Season's Greetings Step Card

Here's another step card made in exactly the same way as yesterday's card. I told you they were simple to make-the hard part is deciding which paper to use out of the array of fabbo Christmas papers available this year! This paper is Winter Wonderland from MME. It's double sided so matching papers is no problem as you only need 2 designs for these cards. I used glitter paper from Crafttime for the tree with a card blackout backing and glittercard for the sentiment. The stars were punched from glitter paper and embellished with gems. I also added gems to the tree (click on the picture for a better look). I added swirly white ribbon to the bottom panel. This panel can also be used for a sentiment. You can also use the large panel for the sentiment and use the steps to make up a little Christmassy scene. There are no hard and fast rules with this card- I told you the possibilities were endless!
Carts used:
Tree & blackout- Christmas Solutions (Noel)
Sentiment- Storybook
Thanks for dropping by!
Heather

First Christmas card- and SERIOUSLY addicted!

Well,everyone else is doing it- so why not me?!!!
Here is my first Christmas card of this year! I saw a demonstrator on Create & Craft last week make a card like this, I watched carefully and then, after several aborted attempts came up with a great template to make this step-card. They are soooo easy to make and I'll warn you- when you've made one you HAVE to make another one,then another then an......... you get the idea!!! I used My Minds Eye (I think!) double-sided paper to make panels to fit the sections of the card. I matted them onto red card and adhered them to the sections in alternate patterns. I added a strip of ribbon to the narrowest panel,with a bow and mini poinsetta with snowflake & gem trim. I cut the sentiment from glitter card (only glue the bottom half of each letter to the panel) and a large white snowflake and smaller aqua flake and layered them up with another poinsetta and gem brad. The flake was adhered with a large foam pad.I added a bow above the flake to finish. There are ENDLESS possibilities for this style of card and they give you so much room to work with! You'll be seeing lots of these over the next few months I'll guarantee (warn you) that! The ladies who are coming to my workshop on Wednesday will be making one of these!
Carts used:
Sentiment- Storybook
Snowflakes-Christmas Solutions (noel)
Thanks for looking!
Heather

Happy Birthday, Brother!

This is the card that I made for Naren (No2 son!) to give to Krishnan on his birthday. I used a tent fold square card, some kraft card stock (actually from PaperMill boxes- I couldn't chuck 'em now could I?) Dovecraft (?) papers and a Create & Craft sticker. I cuttlebugged the silver disc and layered it onto a circle of petrol-blue card. I added tyre-track ribbon, silver & blue candy dots, and 'BROTHER' spelled out in silver alphabet beads. A silver Mirri sentiment with shadow completes the card.
Carts used:
Happy Birthday- Stamping Solutions
Silver disc & shadow- George
Thanks for looking!
Heather

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