Sweet Pea.......

I cut this little pea pod out a few months ago just to see what it was like nad I loved it, but it's only now that I've actually used it on a card. I've tarted the cut up a bit because on the cartridge it's quite basic. I added some details to the baby's face and I paper pieced a pillow and coverlet.The card base is a C5 Z-fold and the papers are K & Co 'Itsy Bitsy'. The pea pod was cut twice from green cardstock and then embossed with a Fiskars texture plate.I cut away part of the second pod and adhered it to the complete pod with foam pads to add dimension. The baby's face was coloured with marker pens and a blender pen, and a little glitter added to the hairline. The blanket was made srom patterned paper with a scalloped edged trim. The pod was adhered to an embossed panel which was punched with a Woodware ribbon slot border punch. I threaded ribbon through the slots and added a bow.A WOC rose and some teeny pearls made from Card Candy completes the front of the card.

The inside back of the card was embellished with a scalloped circle holding the 'Sweet Pea' sentiment and the 'Welcome' sentiment was adhered above it.
A teeny floral arrangement was adhered to the scalloped circle to complete the card.
Carts used:
Baby in pea pod/'Sweet Pea' sentiment-New Arrival
Scalloped circle-Winter Woodland
Plain circle-George
'Welcome'-Sentimentals
Thanks for visiting!
Heather xxx

Elegant Fan....

Of all the cartridges I've got not one of them has a decent fan. I have the Heritage cart and you would have thought that there would have been a fan on that one, but no. I know that there are some lovely fans on Pagoda but I don't have that cart because I'm not a huge fan of Oriental. So you can imagine my delight when I received my latest cart and there was this lovely fan on it. OK, it's not very fancy but you can make it so depending upon what you cut it out of.
I used Dovecraft Pampered Pets papers for this card. I cut the fan base from silver mirri (embossed after cutting) and the top from aqua floral paper. I embossed lines on the fan and then creased it gently along the embossed lines. I also added detail with a dressmaker's wheel. The patterned portion of the fan was adhered to the silver base with foam pads. I punched a hole in the handle of the fan and threaded some narrow peach ribbon through it. The handle was then embellished with a floral arrangement and some pearl strands.The fan was then adhered to a panel with punched edge & ribbon trim. The sentiment was adhered inside a bookplate cut from patterned paper and white cardstock. The bookplate was adhered to the card front with foam pads. A smattering of pearls completes the front of the card.

The inside of the card was decorated with more patterned paper, a sentiment panel with punched edge, and a small patterned paper fan.
Carts used:
Fan- Formal Occasions
Bookplate-Fabulous Finds
Elegant-Forever Young
Thanks for dropping by!
Heather xxx

Special Delivery....

I've got a couple of cute baby cards for you today. Aren't these babies the cutest things? Although they are crawling babies, I think that they look great for new baby cards. There are a couple of swaddled babies on the cart but I preferred these.
The base card is a double twisted easel, decorated with Dovecraft Back To Basics papers. A piece of cardstock slightly larger than the base of the card was punched with an MS Broderie Anglaise embossing punch, then trimmed to fit.I added patterned paper, an embossed border and sheer ribbon/bow trim.I cut the pink baby from glittercard and the blue baby from Gemstones cardstock, then both were shadowed with white. I added some glitter to the nappies and a teeny punched heart. 'Special Delivery' was cut from the same cardstock as the babies. The babies and sentiments were adhered with foam pads to scalloped square panels, one on each of the easels.The decorated panels were embellished with floral arrangements.
I created some small 'pearls' from Card Candy using the largest hole on my Cropodile. These were adhered to the cards with silicone glue. Three teeny punched hearts below the sentiments complete the cards.
Carts used:
Scalloped squares- Accent Essentials (there is a scalloped square on Celebrations- just use the blackout feature to remove the corner holes)
Babies-Car Decals
Special Delivery-Life's A Party
Thanks for dropping by today!
Heather xxx

Roll With It!.....

