Ruby Rose

Our friends Sharon and Mike are celebrating their Ruby Wedding Anniversary on 30 May 2010 and so I made cards for them.

This was a download paper I was given, that I fixed to some ruby red textured card, and cut away the archways

I then layered up the Rose using 3d foam pads and added some gloss using my sakura pen.

When I showed it to Sally-Ann and Mike, they said they would like to give it to Sharon and Mike from them, as they had bought a rose called Happy Anniversary for them.

Very appropriate, we thought.

Very Posh Eh!

This is created from a free download paper I was given.

It is layered up with 3d foam pads, and I used a sakura gel pen to add a little sparkle to the hat pin on the lovely ladies head.

Wedding Day

I made this for Alison and Paul who get married on 10th May 2010.

I used a deep purple pearl finish card blank, and placed a strip of lilac mulberry paper that I tore using the water and brush method, for a rough edge effect.

On this I added a piece of pink ribbon across the length of the card, using double sided tape.

I then used a paper from my store in a darker shade of lilac, and layered on this some pale lilac paper that I had added a peel off to, and cut around for a more interesting finish.

I printed some sentiments on my brand new and totally awesome printer (my last one gave up the ghost at the end of January and I've been struggling along without one until this week!).

Once the sentiments were mounted onto silver card stock I positioned them on the card with 3d foam pads.

The finishing touch was to add the lilac gem stones over the body of the card and on the top left of the card next to the peel off.

I printed the insert in the same lilac as I used on the front of the card.

Fingers crossed all goes well for them on Monday.

Good Luck x

Good Luck

Paul's sister starts a new job this week and so this one is for her....

I chose a hammered baby pink card blank, and placed a strip of stars background paper down the centre.

The edges of the stars paper were framed with some heart border peel offs.

I took some butterflies from my store box, and having teased the wings of the large silver butterfly to give it a feeling of 3d movement, I then positioned them inside the starts panel.

The Good Luck wording finished it off.

We hope she likes it.

Boats and Bubbles

I fell back on a favourite decoupage for Paul's Dad, as it is his birthday on Bank Holiday Monday.

It is quite appropriate as he owns a little boat called Gizmo, and although it's not a sail boat like this, hopefully he will get the reasoning behind it.

I used an A4 black card base, and embossed it through my cuttlebug along the one side, with my spots and dots folder, to give the effect of bubbling water beneath the boat,then folded it to create an A5 card.

I then then mounted the decoupage onto another piece of black card that had also gone through the same spots and dots folder. All of this was mounted onto a piece of matt gold card stock.

The wording was made from some of my clear stamps, and just finished it off I think.

Purple Passion

I know it's been a while, but never fear I have been beavering away behind the scenes on card orders. Unfortunately I have already shown you the cards I was doing so there was no need to post about them!

This is a lovely little card that I put together very quickly for someone, using my new X-Cut flower cut and emboss.

I used my little machine, then fixed some gems in the centre using 3d foam pads. The purple paper I used over the flowers co-ordinated beautifully with the lilac hammered card stock I'd chosen for the base.

Finally some peels offs and a centre insert to complete the card.

Very quick and simple, but effective I think.

A Pianists Dream?

Mandy asked me a few weeks ago if I could come up with a card that included a piano for her best friend, who is partially sighted, but who loved to play the piano.

Always up for a challenge I started to scout around for anything that might be appropriate.

Finally, having searched the web to within an inch of it's life, a little craft shop in Penzance came up with a solution for me.

This is a decoupage sheet of about 10 or 12 parts. Once I had cut out and assembled the image, I used a piece of matt gold A4 card for the base.... if you score the A4 card with an embossing tool on it's longest side at the 14.8cm mark you will have a pretty good central line. The embossing tool gives a nice neat line to fold against to make the 'card' shape.

I then used some sepia sheet music, again from the craft shop in Penzance, as a background, and placed the finished image onto it.

The wording Mandy had asked for, was created using my clear stamp wording and some gold embossing powder and heat gun.

The finishing touch was the central insert - Just for you with love. I did this again using my clear stamps and a black ink pad.

I think Mandy was very happy when she saw it.