Cheers!.....

Wow! What a fab weekend we've had down here on the south coast! Breakfast, lunch AND dinner outside-and it's still only May! Hopefully we'll have loads more weekends like this one! It was my BIL Steve's birthday last week and this is the card that I made for him. It wasn't my 1st choice, but the cart I wanted to use for his card hasn't arrived as yet so I had to go to Plan B. I used papers from Creative Cardmaking with a 'booze' theme. There are also some die-cuts with the collection and I've used 2 here- one on the glass and one inside the card. I covered the front of the card with bottle label paper and matted a flat green paper on top of it. I cut the glass from cardstock weight acetate and adhered a piece of shimmer paper behind it, hiding the adhesive with the die-cut label. I added a piece of white card for the froth above the shimmer paper, and then adhered the glass to the card front with foam pads. I added 'STEVE' with mini bottle tops. I cut 'Cheers!' from red mirri and adhered it flat to the green panel. The inside was decorated with a large white sentiment mat with label paper border and another die-cut label.
Carts used:
Glass-'Just Because' Cards
Cheers!- Wild Card
Thanks for dropping in!
Heatherxxx

'Ringing' the changes......

Here's a prime example of a card NOT turning out how you wanted it! I made this card, photo'd it, uploaded it and yet the more I looked at it the more I felt that it wasn't right. So. what to do about it? Eventually I decide that it was the square mat that wasn't 'doing it' for this card. So I changed it to a scalloped circle and it's infinately better! I used the Papermania Wedding papers again and 2nd time around cut a scalloped circle with an embossed circle adhered to it with foam pads to hold the rings embellishment. I added sheer ribbon, a large rose and a pearl spray.I
cut the rings from pink mirri and added a sparkly glittercard diamond embellished with a scrap daisy (from the punched border of the original mat-waste not, want not!) and pearl. I added 3 more daisies above the circle and 'Wedding' cut from more pink mirri below it. The inside was decorated with a simple sentiment mat with punched border and an (over) abundance of punched daisies- too many I feel!
Carts used:
Scalloped circle & plain circle-Winter Woodland
Rings-Sweethearts
Wedding- Designer Calendar

Hope you are having a great day- it's BOILING here!
TTFN!
Heatherxxx

Spring wedding....

The wedding season is almost upon us, so here's one to get us started. I used Papermania Wedding Collection papers. Four designs were used in this card. I covered the front with dark pink paper and added a panel of rose print paper. Another panel with a punched border and wedding words paper was adhered with foam pads over this. I cut out the heart silhouette from pink & cream glittercard and adhered them together with silicone glue for a little dimension. The completed heart was adhered with foam tape. I added a border of roses and swirly print ribbon bow. Tiny pearls were added to the holes in the punched border. The inside was decorated with a patterned paper mat and another heart (shadowed this time) and some punched glittercard hearts.
Carts used:
Silhouette & solid hearts-Love Struck
Gosh! Only ONE cart again!
Thanks for dropping by and have a lovely weekend!
Heatherxxx

You're one of a kind!......

Here's a pretty card to start the day with! It's ice-cream colours are yummy and the patterned paper is scrumptious! It has a lovely water-coloured look and the pink patterned paper is the reverse side. The only problem I had with the card was deciding which side of the paper to use for which panel! I accented the papers & the frame with deep pink mats and adhered the narrower patterned panel & frame with foam pads to give dimension. The frame was cut from Bo Bunny polka dot paper and backed with green gingham paper from a Papermania capsule collection pack. I adhered a ribbon and bow to one corner of the frame and a selection of flowers to the opposing corner. I added pearls to the frame and plain pink mat. The sentiment was cut from pink glittercard and adhered flat within the frame. The inside of the card was decorated with more patterned paper and a large white mat with punched paper border.
Carts used:
Frame-Ashlyn's Alphabet
Sentiment-Wild Card (RDS On)
Thanks for looking!
Heatherxxx

Glam....

Here's another feminine image from the Summer In Paris cart, this time a very scrumptious shoe! I used paper from g.d.c. called Eye Candy (The Range £19.99) which is full of geometric designs in lovely colours. I used 4 different papers for this one. I embossed the cream panel and edged the border with an MS Daisy punch. I cut the shoe from deep pink (yes, it is pink not purple!) glittercard and blue mirri. I layered them up and added a small Prima and pearl to the front of the shoe. I added layered blooms to the cream panel along with blue pearls coloured with a permanant marker. I added ribbon to the border and 'Glam', again cut from glittercard & mirri.The inside was decorated with a matted cream panel and a solid shoe. I used cream cardstock on this card as the papers have cream instead of white accents and white was too harsh.
Carts used:
Shoe-Summer In Paris
Glam-Forever Young
Thanks for dropping by!
Heatherxxx

Delish!.....

This cake is so pretty that you wouldn't want to eat it I reckon! It looks like it should be a wedding cake but it has 2 cherries on the top so I suppose it's an 'anyday' cake! You could, of course. cut the cherries off and use it as a wedding cake. The cut is very intricate and you don't have a hope in hell of cutting it any smaller than 3"- the cut gets mangled on the mat- and using glitterpaper (which I did!) makes matters worse. I cut the cake twice, once in silver mirri (solid) and again in glitterpaper. I cut off the stand portion of the pink cake and adhered the remaining cut to the silver portion. I decorated the stand with a dressmaker's wheel and some pearls. I used Papermania Henbury Lane papers, an MS Doiley lace punch and a layered bloom. I criss-crossed some ribbon over the horizontal border and added the bloom at the intersection and added 3 pearls onto each of the ribbon bands. 'D-lish' was cut from glittercard and silver mirri and adhered with foam pads to the side of the cake running vertically. Another solid cake was cut from glittercard and adhered inside the card in the bottom corner of the sentiment panel.
Carts used:
Cake- Summer In Paris Special Edition
'D-lish'-Forever Young
Thanks for dropping by!
Heatherxxx

I missed your birthday!.....

I'm pretty much up on all the birthday's, anniversary dates etc...it's a good job 'cos my hubby's useless when it comes to birthdays...his family only DO the kid's birthdays..so I don't have to send this type of card very often. To be honest I made this card with absolutely no idea what to put on it..so out came the Wild Card booklet and once again it saved the day! I used DCWV Linen Closet papers and a very simple layout. I used an MS punch on the stripey part of the border and added ribbon and a layered bloom. I cut the shaped panel from white card, with a green shadow then adhered it with foam pads to the front of the card. I added the sentiment cut from brown glittercard, gems and 3 aqua buttons tied with embroidery thread. The inside is very simple with just a patterned mat and a shadowed sentiment panel.
Carts used:
Shaped panels: 'Just Because' Cards
Sentiment-Wild Card (RDS on)
Thanks for dropping by!
Heatherxxx