Airborne Birthday

It is our nephew Skanda's birthday on Friday. He lives in Sydney, Australia. I posted this card last Saturday morning and I received an e-mail from him today thanking me for it!! WOW!!! That's got to be a record- 6 days!!! What a service!!! Skanda is taking flying lessons, so when I saw these embellies I thought that they would be ideal for his card. I used paper from an old DCWV stack- it has both blue & stormy sky so I used both! I mounted the large plane onto a piece of sky paper and matted & layered it with silver mirri & navy card. I also mounted a smaller image but this time omitting the sky paper.Doesn't the plane look realistic on that paper?!!!. I cut about 4cms from the front of the card, then covered the front with blue sky and the inside back with stormy sky. The smaller image is on the inside back of the card. I cut out Skanda's name & age from Crafttime navy glitter paper and a shadow in silver mirri. I then arranged the elements & stuck it all into place. I added 'happy birthday' in the same glitter paper to the inside of the card. I think for male cards the simpler the better although for a gal who LOVES ribbon,flowers & bling it can be hard to restrain oneself!!!!

Cart used:

Name & age- Opposites Attract (Opposite/Opposite shadow)

Happy Birthday (inside not shown)-Wild Card

Thanks for looking!

Heather

p.s in case you are wondering Skanda's mum & dad are Indian-they are my hubby's youngest sister & BIL.

Sweetheart...A new cartridge & a warning!

I took possession of this little beauty last week! It isn't available over here yet-so being impatient I ordered it from Hallmark Scrapbook in the States as it was due for release over there mid to late March. I have ordered carts from Hallmark before and they have been delivered to my door no problem. This time however I had to collect it from the local Parcel Force office where I had to pay £6 VAT & £8 handl;ing charge (£8 quid!!!) before they would give it to me! I was spittin' I can tell you because I've never had to pay VAT on stuff ordered from the States before. The very nice man at the depot told me that they had doubled the size of their holding room in anticipation of more items coming from abroad requiring VAT to be paid (although he did say that they do it on a 'random' basis). So ladies, just bear that in mind if you order stuff from overseas. I've got 2 more carts to come from Hallmark in June so it will be interesting to see if I have to pay extra for those too!

Anyhow,back to the card. I borrowed the layout from another blog and added a few little extras. I used paper from the glitter stack & Sweet pad from DCWV. I added a ribbon bow, gems and flowers with ribbon flowers at the centres. I glittered the sentiments inside & out.

Carts used:

Shaped rectangular panel- StoryBook

Oval & shadow- George

Sentiments & filigree edge heart- Lyrical Letters

Hope you like it & thanks for looking!

Heather

Not feeling well?

Here's a whimsical little get well card that should raise a smile! I used paper from DCWV and bazzill cardstock. I cut out the bug, gave him some googly eyes & a downturned mouth which made him look distinctly unwell! I added a ribbon, some layered flowers with gem centres & the sentiment which I embellished with some faux stitching in white gel pen.

Carts used:

Bug- Doodlecharms

Scalloped circle- Graphically Speaking

Blue circle- George

Sentiment- Don Juan ('BUG' cut in 'under pressure' mode)

Thanks for looking!

Heather

Gardening Grandad!

Hi all! Hope you are enjoying the long weekend! It's beautiful down here near Portsmouth today, warm & sunny, so I've managed to get outside & do some gardening. 3 lawns to cut, weeds to kill & trimming back of unruly shrubs, and now the garden looks lovely bathed in the afternoon sun! Roll on summer! With gardening in mind, here's a card for a gardening grandad (or granny-just change the sentiment & colours!) I've had this gardening themed paper for yonks and this was the perfect card to use it on. I added a panel of green checked paper onto which I adhered a piece of leaf-effect ribbon. I cut out a circle which I decorated with 'grass' & teeny flowers. I added a sign with a safmat sentiment, a gorgeous watering can which I enhanced with tiny perforations made with a dressmakers wheel, and of course the sentiment.

Carts used:

Circle & shadow- George

Sign- George

Sentiment- Don Juan

Watering can- Disney's Happily Ever After

Grass- Plantin Schoolbook

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather

Birthday Blessings

Happy Easter everyone! I hope you are not feasting too much on choccie!! This card is made with papers from the spring stack. It's in shades of salmon pink and is sooooo purdy!!!! I added two panels in a 1/3rd-2/3rd ration and covered the join with a strip of dotty bazill cut with scalloped scissors. I cut the large scallop on the bug and then added a large layered flower pierced with a home made pin (hat pins & beads from the local haberdashery) and a glazed brad for the centre & a ribbon bow. Smaller flowers with pearl centres were added above the horizontal panel. The sentiment was cut in white bazill dotty (with a salmon coloured shadow) & the bottom of each letter was coloured with a whispers pen in very pale pink. I then glittered to finish!

Carts used:

Large scalloped edging-Plantin Schoolbook

Sentiment- George

Thanks for looking & have a lovely day!

Heather

For the happy couple!

Seeing as we are fast approaching the wedding season I thought that I would make a start on some wedding cards. This one is made with paper from the DCWV Spring stack and is in shades of pink and pale green. I added some punched borders, satin ribbon & layered flowers. The frame around the bride & groom was decorated with self-adhesive pearls, as are the centres of the flowers & the top left of the centre panel. The bride & groom are cut from silver mirri and I added spotty glittered vellum behind the bride's dress & veil. Again I decorated the inside of the card,the sentiment being cut from silver mirri.

Carts used:

Bride & Groom,frame & sentiment- Wild card (RDS on)

Thanks for taking a look!

Heather

Happy 18th, John!!!

This is yet another card for one my eldest's friends.This poor boy is one of the last to turn 18 in his year and all of his friends have been out on the razz for a few months (not EVERY night!!!) and have had to leave him at home! He finally turned 18 last week so they took him out into Portsmouth and had a whale of a time! I made this card using papers and images from Madaboutcards. I printed the images onto photopaper-they are firmer and have a better look than if they were printed onto paper. I used dark brown card to mat the papers & images and then added the sentiment which was decorated with white gel-pen dots. As you can see I also decorated the inside.

Carts used:

Sentiment (front)- Don Juan

Sentiment- (inside)- Celebrations

Thanks for stopping by!

Heather