Card Makeover

Every so often I do makeovers on cards that I feel need a little something extra so here's a before & after: A quick card of Penny Black image painted with H2Os and mounted on a designer PaperMania card: Cute but lacking:
and, after, where I have added other papers, ribbon (pushed through between the existing foam squares), stamped sentiment and gems:Hope you think it's an improvement :)

Friday Sketchers #32

I get to join in with a challenge: hoorah !
This card follows the Friday Sketchers layout with a Penny Black stamp coloured with H2Os and using a felt and paper flower with button from Making Memories Blossoms & Buttons: 'Lemonade' with some silver thread. The image was shaped with my new Nestabilities rounded rectangles. Love them! Yes, I know they were supposed to be for Christmas but....

More quick cards

Catching up: I have been so pushed for time this week that these Magnolia and Penny Black images were coloured with my aquarelles while I was waiting for my son at skating Monday night with the water added to blend them in any snatched moments. However I had hopped on to to Deb Neerman's blog earlier in the week and she regularly sets herself a 15 minute limit to do a card which I think is a great idea. I gave myself an hour to see how many I could get done and mounted up lots of pieces that I had lying around and got 12 cards finished including the quilled ones below and these:









All the patterned cards are from a Papermania 'Designer' Pack