8x8 Floral Cards

Although all of these cards are variations on  a theme, I have to say that they have been my favourite to make lately.

With four different layers of matting before the decoupage starts, the cards a very heavy once they are complete, but they have a very grand and elegant look, and it feels wonderful to be able to hand them to my friends on their special days, knowing the time that went into producing something, that has been chosen and laid out especially for their personalities.

8x8 card blanks are now my new favourite LOL.

I hope you like them as much as me.

Jo Anne

A Little Doolicraft

Whilst visiting Trago a little while ago, I bought a card making set from Doolicraft.  It contained various decoupage sheets, 8 card blank, envelopes and miscellaneous cards and papers.  All in all a really good bargain.

I opened the box on about 4 different occasions before I got the inspiration to do anything with them, and then suddenly, I got it together and came up with these

There are some Get Well,

   

Birthday,

Men's,

and moving house.

Then there are some generic that can have labels attached as I am asked for them.

All in all, not a bad set to buy, and so far everyone seems to love the cute look.

I don’t really think they are my style, and probably won’t make them again, but I think that they were a good buy at the time.

Jo Anne

 

Bouquet of Roses

Another hedgy hedgehog, this time with a bouquet of roses.

Pretty Little Hedgehog

Another from my CD-Rom, this time using a little hedgehog as my central image/decoupage.

I used 5x5 do-crafts recycled card blanks as the base for each of these square cards.

Mint Sauce!

I’m trying to get my stock together, as Tracey has asked if I would like to share a stall with her in June at a local school fete.

This little baa lamb was on my CD-Rom.  I put her together in the same way as I did the little piggy card.

She turned out quite cute, so I made a couple.  What do you think?

Piggy In The Middle

It was Duncan’s birthday a short while ago and  I decided to use a little cute piggy on the centre of his card, mainly because of an in joke related to work!

I used a CD-ROM where you create you entire card on your computer screen and then print it off and glue to the front of a card blank.

I printed the picture twice, and cut the centre image out and decoupaged it onto the top of the original, therefore adding some dimension to the card.

Hope you had a good one ‘dwarling’.  mwah, mwah!

Black and Gold Forever Friends

Firstly - I must apologise to Yvonne for not posting this sooner - she told me off LOL

This is my first attempt at using my Forever Friends Black and Gold Limited Edition CD-ROM.

I know that some people have had an issue with the compatibility of the disc with their computer software, but I have to say, that once I managed to install the software for the disc onto my laptop, I have had no issues and have found it a wonderful disc to use.

The screen layout allows you to place everything on your virtual card to see how it will look, before you commit to printing anything and wasting ink unecessarily.

As I only received the disc a couple of days before Denise's birthday, I had to familiarise myself with it quite quickly, and as you can see, didn't do too badly, I don't think.

I used the Do-Crafts recycled card blanks in a 13.5x13.5 square, and folded the front cover in half to create an easel card, before covering in the backing papers and toppers that I printed from the disc. I also printed extra toppers so that I could decoupage them.

The frames on the disc made a great sentiment box, and were the support to hold the front of the easel in position.

Happy Birthday Denise x

TK Gardens

A beautiful Thomas Kincaide image, just placed centrally onto a card blank, makes a lovely keepsake for a friend. The images print even better when you do them onto gloss photo paper!

Purrfect Day

My friends birthday has come around quickly, and as she loves her two Ragdoll cats, I thought she may like this little chap.

I printed it onto ultra smooth white printer paper and cut out each layer, which got placed together with 3d foam pads.

The finished topper then got placed onto a white hammered effect card blank.

The insert I made, read Have a Puuurrrrfect Day!.

Happy Birthday Alison

Little Ducky

I fell in love with this little topper, and just placed it onto card blank that just happened to match colour wise.

A very very simple card, but very effective.

Triple Turtles

This little chap makes a wonderful image for a child's card, and I've played around with the format a couple of times to see what I can do for alternate effects.

The first image above is simple cut out and added to a hammered blue card blank.

The second, I have placed onto a tall card blank, and used the backing paper as a central panel before placing the smaller image onto a gold matt and 3d foam pads.

The final card, I did a partial wrap using backing paper and placed the larger image, centrally, directly onto it.

All three look great in the flesh, so to speak, and are great for any kiddie.

A Triumph with Thomas

I LOVE my Thomas Kincaide CD-ROM!

I have used very little for this card. Just a print from my disc, some tonal coloured ribbon and some peel offs.

I placed the image onto some matt gold card and used 3d foam pads to place it onto my card blank.

The images make any simple card look very special.

Happy Birthday Keithy Babe!

bir It's Keith's birthday today, and this little chap seemed the perfect choice for his card....

When he's not playing golf, down the club or at the race track, Keith's favourite past time is watching the footy on the TV, and woe betide anyone to move that remote control from the arm rest LOL

This little chap was on my CD-ROM and was a great addition for my card archive.

Tidy Turtle

This little lady is taken for another of my CD-ROMS, and is just the cutest little thing, in 'real life'

the images are 3d mounted onto backing papers and peel off's placed along each side to complete the image.

Mike

Mike goes in for his eye operations this coming week, and finally, after over 12 months, he should be able to enjoy his little MX-5 with the lid down and the sun shining.

He has had to pretty much live permanently in sunglasses, both indoors and outdoors, as the light hurts his eyes too much.

When I saw this image, I realised it was perfect for the occasion. I particularly love the art deco feel of it, and therefore chose a font for the type written notes that fell into this theme

Good Luck for Tuesday Mike, we'll be thinking about you. xx

Scottie Dog

This lovely little chap was a free download sheet from Printable Heaven. It's a lovely little website, and often offers free down loadable images if you register with them.

I particularly loved this one, as we had a Scottie dog for many years, before we got Fred.

Pam's Special Day

It is Pams birthday today, and I wanted to give her a very special card. A design that I have never done before, and that I had been tutored on at a craft demo a couple of weeks ago (see my other blog)

I took a standard card blank with envelope, and folded the front and back leaves back on themselves.

I then used a circular cutter to remove the centre and add the cutaway corner effect.

The centre circle was cut from silver mirri card and topped with matching backing paper to what had been used on the side panels.

Some peel off stickers finished the effect. The centre disc was then suspended in the centre of the cut out using matching embroidery cotton. This cotton was then hidden using some of the hearts from the papers.

Happy Birthday Pam. I hope you have a great day xx

The Love Bug

You can't live in Cornwall, and not do a card like this at some point - I love them.... they look so effective in reality.