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Ribbons and roses

Gaynor Ogden made this pretty card for her niece’s wedding day.

Peas in a pod

Mrs J Hawkins designed this cute card to celebrate the arrival of a new born baby.

Springtime fun

This pretty design was made by Hayley Belsham. She punched four daisies down the right-hand side of her cream card blank and fixed clear gems on the card inside so they were in the centre of each daisy.

Wise birthday words

Wendy Baker used a dark blue card blank and a circle of white card to create a moon and night sky effect on this fun design.

Fancy flowers

Jill Wickett cut an aperture from the card front to create a window for her florist themed design.

Summer blues

Lorraine Wilmot used some of the free papers from the Making Cards Summer Special to create this card.

Oriental fashion

Mavis Marsden chose an oriental theme for this lovely card.

Decorative diamond

This month's star card goes to Liz Milburn's eye-catching diamond fold card. The lower half of the card is decorated with two presents made from red card, red ribbon and black and white floral paper.

Glorious gold

This month's Star Card is made by Marion Doyle, who designed this beautiful gold card by cutting a piece of cream card slightly smaller than the card front so that a thin border was created around each side.

Taste of the Orient

Hazel Wells created this lovely Oriental design which features a black gatefold card decorated with pearlised card on the card front.

Diamonds for men

Margaret Copson used a diamond fold card for this male themed card. Margaret decorated the card base with blue shabby paper and a plaid border from the June issue.

Bold in black

This black and white design by Jennifer Bryant is perfect for an eye-catching design.

A quilling first

This beautiful card is Gwen Green's first attempt at quilling based on a design created by her friend.

DIY decoupage

Marian Rutherford created her own decoupage design using copyright free images from a CD.

Hat trick plus 1

This fashionable design by Janet Pointon features four hats die-cut from a variety of coloured and patterned papers.

Super scraps

Gillian Allen made this super card using scraps of wool left over from other craft projects.

Ribbons and lace

In this eye-catching design, Susan Teasdale complimented a decoupage image with pretty ribbon and lace borders.

Daisies and babies

Janet Slade used daisy background paper to cover the top half of this card blank.

Easter chicks and flowers

Die-cut daffodils mounted onto yellow card are the focal point of this card by Mary Kelly.

Get well wishes with peel-off flowers

Joy Woods cut an aperture in the right of this get well soon card which was then backed with acetate and white card.

Funky florals

Lorraine Wilmot attached a square of speckled blue paper to the card front and added blue fibres across the top and bottom.

Special shape from a template

The star card this month was designed by Norma Cheesman. A template was used to cut and fold the basic card that comprises two pieces linked to reveal a three-dimensional inner when opened.

Unique with marbling

Home-made marbled paper always guarantees a unique card as no two pieces ever emerge the same. Here's an example all the way from California and one of Carol Westover's first attempts at the technique.

Send a circular

Catherine Cornish covered the card front with circle patterned paper and a 2.5cm wide strip was cut from the right with decorative scissors.

Happy birthday girls

Canadian reader Valerie Smith sent us this totally feminine birthday card featuring a handbag and shoes. Valerie covered a white card blank with two types of patterned paper.

Pretty peel-offs

Helen Wallace beautifully matched black flower peel-offs with cerise card in this fantastic design. The peel-off flowers were attached to card, cut out and fixed to the card front with foam pads.

Lovely in lilac

The recipient's favourite colours were the inspiration for this design by Doreen Shaw.

Super shaker box

Kristen Simmonds created a shaker box as the focal point for this birthday card.

Terrific template

Janet Davenport used a template to cut a fairy shape from black card. The wings were cut from colour film and dried flowers created the grass effect.

Design with decoupage

Decoupage is one of Yvonne Medland's favourite crafting techniques and here is just one of her many creations.

Packed with punch!

Marie Birch punched three different sized squares in the same way using corner and flower punches.

Pretty in pink

Sarah Holden cut a bib shape from pink mulberry paper and edged it with lace.

Movies for men

Lisa Baker created this fantastic card that's perfect for any male!

Grand designs!

Lyn Milford created this special Z-fold card for her grandson. Find out how she created this great card...

Smart card!

This smart wedding suit design was created by Dorothy Beachbrook. The paper folded shirt and jacket were made from black and white card while a paper rose and silver peel-offs provided the button and lapel detail.

