Tuesday, 28 April 2009

Aintree Craft show goodies and cards

On Sunday, I went to the fabulous Aintree Craft show, and spent all my birthday money that I had saved, easpecially for the occasion! It was fab!!! There were laods of stalls with plenty of goodies on them... one of my fave stalls this year was Craftwork Cards. I bought some scallop edged cards there, some sentiments and these gorgeous owls and birds!!! This first card was simple,...I inked the edges, adding a dot of black, watercoloured the owl and used a stamp (I had forgotten I had!!! ooops!!!) from QVC to make a frame around the owl. I like this card.





This is the first card I made with my new owls and birds. I used Pink Petticoat paper and cut the little branches myself. I used Craftwork cards images ans sentiment. I made this for my cousin whose birthday is coming up.
Again, I admit this stamp was from a set I got from QVC a while ago, and I had never used before! I know....I'm terrible!!! I usd the stamp twice in each corner, added some dots to the stamped swirls, watercoloured the bird with my bargain watercolour pencils ( £1 for an unopened new tin of 24 derwent watercolour pencils from a car boot sale!) The lovely purple card in the middle, I also bougth on a car boot sale (!!!) and the sentiment was craftwork cards again.
This is one of the bargain papers I got in Llandudno over the bank holiday weekend. I drew on the branches, added a little detail to the scallop edges and watercoloured the owl and bird again.





6 comments:

Jackie said...

Lovely set of cards Vicky, saw some on DC and commented :o)
Jackie xx

Julie said...

Four fab cards Vicky, second one's my fav though, really great colours and layout.

MeandLilG said...

Oooh, these are gorgeous, as usual! xx

Krafty Kows said...

What great cards. Love the owls, they are fab. Worth holding onto your birthday money for.
Jeanette

Tina'sAngels said...

Your cards are all great..
Tina x
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jaki oneill said...

wow, is really all i can say hun...FAB just FAB!! xx