A Cut Above....

I picked up a lovely embossing folder (Trimcraft, I think) that had sewing accoutrements on it, and a blank area in the centre for stamping etc. But I thought that I'd use the centre space as an aperture to create this card....

After embossing a piece of white card I cut out centre. Then I adhered it to a piece of patterned paper slightly larger all round, after adhering a piece of sheer ribbon across the card just below the aperture. I then cut out the centre of the patterned paper leaving a border around the aperture. The computer generated sentiment was adhered behind the aperture then the whole panel was adhered to the frongt of a C5 card. I cut a pair of fancy scissors from silver mirri, and adhered it above the aperture. A stamped 'Sister' label, WOC bloom, die-cut leaves and a trio of pearls completes the card.

Cart used:

Scissors- Sentimentals

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xx

Polished!!!

I get a lot of inspiration for my cards by blog-hopping. I love to see what other crafters are making and sometimes it takes just that little spark to send your imagination into overdrive. That being said I make no apologies for these cards. They are a blatant COPY!!!! I saw them on Regina Easter's Cutting Café blog and thought 'I can do that!' So I did!

Now, I have to say that I have changed them a little, making one a little more 'blingy' than the other. I cut the nail polish bottle from cardstock twice in the shadow mode then once again in black pearlised cardstock at the same size. The bottles were adhered together at the top with a hinge, then the black cardstock was adhered to the card base. I then cut the bottles again in normal mode from purple holographic and glittered DCWV papers, and adhered the bottles to the card fronts with foam tape. I embossed the mirri card lids with a starburst embossing folder and added gems to the centres. I added glittercard numbers, ribbon bows and WOC blooms along with computer generated tags. The bottles were finished with gems around the curves of the bottles.
                                                                  Carts used:

Nail polish bottles- Forever Young

Numbers- Suburbia.

Pop over to the Cutting Café blog to see more of Regina and her DT's work.

Thanks for dropping in!

Heather xxx

p.s Just a heads up for the ladies who are coming to the Swarm on Saturday- In the words of Noddy Holder ....'It's CHRISTMAAAAAAS!!!!'

Yes people I will have Christmas cards for you, so if you could bring along your Christmas carts and papers that would be great (if you want to make Christmas cards that is!) I'll have other cards as usual too

See you Saturday!

Heather

Rock Star!.......

I like making cards for the men and boys in my life-they really get the old brain cells going- and they make a nice change from flowers, ribbon and bling. This card, however, could be blinged up for a girl with a simple colour change and some gems in place of the stars.....

I used a 6" square card base and rounded the corners. I then used electric blue and black mirri card, and star holographic card to create the Rock Star word art. I embossed the blue mirri with a musical note embossing folder, and I cut some extra notes from black mirri to fill a space. The word 'Rock' was cut from black glitter card and adhered flat to the holographic cardstock. The stars were punched, and adhered to the card with foam pads. I added a couple of extra punched stars to complete the card.

Cart used:

Guitar word art, 'Rock' , 'Star'& musical notes - Hannah Montana

Thanks for dropping by!

Heatherxx

Lisa & Amber....

I've got a couple more August birthday cards for you today, my SIL Lisa and our friends' daughter Amber......

...again, I chose to use the fab die-cuts from the Strictly Party A4 pack from Papermania.

I used this great elegant lady, with stamped birthday sentiment for Lisa's card...

....and this lovely profile for Amber's along with a sentiment tag from the pack..

Both die-cuts were mounted onto scalloped panels and adhered to embossed panels. I finished both cards with velvet ribbon bows and WOC blooms.

Carts used:

LISA

Scalloped panel-Elegant Edges

Pink scalloped edge-Elegant Edges

LISA- Suburbia

AMBER

Scalloped panel-Elegant Edges

AMBER-Suburbia

Thanks for dropping by!#

Heather xxx

Terri.......

My niece Terri was 26 last month and I used the fab Papermania Strictly Party die cut and paper pack to create this card for her....

I used a piece of lilac patterned paper on a C5 card and added an embossed panel with a white mat adhered to the card with foam tape. I cut a scalloped panel and added the pretty die cut image then adhered it to the card front slightly off centre. 'Terri' was cut from lilac glitter card and adhered flat beneath the image. A sentiment tag, ribbon bow and WOC bloom completes the card.

Carts used:

Scalloped panel- Elegant Edges

TERRI- Suburbia (Housewife font)

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xxx

Krishnan (and Higgins) have a birthday....

Our eldest Krishnan is 23 today, and his guinea pig Higgins is one (or thereabouts. He was Krishnan's birthday present from Sofia last year). I thought that it would be a bit of fun to use Higgins in the birthday card I made because Krishnan is absolutely potty about this creature. I looked after Higgins whilst Krishnan was in Boston over the Summer and I have to admit I was very sorry to say 'bye to him when he came home.

I used an 8" square card base and some old Dovecraft paper matted onto brown cardstock on the front. I cut a 'cage', which was originally a circus wagon from which I chopped the decorative top and wheels. I used this cut to create an aperture in the front of the card, over which I adhered the cage. I added the birthday sentiment and 'KRISHNAN' cut from brown cardstock. Happy birthday was adhered flat and 'KRISHNAN' was adhered with foam pads. I asked Krishnan to send me a photo of Higgins, which I printed off twice and decoupaged. I then placed him in a VERY clean cage setting using torn  handmade paper for bedding. Now, Higgins can eat. He ate me out of house and home when he was with me. He got through almost a whole cucumber and god knows how much spinach (hence the speech bubble!) EVERY day! He knew when I opened the fridge door (our kitchen is at the end of the family room where Higgins lived) and weeked (that's what guinea pig squeaking is called!) like a mad thing 'til I fed him. He was quite fat when he went home!

 

The 'spinach' sentiment was computer generated using Wish I was Taller font then cut into a speech bubble shadowed with brown cardstock.

Krishnan loved his card and all his friends thought it was funny!

Carts used:

Cage (circus wagon)- Life's A Party

Speech bubble- George

Happy Birthday & KRISHNAN- Lyrical Letter (Jumbo font)

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xxx

Was it really a year ago.......

.....that my nephew Dan and his wife Sarah were married? Where does the time go?

I made this card to celebrate their first anniversary. The card base is an 8" square and the papers are from a First Edition pad. I used two different designs of paper, cutting one down so that it covered half of the green paper. I punched the edge of the blue paper with a MS border punch. I picked up some mesh ribbon a while ago from the pound shop over the road from our craft shop and it was perfect to add to this card. I also created a bow (not easy because the ribbon is quite thick) to which I added a Pink Petticoat sentiment tag, and a WOC bloom. For the centre panel I cut a scalloped rectangle and topped it with an embossed panel matted onto grey paper from the pad. The man & woman figures were cut from green and blue glittercard then adhered to the embossed panel with foam pads. I gave them each a little heart punched from the same paper but giving each figure the others heart (altogether now-aaaahhhh!)

'First' was cut from silver glittercard and adhered flat above the figures. A smattering of blue and green gems completes the card.

Carts used:

Scalloped rectangle- Elegant Edges

Couple- Going Places

First- Baby Steps

Number One Son is 23 tomorrow and I made him a fun card which I'll be back to show you then.

Thanks for dropping by today!

Heather xxx