Birthday bright

This bright birthday card was created by May McLeod. A greeting was stamped in black ink and edged with yellow. It was mounted onto white, yellow and black card and attached to the card front on top of a piece of bright yellow ribbon.

Colour contrast

This card by E J Solesbury makes great use of colour contrast.

Ruby celebrations

Catherine Heather designed this simple yet sophisticated card to celebrate a Ruby wedding anniversary.

Summer delights

This summer themed card was made by Sally Shepherd who clear embossed flip-flop images to create the blue background pattern.

Cards from napkins

José Riddiough made this card using images from napkins that she mounted onto card. Two images were cut into tag shapes, mounted onto tan card and attached to a z-fold card base.

Flowers and lace

Eileen Brookes cut the right side of a square from the card front and folded it back to create this unusual card.

3D designs

Betty Holt embossed vellum with dots to create the background for this design.

Fun with free gifts

Mrs Weller produced this lovely card using free gifts from the February issue.

Perfect punching

This fantastic card was designed by Cristina Gaylor from Bittern in Australia.

Novel designs

This novel card was made by Sheila Mitchell from Lincolnshire.

Pretty peel-offs

Star card this month is Jill Emburey's pretty design using peel-offs.

Stamping with sparkle

Deirdre Lomax added sparkle to this stamped medallion by adding glitter to each layer.

Medallion from Portugal

Orquídea Pires from Portugal used a kite fold to create this teabag medallion.

Flower power!

This flower design by Michelle Ainley combined a flower embossed card blank with 5 flowers punched from coloured paper.

Simply hearts

This simple but delicate design was created by Donna McLarnon.

Embellish an aperture

14 year old Marie Hinett created this card using a lilac aperture card as the base.

Fun & bright

This bright card by Linda Luckin was made by cutting balloon shapes from coloured holographic paper.

For the love of parchment

Amy Stewart used various parchment techniques to create this pretty card.

Watercolour wonders

This rosebud design was drawn onto parchment using watercolour pencils.

Bags of fun!

For this fun design Eileen Sabey cut a handbag shape from peach pearlescent card.

Vellum wedding

Clare Priestley is the designer of this month's star card featuring a wedding dress and veil cut from vellum.

Retail therapy

Emily O’Neill takes a selection of stamps and designs this card, perfect for a shopaholic.

Share a mushroom delicacy

Our Star Card award goes to Debbie Clark, of Westbury, Wilts. Debbie has decorated one half of a large slide mount with Liquid Beadz and used it to frame an acetate image of mushrooms.

Happy anniversary - with scallops

Kay Battan, of Letchworth Garden City, Herts, applied a large scallop border punch to create the front edge on this card made for a friend’s 40th wedding anniversary.

Self-assembly pram from shapes

Lisa German, of Humberston, Lincs, made this simple card to mark the celebration of a new baby.

Purple extravagance

Lynda Daffy designed this truly extravagant card to mark a very special occasion.

Inspired by wax wonders

Grace Neal is the designer of this card which has been inspired by our wax wonders series.

Blue for a boy

Star card 1 goes to Peta Elliot-Mills for her simple yet striking baby card design.

Parchment pretty

Parchment paper was embossed and cut out for this pretty card from Beryl Illstone.

Wedding card stencilling

Hilary Newcombe designed this wedding card using a ‘crown of hearts’ stencil and ‘silver star’ dream paper.

Contrasting colours

Using contrasting colours can create very impressive looking cards as Catherine Robertson from Perth has discovered.

Up, up and away with stamping!

A variety of techniques were used by Ivy Joyce from Essex when she made this birthday card.

Sent with love and creativity

This creative anniversary card was made by Carol MacKenzie from Clackmannanshire.

Simply thanks

This simple but meaningful thank you card was designed by Clare Priestly from Merseyside.

A purple and peel-off wedding!

J Vaughan from Hertfordshire made this pretty wedding card using a pink skeleton leaf to back the bride’s dress.

Like mother like daughter

Keen card maker Joyce Seabrook was very pleased to receive this card, the first card her daughter, Eileen, had ever made.

Pearlescent present!

Star Card 2 goes to Lynda Daffy for her pretty present design.

A card for a gent!

Christine Townsend from Cheshire is awarded the Star Card this month for creating this innovative design – the gentleman’s wallet card.

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