Little Boy Blue......

This card had 2 incarnations..the first took apart as it wasn't 'working' and this is what I ended up with. I love this chocolate & blue colourway and I think that this card could be used as a birthday or new baby card. I used the Bug to cut an aperture in the card front using Centrepoint and then covered the front of the card with polka dot paper, cutting away the paper over the aperture. I then cut a scalloped ring from brown c/stock and adhered it with foam pads over the aperture. I added a scalloped strip with ribbon trim to the bottom of the card and I added the Boy Blue icon cut from blue glittercard. The front of the card was finished with a layered flower and some blue pearls. I covered the inside of the card with more patterned paper and a border and added the Boy Blue sentiment cut from glittercard.
Carts used:
Scalloped frame-Ashlyn's Alphabet
Boy Blue/Sentiment-Nursery Rhymes
Aperture-George
Thanks for dropping by!
Heatherxxx

Special Delivery.....

Here's another card that I made for the Swarm..this time a very simple baby card. It could also be a birth announcement. I cut a doiley card and a circle for the font which was shadowed in blue. I cut a strip for the border,edged & embossed it and added ribbon, a bow & layered flower. I added some Dovecraft paper to the bottom of the circle and then adhered the finished circle to the front of the card with foam pads. The border was adhered in the same way. I cut a stork from blue glittercard and adhered it over the border, again with foam pads. I cut the 'Special Delivery' and it's shadow from white & blue glittercard and adhered it to the space beneath the border. I added some small blue pearls around the edge of the card and covered the inside of the card with plain blue paper.
Carts used:
Card base- Wild Card (Doiley card)
Stork & 'Special Delivery'- Nursery Rhymes
Circle-George
Thanks for looking!
Heatherxxx

Mary, Mary.....

This is another card that I made for the Swarm a couple of weeks ago. I used (again!) a diagonal cut card with Papermania Honey & Hugs papers. I cut a scalloped oval with a plain shadowed oval to hold a very pretty silhouette of Mary watering her flowers. She was cut from ice-blue glittercard and shadowed onto pink. I added spotted ribbon, layered & single flowers, Mary, Mary, cut and shadowed from glittercard & pearls to finish.
Carts used:
Mary & 'Mary,Mary'- Nursery Rhymes
Scalloped oval-A Child's Year (plain oval cut with Coluzzle template)
Hope you are all enjoying another glorious day..I know I am!
Heatherxxx

Happy Birthday Sophie!.......

Sorry I'm late posting today (it's 7:10pm) but it's been GLORIOUS here today!!! I've been in the garden all afternoon- mowing the lawns, cleaning the deck & the patio etc, etc. We ate lunch outside today (and breakfast too!) WOW! and it's still only April. Anyway- on to the card. The eldest of the 3 little girls on the other side of us (3 girlies one side, 2 boys in the middle-ours- and 3 little boys on the other side) is 11 today and this is the card that I made for her. Again it's a diagonal cut front and I used one sheet of double sided paper and a scrap of pink Bo-Bunny polka dot c/stock for the scalloped medallion, I used a Ms punch for the front & border and added a really cute handbag cut from the same papers with the addition of some white glittercard for the handle. I added a medallion carrying the number 11, 'Sophie' & 'Happy Birthday' cut from pink glittercard and a little bow & ribbon rose to the bag handle. After I took the photo I added 3 large pearls to the right of the bag above the border.
Carts used:
Bag-Paisley
Scalloped circle-Winter Woodland
Spotted circle-George
Happy Birthday-A Child's Year
Sophie & 11-Nursery Rhymes (font function) This is a really pretty font!
Thanks for dropping in and enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Heatherxxx

Out of this world birthday!......

Aneurin, the eldest of 3 little boys next door, is 8 today and this is the card that I made for him. I used a diagonal cut card again and some fabbo spaceboy paper -I know not from where it came! I also used (for the moon & border) some seriously sparkly wrapping paper from Clinton Cards. I cut the rocket from 2 diffrent types of silver cardstock and some cobalt blue glittercard. I added Nye's name &' happy birthday' cut from glittercard and ' blast off!' cut from holographic card. I punched some circles from the sparkly wrap along with some stars to create a night sky. The moon was made from a circle of the wrap with different sized holes punched from it. The circle was backed with another circle, the reverse of the wrap showing through the punched holes. A smattering of punched stars on the front of the cards were the finishing touch.
Carts used:
Rocket- Just Because Cards
'Aneurin' & 'Blast Off!'- Lyrical Letters (Jumbo font)
'Happy Birthday'- A Child's Year
Moon- George
Hope you have a great weekend! Looks like it gonna be a good one!
Thanks for looking!
Heatherxx

Get WHALE soon!......

When I host a Swarm I always make cards with any new carts that I have so that my ladies can try them out then decide whether they want to buy them or not. This is one that I made for last weekends Swarm. I have to say that I really like this cart but it is difficult to negotiate if you don't want to make the card from scratch because the sizing is complicated. Although this little whale is only about 3" long he was actually cut at 7"! I tried using Real Dial Size but it doesn't work where layers are involved as they are all cut at RDS and some layers end up HUGE!!! So I did lots of trial cuts before I got the correct size. It's always handy to scribble the size down in the handbook so that next time you use the cut you've got a starting point! Anyway, back to the card. I used a C5 card, adding a matted white panel to the front. I cut a scalloped circle from blue card and a smaller plain circle from white card. I embossed the circle and the punched straight border with a Fiskars Wave texture plate. I cut the little whale from 2 shades of blue cardstock and added a googly eye (these really bring your characters to life!) I glittered the little water spout coming from his head..isn't it cute?! I added ribbon, 3 acrylic pebbles and the 'Get Whale Soon' sentiment which was raised on foam pads.
I'm entering this card in the Cricut Cardz Challenge which is to create a Get Well Soon card with any cart.
Carts used:
Whale & sentiment- Just Because Cards
Scalloped circle- Winter Woodland
White circle-George
Thanks for dropping by!
Heatherxxx

Happy 16th birthday....

Our nephew Skanda is 16 on Saturday and this is the card that I made for him...it is presently winging it's way to Sydney in the care of my SIL (his aunt) who has been here on holiday. Happy Birthday for Saturday Skanda! I cut an aperture in a white card using the centre point feature on the Expression, and then covered the front of the card with the musical instrument print paper. I cut away the paper covering the aperture with a craft knife. I cut a cog-wheel from silver holographic card and adhered it around the aperture, I cut a smaller cogwheel for the inside of the card which was covered with camouflage paper, and a circle was added to the centre of the cog-wheel along with a '16' cut from a star patterned holographic card.The circle and 16 were adhered with foam pads. I cut 'Happy Birthday' , 'Skanda' & 'You Rock' from copper coloured holographic card and adhered these to the front of the card with foam pads except for the 'You Rock' which was adhered flat inside the card.. I added punched stars for a finishing touch along with candy dots around the cog-wheel.
Carts used:
Card aperture & circle inside card-George
Cog-wheels-Accent Essentials
Happy Birthday & You Rock-Stamping Solutions
'Skanda' & '16'-Lyrical Letters (Jumbo font)
Thanks for visiting!
Heatherxxx