Trains & boats & 'planes......

I've a very masculine card for you today. I've used this layout a lot and you will see evidence of that over the coming days...here we go again I hear you yell! I used paper from a GORGEOUS paper stack by DCWV called The Natural Stack(The Range £19.99), and it's crammed with scrumptious browns & coppers. I covered the front of the card with a mixed pattern paper and cut three 2 1/2"squares from different papers, matted onto gold mirri. I added a long panel to the left of the card and then arranged the three panels, overlapping, leaving a place for a sentiment. I cut the 3 icons from gold mirri and adhered them to the squares with foam pads. I added gold pearls to the squares and 2 brown buttons sewn onto gold mirri punched circles. The inside was decorated simply with the addition of scrolled gold mirri corners.
Carts used:
Train,boat,'plane & Scrolls-Heritage
With Love-Sentimentals
Thanks for dropping by!
TTFN
Heatherxxx

Sister......

This card is so simple but very pretty (blowing my own trumpet here!) I used paper from DCWV Nana's Kitchen (I just LOVE that pink tartan paper) and a scrap of Bo Bunny polka dot paper for the scalloped oval frame. The frame was cut in the polka dot paper and a shadow cut from white card. I adhered the two together with foam pads and adhered a pice of yellow dotted paper behind it to hold the cameo which was cut from pink glittercard. I used a MS punch and some Smirk ribbon for the border. The white portion under the border was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. I cut 'Sister' from pink glitter card and adhered it with foam pads to the white portion. The frame was decorated with a gorgeous Prima flower and some extra layered flowers and a few pearls. The completed frame was then adhered to the card front with foam pads. I decorated the inside of the card with more tartan paper and a simple scalloped oval mat. I've taken to leaving the inside of the cards blank just lately so that the giver can write their own message.
Carts used:
Cameo & 'SISTER'- Heritage
Scalloped oval frame-Ashlyn's Alphabet
Scalloped oval (inside)-A Child's Year
Thanks for looking!
Heatherxxx

Happy Birthday Anita!....

I made this card for our Aussie niece Anita who at the moment is working on the paradise isle of Barbados! How lucky is SHE?! She is SHOE MAD!! I've never known a girl with so many shoes! So I thought it only fitting to use shoes on her card. I used papers that came free with a card mag and a square card, which I don't use very often. The layout is very simple just matted & layered squares. I used a MS border punch on the orange spotted border and wrapped it with hot pink satin ribbon. I cut the shoes from crodile-skin textured paper and black C/S and added a punched flower with gem centre. I cut her name from aqua glitter card and adhered it with foam pads. A layered flower and gem swirls complete the front of the card. A simple sentiment square was added to the inside of the card.
Carts used:
Shoes-Forever Young
ANITA-Lyrical Letters
Happy Birthday- Calligraphy Collection
Thanks for looking!
Heatherxxx

Love you a LATTE!......

As I was making this card I wasn't at all sure that it was working or that I liked it. I LOVE the paper but the layout wasn't doing anything for me...but I persevered and in the end I was pleased with the result. I used paper from DCWV Nana's Kitchen..it's got lots of coffee cups on it, with a contrast blue gingham paper. I cut the coffee pot from green polka dot paper and silver mirri and added it to a pink tartan panel with a small strip of the coffee cup paper adhered to the bottom. I cut the 'Love you a latte' oval from pink glitter card matted onto a white oval and hand shadowed scalloped oval. I used a MS punch for the border and some lovely 'Smirk' ribbon for the bow. I added 3 pink flowers to balance the coffee pot panel, and decorated the inside with more gingham paper, white sentiment panel and a 'sticker' cut from pink glittercard.
Carts used:
Sentiment oval, coffee pot and 'sticker'- Just Because Cards
Only one cart again folks!!!
Thanks for looking!
Heatherxxx

Ladybird Luv .........

Aren't these the cutest little people you've ever seen?!!! When I saw them I knew just what I wanted to do with them. I decided to use only one colour for this card and it had to be red didn't it?! The spotty paper is the reverse side of some Christmas paper that I had left over and then I just used white cardstock which I embossed and a MS punch to decorate each end of the panel. I used some spotty ribbon (no flowers this time!) on the bottom of the panel beneath the sentiment. I cut the ladybird lovers from red glittercard and mounted them with foam pads onto a shaped panel shadowed with red mirri card. The sentiment was cut from the same spotty paper and adhered with foam pads. I added some tiny punched hearts between the lovers and then decorated the inside of the card with more spotty paper, a heart shaped panel and more punched hearts.
Carts used:
Ladybird lovers- Nursery Rhymes
Shaped Panel-Just Because Cards
Sentiment-Lyrical Letters
Scalloped heart-Sweethearts
Thanks for looking and have a great weekend..it's going to be scorcher!!
Heatherxxx

Bloom where you are planted....

On the 'Just Because Cards' cart there are a choice of styles for the phrases that go with each icon..there is just the phrase itself (as on the Get Whale Soon card) or the phrase cut into an oval as on this card. I chose to make the phrase oval the focus here. I cut the oval twice..once in yellow paper and it's shadow in dark teal paper. I hand shadowed it with a scalloped oval cut with scissors. I used a simple layout using DCWV paper from the Cafe Mediterranean stack from The Range (£19.99) I added the extra wording with rub-ons. Layered flowers, pearl swirls, ribbon and some extra pearls complete the front. The inside was decorated with more paper from the stack and a simple blank scalloped oval.
'Bloom' sentiment oval- Just Because Cards (cut at approximately 6")
Inside scalloped oval-A Child's Year
Thanks for looking!
Heatherxxx

You are my sunshine!.....

Here's a sunny card to go with the fab weather we've been having lately! I used paper from the DCWV Citrus stack and a cute smiley face cut from a sheet of gift wrap and mounted onto card to give it stability. Gift wrap is a fantastic scource for crafters, especially decoupagers. I used a simple layout using 3 patterns of paper. The longest piece was edged with a MS punch, the smaller panel added to it and ribbon wrapped around both. The panel was adhered to the card front with foam tape. I added a flower and sun rays behind the smiley face cut from yellow glittercard. I cut the sentiment from four different colours of glittercard and adhered the pieces with foam pads. The smiley face was also adhered with foam pads and the card front finished with some pearls coloured with permanent markers to match the card. I just cut a simple white panel, matted and layered for the inside of the card and left it blank.
Carts used:
Sun rays & sentiment- 'Just Because' Cards (WHAAT?! ONLY ONE CART?!)
Thanks for taking a look today!
Heatherxxx