Relax #2...

As promised here is the ladies version of yesterday's card. Exactly the same carts and cuts (except for 'relax' made slightly smaller to accomodate the flowers) but this time I used the new Papermania 'Rose Garden' papers and pink mirri. Oh, and I also embossed the chair with a swiss dots embossing folder.
Carts used:
Chair- Sentimentals
Sentiments-Lyrical Letters
Have a great weekend!
Heatherxxx

Relax.....

I bought some new Papermania papers at The Range on Monday-they are called Persimmon and they are perfect for men's cards. I love this chair cut and I thought that it would be ideal for a retirement card. I used papers in shades of blue (3 different designs) and prepped an easel card. I cut the chair from gold mirri and added seat & back cut from patterned paper. I mounted it onto a panel of paper matted onto gold mirri. I decorated the stop with a strip of co-ordinating ribbon and added 'Happy Retirement' and some blue metallic candy dots. I also cut 'Relax' from mirri and adhered it to the side of the main panel with foam pads. I believe that the secret to making men's cards is 'keep it simple'. Tomorrow I'll show you the ladies version.
Carts used:
Chair- Sentimentals
'Relax' & 'Happy Retirement'- Lyrical Letters (Jumbo font)
Thanks for looking!
Heatherxxx

Happy Easter #2

Here's another Easter card using the same cut as yesterday's card, but this time as an easel. I wanted the egg to protrude over the top of the card so I cut it down a little and then made it in the same way as any other easel card. I decorated the egg in the same way as the previous card (in fact I made this card first!) the added it to the top of the card with foam pads.I used narrow ribbon and some guipure lace for decoration. The papers were from Creative Cardmaking and the wording was cut from pink glittercard.
Carts used:
Egg-Doodlecharms
Butterfly & 'Happy'- Stamping Solutions
'Easter'-Lyrical Letters
Leaf-Accent Essentials
Thanks for visiting!
Heatherxxx
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Happy Easter Egg.....

I haven't made many shaped cards despite having the Wild Card Cart (this card isn't on there by the way!) but I fancied making an easter egg shaped card and after many trial cuts this is what I came up with. This card at this size- approx 7 1/4"- can be made on the Create (in Portrait mode) & Expression and a smaller version of approx 6" can be made on the Original bug. First of all I cut an easter egg shape from embossed white Doodlebug cardstock, decorating the bottom half of the egg with patterned paper.I then adhered it to a white card,the front of which I covered with pink paper. The egg was adhered quite close to the left hand edge of the card, then I cut around it with scalloped scissors (always start cutting in an area that can be covered if the scallops don't quite meet). I then adhered the band across the egg and decorated it with layered flowers & leaves. I cut 'Happy Easter' from pale pink glitter paper from CraftTime and finished with a pearl swirl.
Carts used:
Egg- Doodlecharms (RDS on)
Happy Easter- Lyrical Letters (Jumbo Font)
Thanks for looking!
Heatherxxx

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