Window-front card....

I made a new kind of card (for me at least!) for the Swarm that I hosted last Saturday. As you can see the card has an apertured front added to it. It looks quite bulky but it actually squishes flat to go in the post. This kind of card isn't new, a version has been made on Create & Craft, but my ladies haven't tried one so I thought we'd give it a go and they did really well and went on to make more! This isn't the actual card that we made but the process is the same. I used a C5 card and an 8 1/4" square piece of cardstock for the front and using a Hougie board scored one edge of the card @ 2, 3 & 4.5 cms then flipped it over and scored the opposite edge at the same measurements. I covered the largest front panel with paper and the two 2cms panels at either edge of the card with contrasting paper. The front of the card was covered with a 3rd paper (I used Papermania papers) I cut a 5 1/2" scalloped oval frame, then placed it on the large panel of the scored piece and drew around the inside of the oval. This was cut out with scissors. I cut an acetate oval, punched a hole in the top and threaded silver cord through the hole. The oval was suspended from the top of the oval aperture using a glue dot. The scalloped oval frame was embossed then adhere to the panel with foam pads. Double-sided tape was applied to the back of the 2cm panels and the whole apertured piece was adhered to the front of the base card.

I cut a rose from pink & green cardstock, assembled it then adhered it to the acetate oval. I added a small acrylic pebble to the rose to look like a raindrop. I added a bow and 'Love' cut from pink cardstock with a smaller contrasting punched heart for embellishment. A little smattering of glitter and some pearls finish off the card front. The inside was decorated with a simple punched border and sentiment panel.

Carts used:

Scalloped oval frame- Ashlyn's Alphabet

Love- Love Struck

Rose-Wild Card

Acetate oval-George

Sorry I've not been posting as much but it's taken me a while to get back into crafty mode!

Thanks for visiting today!

Heatherxxx

Autumnal Wedding....

This card was another 'off the wall' commission. The brief was autumnal colours (reds, golds, browns) lilies or sunflowers, leaves but no pumpkins. I had never been asked to do a wedding card with these requirements but heyho! who am I to question why? Luckily we had some lovely, glittery, autumnal paper in the shop which made a perfect backdrop for the golden bridal couple. The paper was matted onto brown card then copper mirri. I wrapped a piece of brown ribbon lengthways down the card and added a bow, pearl strand and lilies. The couple were cut from gold glittercard and adhered with foam pads. The wording was cut from brown mirri, 'Laura' & 'Andrew' were adhered with foam pads, the rest adhered flat. To finish I added a swirl of gold gems.

Carts used:

Bridal Couple- Disney's Happily Ever After

Wording-Winter Woodland

Thanks for dropping by!

Heatherxxx

Glam birthday....

I made this card for the eldest daughter of some very good friends of ours. Her birthday was on the day we set out for Ocean Village. I used K & Co papers and buttermilk and pink cardstock for this one. The buttermilk horizontal panel was embossed then adhered with foam tape to another slightly larger patterned paper panel which was matted onto punched cardstock. Ribbon and a layered bloom were added. I cut a scalloped circle from pink card and added an embossed buttermilk circle onto which I adhered a lippy and nail polish cut from silver & pink mirri card & dark pink glittercard. The pink mirri portions were also embossed with an embossing folder which was very similar to the patterned paper. 'Glam' was cut from glittercard and adhered at an angle across the circle. 'Happy Birthday' & 'Menai' was cut from mid pink glittercard and adhered with foam pads to the spaces above & below the centre panel. I added a smattering of tiny pink Papermania floral gems and decorated the inside of the card with simple panels.

Carts used:

Scalloped/plain circle & 'Menai'-Winter Woodland

Lippy, nail polish & 'Glam'- Forever Young

Thanks for looking!

Heather xxx

I'm back!!....

Hi everyone! You may have been wondering where I've been for the last week...well this is it! We took a fantastic cruise on Ocean Village around the western med starting in Palma,Majorca then on to Tunis,Naples,Monaco/Monte Carlo, Ajjacio then back to Palma. Sadly Ocean Village will no longer exist after this season otherwise we would go on her again, but P & O are introducing a casual cruise so we will go with them. If any of you have a chance to go with Ocean Village before the season ends, I'd say go for it, you'll have a fantastic holiday that you'll never forget!

I'll post some cards soon !

Heather xxx

Smitten.....

You've gotta love 'freebie' papers- although these aren't strictly free, they were with Creative Cardmaking - especially when they are matt and good quality. So many free papers are glossy and absolutely useless because they are printed back to back and you can see the other side through them. Creative Cardmaking's papers are always good especially when they are offering Nit-Wit collections, which these are. I used 3 different papers, 2 love-themed and a plaid. The layout is ultra simple, pinched from somewhere on 'tinternet, can't remember where,sorry! The orange panel was matted onto a white border with MS punch edging, then a smaller love-words panel was adhered over it with foam pads. The cherub was cut from orange glittercard with an orangey-red heart adhered with silicone glue to add dimension and to make sure it stays put! 'Smitten' was cut from more glittercard with a white cardstock shadow. Three punched hearts, smaller hearts scattered around the cherub and some orange ribbon complete the front. The inside was very simply finished with a punched border (I've since added another panel to the centre of the inside of the card-it was too plain!)

Carts used:

Cherub & 'Smitten'- Sweethearts

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xxx

Wedding Acceptance....

The lady who commissoned me to make yesterday's card also asked me to make this one. I've never been asked to make an acceptance card before but I'm game for anything! The card is C6 in size (I stopped making this size of card yonks ago but it's a good size for this type of card)

I used champagne coloured pearlised card which I embossed with a scrumptious embossing folder by Papermania- at just £2.99 it was a steal!-it may be cheap but the resulting embossing is on a par with anything from Cuttlebug & Sizzix. The embossed card was then matted onto gold mirri. I punched the edge of a piece of gold mirri with an MS punch and wrapped it in gold ribbon then adhered it to the embossed piece. The bells were cut twice (once on Layer function)and the top pair was embossed with a rose embossing folder, then adhered to the other set of bells with foam pads. I added gold gems as clangers and then adhered it to the centre of the punched panel with foam pads. 'Acceptance' was cut from gold mirri and adhered flat below the border. The card was finished with more gold gems.

Carts used:

Bells- Sweethearts

Acceptance-Ashlyn's Alphabet ('Block' font)

Thanks for looking!

Heather xxx

Twenty One.....

This card was a commission, and the brief was A4 size,musical and for a girl. I was about to do a Hannah Montana-style jobby when I thought that I really ought to check the details (I hadn't taken them) and it's a good job that I did because the recipient was 21! I don't think that she would have appreciated my original idea!

I've had this paper for EVAH! It's DCWV, I think, and I didn't have much left of the stack but I did manage to find a couple of full sheets which was enough. The card is very simple with a large central panel matted & layered and wrapped with sheer ribbon. I cut a guitar from holographic purple card with a silver mirri solid base. I added a layered bloom, gems to the string tightening thingies(!!!) and to the body of the guitar below the flower. I cut '21' from silver mirri with purple shadow and added some gems. Some silver notes scattered about complete the card.

Carts used:

Fancy guitar-Wall Decor & More

21-Winter Woodland

Musical notes-Joys Of The Season (Pipers Piping)

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xxx