Hello!

Here's another card with the same fold as yesterday's card. I used My Mind's Eye paper again, this time in russet & sage, and added a punched frill to the folded edge. I cut a mount for the sentiment from white card and sage coloured paper. I stacked them after covering the bottom part of the top mount with scraps of the paper and adding a russet polka dot ribbon and bow. I layered up flower and adhered it to the top left of the mount. The sentiment was cut from the same russet polka dot paper as the front flap of the card. I added another white mount on the inside back of the card exactly behind the one on the front.
Carts used:
Shaped mount- Storybook
Hello- Wild Card
Thanks for looking!
Heather

Lovebird Anniversary

It's my sister and brother-in-law's wedding anniversary tomorrow and this is the card that I made for them. I folded the front of a card back on itself and covered it with this lovely paper from My Mind's Eye called Bloom & Grow. Contrast paper was adhered to the back of the card. I cut out the love birds & heart from pink mirri card and a shadow from white card. The birds were accented with my dressmaker's wheel then adhered to the shadow with foam pads. I added some green dotty paper behind the heart and raised the heart with foam pads. A voile ribbon bow and cream paper rose were added. A couple of pearls were used as eyes on the birds. Happy Anniversary was cut along with a shadow and raised on foam pads below the birds, along with pearl accents in the top right hand corner.
Carts used:
Lovebirds- Wedding Solutions
Happy Anniversary- Beyond Birthdays
Thanks for dropping by!
Heather

Champagne birthday

Remember the anniversary card that I made for Helen & John? Well. this is the birthday card for John, the husband. I used the same cut as the card for Jo in a previous post but in a more masculine colour and without so many fripperies!
I just added a tag to the bottle neck held in place with some gold cord and a ribbon bow.
Carts used:
Bottle card- Wild Card (cut at 8" on the Expression)
John & 50- Lyrical Letters (Jumbo font)
Happy Birthday-Calligraphy Collection
By the way,sorry that the photo quality is not so good!
TTFN
Heather

U r so tweet!

Don't you just love this birdy paper?! I think it's hilarious!!! It's by Three Bugs In a Rug and it's double sided. I cut a panel of white textured card and mounted it onto dusky pink card. I added a panel of dotty paper with a punched edge & ribbon trim to the bottom of the card,then adhered a piece of birdy paper to white card,cut it out and rounded one corner. This was wrapped with a piece of red spotty ribbon,emebellished with a layered flower then adhered to the card front with foam tape. I cut out a speech bubble added the sentiment 'so tweet' - U r was created with Making Memories Heidi rub-ons. I placed the speech bubble so that it looks as though the little birdy is talking!!! Sweet eh?!!!
Carts used:
Speech bubble & shadow- George
So tweet- Lyrical Letters (jumbo font)
Thanks for looking!
Heather

No-Silver Anniversary

I think that sometimes we get into a rut when it comes to making cards for specific occasions and feel that we MUST use gold or silver or pink or blue for the cards to celebrate those occassions. Sometimes it's good to come out of your comfort zone and try something different. Who says that silver wedding anniverary cards MUST have silver on them? I chose to use these lovely Papermania papers for this card for No1 son's friends parents (got that?!!) I matted a piece of very pale pink patterned paper onto moss green card. I added two contrast panels, one adhered flat and the other raised. Before adding the second panel I adhered a piece of moss green ribbon across the card and added a bow and layered flower. I cut out '25' in patterned paper and then hand cut a shadow (there isn't a shadow function on the Lyrical Letters cart). I added a fancy scroll corner, a gold (yes,gold!) and pearl heart button (shank removed) to the top of the green panel and then finished off with pearls & Cosmic Shimmer glitter. I used rub-ons (Making Memories Heidi font) for the recipients names. The completed panel was adhered to the front of the card on foam tape.
Carts used:
'25'- Lyrical Letters (Jumbo font)
Fancy scroll corner- StoryBook
TTFN!
Heather

For my sister

It's my birthday on Sunday, and my sister Valerie's on Monday (how's that for timing?!) and this is the card that I made for her. I used a larger image from the Dovecraft pack, and mounted it onto a panel made from free paper from Papercraft Inspirations. I mounted the polka dot panel onto white cardstock and then again onto blue. I added a white scalloped edged strip with ribbon and flower trim. The image was adhered over this panel with foam pads. I cut out 'Valerie' from yellow paper and card and stuck them together. They were then adhered with foam pads. Happy Birthday is computer generated onto Safmat. I added some little yellow pearls to finish. Inside the card says 'Have fun!'
Cart used:
VALERIE- Lyrical Letters (Jumbo font)
TTFN!
Heather

A card for Kat!

Here is (yet) another doiley card, this time for a schoolmate of my No2 son. I used those lovely image papers again from Dovecraft. I cut out the shopper gal and stuck her onto a piece of white card then cut around her leaving a border. The card was cut at 6 1/4", and the inside front covered in lilac card & trimmed by hand. I cut a circle to fit the front of the card and covered it with 2 designs of paper, then added ribbon and a layered flower. I cut a pink shadow and adhered the patterned circle to it with foam pads. A scalloped oval with white oval and lilac shadow was used as a mount for the shopper gal, again adhered with foam pads. 'KAT' was cut from purple glitter paper and white card, stuck together and then raised on foam pads. 3 purple gems were added to the space beneath the flower. I added '16 today!' cut from purple glitter paper to the inside.
Carts used:
Doiley card-Wild Card
Scalloped oval- StoryBook
White oval & lilac shadow-George
KAT-Lyrical Letters (Jumbo font)
Thanks for stopping by!
Heather