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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Bag cards

Welcome once again - thank you for visiting, and thank you so much for all your warm wishes regarding my health.  Thankfully I am very much on the mend after a few hiccups, and loads of vitamin C and Olive Leaf extract!

The other day I was challenged to make cards for a couple of young girls - not once but twice, as two of the customers I make cards for send cards to these girls.  Thus I chose a different shape so they would look totally different. 



The knitting bag pattern I used is a freebie from 
Creative Mind Of Sylvie's blog - thank you Sylvie for your generosity.


I reduced the original pattern as these needed to be posted, and varied them by using different papers to cover them, although I used the labels 20 die and the same sentiment stamp on both.  The papers were from a packet I bought some years ago from a chain store.

To further add individuality to the cards I used different elements to decorate the inside.



The butterfly was stamped on orange card and embossed using blue embossing powder, and a blue rhinestone added to the body.


The embellishment on this one was made by stamping a wee stamp (from the retired Layers Of Color set, Architectural Blocks) onto pre-punched squares, and then tea bag folded them into a kite shape. A technique that Michelle has used a lot recently inspired me to try this.

I finished the card with a magnet on the inside of the tag and the outside of the bag, and a coloured rhinestone on the outside of the tag.  The inside was finished with a white liner to be written on.

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Friday, March 9, 2012

Honey Bees galore

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I made this using just the one (retired) Layers of Color set, Honey Bee.


The main image is designed to fit into a spellbinders labels 20 die cut.
 I painted the image with Twinkling H2O's, and added Kindy Glitz for the sparkle.


The sentiment was stamped onto the same parchment like yellow card as the big image, cut using a Spellbinders classic oval and  mounted over a scalloped oval cut from mulberry paper.

The background was created using the small bee image, randomly stamping it over the kraft card stock and painting them.  This was distressed and sponged, and then I added the torn mulberry paper and ribbon before mounting the images onto it.


Rhinestones were added and the the whole mounted onto a cream card base.

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Pink Polka Dotted Flower

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Every now and again I make a card that I am 'uber' pleased with, and this is one of those.


I was playing with my Layers of Color stamps and this is the result that I am so happy with. 


I started with this flower from the Merci Bouquet  set, stamping it randomly on a cream textured paper in Rich Cocoa ink, and then colouring it with chalks. The edge of the paper was distressed and sponged.


I took three polka dot flower images and the large dotted petals from the Polka Dot Love set and white embossed them onto pink vellum, then fussy cut and layered them together.


The sentiment is from the Happy wishes set and was stamped and cut with a  Labels 14 die from Spellbinders - I ran a gold pen around the  inside edge of the  die before I removed it.


The layered flower was mounted over ribbon, and the whole mounted onto a mid brown base. Pearls were added and the card complete.

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