Thanks...for being there

I hope that you are all having a great Bank Holiday! It's lovely at the moment here unlike this morning when it was quite grey & overcast. I don't often make Thank You cards, but I thought that the sentiment was a little different and could be used for a friend who had helped you through a difficult time etc. I 'borrowed' the layout and used paper from MME. I cut a large flower print panel and overlayed it with a smaller spot print. I added faux stitching to both panels. I adhered them to the card with foam tape. I added a red satin bow to the larger panel and a layered flower with fabric brad to the white panel which was cut from Dotted Bazzill and layered with red cardstock. I added gem swirls (using individual self-adhesive gems). The Thanks was cut from blue card, the 'T' cut off and replaced with a larger upper case 'T'- this improved the composition on the white panel. It was then glittered with glitter glue. I decorated the inside of the card with a bloom strip & sentiment.
Carts used:
White panel & red shadow- Ashlyn's Alphabet
Sentiment- Calligraphy Collection
Thanks for dropping by
Heather

Gone fishin'?

I'm not altogether sure that I like this card! There's something not quite right with it! Oh well, I can live with it- for the time being! The colours are a bit whacky but I used the fishy paper as inspiration. I cuttlebugged the orange panel and matted it onto black. I then cut out a matted oval (cuttlebugged again!) to hold the boy icon. The letters for the sentiment on the front of the card were cut out individually,stuck close together onto black card,then cut out by hand as was the inside sentiment. I cut out 3 fish from mirri card in different sizes and joined them together at the mouth with a titchy brad. I added 2 silver & 1 black candy dot and some Opal Dust to finish. Am I right not to be too fond of this card-let me know!
Carts used:
Layered oval- George
Boy icon & fish- A Child's Year
Sentiments- Ashlyn's Alphabet
Thanks for looking!
Heather
p.s Just a little tip for you- If you want to Cuttlebug anything that's been cut on the Cricut., CUT IT FIRST then Cuttlebug it. If you don't the blade will rip rather than cut the embossed parts.

Beautiful Sympathy

My boss Jennie makes lovely cards, and this is the Sympathy card that she gave me when I lost my Dad. Her style is very different from mine. Her cards are very clean & uncluttered. It hasn't photographed well 'cos of the mirri card, but IRL it's very striking. The decoupage that she used is very unassuming on paper but when teamed with black & silver it becomes something very different. This card is very simple with a polka dot panel, the silver & grey rose and the sentiment. The card base is pearlised black.
Thanks Jennie, I love this card.
I think that the cart that she used was Plantin Schoolbook.
Thanks for dropping by today
Heather

Happy Birthday Terri

Yesterday I showed you the card that I made for my SIL Lisa's birthday on Sunday, well today I'm showing you the card that I made for my niece Terri's birthday which was also on Sunday! I kept it clean & simple with white as the predominate colour. I matted a piece of white cardstock onto blue & claret coloured cardstock around which I wrapped a piece of plum coloured polka dot ribbon. I cut a smaller matt onto which I adhered a lady with parcels (& a rather slinky looking cat!) using foam pads. I added a freebie felt flower onto which I glued a flower gem, some bling & a bow. I cut 'Terri' from purple glitter card & adhered it flat.
Cart used:
Terri- Lyrical Letters (Loupy Lou font)
Thanks for visiting!
Heather

Happy Birthday Lisa

Sorry I haven't been around for the last few days , but I had to go up to the Midlands for an emergency visit to my parents. Most of the ladies who know me from my workshops know that my lovely Dad has been very sick for a while. Unfortunately he passed away very suddenly on Friday morning. It was a great shock to all of us. We knew that his life expectancy was short but we did not expect him to be taken so suddenly. We are all heartbroken and so sad for our equally lovely Mum who has been through so much too. We loved our Dad so much and we'll miss him more than words can say. God Bless Dad. Through all of the trials & tribulations my brother Nick and his wife Lisa have been absolutely marvellous looking after Mum, first of all and then Dad when he came out of hospital. They have both been there from the very start of Dad's illness and they were both there at the end. They are both very special people and I love them both dearly.It was Lisa's birthday on Sunday and this is the card that I made for her. I based it on a layout I found whilst blog hopping. I used Papermania Blueberry Hill paper for the background & trim under the shaped panel. The white panel was cut from embossed paper and edged with a Martha Stewart punch. I added a shadowed panel, layered flowers and a ribbon bow. 'Lisa' & the sentiment were cut from glitter card. I finished the panel with self-adhesive pearls.
Carts used:
Shaped panel & LISA- Ashlyn's Alphabet
Birthday Wishes-Lyrical Letters
You are so special (inside)-Wild Card
Thanks for stopping by!
Heather

Happy Birthday Amber!

This is the card that I made for the daughter of some good friends of ours. I made the card from scratch - by that I mean that the card base was cut with the Cricut along with the patterned front of the card (liner). I cut the card out @ 6 1/2" but had to trim a smidgen off the right hand side to get it to fit a square envelope. I covered the inside back with pink paper then a smaller piece of dotty line paper. The front was covered in pink paper, the aperture cut away by hand and then the liner adhered over it. I added a voile bow and layered flower with a polka dot brad in the centre. I used a Dovecraft image again and adhered it to the back of the card so that it appears in the aperture when the card is shut. I added the recipient's name to the front and Happy Birthday to the inside.
Carts used:
Card base & liner- Wild Card
Amber- Lyrical Letters
Happy Birthday- Calligraphy Collection
Thanks for looking!
Heather

Baby & Love Word Books

Sorry folks, I don't have a card today as I am busy prepping projects for a new Christmas (EEEKKK!) workshop starting next week. I have had this project in my archives for a while however. It was one of the projects in a workshop that I held earlier in the year. These word books are dead easy to make and you don't need the DS to make them although you can use it if you have one (it's too much of a faff for me!). I cut the appropiate letters out of card and used them as a template. I covered the required lengths of cardstock with differing papers, then butted each letter up to the right hand short edge of each page, drew around the template faintly then cut it out carefully leaving the left hand part of the letter intact. Then I just put them all together butting up each letter to the next, trimmed off the excess at the left hand side then punched holes with the Cropodile and fastened all the pages together with large rings. I threaded ribbon through the rings and knotted it. All that is needed to finish the books are photos etc. These books measure approx 12" x 5". You can make word books for any occasion- you just have to be mindful of the length of the book, available cardstock and papers (you may need to piece papers together for longer books)
Carts used:
Base Camp- shadow function enabled to give a chunky letter
Thanks for visiting!
Heather