spellbinder Scalloped Edged Circle. How lucky was that ...... just remembered the name of the image was on the back as I had received it in an 'Image Swap' from over at Craftmad. Thankfully I have trimmed the name off in one piece and it was in my bin. :-) It is from Inkadinkadoo - Best Friends. Very pretty and fun to colour with my watercolour pencils. This morning Cheryl over at 'My Cardmaking Haven' posted a tutorial on Cracked Glass. Eileen over at Ikki's Cuttlebug Cupboard had also written a post about Triple Embossing. So I thought why not try it all out today. So much fun embossing so many times and then putting the image in the freezer and cracking it. :-) The striped papers on this card I have collected from a UK magazine giveaway and the blue background paper is 'Making Memories' - Boho -Lauren Box Flower. Oh and I can't forget the lovely black greeting sticker I used to finish it all off.
Inside...I have lined the circle with some Mulberry Paper.

Snail and Ladybug Joy Fold Card

I am a little late today. I started this card this morning but had to go and catch up with a lovely lady that I haven't seen since December last year. Back again now and finished this card. I have been wanting to try one of these cards out since I saw Kylie's wonderful tutorial over at INKlings from Kylie's Craft Room. Funny thing is I have had a pile of black leather craft card in my cupboard for a little bit and on the weekend got to and cut them all down to card size. I had the exact sizes already cut....just had to trim the front flap of the big card. The papers on this card have come free from some UK magazine...aren't they lovely. I have also used bazzill bling card from Blue Edge Crafts. The cute image I received from Stacie over at All Things Crafty. I have coloured it with my watercolour pencils and added some Dimensional Magic to the ladybug shell and the drops of rain. The inside of the small card I still have to add a greeting but wanted to show you all this card today. The lovely textured paper came from Blue Edge Crafts and was a perfect colour match to the red flower. I was finding this really hard as all the reds I seem to have are yellow based reds and I needed the blue base red.