Bloom where you are planted....

On the 'Just Because Cards' cart there are a choice of styles for the phrases that go with each icon..there is just the phrase itself (as on the Get Whale Soon card) or the phrase cut into an oval as on this card. I chose to make the phrase oval the focus here. I cut the oval twice..once in yellow paper and it's shadow in dark teal paper. I hand shadowed it with a scalloped oval cut with scissors. I used a simple layout using DCWV paper from the Cafe Mediterranean stack from The Range (£19.99) I added the extra wording with rub-ons. Layered flowers, pearl swirls, ribbon and some extra pearls complete the front. The inside was decorated with more paper from the stack and a simple blank scalloped oval.
'Bloom' sentiment oval- Just Because Cards (cut at approximately 6")
Inside scalloped oval-A Child's Year
Thanks for looking!
Heatherxxx

You are my sunshine!.....

Here's a sunny card to go with the fab weather we've been having lately! I used paper from the DCWV Citrus stack and a cute smiley face cut from a sheet of gift wrap and mounted onto card to give it stability. Gift wrap is a fantastic scource for crafters, especially decoupagers. I used a simple layout using 3 patterns of paper. The longest piece was edged with a MS punch, the smaller panel added to it and ribbon wrapped around both. The panel was adhered to the card front with foam tape. I added a flower and sun rays behind the smiley face cut from yellow glittercard. I cut the sentiment from four different colours of glittercard and adhered the pieces with foam pads. The smiley face was also adhered with foam pads and the card front finished with some pearls coloured with permanent markers to match the card. I just cut a simple white panel, matted and layered for the inside of the card and left it blank.
Carts used:
Sun rays & sentiment- 'Just Because' Cards (WHAAT?! ONLY ONE CART?!)
Thanks for taking a look today!
Heatherxxx

Little Boy Blue......

This card had 2 incarnations..the first took apart as it wasn't 'working' and this is what I ended up with. I love this chocolate & blue colourway and I think that this card could be used as a birthday or new baby card. I used the Bug to cut an aperture in the card front using Centrepoint and then covered the front of the card with polka dot paper, cutting away the paper over the aperture. I then cut a scalloped ring from brown c/stock and adhered it with foam pads over the aperture. I added a scalloped strip with ribbon trim to the bottom of the card and I added the Boy Blue icon cut from blue glittercard. The front of the card was finished with a layered flower and some blue pearls. I covered the inside of the card with more patterned paper and a border and added the Boy Blue sentiment cut from glittercard.
Carts used:
Scalloped frame-Ashlyn's Alphabet
Boy Blue/Sentiment-Nursery Rhymes
Aperture-George
Thanks for dropping by!
Heatherxxx

Special Delivery.....

Here's another card that I made for the Swarm..this time a very simple baby card. It could also be a birth announcement. I cut a doiley card and a circle for the font which was shadowed in blue. I cut a strip for the border,edged & embossed it and added ribbon, a bow & layered flower. I added some Dovecraft paper to the bottom of the circle and then adhered the finished circle to the front of the card with foam pads. The border was adhered in the same way. I cut a stork from blue glittercard and adhered it over the border, again with foam pads. I cut the 'Special Delivery' and it's shadow from white & blue glittercard and adhered it to the space beneath the border. I added some small blue pearls around the edge of the card and covered the inside of the card with plain blue paper.
Carts used:
Card base- Wild Card (Doiley card)
Stork & 'Special Delivery'- Nursery Rhymes
Circle-George
Thanks for looking!
Heatherxxx

Mary, Mary.....

This is another card that I made for the Swarm a couple of weeks ago. I used (again!) a diagonal cut card with Papermania Honey & Hugs papers. I cut a scalloped oval with a plain shadowed oval to hold a very pretty silhouette of Mary watering her flowers. She was cut from ice-blue glittercard and shadowed onto pink. I added spotted ribbon, layered & single flowers, Mary, Mary, cut and shadowed from glittercard & pearls to finish.
Carts used:
Mary & 'Mary,Mary'- Nursery Rhymes
Scalloped oval-A Child's Year (plain oval cut with Coluzzle template)
Hope you are all enjoying another glorious day..I know I am!
Heatherxxx

Happy Birthday Sophie!.......

Sorry I'm late posting today (it's 7:10pm) but it's been GLORIOUS here today!!! I've been in the garden all afternoon- mowing the lawns, cleaning the deck & the patio etc, etc. We ate lunch outside today (and breakfast too!) WOW! and it's still only April. Anyway- on to the card. The eldest of the 3 little girls on the other side of us (3 girlies one side, 2 boys in the middle-ours- and 3 little boys on the other side) is 11 today and this is the card that I made for her. Again it's a diagonal cut front and I used one sheet of double sided paper and a scrap of pink Bo-Bunny polka dot c/stock for the scalloped medallion, I used a Ms punch for the front & border and added a really cute handbag cut from the same papers with the addition of some white glittercard for the handle. I added a medallion carrying the number 11, 'Sophie' & 'Happy Birthday' cut from pink glittercard and a little bow & ribbon rose to the bag handle. After I took the photo I added 3 large pearls to the right of the bag above the border.
Carts used:
Bag-Paisley
Scalloped circle-Winter Woodland
Spotted circle-George
Happy Birthday-A Child's Year
Sophie & 11-Nursery Rhymes (font function) This is a really pretty font!
Thanks for dropping in and enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Heatherxxx

Out of this world birthday!......

Aneurin, the eldest of 3 little boys next door, is 8 today and this is the card that I made for him. I used a diagonal cut card again and some fabbo spaceboy paper -I know not from where it came! I also used (for the moon & border) some seriously sparkly wrapping paper from Clinton Cards. I cut the rocket from 2 diffrent types of silver cardstock and some cobalt blue glittercard. I added Nye's name &' happy birthday' cut from glittercard and ' blast off!' cut from holographic card. I punched some circles from the sparkly wrap along with some stars to create a night sky. The moon was made from a circle of the wrap with different sized holes punched from it. The circle was backed with another circle, the reverse of the wrap showing through the punched holes. A smattering of punched stars on the front of the cards were the finishing touch.
Carts used:
Rocket- Just Because Cards
'Aneurin' & 'Blast Off!'- Lyrical Letters (Jumbo font)
'Happy Birthday'- A Child's Year
Moon- George
Hope you have a great weekend! Looks like it gonna be a good one!
Thanks for looking!
Heatherxx