Somethin' for the boys!!!

Yet another of No1 son's friends had a birthday last week and this is the card that I made for him. I have a couple of standards for male & female friends so that I can reel them off PDQ!!! This card was made, primarily, with downloadables from Madaboutcards. I printed off a booze inspired backing paper, and some party images onto photopaper. I covered the front of the card with the paper which was matted onto blue & red paper. The images were matted in the same way. I arranged them on the front of the card with the bottle & tankard adhered flat & the party people adhered with foam pads. I cut an image to fit the top of a bottle cap ( from Wilkinson's Home Brew Dept!) and adhered that with a thick foam pad. I cut out the ''CHEERS ANDY!'' from red card and raised the letters with foam pads. I decorated the inside of the card too. I added a little glitz to the letters with Jo Sonja's Opal Dust, a FAB glitter glue that has tiny glitter discs in it! Click on the picture to see it in more detail.
Carts used:
CHEERS ANDY! - Lyrical Letters (Jumbo font)
Celebrate- Wild Card
Thanks for looking!
Heather

The Bride & Groom

Sorry folks if you're getting bored with this style of card, but it's just such an easy layout to use and as you can see very versatile. This time I made a wedding card. I used papers from a CD that came free with Papercraft Essentials. The card was covered with a lovely pink rose patterned paper with a piece of polka paper as accent. The large pink panel has lovely sentiments on it. I added some sheer white ribbon, a layered flower and some silver entwined hearts. Three flower shaped pearl buttons were adhered above the pink panel. I cut all the sentiments from silver paper and adhered them flat. I border punched a strip of the script paper to decorate the inside of the card.
Carts used:
Sentiments- Calligraphy Collection.
Thanks for looking!
Heather

30th Anniversary

Here's another card made with the layout I used in previous posts,this time for a 30th Anniversary card. I used paper from My Mind's Eye Magnolia Collection. I used a lovely blue & chocolate combo for this one with chocolate accents. I used glitter paper for the numerals and cut the sentiment from brown cardstock and glittered it after it was adhered to the card front.
Carts used:
30-Lyrical Letters (Jumbo font)
Sentiment-Lyrical Letters
Thanks for looking!
Heather

T 4 2 - Something different!

I don't normally make shaped cards, but this little teapot was TOO CUTE to ignore!
I cut it from white card then covered the front with polka dot embossed paper then trimmed away the excess. I drew around the teapot onto this rose paper and cut out a teapot body. Using the same method I cut out a separate lid and little knob for the top. I adhered the pieces into place & then ran around the edges with a dressmaker's wheel. I cut out a tag, along with the sentiment from the same rose patterned paper. I cut the pink shadow on the letters by hand. I decorated the tag with a couple of paper roses and tied it to the 'lid' with some pink voile ribbon. I trimmed the tag with a bow. The tag swings freely. I added the sentiment 'fancy a cuppa?' to the inside.
Carts used:
Teapot card- A Child's Year (card was cut from a piece of A4 card after determining papersize and pressing 'cut to fit'. This card is actually a tag!)
Scalloped tag- A Child's Year
Sentiments- Lyrical Letters (Jumbo font)
Thanks for dropping by!
Heather

With Love ,Nana

Here's another card made with A Child's Year. I used My Mind's Eye paper again and the same layout as the previous couple of cards. I cut out the cute little girl and wheelbarrow and then added her with foam pads to the pink panel, overlapping the green satin ribbon. I added some pearls to the ribbon & above the pink panel. I cut 'Nana' from aqua glitter card and raised the letters with foam pads. The 'with love' is adhered flat. I decorated the inside with more patterned paper & 'happy birthday'.
Carts used:
Girl with barrow-A Child's Year
Nana- Ashlyn's Alphabet
Sentiments- A Child's Year
Thanks for taking a look!
Heather

A Nana's heart.....

Creative Cardmaking (Issue 6) has some really fab papers, A4 size , matt finish and nice & thick, and I used them for this card. I used the same layout and mathod of construction as yesterday's card but added a HUGE heart over the ribbon. I cut it from patchwork paper which enforces the sentiment, and also cut the word 'patchwork' for the inside of the card from the same paper. I added a layered flower to the heart, and cut ' A Nana's' from pink card. I passed 'Nana's' through a Xyron X and then glittered each letter. I glittered the 'A' with Cosmic Shimmer glitter glue as I wanted it to be a slightly different shade. The sentiment was raised on foam pads & the inside sentiment was adhered flat. In keeping with the heart theme, I cut a strip of patchwork paper and edged it with a Martha Stewart border punch.
Carts used:
All sentiments- Ashlyn's Alphabet
Scalloped heart & patchwork heart (shift)- Doodlecharms
Hope you are having a great weekend so far!
Heather

Happy Birthday,Menai

I made this card for the eldest daughter of some very good friends of ours (you'll remember another card I made for her when she qualified as a doctor last month) as it's her birthday on Sunday. I found this layout whilst blog hopping on Carla Peicheff's blog (Moralia's weblog) and I love it! I used My Mind's Eye paper (again!), covering the front of the card with a vine patterned paper, overlaying it with another narrower strip with a punched edge. Over this I adhered a rectangular panel with faux stitching drawn onto it. Satin ribbon was wrapped around the panel and a bow & layered flower added. The whole panel was adhered to the front of the card with foam tape. I cut out the sentiment in black paper and the name in aqua glitter card. The name was raised with foam pads. 3 pearls on the ribbon and 3 more above the pink panel finish the card.
Carts used:
Happy birthday-Calligraphy Collection
Menai- Ashlyn's Alphabet
Thanks for looking!
Heather