Find your way home......

Isn't that the loveliest saying? I thought that it would be a lovely card to give to someone going away for a while, and letting them know that they'll always be welcome to come home. I made 2 versions of this card- I'll show the masculine version tomorrow. I used the scrumptious Summer Bloom papers again and kept the layout simple. I cut the lighthouse with flourish from dark aqua glittercard and the solid lighthouse from pink mirri. I layered them up and then adhered the complete lighthouse to a shaped panel cut from green spotted paper and matted onto pink card. 'Find your way home' was cut from more glittercard and mirri and adhered with foam pads.Sheer ribbon, pearls, and a layered bloom complete the front of the card. The inside of the card was decorated with a punched paper border and another, smaller lighthouse cut from mirri card.

Carts used:

Lighthouse & sentiment-Wall Decor & More

Shaped panel- Just Because Cards

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xxx

Inspire......

There are many butterflies on various carts, but this has to be among my favourites. It's just the prettiest thing and cuts beautifully. This one was cut from pink glittercard and adhered loosely over a solid cut from pale pink mirri card which I embossed with Cuttlebug folder. A layered flower and pearls were added to the body. Papermania's Summer Bloom papers were used again for this card. The slim panel was edged with an MS punch, and some sheer ribbon and pearls embellish it. 'Inspire' was cut from more glittercard and mirri and adhered below the ribbon with foam pads. The inside of the card was decorated with another punched strip and a mirri card butterfly border.

Carts used:

Butterfly, 'Inspire' & butterfly border- Wall Decor & More

Thanks for looking!

Heather xxx

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