Especially for You

Hello Friends,

I got a Forever Friends 3D motif of the ballet bear in my craft stash and designed my card around it.  I covered the card with pink embossed paper on the front and inside (the embossed pattern is of layered hearts at random angles).  I cut two deckle ovals from white card and inked around the edge of both with tattered rose distress ink while still in the die.  I attached one to the front of the card and the other inside for the sentiment to be wrote on.  I attached the bear to the front oval and used silver peel offs to frame it as shown.   I cut four corners from the spellbinders Flourish accent in white card and again inked them all while still in the die with the tattered rose distress ink, attached with glue as shown.  I also cut two of the long design from the same set and inked while still in the die with tattered rose.  These were attached to the oval inside the card for added decoration. Sorry there's no picture.
Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by
Caz xxx

Spirelli

Hello friends,
Some quick baby cards using spirelli, silver metallic thread and various frames and images.
 The top two are for the girls, the first one is with an oval spirelli  template and 15 points have been skipped to create a small circle in the middle.  A narrow silver border frames it and a fancy corner punch used on the bottom corners.  The birds are glued on and the fairy girl is attached with foam pads. 


This one is with a spirelli flower punch and 6 petals have been skipped.  I've used the negative that the frames were in and punched the corners.  The image was attached with foam pads.










The bottom three are for the boys. 
 
10 points have been skipped on this round template and then placed back in the negative of a different coloured card, the corners have been punched and the mini 3D images have been attached with foam pads.








Again using the spirelli flower punch, 5 petals have been skipped to create a larger opening and the images are attached with foam pads.  A narrow silver border finishes the card.



The silver negative from the borders has been used and the corners punched to cover the card front.
15 points have been skipped  to create the pattern and the mini 3D image is attached with foam pads. 
 Hope you like them and thanks for stopping by
Caz xxx

From the Three of us

Hello friends,

Today I thought I'd do a cross stitch card.  The pattern is from one of the cross stitch magazines (sorry I can't remember which one but I think it was from last year).  I had already stitched the design previously and just added the sentiment underneth.  I've used a landscape tri fold aperture to frame the stitching and covered the inside back of the card with some light purple embossed paper, I also cut a deckled oval, inked around the edge with milled lavender distress ink while still in the die and glued to the centre of the purple.  To finish I coloured some small gem stones with amethyst promarker and adhered to the top right corner when dry.  Sorry theres no photo of the inside, the card has already been sent.  Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by

Caz xxx

 

Wedding Bells

Hello Friends,

Today is a gate fold card kit by Kameo Cards, the kit includes the card, and both the silver and white deckle edge rectangle mats.

The two papers and the vellum picture are also by Kameo card.  One of the papers matches the vellum picture and the other is a nice patterned paper that compliments the the other.  I cut a wide strip of the patterned and two smaller strips of the bell papers and glued them around the centre of the card, also using silver peel off borders to define them.  Using a self adhesive sheet, I trimmed around the vellum picture and adhered it to the white deckle edge mat, matted to silver using foam pads and then to the card.  I printed a sentiment onto white paper for the insert and finished it with a decorative border punch on alternate corners.  Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by   

Caz xxx

A bumper kit of Pyramage and Invertage part 4

Hello friends,

I've taken a card from that bumper kit again and removed the picture leaving the border to give me an aperture card. 

I've covered the inside front and back of the card with pink to match the border on the front, I've also used a piece of the inset papers that match the design of the card to mat on the inside back.  I cut a circle using the Heartfelt creations scalloped posy die set in pink and placed in the centre of the aperture,  I cut two of the large Moroccan motifs in white and offset them.  I gave three flowers from the Craftwork cards a bit of a curl on each petal and glued together with a card candi in the middle, this was glued in the middle with a leaf sprig from my stash.  I cut four corners each of pink and white card from the moroccan accents, placed the white on top of the pink and laced together.  I glued these to the top left and bottom right of both the front and inside back of the card.  I hope you like it and thanks for stopping by

Caz xxx

Blue Iris

Hello crafty friends,

This is just a quick card.

The paper and vellum's used are by Kameo cards. I covered the card front with pale blue check paper. I cut a strip of silver patterned vellum with a little wavy edge on both sides and matted on white card (with double sided adhesive sheet) also giving it a wavy edge. I took the vellum Iris panel and  using double sided self adhesive sheet, placed it onto white card, cut around the frame and placed it onto the card front with foam pads for a little bit of dimension. Hope you like it.
Thanks for stopping by.
Caz xxx

Bunny Arch

Hello friends,

I really need to practice with this layered scalloped posy die from Heartfelt Creations.

