Sweetie......

Isn't this the cutest little fairy?! I decided to put her on a easel card and use the lovely Dovecraft papers from the Back To Basics pack. I used 3 different patterned papers to cover the front and base and to make 2 matted panels and the 'stop'. I cut the fairy panel from pink glittercard-boy did she NOT want to come off the mat!- and adhered her flat to an embossed scalloped oval. Her wings and the 2 hearts in 'poof!' were enhanced with glitter glue. I added a couple of flowers and some star shaped glittery beads. For the base I punched a border for the 'stop' wrapped with ribbon and a bow. I cut 'sweetie' from the same glittercard as the fairy, hand-shadowed it with white card, and then adhered it with foam pads along with 3 hearts that were waste from the fairy cut. I added a smaller scalloped rectangle behind the 'stop' for a greeting.There is a pirate on the cart so this card could be adapted for a boy with different papers and sentiment.
Cart used:
Fairy panel & 'Sweetie'- Love Struck
Scalloped rectangles-Celebrations ('5' key with blackout enabled)
Thanks for looking!
Heather xxx

Truly, madly, deeply.....

First of all, apologies for the quality of the photo. No 2 son was playing on the PS3 and the curtains were closed against the sun so the light was reduced but I think that you should be able to see the card in enough detail. I made this card for my brother & SIL's anniversary last Saturday. I used paper from K & Co for this one. I covered the front of the card with an abstract floral print and adhered a smaller floral panel which was 'roughed up a bit!' To this I added a large tag with a punched border of contrast paper and a ribbon bow and a lovely Prima full blown rose. The image was cut from grey sparkle card and adhered with foam pads. I spelled out 'Truly', 'Madly' & Deeply' with Heidi rub-ons onto small pieces of card, trimmed and adhered with foam pads.The inside of the card was decorated with a simple floral strip and a Safmat computer generated sentiment.
Carts used:
Couple- Sweethearts
Tag-George
Thanks for looking!
Heather xxx

Girly Birthday....

It was my SIL Karen's birthday last Friday and this is the card that I made for her. I used the diagonal cut front and papers from the DCWV Mango Frost stack and edged the front of the card with an MS punch. I added a horozintal panel, also punched, and decorated with orange ribbon & bow. I cut 'KAREN' from glittercard and adhered it to the panel with foam pads. Using silver holographic card, black mirri & pink glittercard I cut a lipstick, nail polish & mirror compact. The mirror compact wasn't on any cartridge so I made it using a mini card base and a few circles of mirri & peach & tan coloured Bazzill. These were adhered to the front of the card with foam pads over a large pink flower. The sentiment on the scalloped circle was generated with CRIK-IT pens from Scrappy-Go-Lucky which was coloured in, cut out with a Colluzzle template and mounted onto a scalloped circle. I then added some flowers & gems and adhered it to the card with foam pads. The inside of the card was finished with another punched border.
Carts used:
Lipstick & Nail polish-Forever Young
Powder compact- Wild Card (circle card with blackout enabled) & George
KAREN & scalloped circle-Winter Woodland
Happy Birthday-Calligraphy Collection (using Crik-it gel pens)
Thanks for looking!
Heather xxx

Thinking Of You......

Sorry I wasn't around over the weekend but we were in Swansea with some very good friends, having a lovely time and catching up on gossip.
This card is made with the same card base as the previous post but with Eastern Promise papers from Dovecraft, and I used decorative scissors around the edges. I don't DO Oriental cards but this paper is really nice and will be suitable for lots of other cards. I decided to mirror the flower paper with the embellishment so I cut out a pot from copper mirri, embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. I cut the large blooms from brown mirri and added tiny flowerheads which were sprays of artificial gypsophila from the local garden centre. I just stripped them from the plastic stems. I got tons from 2 heads for about £2. I adhered the individual flowers to each of the blooms and added a pink gem to the middle of each one. The pot was adhered to the border and the flowerheads adhered behind it. I added russet ribbon ( from the Persimmon Papermania range) to tone with paper on the inside of the card. I cut 'Thinking of you from copper mirri and adhered it to a layered circle. This was adhered flat to the inside of the card. A simple sentiment panel completes the card.
Carts used:
Vase & blooms- Serenade
Thinking Of You-Stamping Solutions
Circles-George
Thanks for looking!
Heather xxx

You take the cake.....

I went to The Range on Thursday and picked up 3 new Dovecraft paper packs-Back To Basics, Piece Of Cake & Eastern Promise- and this card is made with the Piece of Cake pack. Its full of yummy, cakey papers as well as standard spots & stripes. For this card I used the diagonal cut front type card, but I also cut about 3/4" off the front of the card so that it is narrower than the back. I used a MS punch along the diagonal cut edge. I covered the inside of the card with spotted pink paper and the front with the cake print paper. I also added a border enhanced with an MS punch, ribbon & layered bloom with a co-ordinating big brad at it's centre. The brads are also part of the collection. The cupcake shadow was cut from brown cardstock & the cupcake itself from pink & brown glittercard with a red glittercard cherry on the top. The completed cake was adhered the card with foam pads. I tried cutting the sentiment from glittercard but my Bug wasn't having any of it! So I gave up, not being able to bear any more wasted glittercard, and cut it from brown cardstock. After adhereing it to the card and after the glue had completely dried, I ran a glue pen over the sentiment and threw brown glitter over it. Job done! I added a white sentiment panel to the inside of the card, making it small enough not to show when the card is closed.
Carts used:
Cupcake- Home Decor Solutions
You Take The Cake- 'Just Because' Cards
Hope you all have a good weekend. Enjoy this lovely weather!
Thanks for looking!
Heather xxx

Rocking kids.......

I tried something a little bit different with these cards....rocking cards with rocking horses on them! I love this image and thought that it'd be a good one for a small child's birthday card. I cut a large circle (using FIT TO PAGE) from white card. If you don't have the Big Bug, you can use a dinner plate. I scored and folded it in half and covered the front half with patterned paper. I added a white punched border trimmed with ribbon, bow and layered bloom. I cut the rocking horse & rider from coloured glittercard with a white shadow then adhered it to the card. You have to get the positioning of the horse right otherwise the card will tip to one side. I cut 'Boy' & 'Girl' from white glittercard and 'birthday' from coloured paper. I adhered Girl/Boy with foam pads & 'birthday' was adhered flat. Self-adhesive pearls added to the BOY/GIRL words finish the cards.
Carts used:
Rocking horse & rider-A Child's Year (there is also a similar image on Nursery Rhymes)
BOY/GIRL-StoryBook
Birthday-Calligraphy (Happy Birthday with the 'Happy' cut off)
Thanks for looking!
Heather xxx

Girl Stuff.......

Here's a card for that young lady in your life..or a trainee hairdresser! Isn't that a cute hairdrier?! We had a similar one YONKS & YONKS ago! For this card I used papers from the recent edition of Creative Cardmaking. I covered the front of the card with the harlequin paper and added a spotty panel matted onto a punched border. I cut another more square panel of patterned paper and matted it onto a larger punched panel. I added ribbon and gems and a large
layered bloom. I cut the hairdrier from black card overlaid with green mirri, with pink, blue & brown glittercard accents. 'Girl Stuff' was cut from pink glittercard with a brown mirri shadow. Another, smaller hairdrier decorates the inside of the card.
Carts used:
Hairdrier & 'Girl Stuff'- Paisley
WooHoo! Only ONE cart again!
Thanks for looking!
Heather xxx