Happy Birthday Sis!....

It was my birthday yesterday...I hit the Big 50!... and today it's my little sister's turn (she's 3 years and 1 day younger than me) Happy Birthday Valerie! For her card I used the same card style & layout as Holli's, posted yesterday.

I used Papermania's new Summer Bloom papers which are DIVINE! I cut a birdcage twice from white glossy card, and a pink & aqua glittercard birdy to go inside. The cage was embellished with pink mirri strips, aqua pearls and fine silver cord. It was then was adhered to a slim panel decorated with aqua spotted ribbon and a Prima Bloom. 'Sister' was cut from aqua glittercard and adhered with foam pads. The inside of the card was decorated with more patterned paper and a sentiment panel with punched corners.

Carts used:

Cage & birdy- Serenade

SISTER- Winter Woodland

Thanks for looking!

Heather xxx

p.s The dates at the top of my posts are slightly off! Today is 13th July not 12th!

Blessed Day....

My super-cute great niece Holli Olivia (Chelsea's little sister) was christened yesterday and this is the card that I made for her. I used a lovely Baptism script paper and lilac spotty paper from Papermania's Back To Basics pack. I cut about 2" off the front of the card and decorated the cut edge with an MS punch. I covered the inside back of the card with spotty paper and the front with the script paper. I cut a panel from the same paper and a scrap of the spotted paper and matted it onto white card. I cut a cross from silver mirri with a purple pearlescent backing which was embossed with a swiss dots folder. Blessed Day, Holli, and the date details were cut from more pearlescent card and glittered after being adhered to the card back. The cross was decorated with assorted roses and some leaves. White velvet ribbon and a bow decorate the bottom portion of the narrow panel. A sentiment panel with punched corners for the inside completes the card.

Carts used:

Cross- Wedding Solutions

Holli- Winter Woodland

Blessed Day- Stamping Solutions

Date details- Designer's Calender

Thanks for looking!

Heather xxx

C'est la vie.......

Here's another beautiful Wall Decor cut for you. I used freebie papers for this one, piecing them together to fit the A5 card as they are 6 x 6. I really don't know why companies are still producing 6 x 6 papers..nobody I know makes C6 cards any more and we don't sell them in the shop. I use 7 x5 cards for my workshops...you get such a large area to work on and with the Cricut the larger surface you have to work on the better as some cuts are better cut at larger sizes. Anyhow, back to the card.. I covered the join in the papers with a punched border embellished with ribbon and a bloom. The Eiffel Tower was cut from green mirri and pink glitter card, then adhered with foam pads to a matted panel. The sentiment was cut from more mirri & glitter card then adhered with foam pads. Three large pearls were added above the panel. The pearls were pale green so I darkened 'em up a bit with a green permanent marker. The inside of the card was finished with a punched panel & another tower cut from glittercard.

Cart used:

Eiffel Tower & sentiment-Wall Decor & More

Thanks for looking!

Heather xxx

Dance......

Have you ever bought a cart because of just ONE cut on it? I have! Several times! This is the cut that sold this cart to me. She is just gorgeous! She comes in 2 parts..a solid and a cut out. Here I used both but if you just used the solid you could add a real tutu made from gathered lace or a scrap of tulle. I have positioned her so that she is standing on pointes but on the cart she looks as though she is jumping through the air...it just balanced the card better with her in this position.

I cut her from pink & cream glittercard and mounted her onto a panel of cream card embossed with a divine swirl embossing folder. Papers are K & Co. I added spotted sheer ribbon. a rose, leaves and some pink pearls. 'Dance' was cut from more glitter card. The inside was decorated with a punched border topped by a border of dancers, and a blank sentiment panel.

Carts used:

Dancer, border & 'Dance'- Wall Decor & More

Shaped panels- Just Because Cards

Thanks for visiting!

Heather xxx

Happy Birthday Chelsea!....

Today my great-niece Chelsea is 5- Happy Birthday Chelsea!- and this is the card that I made for her. It's a super DL, a piece of A4 folded in half lengthways. I made an envelope for it from a piece of A3 paper from an Artist sketch Pad as I hadn't got an envelope to fit. I used DCWV papers, Smirk ribbon and self-adhesive floral trim from Dovecraft. 'Chelsea' was cut from sparkle card and the no 5 was cut from pink spotted paper. 'Chelsea' was adhered with foam pads and the no 5 adhered to a pink scalloped circle topped with green spotted paper. I added a punched border to the inside of the card with 'happy birthday' cut from more pink sparkle card.

A small net butterfly adhered to the no 5 and gems adhered to the centres of the floral trim finishes the card.

Carts used:

Scalloped circle, plain circle, 'Chelsea' & '5'- Winter Woodland

Happy Birthday- A Child's Year

Thanks for looking!

Heather xxx

Hello!........

I've been playing with a new cart and boy is it GORGEOUS! If you have and love Summer In Paris you'll LOVE this one even more! It's full of beautiful images which have a scrolly element and a plain element to each cut so that you can make femine or masculine cards from the same cut, or combine them as I've done here. I used a different layout for this, cutting the front of the card off by about 3" and adding a panel to hold the image. I used Papermania papers and an MS punch to decorate both the back and the front of the card. I cut the retro phone from white glitter card with a pink mirri card blackout portion behind it so that the scrolled design is highlighted. I added some definition to the cord with a dressmaker's wheel. I also cut 'Hello' from white glitter card and pink mirri, adhering it below the phone and above the bow on the pale pink panel. I added some flowers and leaves and decorated the inside of the card with a white sentiment panel and another phone cut with the 'border' setting, from more pink mirri. Some card candy completes the card.

Carts used:

Phones and sentiment- Wall Decor & More

Wow! Only ONE cart!

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xxx

The Perfect Pair........

Hi all! Hope you are all enjoying the weekend! As this is wedding season I thought that I'd conjour up a wedding card. I got the idea from Becca Fekken's blog Amazing Paper Grace (on my sidebar)- she made her shoes from templates- I used the Bug! I used some lovely pearlised paper from a pad (Anna Griffin, I think) some plain, some embossed and some patterned. I used a simple layout with the sentiment oval at the centre of the card. I cut the bride's shoe & sentiment from white glittercard and the groom's shoe from black & gunmetal mirri card. I pierced some holes in the groom's shoe and threaded black embroidery thread through them with a needle, fastening the loose ends at the back of the shoe. I then made a bow from more thread and adhered it with a spot of PVA. I added satin ribbon, a lovely camelia , some mini roses, leaves

and 3 pearl strands. I added more pearls to the top 2 corners of the purple panel. I added more paper, a punched border inside along with another scalloped oval to hold your handwritten or stamped sentiment and 3 small punched hearts.

Carts used:

Shoes & sentiment- Sweethearts

Scalloped ovals- Storybook

Plain ovals- George

Enjoy the rest of the weekend and thanks for looking!

Heather xxx