Missing you......

I decided to use up some freebie papers for this card, they are 6x6, a size I don't buy because my finished cards are A5 and they aren't big enough, but they are perfect for panels as on this card. I cut a piece of white textured card and matted it onto aqua cardstock. I then added a punched horizontal border with ribbon and two further panels adhered at different angles. The top panel was adhered with foam pads. I then cut a shaped panel, embossed it and added a mat. I cut the sentiment from glittercard and adhered it with foam pads. A layered bloom and pearls finish off the front. The inside was decorated with a large white panel, punched border and smaller shaped sentiment panel.
Carts used:
Shaped panel- 'Just Because' Cards
Missing You- Stamping Solutions
Thanks for dropping by!
Heatherxxx

May Birthday......

Here's something a little different. I bought Designer Calendar a few weeks ago and it's loaded with great images & words. I thought that I'd make a card with a month of the year on it, suitably May! I went with a doiley card for this one, cut on blackout to get rid of the holes in the scallops. I used Bo Bunny papers and an MS punch. I cut 'May' from green script paper and backed with another 'May' cut from card to give it some rigidity. I cut 'Happy Birthday' from purple cardstock and glittered it with Stickles after it was adhered to the card with foam pads. I added ribbon, a layered bloom punched & embossed from the Bo Bunny paper, and some pearls to finish. The inside was decorated with a circle of spotty paper with a smaller circular mat decorated with flowers cut from the Bo Bunny patterned paper.
Carts used:
Doiley card base-Wild Card (blackout enabled)
Circles- George
May-Designer Calendar
Happy Birthday- Calligraphy
Thanks for dropping by!
Heatherxxx

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