Rockin' Birthday....

This is the card that I made for No.2 son to give to his friend Matt who had a birthday last week. I used some fab paper which is printed with LP's ,guitars and drums and a camouflage paper in the same shades of blue/grey. A cog shape was cut from camouflage paper and shadowed with silver mirri. I cut a guitar from silver mirri and grey sparkle paper, added tiny pearls coloured with a permanent marker, and adhered it onto the cog. For the name I cut circles from paper and mirri and added some large letter domed stickers and then adhered these onto the cog to the left of the guitar. Happy Birthday was cut from mirri, embossed and adhered to the stop over a strip of music printed ribbon. For a finishing touch, silver candy dots were adhered to the top of the card and to the stop with silicone glue.
Carts used:
Cog- Accent Essentials
Guitar & Happy Birthday- Stamping Solutions
Thanks for dropping in!
Heatherxxx

New Home....

This is a card that I made as a commission (hope you received it OK Maureen!). I used papers downloaded from a Papercrafts Essentials freebie CD and a simple format. I cut the house from white card then again from blue card. I embossed the blue house with a brick-effect Fiskars texture plate and added red door and window frame then stuck both of the houses together. I decoupaged the 2 topiary trees and adhered them with foam pads. The house was also adhered to the front of the card (as was the sentiment) with foam pads.I cut 'New Home?' from aqua glittercard. I added a sentiment to the inside of the little white house. The front of the card was closed with a photo turn.
Carts used:
House & topiary trees- Wild Card
New Home? & Good Luck- Lyrical Letters
Hope you all had a great weekend, and thanks for looking!
Heatherxxx

Eastern Mum....

I'm not a big fan of anything oriental, and I don't go out of my way to buy oriental inspired stuff, but this paper, even though it has an oriental feel about it, appealed to me.. I bought it yonks ago and thought it was about time I used it. There are some lovely pots on the Serenade cart and I thought it would look great with a cherry blossom branch in it. I made an easel card and matted the 2 different papers onto gold mirri. I made a double punched border for the stop. I cut the vase from gold mirri with a copper base which shows through the swirl on the top gold vase. I cut 2 branches from copper mirri and added some tiny flowers punched from cream glitter card. I added a brown gem to the centre of each of the flowers. The completed vase was mounted onto an embossed gold 'slub' effect card trimmed with a punched paper strip.I added 3 more punched flowers around the base of the vase and some more brown gems. The panel was adhered to the card with foam pads over a russet coloured ribbon and bow. Ribbon was adhered to the stop along with a gold swirl and a sentiment panel.
I added a plain white oval shadowed with gold above the stop in which to write a message. The card was finished with sentiment cut from copper and gold mirri and 'Mum' was added to the sentiment panel on the stop.
Carts used:
Vase, branches & swirl- Serenade
Mum- Beyond Birthdays
Just For You- Stamping Solutions
Thanks for looking!
Heatherxxx

Call me #2...

Here's another version of yesterday's card..a standard C5. I used the same paper stack as the previous card, matting a large piece for the main panel and adding a strip of green dot paper to a double punched border strip. I added ribbon to this piece and adhered it to the left of the panel slightly in from the left edge. I cut a scalloped circle and a dotty circle to which I adhered a phone made in the same way as yesterday's. I added 2 small panels with the sentiment on, raised on foam pads. I made another panel & sentiment circle for the inside of the card. The card was finished with roses and pink pearls.
Carts used:
Phone & 'Miss You'- Sentiments
Scalloped circle/circle- Winter Woodland
Call Me- Lyrical Letters
Thanks for looking & have a great weekend!
Heatherxxx

Call me!....

How delish is this phone?!!!! In the booklet it's quite masculine looking and quite plain so I decided to pretty it up a bit. I cut the phone twicw- once in mirri and again in glittered paper. I cut the appropriate pieces from the paper phone & adhered it onto the mirri base. I added some detail with a dressmaker's wheel and a large green pearl to the centre of the dial. I adhered the phone to a frame cut from pink card and patterned paper. I made an easel card (I can't make enough of these!) and used papers from Deena's Penny Lane and green cardstock. I punched both edges of cardstock strips (this takes patience!) to make the stop and the trim for the top panel. I added ribbon and layered flowers, some pearls & loads of glitter glue to finish,
Carts used:
Phone, frames & 'Miss You'- Sentimentals
Call Me- Lyrical Letters
Thanks for stopping by today!
Heatherxxx

Fly#2

Here's another version of the butterfly 'fly' card that I posted yesterday. I've seen cards similar to this but just thought that I'd have a go 'cos I really like the butterfly cut. The layout is simple- just a matted white panel of embossed cardstock (Doodlebug I think) with a punched border top & bottom trimmed with a sliver of patterned cardstock. I then cut the butterflies from 5 different papers from the Deena's Penny Lane stack. I arranged them in rows leaving a blank space- the space could be anywhere in the arrangement- and adhered them with glue leaving the wings free. I cut 'Fly' from pink glittercard and adhered it flat. I made a similar mat for the inside & cut the sentiment from plain pink card.
Carts used:
Butterflies & 'Fly'- Sentimentals
Inside sentiment- Calligraphy
Thanks for dropping by!
Heatherxxx

Fly...Live the dream

I think that this card would be ideal to give to a graduate, someone off on gap-year travels or even for a fab new job! I used paper from Deena's Penny Lane from MME (54 glittered sheets-£12.99 from The Range, Southampton..it's not in Gosport's Range yet) I used 3 designs and used aqua card for matting. The layout is simple, just 3 panels. I cut the butterfly from pink glittered paper for the underneath wings and aqua glittercard for the top wings. I added clear gems to the body and wing tips of the butterfly. I cut 'Fly' from pink glittercard and adhered it flat to the space beneath the butterfly. I finished the card with a layered flower and some opaque gems. I decorated the inside of the card with a panel and sentiment cut from pink glittercard.
Carts used:
Butterfly & 'Fly'- Sentimentals
Inside sentiment- Ashlyn's Alphabet (Skinny font)
Thanks for looking!
Heatherxxx