With Sympathy.....

Sadly.my hubby had to attend a funeral on Christmas Eve. The mother of a close friend died a couple of days earlier and he asked me to make a card. I chose a shortfall base card and a predominately white (a funereal colour in India)colour scheme with a splash of siver and pale blue.This card was simplicity itself to create. I used silver mirri and pearlescent white card which I embossed. I added a sentiment cut from silver mirri to the front panel along with a fancy corner and a Prima rose over a shimmering blue ribbon. A couple more fancy corners adorn the inside back of the card. I added blue pearls to the centres of all the fancy corners and to the ribbon.
Carts used:
With Sympathy-Wild Card
Fancy corners-Heritage
Thanks for visiting today!
Heather xxx

Happy New Year and final Christmas card of 2010....

In the words of John Lennon..'another year over, and a new one just begun....' well almost!As promised this is my final Christmas card (finished by the skin of my teeth!)made for my hubby. As yesterdays card it is a shortfall front card made with DCWV Winter Stack papers.I really love this icy blue palette and continued it with sparkly reindeer. The snow on the front panel was cut from white glittercard and adhered to a panel cut strategically to incorporate a snowflake design. I added a jingle bell to the deer's neck with silver cord, then adhered the deer (ha!ha!) to the panel with foam pads. I computer generated the sentiments onto Safmat then adhered the sentiments to blue paper matted onto royal blue cardstock. I edged the sentiment panels with Cosmic Shimmer crushed glass glitter (love that stuff!) They were adhered to the panel with foam pads. A gem 'eye' on the deer and some gems in the top right hand corner of the card add a finishing touch. I computer generated a sentiment (not shown 'cos it's private!)and adhered it to the inside back of the card
Cart used:
Reindeer- Christmas/Noel
Happy New Year everyone, and I look forward to sharing with you in 2011
Heather xxx

Vintage Christmas.....

Last but one Christmas card..I promise! This is the card that I made for my Mum. I used a shortfall front card and papers from Dovecraft.I added a border to the front of the card, punched from gold mirri then wrapped with thin green ribbon. The vintage picture was downloaded from a freebie site on the web and printed onto white Bazzill which gives an amazing finish.I cut a segment from each corner of the picture using scalloped scissors then mounted the picture onto a piece of gold mirri. A brad was added to three of the corners then the panel was adhered to a piece of green paper and more mirri card.The completed panel was adhered to the front of the card with foam tape. I created two flower arrangements for the panel from full roses and buds and added some punched ivy leaves and some pearl strands. I cut a tag from pearlised card and added a sentiment computer generated onto Safmat. 'Mum' and a fancy corner were cut from gold mirri and adhered above and below the panel on the inside back of the card.
Carts used:
Tag-George
Fancy corner-Heritage
Mum-Beyond Birthdays
Well, I've just launched myself into non-Christmas mode, which I have to say is hard to get out of, but new ideas with new carts are flowing. Some I'll be able to show, others will be for my workshops starting in the New Year so they'll be delayed in posting, but I look forward to sharing with you!
TTFN
Heather xxx

Boxing Day Birthday.......

The eldest daughter of some very good friends of ours had her birthday on Boxing Day. This is the card that I made for her.The card base is a z-fold and the papers are from an 8x8 stack called 'Sweet Owl' by First Edition Paper. I cut a model from brown cardstock and dressed her in a chocolate brown polka dot dress with a pearl necklace and brown handbag and shoes all mounted with foam pads onto a scalloped rectangle.
I punched out 2 fancy borders using a large EK Success punch and adhered a strip of thin ribbon along the length of the border before adhereing them to the inside back of the card.'PIA' and 'Happy Birthday' was cut from chocolate polka dot paper and shadowed with pink card then adhered between the borders with foam pads.

A layered bloom with a cordorouy brad in the centre was added to the lower border to complete the card.
Carts used:
Model, shoes & handbag-Forever Young
Scalloped rectangle-Just Because Cards (there is also a scalloped rectangle similar
to this one on A Child's Year
PIA-Ashlyn's Alphabet
Happy Birthday-Stamping Solutions
Back to ordinary cards(woohoo!) now although I do have a couple more Christmas cards to show you.
TTFN
Heatherxxx

Seasons Greetings!......

Merry Christmas everyone! No card today but I'd like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a peaceful and prosperous 2011. Thank you all for visiting my little bit of Blogland.. I hope that you gain inspiration from my posts (as I do from the many fantastic blogs out there) and get as much pleasure from this great craft as I do.
Hugz and have a great day!
Heather xxx

Theatre fan 18th birthday.....

This card was made for a Commission. The brief was for a girl who loves pink (the colour, not the singer!)Billy Elliot, for an 18th birthday & A4 in size. 'Billy Elliot?!' says I...how am I going to pull that off? So I headed for trusty Google Images and downloaded a Billy Elliot poster. I printed it twice onto photo paper, cutting away the Billy character and I decoupaged him onto the complete picture. I placed the poster behind a large frame and adhered it with foam pads to the front of the card over a piece of DCWV paper matted onto pink cardstock.The frame was enhanced with a dressmaker's wheel. I cut a pair of shoes (which I think look like a pair of men's dance shoes) from black mirri card. I threaded some 6-stranded embroidery thread through the lace holes and suspended the shoes from the top left hand corner of the frame. I adhered a pink sheer bow over the laces.'18' was cut from pale pink glittercard and adhered to the card with foam pads. I embellished the numbers with pink gem stones.
As a finishing touch I added a bunch of pink roses and some ferns tied with a pink bow to the bottom right hand corner of the frame.
Carts used:
Frame-Wild Card (RDS on)
18-Winter Woodland
Shoes- Sweethearts (cut one on 'Flip')
Hope you are all ready for The Big Day!
Heather xxx

Go Girl!........

Well, I didn't get up to my Mum's on Saturday-the white stuff put paid to that!Didn't do much else really which is bad considering how close to The Big Day we are. Still, what isn't done will just have to stay undone! It won't do my blood pressure any good to stress over it all!
Anyhow, onto the card. This one is more or less the same as the previous post, same shape, size etc, but with a few tweaks. I changed the colours to a softer palette using Born To Shop papers.The fab figure is called Kim. The colours that I used are almost the same as in the manual except that I changed her hair colour. I sparkled up her top, skirt and very 70's eyeshadow, and if you look closely she has a belly button stud! Crikey! I cut the sentiment from blue glittercard with a pink shadow which was adhered to the card with foam pads. A ribbon bow, layered bloom and a few pearls complete the outside of the card.

The inside is similar to the previous post except that I covered the inside of the card with coloured paper, then added a punched border and a smaller octagonal panel for a sentiment ( yes, I know that these are OCTAGONAL cards not hexagonal! I never was any good at maths!)
Carts used:
Card base-George
Kim figure & sentiment-Rock Princess
Thanks for visiting today!
Heather xxx