Girly Birthday....

It was my SIL Karen's birthday last Friday and this is the card that I made for her. I used the diagonal cut front and papers from the DCWV Mango Frost stack and edged the front of the card with an MS punch. I added a horozintal panel, also punched, and decorated with orange ribbon & bow. I cut 'KAREN' from glittercard and adhered it to the panel with foam pads. Using silver holographic card, black mirri & pink glittercard I cut a lipstick, nail polish & mirror compact. The mirror compact wasn't on any cartridge so I made it using a mini card base and a few circles of mirri & peach & tan coloured Bazzill. These were adhered to the front of the card with foam pads over a large pink flower. The sentiment on the scalloped circle was generated with CRIK-IT pens from Scrappy-Go-Lucky which was coloured in, cut out with a Colluzzle template and mounted onto a scalloped circle. I then added some flowers & gems and adhered it to the card with foam pads. The inside of the card was finished with another punched border.
Carts used:
Lipstick & Nail polish-Forever Young
Powder compact- Wild Card (circle card with blackout enabled) & George
KAREN & scalloped circle-Winter Woodland
Happy Birthday-Calligraphy Collection (using Crik-it gel pens)
Thanks for looking!
Heather xxx

Thinking Of You......

Sorry I wasn't around over the weekend but we were in Swansea with some very good friends, having a lovely time and catching up on gossip.
This card is made with the same card base as the previous post but with Eastern Promise papers from Dovecraft, and I used decorative scissors around the edges. I don't DO Oriental cards but this paper is really nice and will be suitable for lots of other cards. I decided to mirror the flower paper with the embellishment so I cut out a pot from copper mirri, embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. I cut the large blooms from brown mirri and added tiny flowerheads which were sprays of artificial gypsophila from the local garden centre. I just stripped them from the plastic stems. I got tons from 2 heads for about £2. I adhered the individual flowers to each of the blooms and added a pink gem to the middle of each one. The pot was adhered to the border and the flowerheads adhered behind it. I added russet ribbon ( from the Persimmon Papermania range) to tone with paper on the inside of the card. I cut 'Thinking of you from copper mirri and adhered it to a layered circle. This was adhered flat to the inside of the card. A simple sentiment panel completes the card.
Carts used:
Vase & blooms- Serenade
Thinking Of You-Stamping Solutions
Circles-George
Thanks for looking!
Heather xxx

You take the cake.....

I went to The Range on Thursday and picked up 3 new Dovecraft paper packs-Back To Basics, Piece Of Cake & Eastern Promise- and this card is made with the Piece of Cake pack. Its full of yummy, cakey papers as well as standard spots & stripes. For this card I used the diagonal cut front type card, but I also cut about 3/4" off the front of the card so that it is narrower than the back. I used a MS punch along the diagonal cut edge. I covered the inside of the card with spotted pink paper and the front with the cake print paper. I also added a border enhanced with an MS punch, ribbon & layered bloom with a co-ordinating big brad at it's centre. The brads are also part of the collection. The cupcake shadow was cut from brown cardstock & the cupcake itself from pink & brown glittercard with a red glittercard cherry on the top. The completed cake was adhered the card with foam pads. I tried cutting the sentiment from glittercard but my Bug wasn't having any of it! So I gave up, not being able to bear any more wasted glittercard, and cut it from brown cardstock. After adhereing it to the card and after the glue had completely dried, I ran a glue pen over the sentiment and threw brown glitter over it. Job done! I added a white sentiment panel to the inside of the card, making it small enough not to show when the card is closed.
Carts used:
Cupcake- Home Decor Solutions
You Take The Cake- 'Just Because' Cards
Hope you all have a good weekend. Enjoy this lovely weather!
Thanks for looking!
Heather xxx

Rocking kids.......

I tried something a little bit different with these cards....rocking cards with rocking horses on them! I love this image and thought that it'd be a good one for a small child's birthday card. I cut a large circle (using FIT TO PAGE) from white card. If you don't have the Big Bug, you can use a dinner plate. I scored and folded it in half and covered the front half with patterned paper. I added a white punched border trimmed with ribbon, bow and layered bloom. I cut the rocking horse & rider from coloured glittercard with a white shadow then adhered it to the card. You have to get the positioning of the horse right otherwise the card will tip to one side. I cut 'Boy' & 'Girl' from white glittercard and 'birthday' from coloured paper. I adhered Girl/Boy with foam pads & 'birthday' was adhered flat. Self-adhesive pearls added to the BOY/GIRL words finish the cards.
Carts used:
Rocking horse & rider-A Child's Year (there is also a similar image on Nursery Rhymes)
BOY/GIRL-StoryBook
Birthday-Calligraphy (Happy Birthday with the 'Happy' cut off)
Thanks for looking!
Heather xxx

Girl Stuff.......

Here's a card for that young lady in your life..or a trainee hairdresser! Isn't that a cute hairdrier?! We had a similar one YONKS & YONKS ago! For this card I used papers from the recent edition of Creative Cardmaking. I covered the front of the card with the harlequin paper and added a spotty panel matted onto a punched border. I cut another more square panel of patterned paper and matted it onto a larger punched panel. I added ribbon and gems and a large
layered bloom. I cut the hairdrier from black card overlaid with green mirri, with pink, blue & brown glittercard accents. 'Girl Stuff' was cut from pink glittercard with a brown mirri shadow. Another, smaller hairdrier decorates the inside of the card.
Carts used:
Hairdrier & 'Girl Stuff'- Paisley
WooHoo! Only ONE cart again!
Thanks for looking!
Heather xxx

Another key....

Here's a masculine version of the last card that I posted. The details for the cuts are the same but this time I used papers from DCWV Naturals Stack, and bronze coloured mirri card for the numbers which were embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. The shaped panel is different but from the same cart as the previous post. Instead of a flower on this one I tied a piece of leather thonging around the key and I used bronze brads (with legs removed) on the leather effect ribbon and above the shaped panel.
Hope you all had a great BH. At least the weather was good yesterday- we went to Beaulieu Motor Museum- but today the weather is c**p!
Please take a look as the previous post for the carts used on this card.
Thanks for dropping by!
Heather xxx

The key to the door....

Well, I managed to mow the lawn today and dry a load of washing! The shed can wait!It's lovely down here today, a real contrast to yesterday...hopefully it will remain nice for tomorrow but you all know what happens on Bank Holidays! Say no more! Here's another card made from the Mango Frost stack. I covered the front of the card with yellow patterned paper rounding one corner. I added a horizontal panel mounted onto a punched mat and wrapped with ribbon. I added another panel adhered to the card with foam tape. I cut a shaped panel from white cardstock matted onto pink patterned paper. This was adhered flat to the patterned panel. I cut a large key from silver mirri, enhanced it with a dressmaker's wheel and added a layered bloom over a bow. I cut '21' from glittercard and adhered it to the white panel with foam pads. 'Happy Birthday' was cut from paper and adhered flat. Pearl embellishments complete the front.The inside was decorated with a simple punched border and matted sentiment panel.
Carts used:
Key- Sentimentals
Shaped panels-'Just Because' Cards
Happy Birthday- Calligraphy Collection
21- Winter Woodland (font shadow)
Enjoy the rest of the weekend and thanks for dropping by!
Heather xxx