Richa & Callum II..........

As promised (albeit a tad later than promised!) here is the card that I took up to Edinburgh for Richa & Callum's wedding back in July

The car is an 8x8 fold back square card. I used Pink Petticoat downloads for the backing papers, printed in Goldenrod onto pearlised paper.

The front of the card holds a square panel, embossed with a Sheena Douglass Indian embossing folder. I added sheer ribbon and a decorative heart cut from white pearlised card shadowed with cream pearlised card. 'Richa' & 'Callum' was cut from champagne coloured glittercard and adhered flat. The front of the card was finished with die cut flourishes and leaves and a couple of sheer flowers. A smattering of pearls and a pearl heart completes the front of the card.....

...... I computer generated a 'Recipe For Love' printed onto pearlised paper, matted it onto cream pearlised card, then adhered to the inside left panel.....

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....and a mini card, adhered to the back panel, holds a wedding sentiment, and inside is a personal greeting. A ribbon holds the card closed and die-cut flourishes finish the back panel......

....and finally, as usual with my Keepsake cards, a box to keep it safe, decorated with  a pearls decorated heart and champagne glitter letters.

Carts used:

Heart flourish on front of card- Tie The Knot

Names & initials- Suburbia (Housewife font)

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Heather xxx

 



Richa & Callum.....

 

The middle daughter of our good friends Ashok & Anju, got married in Edingurgh

in July. We flew up there, and had a great weekend in the Scottish capital.

I made this card for our friends Mary & Imroz to give to the newly-weds (I'll show you the card from me next time). The papers were a download printed onto pearlised paper which was matted onto silver mirri, then adhered to an 8" square card. I added a strip with punched edges, horizontally across the centre, then added another strip, embossed and matted onto silver mirri. 'Richa & Callum' was cut from textured silver card, then adhered flat to the embossed strip. I added a lace strip and bow, die-cut leaves and flourishes and a silk bloom to the left hand side of the card. A smattering of pearls completes the card.

Cart used:

Richa & Callum- Storybook

 

Punched edge of card- Tonic Studio

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Heather xx



Chelsea........

This is a card that I made for my delightful great-niece Chelsea, for her 9th birthday last month. Chelsea takes Karate lessons from her Granddad who is a Sensei at his karate club. She has just earned her orange belt so I thought that I'd pop this cute karate-kid on her card.

The card base is a scalloped 8" square. The papers are freebie Nit-Wits and the Happy Birthday sentiment was cut from a free die (gotta love freebies!) 'Chelsea' & '9' were cut from the same pink glittercard as the sentiment. I finished the card off with a felt flower- yet another freebie. Blimey! this was an expensive card to make-not!

Carts used:

Karate Kid-Create A Friend

Chelsea/9- Kate's ABC

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Heather xxx

Peppa Pig for Lottie Rose.......

Krishnan's girlfriend Sofia asked me to make a couple of cards for her cousin's little girl Lottie Rose who was one a couple of months ago. Apparently she loves Peppa Pig. Hold the phone! Where was I going to find Peppa Pig on a cartridge? Nowhere! So I went to my trusty go-to when in crafty trouble, Google Images, and downloaded a line drawing of Peppa, which I used to hand-cut a passable version for Lottie's card. I adhered her to a scalloped square, and gave her a speech bubble with a computer generated sentiment. I added some punched flowers to the grass and a (securely fastened!) fabric rose to the speech bubble. A smattering of pink gems completes the card........

....and what little girl doesn't love a dollies pram? This cute little girl was cut from coloured cardstock and then adhered to a scalloped square. The 'Happy Birthday' sentiment was computer generated onto patterned paper and I added the '1st' cut from pink glittercard as was the 'Lottie Rose' I added some punched daisies to the 'grass' and a smattering of gems to complete the card.

Both card bases are 8x8 scalloped squares.

Carts used:

Peppa Pig

Scalloped square-Elegant Edges

Speech bubble- George

 

Girl with Pram

Girl & sentiment-Kate's ABC

Scalloped square-Elegant Edges

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Heather xxx

Gettin' Hitched!......

I have been making an awful lot of wedding cards just lately, either for commissions or personal use.

I made this one, for no particular reason other than that I liked the image. I think that it would be suitable for either a church wedding, registry office or civil ceremony in a grand house!

I used an 8" scalloped card base and added an embossed and matted panel to the front of the card. Before adhering it to the card I wrapped pink satin ribbon threaded through a gemstone buckle around the bottom of the panel.

The funky couple were cut from plain white card coloured with a Blush Promarker for the skin, then the layers (dress and tux) were cut from white and black pearlised cardstock. The bride's dress was embossed, and I added teeny sequin flowers to her headband. I also gave her a pearl necklace and bracelet. The bouquet was enhanced with punched flowers, created with a Martha Stewart Hydrangea punch. The couple were adhered to the card with foam pads.

'Gettin' Hitched' was cut from black pearlised cardstock and adhered flat. A smattering of pearls completes the card.

Cart used:

All cuts-Summer celebrations

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Heather xxx

Lauren.......

 My niece Lauren was 18 last month and she had a Hawaiian themed party, so I thought that this pineapple cocktail would be ideal for her card. I added detail to the pineapple with Promarkers along with lots of glitter. The backing paper was a freebie from Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine from last year. I topped the paper with a panel of white cardstock embossed with a swiss dots folder. I added the sentiment cut from glittercard and to finish a very pretty bloom with a gem in the centre. All of the elements were adhered with foam pads. A smattering of gems completes the card.

No.1 son Krishnan asked me to make a card for him & Sofia to give Lauren, and I decided to use a key (to the door) on this one. I know that you usually give the key to the door at 21 but I've seen plenty of '18' keys in High Street card shops, so why not?

I used Hunky Dory cardstock which was a freebie for the background and added a key cut from silver mirri and 'Lauren' & '18' cut from lilac glittercard shadowed with silver mirri. I added a sheer bow and blooms to the top of the key, along with a stamped sentiment. A smattering of gems completes the card.

 

I made a pizza-style box to put the card in.

Carts used:

ALOHA

Pineapple cocktail & sentiment- Life's A Beach

LAUREN

Key- Sentimentals

Lauren- Hannah Montana

18-Sophisticated

BOX

Scalloped circles- Elegant Edges

Sentiment circles-George

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Heather xxx

Emily & Reza.........

 Hello all! Hope you are enjoying the blistering (yes, truly!) heatwave here. Would you believe that I've had my central heating on today? WHAAAT?!!!!!! Yes, really! My boiler went on the fritz on Saturday so it's been replaced today and they had to test that the radiators were working. It's amazing how much we take hot water on tap for granted until we don't have it!

Anyhoo, back to today's card. I made this card for Mary & Imroz to give to Rhea & Phil's friends Emily & Reza who got married a couple of weeks after Hari & Suzanne.I won't go into details about each pic as the card is made in exactly the same way as in the previous post. I used an ivy die to decorate the corners on the front of the card....

 ....and also used a die for the flourish behind the heart.....

 ...and inside the card........

....and used the same quote by Audrey Hepburn on the inside.

You really can't see the beautiful lavender colour palette that well in these pics, which is a shame as it's the loveliest colour. And of course, I made a box to put it in (see previous post)

Carts used:

Shaped panel- Elegant Edges

Bride & groom heart- Love Struck

Heart on flourish- George

E & R- Storybook

Thanks for dropping by!

Heather xx