Emily & Reza.........

 Hello all! Hope you are enjoying the blistering (yes, truly!) heatwave here. Would you believe that I've had my central heating on today? WHAAAT?!!!!!! Yes, really! My boiler went on the fritz on Saturday so it's been replaced today and they had to test that the radiators were working. It's amazing how much we take hot water on tap for granted until we don't have it!

Anyhoo, back to today's card. I made this card for Mary & Imroz to give to Rhea & Phil's friends Emily & Reza who got married a couple of weeks after Hari & Suzanne.I won't go into details about each pic as the card is made in exactly the same way as in the previous post. I used an ivy die to decorate the corners on the front of the card....

 ....and also used a die for the flourish behind the heart.....

 ...and inside the card........

....and used the same quote by Audrey Hepburn on the inside.

You really can't see the beautiful lavender colour palette that well in these pics, which is a shame as it's the loveliest colour. And of course, I made a box to put it in (see previous post)

Carts used:

Shaped panel- Elegant Edges

Bride & groom heart- Love Struck

Heart on flourish- George

E & R- Storybook

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xx



Suzanne & Hari....

When we went to Seattle a couple of years ago, we stayed with some very good friends whom my hubby has known since Medical School days. Their son Hari got married to his fiancée Suzanne last month, and sadly as we were not able to attend as hubby was in India, our friends Mary & Imroz took it out for us.

 The card base is an 8" square gatefold made with two 8" square cards adhered together. I embossed snow white Centura Pearl cardstock, matted it onto blue pearlised card and adhered it flat to the front of the card. I cut a shaped panel from patterned paper (downloaded from Pink Petticoat, and printed onto pearlised paper) and adhered to a blue shadow. The panel was then adhered to the front of the card on one side only. A filigree heart was cut from Centura Pearl with a blue blackout. It was adhered to the shaped panel with foam pads. The bride and groom initials, and some die-cut flourishes adorn the front of the card, along with a blue rose and sheer bow.... 

 ...here you can see the decorated flap underneath the panel.....

....and also inside the card, along with a smaller card adhered to the inside back of the card, which carries a computer generated sentiment....

 ....and inside the card I stamped a quote from Audrey Hepburn using a Sheena Douglass stamp...

...and because the card was bulky I made a pizza-style box to keep it safe.

The other box is for another wedding card that I made which I will show you next time.

Carts used:

Shaped panel on front of card- Elegant Edges

Filagree heart-Love Struck

Small heart (on filagree heart)-Phrases

Initials- Sophisticated

Scalloped oval (on box)-Elegant Edges

Oval (on box)- Opposites Attract

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xxx

Sarah.....

It was my nephew Dan's wife Sarah's birthday last month. I had some Hunky Dory freebies that were particularly pretty and decided to use one of the papers and toppers for Sarah's card. I used an 8" square scalloped card for the base, then added the patterned cardstock,wrapped with pink velvet ribbon and matted onto gold mirri card, to the centre of the card front. I cut the gold border from the typewriter (remember those?!) image- because it was a different gold to the mirri- then mounted it onto gold mirri and adhered it to the left of the card front with foam pads. I added a sentiment from the freebie collection, along with 'SARAH' cut from pink glittercard shadowed with gold, using foam pads. A trio of pink pearls completes the card.

Carts used:

SARAH- Hannah Montana

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xxx



Jasmine......

 

I made this card earlier this year for one of Hubby's secretaries for her daughter's 13th birthday, and what better cartridge to use than Paper Doll Teen Scene?

The card base is A4 in size and the papers from my stash - don't know who made them!- met the colour brief perfectly. I cut the doll from white cardstock, then coloured her with a blush ProMarker, as I find it difficult to find decent flesh-toned cardstock. I then gave her a patterned paper dress and sparkly shoes. I added a necklace, earrings and bracelet using gems. A hand cut glittery parcel was adhered to her hand. The completed figure was adhered to a central embossed panel with foam pads.

The sentiment and name were were cut from glittercard and adhered flat to the card. A smattering of bling completes the card.

Carts used;

Doll- Paper Doll teen Scene

Sentiment, name and 13th- Suburbia

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xxx



 



Badger Birthday.......

I'm not sure whether I've shown this card as yet, but here goes anyway.

I made this card last year as a commission. The brief was black and white and badgers. Ok. So, I didn't have a badger image on a cart so I went to trusty old Google Images and found this image of a badger. I printed it out three times then decoupaged it. I used paper from DCWV Neutrals stack choosing a black and white palette. I kept the design simple (as always with commission cards) matting the badger image onto black and white cardstock and adhering it to the centre of the card with foam tape. I added a stamped sentiment, again matted with black and white cardstock. '65' was cut from black glitter card shadowed with white cardstock then adhered with foam pads above the image. A smattering of monochrome Card Candi completes the card.

Cart used:

'65'- Art Deco

Thanbks for dropping by!

Heatherxxx

HOWZAT!!!!!!!!

I made this card a couple of months ago for Rhea's hubby Phil, but Rhea's mum Mary gave me the wrong date and it went to him on her sister Menai's fiancé Krish's birthday instead! Oops! Never mind. It's his birthday next week so he can hoik it out of the drawer and put it out!

Phil loves playing cricket, so I went to www.printableheaven.co.uk and downloaded a sports collection which included this cricketer and background papers. The image is a pyramage, which after assembling I matted onto blue cardstock, and adhered it to the front of an  8" square card, decorated with the cricketer paper and 'cigarette card' paper. I stamped 'Happy Birthday' with Memento black ink above the image, and added cricket balls cut from some ancient paper in my stash. I added acrylic bubbles to the balls to make them shiny. 'HOWZAT!' & 'PHIL' was cut from pale green cardstock shadowed with blue.

All the elements on the card were adhered with foam pads/tape.

Cart used:

HOWZAT ! & PHIL- Hannah Montana

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xxx



Lottie Rose.......

Krishnan's girlfriend Sofia asked me to make her a card for her cousin's adorable little girl Lottie's Christening, and she also asked me if I would make one for her mum & dad as they were to be Godparents, and I duly obliged.

The first card is the one that I made for Joe & Nina, Sofia's mum & dad. It was very simple, with the details computer generated onto a piece of white cardstock, leaving room above for a beautiful, yet simple cross, cut from pink, pearlised cardstock with a mirri backing and decorated with a small ribbon bow and pearl flower. The panel was matted onto pink & silver mirri cardstock then adhered to an 8" scalloped square card. Two die-cut flourishes embellished with pearl flowers completes the card.

The card that I made for Sofia is equally simple, with the same base card, but this time the white cardstock is embellished with a swirl embossing folder. The cross, again was cut from pink pearlised cardstock and layered onto rainbow mirri. 'Lottie Rose' & 'Christening' were cut from the same materials. Three pearlised pink butterflies completes the card.

Carts used;

Lottie Rose- Storybook

Christening- Inspired Heart

Crosses- New Testament

Butterflies- Stamping Solutions

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xx