Born to dance

This card shows that Christmas carts can be used for other occasions too! Joys Of The Season has some great icons on it including this little dancer. I cut her from flesh coloured card and her dress from pink card. I cut the dress twice and layered it up. I added a pearl head-dress, pearl earring and pearls around her waist. I used a glue pen to draw swirls on the bodice and create ruffles on the dress and then threw glitter on it. I used paper from a K & Co 12 x 12 pad and added a punched paper border. I added a satin ribbon and a flower layered with a bow. I cut out a pair of ballet shoes from the paper and place them beneath the centre of the bow, and added 3 pearls to the ribbon. I cut out the words 'born to DANCE and adhered them to the right hand panel- DANCE is on foam pads and glittered. I think this card would be great for a little girl who loves ballet or for an older girl taking a dancing exam.

Carts used:

Dancer- Joys Of The Season

DANCE- StoryBook

born to- Calligraphy

Thanks for looking!

Heather

Dino-mite day!

This cute little fella is on the Paper Doll cart and I thought he'd be perfect for a little boy's card. I had this cute Dino paper and this little fella would look grrrrrreat with it! I had to flip him to get him to face the way I wanted and then I chalked him (which doesn't show up on the photo!) to add definition. I added a doodle black line around the edge and along the cut lines defining the legs & tail. I used a white gel pen on his feet & gave him a googly eye! I corrugated a piece of brown card with a Fiskars Texture plate as I haven't got a Cuttlebug, and added some great skin textured paper that I got in a pack from The Works. I cut out the word ROAR and the rest of the sentiment. ROAR was doodled in the same way as Dino. The exclamation mark was cut seperately by hand. I added a raffia bow (again from The Works)which I hope isn't too girly! I rounded the top right hand corner of the printed panel & layered it all up. I glittered Dino with Opal Dust which is a fab liquid containing teeny tiny sequins and specks of glitter. You can just about see it in the photo!
Carts used:
Dino- Paper Doll
ROAR- Animal Kingdom
sentiment-Zooballoo
Hope you like him!
Heather

Little Stars

Whilst browsing the many fabbo card making blogs out there I came across a card with this sentiment on it. My card is very similar to the original but I've added a few more embellies and changed the shape of the panel that holds the sentiment. I used paper from Nana's Nursery for each of the cards. I cut out the stars and heart, passed them through the Xyron and then sprinkled them with glitter. I fixed the heart to the star with a teeny button brad. I added a scalloped oval with white Bazzil swiss dot plain oval which holds the sentiment, a satin ribbon & bow embellished with a flower & fabric rose. Three gems along the ribbon finish it off.

Carts used:

Scalloped Oval & 'STAR'- StoryBook

Plain oval, star & heart- George

'a is born'- Zooballoo

Thanks for looking!

Heather

A New Home?

I got this paper yesterday- it's the Daisy & Dandelion A5 paper collection from Design Objectives and it's very pretty & only £2.99 for 30 SHEETS! How's that for value?!!! I cut a house out of spotty brown paper, layered it over polka dot pink paper and added a frill round the eaves of the roof. I added glittered pink hearts to the roof & the door. I adhered a piece of paper with scalloped edge to the bottom part of the card after wrapping a piece of polka dot ribbon around it. I added a bow & layered flower. I then stuck the house onto the card and added tiny pink glittered hearts above the chimney. The sentiment was cut from patterned paper, The HOME was cut in card first and the paper letters stuck onto it. This was then added with foam pads to add dimension. Three Papermania adhesive pearls were added to finish it off.

Cart used:

House & sentiment- Don Juan

Thanks for stopping by!

Heather

Hope you like it

The patter of tiny feet!

I've wanted to make a card from scartch JUST using a standard cartridge for ages just to see how it turned out really- and this was the end result. I'm chuffed with it! It turned out better than I hoped!
I cut out the base card with the little feet on it & then cut out a pair of feet to embellish it with. It was trial and error getting the feet to match the ones on the card but I got there eventually! The card has a lovely scalloped edging on it. I added a 3cm strip on patterned paper to this edge and then trimmed away the excess paper. I punched a hole in each scallop. I cut a frame to go around the aperture and backed the aperture with the same patterned paper. I ran the feet through a Xyron X & covered them in Glamour Dust to make them sparkle. I cut out the sentiment- He's/she's here! and added it along with a bow layered up with a flower. Three little star gems from Papermania finished it off! This card could be used for a birth announcement or just as a general new baby card. The measurements for the card are: Card 7" , feet 3 3/4"
Carts used:
Card base: New Arrival (card2)
feet- New Arrival
sentiment- All mixed up (shadow on)
Frame around aperture- George & Basic Shapes with silhouette on
Thanks for looking!
Heather

For you MUM

With Mother's Day coming up soon here's a simple card that will suit the occasion! It's simple- just three papers cut in different widths, layered up and embellished with satin ribbon, a large layered flower and three buttons with brads inserted into the holes. The MUM was glittered.

Cart used:

For you & MUM- Calligraphy

The layout is based on a sketch I saw blog-hopping but I cannot remeber who's blog it was! If you recognise it please contact me & I will credit you. Thanks!

Heather

Get Well

I've had this paper lying around for yonks! There was only a little left-just enough for one more card! I layered up the papers (I think that they are Basic Grey) raising the panel with the sentiment on with foam pads. I added a printed satin ribbon bow, layered flowers and some Papermania adhesive pearls. I then cut out the sentiment and adhered it flat to the raised panel. I then glittered the sentiment & flowers to finish.

Cart used:

sentiment- Calligraphy

Hope you like it!

Heather