Diamond Delight

Sharon loved the last card I made using this Anita's 3d design and asked me to do one for her Mum for Mothers Day.

I added the assembled parts to a blue pearl card blank, et voila!

Mothers Day 3d Flowers

Using one of my Anita's 3d flowers I created this card for one of the girls at work who had ordered it, having seen the last ones I made using this design.

This time I placed it on a tall white card blank, and used some K&Co paper down the centre of the blank to pull all of the colours together

Finally I used some corner peel offs to accentuate the images

Birthday Boats

For Mike's birthday I used a pearl cream card blank and matted onto it some gold card stock that I had run through the cuttlebug with my spots and dots embossing folder. This was to represent the bubbles of water beneath the boat (clever huh!)

I then carefully cut out the boat decoupage and assembled it with 3d foam squares.

The wording was from a peel off sheet that I had in my craft box.

I added the usual blank insert in the middle and used a Happy Birthday rubber stamp for the sentiment.

I think he liked it..... Happy birthday Mike x

Jamie and Phill get Engaged

My gorgeous friends Jamie and Phill got engaged on February 14th. They are sooooo romantic! Aaaahhh!

Anyway - my question is ........ "Why is it impossible to buy a same sex Engagement or Wedding card?" after all it is not as if it is not considered the norm nowadays - for goodness sake it's the 21st century! Good job I can make my own cards!

Back to my story - sorry!

I used a tall white blank card from stock and chose some purple heart papers which I used down one side of the card.

I then used some stripy purple and lilac downloaded paper to mat the champagne glasses onto. I used the centres of some peel off flowers to create the sparkle coming out of the glasses!

I had some Congratulations toppers which I had bought at The Works a couple of weeks ago and then I matted the words Groom & Groom onto some silver card blank and stripe paper.

The swarkowski flowers finished the card off, however the more I looked at it the more like a wedding card it seemed to be, so I placed the word Engagement above the Congrats topper - et voila!

I am really pleased with the result, and apparently the guys loved the Groom and Groom touch Ha Ha!

Now, all that is left to do is think up another wonderful design for their Wedding card!

DIY Chaps Card

Anyone that knows my husband, know that he is able to do pretty much anything he turns his hand to..... He is the original DIY hotty, that every woman needs around the house LOL

With this in mind... (that's the DIY part, not the hotty part), I did this little chap for his birthday card.

The image was from the same clear stamp set I got for the golfing man. I stamped him onto 120gsm fine white paper, and matted him onto black card stock.

I then matted this topper onto some silver card stock that I had run through my lovely new cuttlebug machine.

All of this got mounted onto black gloss blank card stock, using 3d foam mount.

The wording was from the same clear stamp set, and I embossed it with silver heat it up powder and my heat gun.

Not a bad finish for a totally monochrome effect.

Golf Attempt #3

This is the same little golf chappie that I used on attempt #2, but this time I have water coloured him using my Marvy Le Plume Brush Pens.

I dipped the tips of the brushes into water to soften the colours and then as the ink ran back through them, added some darker areas for shaddow effect.

The wording is from the same acrylic stamp set that the chap came from, and I embossed them using a silver powder and my heat gun.

Another quite successful attempt I think.

Butterfly Dimensions

Whilst I was out with Sally~Ann yesterday, she bought me the X-Cut Dimensions butterfly cutter for my birthday - yes I know my birthday is ages off, but you try telling her that! LOL

I had seen some projects using it on one of my favourite craft sites, and knew it would be a great addition to my craft equipment.

So this card is for Sally~Ann, to add to her little box, and be used at some time during the year.

I am so pleased with the result, and shall be making loads of these I think, as they have jumped to favourite in my mind LOL.