Love you a LATTE!......

As I was making this card I wasn't at all sure that it was working or that I liked it. I LOVE the paper but the layout wasn't doing anything for me...but I persevered and in the end I was pleased with the result. I used paper from DCWV Nana's Kitchen..it's got lots of coffee cups on it, with a contrast blue gingham paper. I cut the coffee pot from green polka dot paper and silver mirri and added it to a pink tartan panel with a small strip of the coffee cup paper adhered to the bottom. I cut the 'Love you a latte' oval from pink glitter card matted onto a white oval and hand shadowed scalloped oval. I used a MS punch for the border and some lovely 'Smirk' ribbon for the bow. I added 3 pink flowers to balance the coffee pot panel, and decorated the inside with more gingham paper, white sentiment panel and a 'sticker' cut from pink glittercard.
Carts used:
Sentiment oval, coffee pot and 'sticker'- Just Because Cards
Only one cart again folks!!!
Thanks for looking!
Heatherxxx

Ladybird Luv .........

Aren't these the cutest little people you've ever seen?!!! When I saw them I knew just what I wanted to do with them. I decided to use only one colour for this card and it had to be red didn't it?! The spotty paper is the reverse side of some Christmas paper that I had left over and then I just used white cardstock which I embossed and a MS punch to decorate each end of the panel. I used some spotty ribbon (no flowers this time!) on the bottom of the panel beneath the sentiment. I cut the ladybird lovers from red glittercard and mounted them with foam pads onto a shaped panel shadowed with red mirri card. The sentiment was cut from the same spotty paper and adhered with foam pads. I added some tiny punched hearts between the lovers and then decorated the inside of the card with more spotty paper, a heart shaped panel and more punched hearts.
Carts used:
Ladybird lovers- Nursery Rhymes
Shaped Panel-Just Because Cards
Sentiment-Lyrical Letters
Scalloped heart-Sweethearts
Thanks for looking and have a great weekend..it's going to be scorcher!!
Heatherxxx

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