The key to the door....

Well, I managed to mow the lawn today and dry a load of washing! The shed can wait!It's lovely down here today, a real contrast to yesterday...hopefully it will remain nice for tomorrow but you all know what happens on Bank Holidays! Say no more! Here's another card made from the Mango Frost stack. I covered the front of the card with yellow patterned paper rounding one corner. I added a horizontal panel mounted onto a punched mat and wrapped with ribbon. I added another panel adhered to the card with foam tape. I cut a shaped panel from white cardstock matted onto pink patterned paper. This was adhered flat to the patterned panel. I cut a large key from silver mirri, enhanced it with a dressmaker's wheel and added a layered bloom over a bow. I cut '21' from glittercard and adhered it to the white panel with foam pads. 'Happy Birthday' was cut from paper and adhered flat. Pearl embellishments complete the front.The inside was decorated with a simple punched border and matted sentiment panel.
Carts used:
Key- Sentimentals
Shaped panels-'Just Because' Cards
Happy Birthday- Calligraphy Collection
21- Winter Woodland (font shadow)
Enjoy the rest of the weekend and thanks for dropping by!
Heather xxx

Just saying Hi.....

Hi All! Hope you are enjoying the long weekend here in the UK. It's wet down here on the south coast- a real contrast to last weekend. I was hoping to mow the lawn and clear out the bomb site that is our shed today, but heyho! I'll make cards instead! For this one I used DCWV papers from the Mango Frost stack. I covered the front of the card with yellow paper and added a blue punched border tied with ribbon. I added another smaller panel adhered to the card with foam pads. A shaped panel along with a larger mat was adhered flat over this panel. I cut the sentiments from more patterned paper and adhered it flat to the panel. I added a layered bloom and some flat backed pearls. The inside was decorated with another punched border and a matted sentiment panel.
Carts used:
Shaped panels- 'Just Because' Cards
Just Saying Hi- Lyrical Letters
Have a great Bank Holiday and thanks for looking!
Heatherxxx

Talk of the town...

There are quite a few phone images available to cut from various carts, in various stylies, but this has got to be one of the most elegant! I had real trouble with this baby! It should have been cut with a filagree pattern but my Big Bug chewed it to blazes! These filagree cuts just HAVE to be cut larger than 3 1/2" otherwise you don't have a snowball in hell's chance of getting them off the mat! So after numerous tries and much wasted glittercard :( , I went with the solid version instead. I have to say I prefer it! I cut the phone from aqua glittercard and then added a dial (cut from another phone image) and a large blue gem. I mounted the phone onto a diamond mat which was then adhered with foam pads onto a larger panel decorated with different width strips of patterned paper (that 6x6 pad again) over an embossed white panel. I added 'Talk of the town' cut from glittercard in the space below the phone and a ribbon, bow and bloom to the strip of aqua paper. Adhesive pearls finish the front. The inside was decorated with another diamond mat and a punched border.
Carts used:
Phone- Summer In Paris
Dial & Talk Of The Town- Wild Card
Thanks for dropping by today!
Heatherxxx

Missing you......

I decided to use up some freebie papers for this card, they are 6x6, a size I don't buy because my finished cards are A5 and they aren't big enough, but they are perfect for panels as on this card. I cut a piece of white textured card and matted it onto aqua cardstock. I then added a punched horizontal border with ribbon and two further panels adhered at different angles. The top panel was adhered with foam pads. I then cut a shaped panel, embossed it and added a mat. I cut the sentiment from glittercard and adhered it with foam pads. A layered bloom and pearls finish off the front. The inside was decorated with a large white panel, punched border and smaller shaped sentiment panel.
Carts used:
Shaped panel- 'Just Because' Cards
Missing You- Stamping Solutions
Thanks for dropping by!
Heatherxxx

May Birthday......

Here's something a little different. I bought Designer Calendar a few weeks ago and it's loaded with great images & words. I thought that I'd make a card with a month of the year on it, suitably May! I went with a doiley card for this one, cut on blackout to get rid of the holes in the scallops. I used Bo Bunny papers and an MS punch. I cut 'May' from green script paper and backed with another 'May' cut from card to give it some rigidity. I cut 'Happy Birthday' from purple cardstock and glittered it with Stickles after it was adhered to the card with foam pads. I added ribbon, a layered bloom punched & embossed from the Bo Bunny paper, and some pearls to finish. The inside was decorated with a circle of spotty paper with a smaller circular mat decorated with flowers cut from the Bo Bunny patterned paper.
Carts used:
Doiley card base-Wild Card (blackout enabled)
Circles- George
May-Designer Calendar
Happy Birthday- Calligraphy
Thanks for dropping by!
Heatherxxx

Cheers!.....

Wow! What a fab weekend we've had down here on the south coast! Breakfast, lunch AND dinner outside-and it's still only May! Hopefully we'll have loads more weekends like this one! It was my BIL Steve's birthday last week and this is the card that I made for him. It wasn't my 1st choice, but the cart I wanted to use for his card hasn't arrived as yet so I had to go to Plan B. I used papers from Creative Cardmaking with a 'booze' theme. There are also some die-cuts with the collection and I've used 2 here- one on the glass and one inside the card. I covered the front of the card with bottle label paper and matted a flat green paper on top of it. I cut the glass from cardstock weight acetate and adhered a piece of shimmer paper behind it, hiding the adhesive with the die-cut label. I added a piece of white card for the froth above the shimmer paper, and then adhered the glass to the card front with foam pads. I added 'STEVE' with mini bottle tops. I cut 'Cheers!' from red mirri and adhered it flat to the green panel. The inside was decorated with a large white sentiment mat with label paper border and another die-cut label.
Carts used:
Glass-'Just Because' Cards
Cheers!- Wild Card
Thanks for dropping in!
Heatherxxx

'Ringing' the changes......

Here's a prime example of a card NOT turning out how you wanted it! I made this card, photo'd it, uploaded it and yet the more I looked at it the more I felt that it wasn't right. So. what to do about it? Eventually I decide that it was the square mat that wasn't 'doing it' for this card. So I changed it to a scalloped circle and it's infinately better! I used the Papermania Wedding papers again and 2nd time around cut a scalloped circle with an embossed circle adhered to it with foam pads to hold the rings embellishment. I added sheer ribbon, a large rose and a pearl spray.I
cut the rings from pink mirri and added a sparkly glittercard diamond embellished with a scrap daisy (from the punched border of the original mat-waste not, want not!) and pearl. I added 3 more daisies above the circle and 'Wedding' cut from more pink mirri below it. The inside was decorated with a simple sentiment mat with punched border and an (over) abundance of punched daisies- too many I feel!
Carts used:
Scalloped circle & plain circle-Winter Woodland
Rings-Sweethearts
Wedding- Designer Calendar

Hope you are having a great day- it's BOILING here!
TTFN!
Heatherxxx