Sister.....

I've got a monochrome card for you today. For this card I used freebie papers from a past edition of Creative Cardmaking  and the card base is a C5 tent-fold.

I cut three pennants from cardstock and topped them with patterned paper pennants cut to the same size. This gives rigidity to the cut when they are raised on foam pads. I arranged them on a piece of white cardstock , with decorative punched corners, which was then matted onto lavender cardstock. When I was sure that they were evenly spaced I adhered them to the card front with foam pads. I topped the pennants with a decorative tag, which was threaded through with sheer ribbon. 'Sister' was cut from lavender pearlised cardstock, then adhered to a hand-cut rectangular, embossed panel which was matted with more lavender cardstock. It was adhered flat over the decorative tag and then embellished with a sheer ribbon bow and a crepe paper rose from The Range.

To finish, I added a medium sized pearl to the end of each pennant.

Carts used:

Pennants- Creative Cards

Decorative tag- Heritage

Sister- Sophisticated

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xx

Secret Garden.....

Sorry I've not been around for a while...I have absolutely no excuse! Anyway, I hope these three cards will make up for it! I have used beautiful papers from Graphic 45's Secret Garden 12x12 stack and a scalloped card base. Each card is topped by a beautiful graphic matted onto a scalloped rectangle, then embellished in slightly different ways. This one with a sheer bow and WOC bloom....

...this one with a sheer bow and hellibore and rose corner arrangement and Cheery Lyn die flourish....

...and finally a sheer bow and glittery sentiment.

Carts used:

Card base/scalloped rectangle- Creative Cards

'Sing'- Wall Décor & More

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xxx

 

Little Sailor.....

I've got a kiddie's card for you today. I picked up the new Trimcraft 'Ahoy There!' 6x6 paper pack from The Range a couple of weeks ago, and I thought that these cute stripes and anchor papers would make a lovely card for a little boy.

I cut a shaped card base from white cardstock then added striped and red mats. I cut a smaller panel for the centre of the card from the anchor paper, again matted with red. Because the cartridge doesn't have a shadow facility, I cut the red mats 1/4" larger than the patterned mats. Before adhering the centre panel to the card, I added some blue and white bakers twine from which dangles an anchor cut from silver mirri.

The cute little sailboat was cut from red, black, white and blue cardstock. I added some detail around the portholes with a white gel pen then adhered it to the card with foam pads. The sentiment cut from blue card was adhered flat the glittered.

Carts used:

Card base, panels and mats- Creative Cards

Sailboat- New Arrival

Anchor- Going Places

Little Sailor- Lyrical Letters

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xxx



Celebrate With Style!......

My BIL Steve was 51 yesterday and this is the card that I made for him. It's an 8x8 square and the fab papers are Wild Rose Studio's Man About Town 6x6 pad. I got mine from www.bunnyzoescrafts.co.uk.  I used three designs from the pack and some red and black cardstock. The fab figure was cut once from black cardstock and then again from red- I cut the bow tie from the red cut and adhered it to the black cut. I also added a teeny triangle of red cardstock to the pocket on the jacket to create a handkerchief, and a gem to the sleeve for a cufflink. Black velvet ric-rac braid was adhered over the join in the stripe and damask papers, then the central panel and the figure were applied with foam tape. '51' was cut from red glittercard with a black shadow, then adhered with foam pads. I finished the card with some red and black card candi.

Carts used:

Figure- Suburbia

51- Don Juan

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xxx

 



A teenager no longer!!!.....

My baby left his teenage years behind him at the beginning of this month. I can't believe how the years have flown. He's now in York and has almost finished his first year at uni. I made him a music themed card using this fab birthday word art laid out on music staves. I cut a 7 1/2" card base with an aperture (using a 24" mat) then covered the card with papers from my stash. The Happy Birthday word art was cut from gunmetal grey mirri and adhered behind the aperture. I added some 'vinyl' records a pair of headphones, some punched stars and my boy's name and age cut from denim effect paper. All the elements were adhered to the card with foam pads. I added a piece of green paper behind the aperture to finish.

Carts used:

Card base- Don Juan

Birthday word art- Paper Lace 2

Naren/20/vinyl records- Suburbia

Headphones- Rock Princess

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xxx



Time To Relax......

I made this card for my colleague and friend Vicky's hubby Alex. He's recently retired and I thought that the sun-lounger 'lounger' in a holiday isle setting was perfect. The card is an 8x8 square, and I topped it with this fab palm tree and beach (complete with sun shade and coconut!) cut from textured cardstock. I added 'sea' with shimmery paper (you can see the effect better in the next pic) and an image of a very rotund gent from last month's Making Cards For Men Special Edition. I adhered the rough cut image onto card to give it stability, then cut it out and adhered it to the scene with foam pads.

Here you can see how the sea shimmers- makes you wanna take a dip!- and that great image!

I added a blue shadow to the whole image then adhered it to the card with foam pads. The sentiment was cut from brown cardstock and adhered flat around the image.

Carts used:

Island scene- Formal Occasion (there are other scenes available on the cart)

Sentiment- Life's A Beach

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xxx

Sophie.......

One of the GirliezNextDoor had a birthday last month. She's a teenager now so I made her a girly card. It's almost the same as a previous card that I made for Sam, my boss Jennie's daughter. I used the same figure but dressed her differently. I used papers from First Edition's latest 8x8 stack called New Bloom, on a C5 card base. I punched the bottom edge of the centre panel with a MS punch. I added some sheer ribbon and a bow and topped it with a sheer bloom and a heart shaped pin. 'Sophie' was cut from purple glittercard and adhered flat (looks a bit on the wonk!) and 'Happy Birthday' was cut from purple mirri. The parcel was hand cut from embossed mirri, and wrapped with fine silver cord. It was adhered to the card with foam pads. A smattering of purple gems completes the card.

Carts used:

Figure- Paper Doll Teen Scene

Happy Birthday- Paper Lace

Sophie- Lyrical Letters

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xx