Happy Birthday Son!

Our eldest son Krishnan is 19 today! Woohoo! Happy Birthday Dol! Krishnan plays the guitar (very well I might add!) so I used a guitar as the theme for his card. I cut the guitar from red sparkle card & silver mirri and added some peel off waste for tuning buttons. I cut Happy Birthday & SON from Mirri & glitter card. SON was adhered to black paper and hand shadowed. The happy Birthday was shadowed on the Bug. I used paper from DCWV Rockstar Stack (orange paper) and Cosmo Cricket (Pop quiz panel) but I can't remember who makes the guitar print paper. I added music printed ribbon and some stars cut from waste sparkle & glitter card. I cut ''You Rock' from mirri card & black card and adhered it to the inside with another star.
Carts used:
Guitar, 'Happy Birthday' & 'You Rock!'- Stamping Solutions
Son- Ashlyn's Alphabet
Thanks for dropping by!
Heather

Oh, Happy Day!

This card is much more vibrant IRL, the photo doesn't really do it justice! The layout is pretty simple. 3 horizontal panels of different papers matted onto hot pink cardstock. I added a cuttlebugged , ribbon wrapped panel with bow & gem, the circular sentiment mounted onto a scalloped circle and 3 layered flowers. A little bling was added to the sentiment circle to fill a few gaps!
Carts used:
O Happy Day- Wild Card
Scalloped circle- Graphically Speaking
White & green circles- George
Inside sentiment- Lyrical Letters
Thanks for looking!
Heather

Get Well

Sorry that I've not been around but it was my dear Dad's funeral on Thursday and I had to go up to the Midlands for a few days. As you can imagine it was a horrible time for all of us.We said that we would all get through it together, and we did. Our Mum was so brave and Dad would have been proud of her for arranging everything just as he had wished. Although we couldn't see it at the time, we were told that people were standing at the back of the chapel because there were so many people there! Work mates from the 80's, neighbours, and cousins not seen for ages
had all turned out to give Dad a good send off. Now it's all a bit anti-climatic and we have to move on but that's something that we'll all do together too. God Bless Dad- we'll never forget you.
Thanks for listening- now onto today's card. This card was going to be for something else, but a friend of my eldest broke her tibia & fibula in a trampolining accident last weekend so I changed the intended sentiment to 'Get Well' - sounds like an order doesn't it?! I borrowed the layout again but tweeked it a bit. I used paper from DCWV, I added faux stitching, a ribbon bow, layered flowers and a little bling. The sentiment was actually cut in one piece but I cut it into two separate words along with a hand cut shadow to balance out the white panel. I glittered the sentiment with Cosmic Shimmer Glitter. The inside sentiment was computer generated on Safmat from Letraset.
Cart used:
Get Well- Wild Card
Thanks for taking a look!
Heather

My Life is good.....

Isn't this a lovely sentiment? I didn't know what I was going to put on this card as I was making it, then I looked through my cart booklets and found this sentiment. I thought that it looked a bit chunky & masculine so I prettied it up with some rub ons, glitter and an added sentiment inside. I used BoBunny double sided paper, matted onto hot pink & black card. The black & white panel (reverse side of the pink paper) was edged in black with a border punch. I added a shadowed panel, polka dot ribbon bow,layered flower & bling swirl (notice the sheen on the flower-that's Tattered Angels pearl Glimmer Mist!). If you click on the picture you'll see it better!
Carts used:
Scalloped panel- A Child's Year (hand shadowed in hot pink & black)
Life is good- Graphically Speaking
Inside sentiment-Lyrical Letters
Thanks for dropping by!
Heather

Thanks...for being there

I hope that you are all having a great Bank Holiday! It's lovely at the moment here unlike this morning when it was quite grey & overcast. I don't often make Thank You cards, but I thought that the sentiment was a little different and could be used for a friend who had helped you through a difficult time etc. I 'borrowed' the layout and used paper from MME. I cut a large flower print panel and overlayed it with a smaller spot print. I added faux stitching to both panels. I adhered them to the card with foam tape. I added a red satin bow to the larger panel and a layered flower with fabric brad to the white panel which was cut from Dotted Bazzill and layered with red cardstock. I added gem swirls (using individual self-adhesive gems). The Thanks was cut from blue card, the 'T' cut off and replaced with a larger upper case 'T'- this improved the composition on the white panel. It was then glittered with glitter glue. I decorated the inside of the card with a bloom strip & sentiment.
Carts used:
White panel & red shadow- Ashlyn's Alphabet
Sentiment- Calligraphy Collection
Thanks for dropping by
Heather

Gone fishin'?

I'm not altogether sure that I like this card! There's something not quite right with it! Oh well, I can live with it- for the time being! The colours are a bit whacky but I used the fishy paper as inspiration. I cuttlebugged the orange panel and matted it onto black. I then cut out a matted oval (cuttlebugged again!) to hold the boy icon. The letters for the sentiment on the front of the card were cut out individually,stuck close together onto black card,then cut out by hand as was the inside sentiment. I cut out 3 fish from mirri card in different sizes and joined them together at the mouth with a titchy brad. I added 2 silver & 1 black candy dot and some Opal Dust to finish. Am I right not to be too fond of this card-let me know!
Carts used:
Layered oval- George
Boy icon & fish- A Child's Year
Sentiments- Ashlyn's Alphabet
Thanks for looking!
Heather
p.s Just a little tip for you- If you want to Cuttlebug anything that's been cut on the Cricut., CUT IT FIRST then Cuttlebug it. If you don't the blade will rip rather than cut the embossed parts.

Beautiful Sympathy

My boss Jennie makes lovely cards, and this is the Sympathy card that she gave me when I lost my Dad. Her style is very different from mine. Her cards are very clean & uncluttered. It hasn't photographed well 'cos of the mirri card, but IRL it's very striking. The decoupage that she used is very unassuming on paper but when teamed with black & silver it becomes something very different. This card is very simple with a polka dot panel, the silver & grey rose and the sentiment. The card base is pearlised black.
Thanks Jennie, I love this card.
I think that the cart that she used was Plantin Schoolbook.
Thanks for dropping by today
Heather