An engagement card...and wedding invites!!

Well, this card is a departure in usual style for me, but I thought was fitting for the funky, arty creative individual for whom it was made :)

The background was En Francais and French foliage stamped in basic black. The three flowers were cut using the fun flowers die and then the white was stamped with en Francais again, the cherry cobbler flower was embossed with Swiss dots folder and brayed with basic black to age it . The central brads were from the totally gorgeous Vintage brads collection. The lace is from my personal stash and was brayered with black to add a grungy effect.


She must have liked it as I was asked today to make her wedding stationery. :D

 I feel truly honoured to have been asked but slightly nervous and I'll admit, scared. I am NO perfectionist and know that a wedding is a special once in a lifetime event where everything should be perfect. So I shall just give it my best and hope to make the bride to be (and groom?!) as happy as possible.

Trip of a lifetime card

This is a card I made for my fab friends, Lou and Phil who are off to Japan for the trip of a lifetime.

I was also lucky enough to be sent the images for this by a kind demo on ILWS - thanks Tracy!! that's the trouble if you don't buy a stamp set when you see it - it'll come back to haunt you :)

This card uses real red, basic black, whisper white. The flourish is using the swirl embosslit, the sentiment was from a hostess special set and the ovals were my non SU nestabilities. The flowers were made by using the two smaller flowers from the boho blossom punch - each flower has 3 of each small flowers, each one then rolled using the end of the pokey tool to make the images curl a little, then glued and layered together and a glue dot and black gem added to the centre.

Hope you like it!

X box inspired....

A very simple card using basic grey, real red, daffodil delight, night of navy and garden green with a 3/4 circle punch. Letters drawn on with versamark pen and embossed with white powder.
Lines dry embossed and sentiment from level 3 hostess set.
Hope you liked!
(ps been away on holiday and blogger didn't post!)

Published with Blogger-droid v1.7.4

James' birthday card

A bright and fun card for a lovely little boy called James. We're off to his party this afternoon so needed to be something fairly quick.
I used a non Su stamp set I have in my personal collection (which non Su totals about 4!) , I stamped it with staz on onto whisper white and then coloured with markers - garden green, pumpkin pie, daffodil delight, pacific point and real red.
This was then mounted on matching paper layers and the name was stamped using the just perfect alphabet (again coloured with those fantastic versatile markers!) And punched out using the 3/8" punch and layered on 1" circles. Quick and bright!
Hope you like!

Published with Blogger-droid v1.7.4

A birthday card for Karen

Now a card for my sister in law is a big deal! She is an extremely talented card maker who has an innate sense of artistry and style meaning she rarely stamps. She is also known as a perfectionist - something I am most certainly not!
So...
When I saw this card on Monica Gale's blog, I knew I wanted to CASE it. Elegant, stylish and feminine plus the added benefit for me of being a style I had not tried before - the twisted easel card.
I used paper from the now retired sweet pea stack, and the flourish is taken from this years SAB. The butterfly is from my latest new plaything - big shot and dies. I used my nestabilities to cut the two circles. The monogram K is using the broadsheet letters.
If I was doing this again I would play around more with how to make the card stand up and the sentiment to face the correct direction.
Hope you like!

Published with Blogger-droid v1.7.4

Butterflies and elegance!

These were made for my lovely friend Kirsty to celebrate the opening of her beauty salon! So if anyone fancies a pampering west chiltington way.... pop on in!

Anyway... I took my inspiration from ustamp4fun and Amy's beautiful cards and copied idea but changed the color scheme to crumb cake and baha breeze.
I used the beautiful new die with the butterflies and some of our coordinating dsp. The stamped butterfly is from a retired hostess set.
The coordinating gift box is made using the fab pillow box die - i'll show you the contents another day!
Hope you like!

Published with Blogger-droid v1.7.4

A rich razzleberry gift for Sally

An a5 card base made very quickly and simply by the addition of a very vanilla top note and a crystal effects chipboard letter daubed with ink to match the colour scheme. The Leaves are taken from the bird punch.
The 3d flower makes the statement on the card, made from 6 punched scalloped circles, daubed the edges with ink and then misted with water, and screwed up. A brad is used to hold to all together and then it dries to a finished flower.
The accompanying pillow box uses the same elements.

Hope you liked!

Published with Blogger-droid v1.7.4