Delish!.....

This cake is so pretty that you wouldn't want to eat it I reckon! It looks like it should be a wedding cake but it has 2 cherries on the top so I suppose it's an 'anyday' cake! You could, of course. cut the cherries off and use it as a wedding cake. The cut is very intricate and you don't have a hope in hell of cutting it any smaller than 3"- the cut gets mangled on the mat- and using glitterpaper (which I did!) makes matters worse. I cut the cake twice, once in silver mirri (solid) and again in glitterpaper. I cut off the stand portion of the pink cake and adhered the remaining cut to the silver portion. I decorated the stand with a dressmaker's wheel and some pearls. I used Papermania Henbury Lane papers, an MS Doiley lace punch and a layered bloom. I criss-crossed some ribbon over the horizontal border and added the bloom at the intersection and added 3 pearls onto each of the ribbon bands. 'D-lish' was cut from glittercard and silver mirri and adhered with foam pads to the side of the cake running vertically. Another solid cake was cut from glittercard and adhered inside the card in the bottom corner of the sentiment panel.
Carts used:
Cake- Summer In Paris Special Edition
'D-lish'-Forever Young
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Heatherxxx

I missed your birthday!.....

I'm pretty much up on all the birthday's, anniversary dates etc...it's a good job 'cos my hubby's useless when it comes to birthdays...his family only DO the kid's birthdays..so I don't have to send this type of card very often. To be honest I made this card with absolutely no idea what to put on it..so out came the Wild Card booklet and once again it saved the day! I used DCWV Linen Closet papers and a very simple layout. I used an MS punch on the stripey part of the border and added ribbon and a layered bloom. I cut the shaped panel from white card, with a green shadow then adhered it with foam pads to the front of the card. I added the sentiment cut from brown glittercard, gems and 3 aqua buttons tied with embroidery thread. The inside is very simple with just a patterned mat and a shadowed sentiment panel.
Carts used:
Shaped panels: 'Just Because' Cards
Sentiment-Wild Card (RDS on)
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Heatherxxx

DAD....

Father's Day will be upon us soon, and I think that this card will fit the bill. Unfortunately my Dad is no longer with us so it was with some sadness that I made this card knowing that I couldn't send it, but my sons can use it instead for their Dad. The image is lovely although I think it has more of a Spanish look than French. I used Hampstead papers again (I sure am getting my money's worth from them!) and an almost identical layout to 'Cheers'. I cut the head from bronze mirri and brown glittercard, and added some large letter discs (can't remember the technical name for them!) adhered with silicone. The inside was decorated with a patterned paper mat, a sentiment panel and a bottle/glass image cut from brown card.
Carts used:
Head & Bottle/glass- Summer In Paris
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Heatherxxx

'Scent' with love....

Here's a feminine version of the cards that I've been posting lately. I have to say that this card is very pretty in real life!When my boss saw it she snaffled it for her mum! I used lavender & blue papers from Papermania's Henbury Lane collection with silver accents. I covered the front of the card with blue 'bubble effect' paper and added a central panel covered with purple blooms, and then a smaller embossed white panel. I punched a border with an MS punch and added a strip of blue striped paper.I criss-crossed some purple polka dot ribbon across the panel and added a layered bloom to the intersection. I cut the fab perfume bottle from blue glittercard and silver mirri and adhered it with foam pads to the white panel. I cut the sentiment from deep purple glittercard and adhered it flat to the space around the perfume bottle. The inside was decorated with a matted panel, punched border and a solid mirri perfume bottle which was enhanced with a dressmaker's wheel.
Carts used:
Perfume bottle- Summer In Paris
'Scent'- Nursery Rhymes (font)
With Love-Sentimentals
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Heatherxxx

Cheers!....

The Summer In Paris cart is great for men's cards as there are just as many icons suitable for a man as for a woman..there's the tower image, a car, a man's head,hot air balloon, piano,bike and this wine bottle & glass. It's much more sophisticated than a beer bottle don't you think? I went with the Hampstead papers again and a simple layout. I used a MS border punch on the two borders. I cut the bottle & glass from brown glittercard and gold mirri. I adhered the image to the centre panel with foam pads and added 6 gold pearls along with 'cheers' cut from more brown glittercard. The inside of the card is a simple mat with border and another solid bottle/glass image cut from plain brown cardstock
Carts used:
Bottle & glass- Summer In Paris
'Cheers'- Wild Card (RDS on)
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Heatherxxx

Merci.....

Isn't this a lovely cut? It is, of course, the Eiffel Tower but could easily be Blackpool Tower! It is after all a replica of the iconic French landmark. I used papers from Papermania's Hampstead collection. This is a really good collection of papers for men's cards. The layout is simple- a rust mat, striped vertical border edged with an MS punch and a smaller mat wrapped with wide mesh ribbon. I cut the tower from copper & gold mirri card and adhered it to the smaller mat with foam pads. I added 3 gold candy dots to the ribbon. I cut 'Merci' from more mirri card and adhered it to the side of the tower, again with foam pads. The inside was decorated with a simple striped mat and sentiment panel and a smaller solid tower.
Carts used:
Eiffel tower- A Summer In Paris
Merci- Stamping Solutions
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Heatherxxx

Ooh la la!!..........

Do you ever buy a cart for just ONE image? I do, and this is it..a french maid of all things!! I think that this image has a lot of possibilities. I was going to do a man's card with something like 'me in this?' on the outside of the card, and 'in your dreams!' on the inside!LOL! In the end I decided on a more feminine card using the scrumptious new Henbury Lane papers from Papermania. The layout is very simple, I didn't want to clutter the front too much and confuse the eye with too many patterns. When it came to the maid I tried several different colour combos...pink/black, white/pink,yada,yada,yada...in the end I settled with white over black. 'Fifi' (I'll call her that!) was cut at approx 4 1/2" in black card and white glittercard, assembled then adhered with foam pads to the pink panel. I added black & white ribbon with a layered flower, sentiment oval and pearls. The inside is very simple with just a punched border and scalloped sentiment oval to finish.
Carts used:
'Fifi'-Summer In Paris Special Edition
Scalloped oval-A Child's Year
'Ooh, la, la' sentiment oval-Forever Young
Thanks for looking!
Heatherxxx