Uncle.......

This card was a commisioned through the shop by a lady for her uncle who was to be 101 years old. The brief was for vintage cars or trains, so not having the Art Deco cart at the time I knew that there was only one other suitably vintage car on a cart that I had. The card base is a C5, the papers are from the DCWV Neutral Stack and all of the elements were cut from brown, copper and black mirri. The car was mounted onto an embossed panel cut from vanilla cardstock shadowed with brown mirri, and placed centrally on the front of the card. Fancy corners were added, 'Uncle' & '101' were adhered above and below the car with foam pads, and the card was finished with a smattering of brown pearls.

Carts used:

Vintage car- Wrap It Up

Shaped panel- Elegant Edges

Fancy corners- Heritage

'Uncle' & '101'- Stamped

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Heather xxx

All That Jazz!!!......

On Friday morning Hubby and I and nine friends took the Eurostar from St. Pancras to Brussels, via the Channel Tunnel, to the Brussels Jazz Marathon where we listened to plenty of this......

...........drank plenty of this......

...giggled at this cheeky chappy (the Mannequin Pis) who apparently has a wardrobe of 800 outfits!...

.....then on Sunday we took the train to Bruges where we drank this.....

......ate these!!.......

.....took a ride on a motor boat on one of these.....

....and had a wander around the beautiful medieval Bruges town square.

We had an absolute blast!

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Heather xxx



Precious Godson.......

This card was another commissioned card, this time through the shop. Baby James is apparently the first baby to be born into his family for 30 YEARS!!! (Can you believe that?!) so the client wanted 'something special'. I had a card to hand that was more or less the same, showed it to her, and she said that it was just what she was looking for. She told me what she wanted the sentiment to say on the front of the card, and I suggested the 'Silver Cross' pram as the embellishment.

The card base is an A4 which was covered with baby script paper. A large, intricate frame was cut from white Bazzil and adhered to the card front with foam pads. The sentiment (apart from 'James') was computer generated onto white textured cardstock, then cut into an oval. 'James' was cut from blue shimmer cardstock and adhered above the sentiment. The completed oval was adhered to a scalloped oval and adhered over the aperture in the frame. The pram was cut from silver mirri card and blue shimmer cardstock and emebellished with a blue pearl heart. It was adhered below the sentiment with foam pads. A floral arrangement was adhered to the top of the oval. A sheer bow and a smattering of pearls completes the card.

Carts used:

Frame- Ornamental Iron 2

Scalloped oval- Elegant Edges

JAMES (individual letters)- Storybook

Pram- Mother's Day

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Heather xxx



Boing,boing,Baggies!!!!!!......

What the.......! I hear you say! Well. if you didn't already know 'Boing,Boing,Baggies!' is the battlecry, or terrace chant, of West Bromwich Albion football club. The recipient of this card is one of No.1 son's housemates, Nicky, who although she comes from Stoke-On-Trent is a West Brom fan. Krishnan called me and asked if I could make a card for her with a West Brom theme. So I went onto good old Google (images), found a West Brom club badge and the chant, and printed the badge onto textured cardstock. It was adhered with foam pads to a panel embossed with footballs in the centre of a standard C5 card. I kept the card simple with no patterned paper, just white and blue cardstock. Nicky, although terribly sweet, is not a very girly girl, but I added a piece of football print ribbon and a bow for a feminine touch. There's not a huge amount of Cricut stuff on here, just the sentiment and name, but heyho needs must and all that!

Nicky, I'm assured, was thrilled and No.1 son said I'd excelled myself!

Aw, shucks!!!

Carts used:

Sentiment & Name- Lyrical Letters (Jumbo font)

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Heather xxx



A Ritzy Lady.........

....Oh to have a figure like this fine gal! You couldn't have any 'back fat' in this frock could you? Seriously, this is one elegant cut. Her name is Sheba, and like all the figures in the cards that I'm featuring from the Art Deco cart, she was cut at 6 1/4" (although the handbook recommends 5") because that size gives a good clean cut. If you have a Create, put your machine to 'Portrait' mode otherwise they won't fit on the mat. Original Cricut owners will have to adjust the size according to their machine.

Sheba's dress was cut from pale pink glittercard and her gloves from silver paper. I added a lavolier (long dangly necklace) made from pearls.The card base is a tent fold DL and the papers are First Edition. I trimmed the central panel with punched silver mirri card, adding a bow to the bottom border and an aqua bloom and two peach flowers to the top border. The sentiment- Happy Birthday to a ritzy lady- was computer generated onto textured cardstock, then matted onto silver mirri and adhered to the card with foam pads. A smattering of pearls completes the card.

Cart used:

Sheba- Art Deco

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Heather xxx

Seren.......

....is what it should say on the front of this card! It was only after I had taken a photo of it, then checked the details that I realised I'd spelled the name wrong! Dufus!! So I had to redo the front! The card was a commission from my hubby's secretary Debbie. She ordered three A4 cards on the Friday and wanted them for the following Friday. No pressure then! I made all three cards on Sunday afternoon and my hubby took them into work on Monday. The only brief I had for this card was that the recipient was going to be 50 and liked horses. Looking through the obvious carts I couldn't find a horse that I liked until I looked in the Carousel Lite cart and found this lovely prancing horse. I cut it from white glittercard and backed the cutout areas with purple. I added some purple gems to the saddle and the tassels on the bridle. I covered the front of the card with purple paper and added a beautiful ornate panel cut from silver mirri card. The horse was adhered to the centre of the panel with foam pads. 'Seren' was cut from white glittercard and adhered to the card below the ornate panel. A sheer ribbon bow and single sheer ribbon bloom was adhered to the bottom of the card. A scalloped circle holding the '50' was adhered to the top of the card with foam pads. A smattering of bling completes the card.

Carts used:

Horse- Carousel Lite

Ornate panel/50/Seren- Ornamental Iron 2

Scalloped circle- Elegant Edges

Plain circle- George

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Heather xxx

You go Girlfriend!.......

Wow! What a difference a day makes! The weather here on the south coast is great today, blue sky, sun and a breeze. Ideal drying weather in fact. I've managed to put my washing out today without having to make a mad dash down the garden when the heavens open! And I've mowed the lawn too! If I'd left it another week it'd have been a veritable jungle. It's been so wet, if I'd done it sooner I'd have bunged up the mower. It'll probably be chucking it down tomorrow.

Well, as promised here is a card I made using the fab new Teen Scene Paper Doll cart. There are both girl and boy images on this cart, in several different poses. I love this sassy image. There is another image on the page with her wearing a long dress but I'll show you that one another time.  All of the dolls are created from 4 layers although you can leave out one layer ( for the whites of the eyes- I just adhered a scrap of white card behind the eyes as it seemed a waste of white cardstock to cut out a whole body). Then you just cut out the clothes, shoes and accessories and Bob's your uncle! A fab teen figure! For this sassy lady I used glittercard for the dress shoes and bag. I added a little blush to her cheeks with some chalk, then blinged her up. The card base is a standard DL and the papers are Christmas Me To You from last year- they were perfect for this card. I added a panel to the centre of the card, then adhered the finished figure to it with her feet along the bottom edge of the card. The sentiment- You go Girlfriend!- was computer-generated then adhered to a scalloped oval. I finished the card with a bow, single bloom and some extra bling.

Carts used:

Teen figure- Teen Scene Paper Doll

Scalloped oval- Elegant Edges

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Heather xxx