Crafty tip!

I thought I'd let you all in on what I use for generating my inside card sentiments. Paper! Simple as that! It cuts small letters much better than cardstock, especially intricate curly fonts like All Mixed Up or Loop De Lou . I collected all my paper that I've had from The Paper Mill cut it into A5 size & put it in a box. There are tons of colours which you can match up (otherwise just use black) and it cuts like a knife through butter! Put your blade depth and your pressure at 4 (med on Expression) and you will be good to go! You will save yourself a load of headache & wasted cardstock, believe me!
Hope this little tip helps. Let me know!
Heather

Delightful!

Chandeliers seem to be everywhere at the moment so I thought that I'd go with the flow with this one! Sorry about the poor photo BTW! I wanted the chandelier which was cut from black mirri card, to look as though it was hanging, so I suspended it from a 'pelmet' cut from a piece of contrasting paper by Pink Petticoat. The main backing paper is from Clare Curd by Papermania. I used hot pink card for contrast. The white panel is Dotty Bazzil edged with a Fiskars border punch. I wrapped hot pink ribbon around the 'pelmet' and added a bow & large layered flower. Although you can't see them, there are black Papermania gems on the droplets of the chandelier. I also decorated the inside.

Carts used:

Chandelier- Home Decor Solutions

Sentiments-Lyrical Letters (Loop De Loo font)

I'll post a better photo of this card soon!

Thanks for looking!

Heather

Sweet baby basinette

When I saw this basinette on the New Arrival cart I didn't think much of it, so when I wanted to make a baby card with a different cut I thought that I'd give it a go. Boy, am I glad! It's very, very pretty especially when layered & glittered. You could even add broderie anglaise to it and it would be a work of art! I added a little gingham blanket for a little contrast. The layout has been used before and I love it! I used a baby script paper & some gingham paper. The 'broderie anglaise' edge to the front panel was done with a Fiskars border punch. I added glittery white ribbon (left over from Christmas!) & a layered flower. As you can see from the boy version I decorated the inside too.

Carts used:

Basinette- New Arrival

Sentiments- Wild Card (both of these sentiments appear on the New Arrival cart too)

Thanks for looking!

Heather

Dad's cheery card

My dearDad has been admitted to hospital with just about the most serious lung condition that you can get. He is being very stoic- he has a drain in his chest which is draining litres of fluid per day but that is diminishing now & we hope that he will be home soon and preparing for chemo. He is trying to be as cheerful as is possible so I decided to make him a card that was cheery in itself. I used this paper from the DCWV Glitter stack and added a suitable sentiment. I decorated the card inside - it says 'our thoughts are with you'- and added some Candy Dots to the outside (the 3 green brad-like thingies). Very simple but cheerful don't you think? As the card says Hang in there Dad, we're with you all the way!

Carts used:

Sentiments-Wild Card

DAD-Calligraphy

Thanks for dropping in!

Heather

New Shoes!!!

It's our niece Anita's birthday tomorrow. She lives in Sydney and she has more shoes than Imelda Marcos, I swear! I decided to use this fab cut for her card and this quote that I have seen on sooooo many cards. I cut the show 3 times in silver,black dotty & white dotty paper. I then pieced the shoe together. I added a flower with flower gem centre. I cut a decorative plaque and hand cut the shadow for it. I cut the quote using different colours of c/s for the last word. I added a large layered flower & some gems and decorated the inside. The shoe is raised on foam pads, the backing paper is by Clare Curd for Papermania from The Range

Carts used:

Shoe- Wedding Solutions

Decorative panel- StoryBook

Sentiments- Lyrical Letters (Loopy Lou font)
Thanks for looking!

Heather

Birthday Wishes

I do a lot of blog hopping in the hope of finding a 'sketch' or layout for a card, and I was not disappointed. I found this one at SplitCoast Stampers. It should have 4 paper panels on the front but I only used 2. I embellished the white panel with a huge layered flower and added a swirl (you can just about see it!) on the ribbon with papermania gems adhered with tiny dabs of silicone glue. I also added gems to the ribbon across the top of the card. I decorated the inside too (I'm really 'into' that at the moment!) I added glittered sentiments. The front sentiment was layered onto a yellow hand cut shadow as some of the new cartridges don't allow machine cut shadows on some cuts-the shadow function usually does something else!

Cart used-

Both sentiments- Lyrical Letters (Capital font)

Thanks for looking!

Heather

Always on my mind....

You can combine sentiments from different carts to get the effect that you want, and this card is an example of that. I borrowed the layout from another blog and added to it. I used DCWV Spring Glitter paper. I cut a piece for the left hand front and passed it through a Fiskars border punch. I added ribbon, a bow and a hat-pin. I cut out a nested shape to hold the sentiment and embellished it with layered flowers, and floral bead clusters. I then decorated the inside of the card with a punched border & 24/7 sentiment.

Carts used:

Nested shapes- StoryBook

Front sentiment- Lyrical Letters

Inside sentiment-Graphically Speaking

Thanks for looking!

Heather