Luke.....

No. 2 son is off to his friend Luke's 18th Birthday party this afternoon and he asked me to make a card. Luke shoots for the country and he is hoping to represent the country at the 2012 Olympics. I decided to use a cartoon figure as the focal point rather than cover the card in guns & bullet holes! I used an Easy Easel base and papers from DCWV Natural stack. I downloaded the hunter from Google Images (a great scource of images if you're stuck!) and printed it out 3 times onto matt photo paper. I decoupaged it using the other two images. I cut the name & number from papers from the stack and 'Happy Birthday' from orange mirri. I shadowed all the elements with brown cardstock. A crosshair was cut from black mirri.The 'stop' was edged with a Fiskars Greek Key border punched and then adhered with foam tape to the card base.The hunter and '18' were adhered with foam pads and 'Happy Birthday', 'Luke' and the crosshair were adhered flat.

Carts used:

'Luke' & '18'- Robotz

'Happy Birthday'- Stamping Solutions

Crosshair- Indie Art

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Heather xxx

Poptastic Birthday!.....

Our No.1 son is twenty tomorrow! Happy Birthday Krishnan! Crikey, how time flies..one minute they're this helpless little thing, then in a blink of an eye they're a legless big thing! He's discovered vinyl LP's (I've got quite a few) and he listens to them when he's home from Uni..so I thought that I'd shelve the guitars that I usually use on his cards and go down the LP route instead.
I used Imaginesce papers and black mirri (I LOVE THIS STUFF!) for the LPs. I layered the paper panels and added some candy dots coloured with a permanent marker to get a near perfect match. The LPs were 3 different sized circles layered on top of each other. I cut 'SON' from holographic card & '20' from blue mirri which I embossed after cutting. These were adhered onto the LP with foam tape.

The inside was decorated with a border, matted sentiment panel and an LP and a '45. 'Happy Birthday' was cut from more black mirri and adhered to the sentiment panel.

Carts used:

LPs & '45- Winter Woodland

'Son' & '20'- Don Juan

'Happy Birthday'- Stamping Solutions

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Heather xxx

Whimsical Toadstool Birthday!.....

Here's yet another shaped easel card for you-the last one for now...PROMISE!!! I'm having to delve into my card archives for things you haven't seen 'cos I've been so busy prepping Christmas cards I haven't had time to make anything else! I'll have something fresh to show you tomorrow. This was another card that was part of my last workshop. It's a really cute card, suitable for a small child or an adult who likes whimsical things. I used Dovecraft papers (this one has little white daisies on a green background so it looks like a field of daisies!) I cut the mushroom from Bazill cardstock scraps and added a cute ladybird to the stalk. Some grass roughly cut from green paper and some teeny-tiny Prima flowers complete the mushroom. I cut 'Happy Birthday' from red card, shadowed with white then adhered to a daisy border cut from white textured cardstock. This was adhered to the base of the card with foam pads. A layered bloom was added to the large white spot on the mushroom, and the finished mushroom was adhered to the front of the card after I drew around it and cut away the excess. A liberal sprinkling of glitter completes the card.

Carts used:

Mushroom- Paisley

Ladybird- Doodlecharms

'Happy Birthday' & daisy border- Stamping Solutions

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Heather xxx

Shaped wedding easel.....

Here's another shaped easel card for you..this one was a workshop card...and I'll have another one to show you tomorrow. The white heart was cut from pearlescent card and the heart beneath it was cut from silver mirri & embossed with a Fiskars Texture Plate. The white heart was adhered to the silver heart with foam pads. I drew roughly around the heart onto a square tent-fold card, leaving the fold intact, and then cut it out by hand. I folded the top section of the heart upwards and creased it firmly. The base of the card was covered with patterned paper (Papermania) and trimmed with silver peel-offs. 'Mr & Mrs' was cut from white pearlescent card with a silver shadow, and then adhered to the base of the card with foam pads to create the 'stop'. The white heart was then adhered to the folded top portion of the card with PVA. The heart was trimmed with a sheer spotted bow, a paper rose & some pearl strands.

Carts used:

Wedding heart- Love Struck

Mr & Mrs- Sweethearts

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Heather xxx

Shaped easel cards...

I made these cards a while ago but couldn't post them as they were part of a workshop..that workshop is done so now I can post them! The card base is a 6 1/2" square. I rounded the front corners of the base portion of the card and covered the base with pink spotted paper (DCWV) added a punched border trimmed with paper, ribbon, roses and a layered sentiment cut from Gemstones cardstock and shadowed with silver mirri. The pram was cut once from silver mirri, then I turned it right side down onto the wrong side of a piece of Gemstones cardstock and drew around it omitting the wheels and handle, then repeated this stage for the pram hood only. They were cut out by hand (this minimises wastage-the wheels aren't needed so why waste good cardstock!) I added detail with a dressmaker's wheel on both the pram base and the hood. The hood was trimmed with daisy lace and pearls, and the body with a punched heart and more pearls.

The coloured pram body was adhered to the silver pram with PVA glue and the hood was adhered with foam pads to add dimension. The wheels were embellished with candy dots and pearls (the pearls slipped on the blue pram!) The pram, by itself is not sturdy enough to stand alone so I added a piece of cardstock-weight acetate behind it and then cut away the excess (don't cut away between the spokes and above the wheels). This strengthens the pram and stops it crumpling when stood up. Back to the base card, I folded the front of the card upwards and creased it well, then lay the completed pram against the fold (the base of the body should just rest of the fold) drew around it again and cut away the excess. The pram was then adhered to the shaped portion of the card with PVA.

Carts used:

Pram- Mother's Day

Little One- Stamping Solutions

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Heather xxx

Cupcake birthday........

Here's another bow-front aperture card. I used Dovecraft 'Piece of Cake' papers in yummy pink & brown. The aperture was edged with an embossed scalloped oval and the cupcake, cut from pale pink glittercard & pink mirri with a brown shadow and mirri card cherry, was adhered to an acetate oval. Dotty brown ribbon & a layered bloom were adhered at the top of the oval and 'Happy Birthday',cut from pale pink glitter card with a brown shadow was adhered with foam pads below the aperture.

The inside of the card was decorated with a simple punched border and shaped sentiment panel.

Carts used:

Scalloped oval frame- Ashlyn's Alphabet

Cupcake- Home Decor Solutions

Happy Birthday- Stamping Solutions

Thanks for visiting!

Heather xxx

First Christmas card this year.....

I SO didn't want to get into Christmas mode- it's not even September yet for heaven's sake!- and now I can't flippin' well get out of it! I have no choice really because my Christmas Workshops start next Wednesday so I've been churnin' 'em out! I won't be able to show all the Christmas cards that I make because most will be for the workshops but I'll try to post at least one a week. However, here's one I can show you. It's another shaped card, and I've used the gorgeous 'A Silent Night' papers by Papermania.

I covered the card with green spotted paper, added a smaller gold panel topped by a smaller still piece of Christmas script paper. This was adhered flat to the green portion. Another matted & layered panel was created with cream card embossed with a Papermania embossing folder and a piece of holly paper. I added narrow green velvet ribbon, a Prima poinsetta and holly leaves punched from gold mirri card and a sentiment also cut from gold mirri. This panel was adhered with foam pads. Red gems complete the card.

Carts used:

Shaped card & 'Season's Greetings'- Winter Woodland

Thanks for looking!

Heather xxx