Phoebe

No 1 son is going to yet ANOTHER 18th birthday party today and this is the card that I made for him to take along. It's a bit of an unusual colour I suppose for a birthday card, but the image is eating a rather large box of choccies so .... Hello! Terry's Chocolate Orange!! I used 2 papers from the My Mind's Eye Magnolia 12x12 stack covering the front of the card with a brushed orange paper and a strip of orange flowered paper across the middle which I adhered onto a strip of brown card edged with a Martha Stewart punch. I didn't have any large brown flowers so I cut out a large brown dotty daisy from paper and added an orange bloom topped with a brown satin ribbon bow and fabric brad. I cut the name from polka dot paper and card and adhered it below the flowered strip with foam pads. The image was adhered to card to give it more substance and then cut out. She was adhered to the front of the card with foam pads. 3 blingy flowers (originally diamante but coloured brown with peel off pens) complete the card.
Carts used:
Polka dot flower- Graphically Speaking
Phoebe- Lyrical Letters (jumbo font)
Thanks for dropping in!
Heather

Happy bird-day to you!

Here's another card with the same fold as yesterday's and that hilarious birdy paper. I added a paper frill again to the front fold then covered the front with eau-de-nil spotty paper. The back of the card was covered with birdy paper. I cut out a mount and rounded the top 2 corners and edged the bottom with a border punch. A strip of birdy paper and smaller strip of aqua dotty paper was adhered to the bottom of the mount. I added a polka dot ribbon bow, a layered flower and 3 candy dots to finish. A second mount was cut and adhered to the birdy paper exactly behind the front mount. A sentiment-'to you!' was cut and adhered to the second mount.
Carts used:
Sentiments-Lyrical Letters (Jumbo font)
TTFN!
Heather

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