Dummy shutter....

I love this little dummy! The complete cut has a little smiley face on it, but I omitted the face layer and replaced it with one cut from patterned paper. I used flesh coloured Bazzill for the teat, silver mirri for the base cut and paper for the body of the dummy. I added a little gingham bow to the ring of the dummy and some tiny pearls to the patterned body. I used a shutter as a base card and baby papers, and some lovely washed papers from The Works. I also added white punched borders top & bottom. The dummy was mounted onto a scalloped rectangle which was enhanced with a mini punched border and some punched glittercard hearts. A layered bloom was adhered to the top right corner. 'Welcome Baby' was cut from glittercard and adhered to the right hand panel. More gingham ribbon and a smattering of punched hearts complete the cards.

Carts used:

Dummy & 'Welcome Little One'- Simply Charmed

Scalloped rectangle- Just Because Cards

Thanks for looking!

Heather xxx

A Castle for Amy....

One of the Girliez next door had a birthday on Monday and this is the card that I made her. It's what I call an 'extended easel'. What is that you might ask? It's simply a standard easel card, but it has a 'step' on the front which was just a piece of card scored twice @ 1 1/2" intervals with 1/2" extra for fixing, giving a mountain fold extension to the front of the card. The card was then decorated as normal. I used Honey & Hugs papers and some Dovecraft Back To Basics papers. I cut a shaped panel topped with a smaller panel cut from sky print paper by DCWV and flower print paper (Honey & Hugs) to create hills. A fairytale castle was cut from white glittercard with pink turrets, then adhered with foam pads to the panel. The little princess was cut from a piece of very old Dovecraft paper then adhered, again. with foam pads.
'Amy' was cut from pink glittercard and adhered to the extension over some very pretty glittery white ribbon. 'Happy Birthday' cut from glittercard was adhered to a scalloped embossed oval and adhered to the card base with foam pads to create the 'stop'. A sprinkling of mini Prima flowers, some pink pearls and a corner flower arrangement complete the card
Carts used:
Shaped panel & 'Amy'- Winter Woodland
Fairytale castle- Paper Doll Dress Up
Scalloped oval & 'Happy Birthday'-A Child's Year
Thanks for looking!
Heather xxx

A Car For Kabir....

The delightful son of some friends of ours was five on Friday. We attended his party at a fab Indian restaurant in Harrow and had a great time. Both No1 & No2 sons came too, much to Kabir's delight...he adores both of them.

Searching for papers for this card I realised that I have next to no papers suitable for little boy cards..I'm going to have to raid the shops new season papers tomorrow! I'm sure we've got some somewhere!

Anyway back to the card. It's an Easy Easel, but can't help you with the papers I'm afraid..I've had them for yonks and don't know who they are by. I cut a large '5' and shadowed it with red crdstock. The car was cut from mirri card with brads for handles and wheel hubs. I added red velvet ric-rac for a bumpy road effect and adhered the car at a jaunty angle with foam pads. 'Kabir' & 'Happy Birthday' were cut from blue glittercard and shadowed in red. These were adhered to the card with foam pads. Some shiny red Candy Dots complete the card.

Carts used:

'5' & 'Kabir'- Robotz

Happy Birthday- ZooBalloo

Car- Paper Doll Dress Up

Thanks for looking today!

Heather xxx

Deer shutter.....

This is the first shutter card that I made and it took me ages to make it, but it was worth it as I'm really pleased with it. I used Dovecraft Papers that are foiled with gold, and gold mirri for matting & layering. I cut the deer from more gold mirri and added a red gem for it's nose. The deer was mounted onto a scalloped oval and embellished with a poinsetta and gold punched holly. Warm Winter Wishes was adhered to the red panel (this time without it's shadow) and a couple more punched holly bunched were added to the corners along with more red gems for berries.
Carts used:
Deer & Warm Winter Wishes- Winter Woodland
Scalloped Oval-A Child's Year
Plain Oval-George
Thanks for looking!
Heather xxx

Warm winter wishes on ice......

I've another shutter card for you today. This one came together quickly because it was the second I'd made..it's always the first one that seems to take forever to make! I used Dovecraft papers and plenty of silver mirri for matting & layering. The skate was cut from silver mirri, pearlised blue card which I embossed, and white card which I flocked to give it the apperance & feel of velvet. I added some pink pearls to the skate where the laces would be. I flipped the skate because I wanted it to face into the card not out of it. I cut a scalloped rectangle for the skate to sit on and embellished it with a large layered white poinsetta. I added pink snowflake print ribbon to the bottom long rectangle and scattered some white glittercard snowflakes about. The flakes have pink & blue gem centres. 'Warm Winter Wishes' was cut from aqua glittercard and shadowed with silver mirri.

Carts used:

Skate & snowflakes- Christmas/Noel Solutions

Warm Winter Wishes- Winter Woodland

Scalloped rectangle-Just Because Cards

Thanks for dropping in!

Heather xxx

Happy Birthday Rhea.....

I made this card for our friends' daughter Rhea's birthday which was was on Thursday. As a child Rhea used to love clomping around the house in her Mum's shoes (and mine when we went to visit!) so I thought she'd appreciate a pair of killer heels on her card.
I made a shaped easel for the base and decorated it with Paris Nights papers from g.c.d I added velvet ribbon and bows and a pair of fab shoes cut from black mirri and red glittercard. I punched mini flowers from black glittercard and adhered them to the shoes and added a red gem to the middle of each flower. I cut a shaped plaque to hold the name and trimmed it with small red bows and black pearls. A large layered flower was added to border along with some more pearls. 'Rhea' was cut from red glittercard and adhered with foam pads to the plaque which acts as the stop. 'Happy Birthday' was cut from red glittercard and shadowed with black mirri. This was adhered with foam pads. On reflection I think that Happy Birthday should have been 1/2" bigger, but heyho!
Carts used:
Shaped card & plaque- Winter Woodland ( snowflake key) cut 3 times and adhere 2 together at a convenient point. Fold top piece in half then attach 3rd piece to create card base
Shoes-Forever Young
Happy Birthday-Stamping Solutions
Rhea-Winter Woodland
Thanks for dropping by and have a great weekend!
Heather xxx

Jingle and a handy hint.....

First off, I don't much like this card- don't know why, it's jolly enough- I think it's the fold. I made one last month for one of The Boyz Next Door, that was ok, but this one? Well, I'll let you be the judge. The main reason I'm showing it you is because it has a little addition to it that I think you may find useful..or at least the recipient of your cards will.

One of the ladies who comes to my workshops & Swarms told me that her daughter had called her and said 'Mum, how do you make this card stand up? I've tried it everywhichway and I can't figure it out.' Sue told her, and it got me thinking (my hubby will tell you that's a rarity!) that maybe more people just won't 'get' these easel cards. So I created a document on Word and then printed it onto Safmat. You get tons on an A4 sheet and you just cut one off, peel off the backing and adhere it above the 'stop' on your easel card. If you double click on the card picture you'll see how I did it. If any of you want one of these, e-mail me and I'll send you a copy as an attachment. Just print it onto Safmat and they are ready to go!

Carts used:

Bells-Christmas/Noel Solutions

Scalloped/plain circle-Winter Woodland

Sentiment-Lyrical Letters

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xxx