Just saying Hi.....

Hi All! Hope you are enjoying the long weekend here in the UK. It's wet down here on the south coast- a real contrast to last weekend. I was hoping to mow the lawn and clear out the bomb site that is our shed today, but heyho! I'll make cards instead! For this one I used DCWV papers from the Mango Frost stack. I covered the front of the card with yellow paper and added a blue punched border tied with ribbon. I added another smaller panel adhered to the card with foam pads. A shaped panel along with a larger mat was adhered flat over this panel. I cut the sentiments from more patterned paper and adhered it flat to the panel. I added a layered bloom and some flat backed pearls. The inside was decorated with another punched border and a matted sentiment panel.
Carts used:
Shaped panels- 'Just Because' Cards
Just Saying Hi- Lyrical Letters
Have a great Bank Holiday and thanks for looking!
Heatherxxx

Talk of the town...

There are quite a few phone images available to cut from various carts, in various stylies, but this has got to be one of the most elegant! I had real trouble with this baby! It should have been cut with a filagree pattern but my Big Bug chewed it to blazes! These filagree cuts just HAVE to be cut larger than 3 1/2" otherwise you don't have a snowball in hell's chance of getting them off the mat! So after numerous tries and much wasted glittercard :( , I went with the solid version instead. I have to say I prefer it! I cut the phone from aqua glittercard and then added a dial (cut from another phone image) and a large blue gem. I mounted the phone onto a diamond mat which was then adhered with foam pads onto a larger panel decorated with different width strips of patterned paper (that 6x6 pad again) over an embossed white panel. I added 'Talk of the town' cut from glittercard in the space below the phone and a ribbon, bow and bloom to the strip of aqua paper. Adhesive pearls finish the front. The inside was decorated with another diamond mat and a punched border.
Carts used:
Phone- Summer In Paris
Dial & Talk Of The Town- Wild Card
Thanks for dropping by today!
Heatherxxx

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