From the heart.......

 I know that Valentine's Day has been and gone but I've still got a few more romantic cards to show you. This square Z-fold card was made with the lovely Tilda Flowergarden papers. I used a lovely Regency stripe on the back of the card and a full blown rose paper for the front. I added a standard panel to the front with a punched ribbon-trimmed border. The frame for the cameo was cut from white textured cardstock backed with deep rose pink. The cameo was cut from spotted pink paper and backed with some aqua glittercard. Pearls were adhered around the edge of the oval with a heart shaped pearl at the centre bottom. A satin bow, deep pink small Prima rose and punched leaves (made with a fab Nellie Snellen punch/emboss system) completes the front of the card.

The inside of the card holds an embossed, matted square with the sentiment, cut from aqua glittercard adhered flat. Some small punched hearts and a smattering of hearts complete the card.

                                                                       Carts used:
                                                         Cameo and frame- Victorian Romance
                                                         From the heart sentiment- Wild Card
                                                             Thanks for dropping by today!
                                                                      Heather xxx
                                                  

Mon Amour......

 Here's another Valentine for you! This one was a very simple make and I think that with the omission of the ribbon you could give this to a guy.
The card base is a square z-fold card and the paper is from my stash (sorry, don't know who made it!) I matted the red paper onto black and added a panel with heart shaped edges to the front of the card. I embossed a piece of white cardstock with love words trimmed it to fit the panel, added ribbon and a bow, matted it onto red card and adhered it with foam pads. The 'pierrot' image was cut from red and black cardstock. I paper-pieced the collar and socks, glittered the heart with red Stickles then adhered the image to the panel with foam pads. A trio of punched hearts completes the front of the card.

The inside of the card was adorned with a smaller panel, this time embossed with hearts. The sentiment was cut from red glittercard shadowed with black cardstock. A single punched heart completes the card.

Carts used:

'Pierrot'- Victorian Romance

Front and inside panels- Elegant Edges

Mon Amour- Sentimentals

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xxx

Kissy, kissy!.......

 Hope you're all having a great weekend. I've another Valentine card for you today! I love this kissing couple image. It's actually cut as two separate images, then you have to put them lip-to-lip (as it were!) Like yesterday's card I cut the blackout image, rather than an outline, to create a silhouette. The card base is a C5 Z-fold and the papers are Pink Petticoat papers printed onto pearlescent paper. I used a script paper for inside the card, and a damask print and heart print for the front and panel. The paper on the panel was punched along the bottom edge with a MS heart border punch. I then cut a beautiful heart from red mirri and adhered it to the panel with foam pads. The couple were cut from black Gemstones cardstock and adhered with foam pads over the heart. The trio of teeny-weeny hearts were punched from red mirri with the MS border punch( it's the waste) and adhered flat. The front of the card was finished with a bow, rose and trio of punched hearts.

The inside of the card was decorated with another ribbon-trimmed panel holding a damask paper heart with scalloped shadow. 'Love' was cut from red mirri and adhered across the heart. Punched mirri hearts complete the card.

Cart used:

All cuts- Victorian Romance

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xxx

Be my Valentine........

Well, it's almost that time of year again- crikey it doesn't seem that long ago we were showing Christmas cards!- Valentine's Day! The new Victorian  Romance cart is ideal for this occasion. There are some beautiful cuts on it and this is just about my favourite. It could also be used to make a wedding card. This card is so simple and elegant with just two cuts, the couple and the sentiment. The card base is a C5 covered with red mirri card. A slightly smaller panel with a punched edge and wrapped with wide sheer red ribbon was adhered to the front of the card with foam tape. The couple in the heart was cut from black mirri with an embossed red heart adhered behind. It was adhered to the card front with foam pads. The sentiment was cut from red mirri and adhered flat. A bow, red rose and three small punched hearts completes the card.

Carts used:

Couple in heart/heart- Victorian Romance

Be my Valentine- Phrases

I'll be back tomorrow with another Valentine!

TTFN

Heather xxx

5th Birthday rosette.........

 I don't know about you, but I go through phases where I'll try something new or different, then do it to death! I did exactly that with rosettes. Now, there is a Cricut cart that features Rosettes and Ribbons, and it cuts the rosettes and marks the pleats for you, but to be honest they are so easy to make without paying out for a new cart. For this one I made a 2 1/2" diameter rosette using two pieces of 12 x 1 3/4" strips of paper, scored at 1cm intervals, adhered together at the short ends, folded along the score lines then joined into a ring and squashed flat to make a rosette. I added a circle of cardstock to the top of the rosette and weighted it down until the rosette was well and truly secured. I then added a scalloped edged circle cut from pink cardstock with a white birthday word embossed circle on the top. The '5' was cut from pink glitter cardstock and adhered to the embossed circle with foam pads. The rosette was adhered to a square card decorated with Me To You papers and a punched, ribbon trimmed border. 'Birthday Girl' was cut from more pink glitter card and adhered below the border with foam pads. A large bloom and some paper leaves completes the front of the card.

You can see from this photo the depth of the pleats. This card would need a large letter stamp if you posted it because it's more than 5mm deep. I put large letter stamps on all my posted cards, then I can be sure that they reach their destination.

Carts used:

Scalloped circle- Lacy Labels

Circle- George

5- Quarter Note

Birthday Girl- Life's A Party

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xxx

Our Anniversary......

It was our 22nd wedding anniversary on the 20th of last month and this is the card that I made for my hubby. I used My Minds Eye papers from the All Boy 12x12 stack, and a Z-fold card base. I added a standard panel to the front of the card with an Argyle print and some ripped checked paper. A piece of hessian ribbon was adhered across the panel before it was adhered to a cream coloured mat. I added a wooden button to the ribbon. The heart was cut from cardstock, then a piece of beige handmade paper was adhered to it and ripped away around the edge of the heart. It was adhered to the panel with foam pads.

I cut the 'you & me' (adhered with foam pads) and 'anniversary'(adhered flat)  sentiments from textured pearlised cardstock. A bluey-green Prima rose completes the front of the card.

I added a computer generated verse to the inside

Carts used:

Heart- George

Anniversary- Don Juan

You & Me- Sweethearts

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xxx

How do you like to go up in a swing?........

 I got a new cart today! It's the be-a-oo-ti-ful Victorian Romance (although Provocraft's 'Victorian' images look more Georgian to me!) I loved this girl on a swing image, and it brought to mind the Robert Louis Stevenson verse 'The Swing' so I thought that I'd incorporate it into the card. The scrumptious papers are from Tilda's 'Flowergarden' 12x12 pad. I actually picked this pad up from Croydon Hobbycraft last Saturday (we went to Croydon then on to London for lunch) in readiness for getting this cart. How sad is that??!! Obsessed, I know!
I cut the girl image twice, once from black cardstock, and a second more solid image from patterned paper. I paper pieced the frills on her sleeves, around her neckline and her petticoats from scraps of white cardstock before adhering the images together. I then backed the image with some aqua embossed cardstock trimmed by hand, then adhered it to a panel on the front of a C5 Z-fold card. I added a satin bow, WOC floral spray and a smattering of pearls to complete the front of the card.

I found the verse via Google, printed it out onto white textured cardstock, matted it onto pink cardstock then adhered it to an embossed panel inside the card.

Cart used:

Girl on a swing- Victorian Romance

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xxx