Happy Monday! Hope you all had a great weekend-now it's back to the grindstone eh?!
Today's card is a square version of Friday's. It's also a little more 'girlified' with pink skates and VERY floral paper which was from a magazine freebie. The boots were cut from two shades of pink cardstock with white for the laces and grey for the wheels/base. I added a couple of trimmed silver Card Candy circles for the wheel centres. A punched, ribbon-trimmed border holds the 'Roll With It' sentiment on a scalloped circle.The border acts as the stop for the top portion of the card. Another scalloped circle, embellished with a pink daisy was adhered to the top of the card next to the skates. A scattering of Card Candy completes the card.
Carts used:
Skates-Nifty Fifties
Scalloped squares-Accent Essentials
Scalloped circles-Winter Woodland
Plain circles- George
Sentiments-Rock Princess (heart font)
Thanks for dropping by!
Heather xxx

Go Girl.....

First of all I'd like to thank Chrissie & Lynne from Simply Less Is More Challenge blog for their kind comments on yesterday's card. I entered it into their latest challenge but I can see that it was TOTALLY unsuitable! The only criteria that it filled was that it was pastel coloured! Oh well 'Must Do Better Heather!' Maybe next time!
Onto today's card....
A circular easel (quel surprise!)this time for a teenager perhaps? I used papers from First Edition Love Letters 8x8 stack. I cut a pair of fab roller skate boots from white/grey cardstock, with pink laces and adhered them to the top of the card with foam pads. Both sentiments were cut from burgundy cardstock shadowed with white, then adhered with foam pads. A large burgundy pearl was adhered to the base of the card to create a stop. A layered bloom and some glitter completes the card.
Carts used:
Card base-Wild Card
Scalloped circles-Winter Woodland
Plain Circles-George
Roller skate boots-Nifty Fifties
Both sentiment-Rock Princess (heart font)
Thanks for looking!
Heather xxx

Unique......

I hope that ypu aren't getting bored of these circular easels because I've still got a few left to show you yet!
I really like the colour pallette of this one, peachy pink & soft mint green-Yummy! I used Dovecraft Pampered Pets papers for this card. Don't let the name of these papers put you off buying them-they are lovely soft floral prints with not a kitty or a dog in sight! They suit vintage cards really well, and I went with that theme for this card.
The base is, of course, a circular twisted easel. I used two different colourways for the top & bottom portions of the card (the polka dot paper on the base of the card is by Craft Creations).A punched border with ribbon trim was adhered across the top portion of the card, and a cameo cut from green pearlised cardstock (embossed after cutting) shadowed with white cardstock was adhered over it with foam pads.
The sentiment on the base was cut from more pearlised cardstock shadowed with white, then adhered to the base with foam pads. I added 'you are' with Heidi rub-ons above the 'unique' sentiment, and a pearl heart to create the stop. A couple of WOC/Prima floral arrangements complete the card.
Carts used:
Card base-Wild Card
Scalloped circles-Winter Woodland
Plain circles-George
Cameo-Heritage
'Unique'-Wall Decor & More
Thanks for dropping by!
Heather xxx

The perfect pair......

It's a romantic card for you today.
A circular twisted easel is the base and papers are Making Memories 'Je T'aime'. A punched, ribbon-trimmed border with layered bloom was added to the top portion of the card with foam tape.Both the canoodling couple (embossed after cutting with a Divine Swirls folder)and the sentiments were cut from Gemstones cardstock shadowed with Vanilla cardstock. The 'You & Me'sentiment was adhered to a scalloped circle then all elements were adhered to the card with foam pads. The 'Perfect Pair' sentiment becomes the stop for the top portion of the card. A small floral arrangement to the base portion of the card, some punched hearts above the couple and a smattering of pearls completes the card.
Carts used:
Base card-Wild Card
Scalloped circles-Winter Woodland
Plain circles-George
Couple & sentiments-Sweethearts
Thanks for looking!
Heather xxx