Yet more card ideas

Remember my last craft post where I alluded to the making of 20 cards during the April holidays?  Here's the next lot for your delectation, approval, delight and liberal freedom to pinch ideas!

The following cards have all been given to the recipients so they are all 'safe' to view!

 This first one was a birthday card for CBC.  I got the idea from a picture frame my friend Lara (from Lara's Cottage Crafts on Facebook) made for a baby's room.  The basic idea for this was I punched circles in red, orange, yellow and blue- halved them and glued them side to side. Then attach to the card and draw little baskets underneath.  The clouds were merely cut freehand from white paper and the birds drawn on in black fineliner.  This is probably the card I am most proud of out of these!

The next one was for my Mum's husband.  He's a big fan of lots of band music so I made him this out of some outline stickers with the blue ones being the stickers simply stuck onto some blue card offcuts.

The third was for my Sister-in-law.  She played the French horn when she was younger and we bought her a French-horn print skirt from Lindybop for her birthday (along with a crocheted monkey by Lara).  This was the same set of outline stickers and I simple mounted them onto squares of coloured card which I cut with scalloped-edged scissors.  I smile at the lilac card because I used to have to apply for Export licenses for instruments when I worked at the Royal Academy of music and the lilac card was the backing card from the export licenses which I used to carefully peel off and I stashed them!

The final one was a simple use of two different flower punches with coloured card. I think the thing that made this card was using a white gel pen to carefully draw the dotted lines in between. I'm not sure it would have looked particularly effective without them.

What do you think? Are there any ideas you feel like attempting? Any favourites?

xx