Using a red A6 pearlesent card, I tried to cut the posy half circle at the top of the card (mine turned out a little lopsided).  I matted a piece of cream pearlesent paper which I used a fancy corner punch on, below the fretwork arch leaving a small border.  Using the same paper, I glued it behind the arch and trimmed following the shape, also to the inside back of the card with the corners punched to match the front.  I also glued a piece of red pearlesent paper to the inside front to hide the back of the cream that I'd glued to the arch, again trimming round.  I cut the flowers in the same two pearlesent papers and slightly shaped them on my rubber mat using a medium ball tool.  I cut the vines in two different green pearlesent papers using both vine dies in the decorative Chateau gate set, again from Heartfelt Creations and arranged them up the left side and along the top of the card.  I glued the flowers in place and added yellow liquid pearls to their centres.  I cut round the rabbit from Craftwork cards and used vanilla promarker to take the white edge away around the rabbit and flower and a red promarker to recolour the petals, attached using foam pads after shaping slightly.  I had fun making this card, hope you like it and thanks for stopping by

Caz xxx

Black & white

Hello friends,

I took an A5 card and attached a matted layer of black, white, black leaving a small border each time.  I also pierced the edge of the white mat.

  I cut the lace border from the Heartfelt Creations die and threaded the organza ribbon through it before attaching to the card.  I made a double bow from the ribbon, glued in place and attached a silver star button to its middle.  I embossed white card with the vintage dressmaker folder by Couture creations (love this folder), lightly rubbed versamark over it and dusted with pewter perfect pearls, then cut round the image.  Gave it some shape and attached with foam pads. 

I hope you like it and thanks for stopping by

Caz xxx

A bumper kit of Pyramage and Invertage part 3

Hello friends,

today's card is the one that was left to one side after I removed the flower picture from it in yesterdays post. 

I removed the flower panel from the front of the card (again to be used on a different card) but left the fancy trim.  I used Tim Holtz distress core'dinations in a purple/ lavender colour to cover the inside front of the card.  I embossed this with the vintage dressmaker folder by Couture creations and sanded the image on both sides, then glued to the inside front.  I covered the inside back with DCWV Rock star paper for a rock chick look.  I cut three of the daisy flower from the tattered flowers die by Tim Holtz in a lavender crinkle paper and then spritzed them with a couple of mica sprays and left them to dry.  I took two different white flowers, 3 of each, that I found in my stash and used them to clean my mat from the mica sprays, again leaving to dry.

Using one of the dies from the Spellbinders Peony collection, I cut and embossed on some lilac card and while still in the die, inked round the edge with the milled lavender distress ink.  I stamped my sentiment in the middle with  evergreen bough distress ink from the winter collection and attached to the inside back of the card, making sure that it didn't peep out from the cut away front.  I placed the daisy flowers on top of each other, off centering them and securing with a metallic pink brad I glued this to the bottom of the card on the right side.  Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by 

Caz xxx

A bumper kit of Pyramage and Invertage part 2

Hello crafty friends,

For this card, I've used the same kit and card design as the card that I posted yesterday.

 I started by removing the flower picture (to be used) and leaving the narrow border in place,  then placed it on one side as it's not being used for this card today. 

Using an A5 card, I drew around the outside of the flower picture, opening the card out on the cutting mat, using a metal  edge ruler and a craft knife, I cut the aperture.  I covered the inside back with two different pieces of the insert papers and then covered the front using the same papers and lined them up with the inside of the back through the aperture window, again turning over on the cutting mat and cutting the aperture back in.  I covered the inside front of the card (if that makes sense) with black thin card, I also matted the flower picture onto the same black card.  Using the invertage pieces, I decided on how many to use on the matted design (in this case one), foam pads to attach and lined it up with the design. The next one was glued inside the aperture on the front to the black card that was applied to the back of it and then the smaller aperture cut back in so that the front now has a smaller aperture (sorry, a bit long winded there).  It now looks that only a small aperture was cut.  I cut three Moroccan accent borders in black and two in pink. The black borders were placed around the outside edge of the flower picture creating a frame and the pink ones created a frame around the small aperture on the inside front, I also used the left over black border to hide where the two papers meet in the inside back of the card and placed the flower picture by lining the image up from the front.
The card was finished by placing the rest of the invertage on the front of the card.
Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by
Caz xxx

A bumper kit of Pyramage and Invertage

Hello crafty friends,

My dear belated husband gave me this kit as a sort of get well present one year instead of a bunch of flowers, as they would have made me worse at the time.  That was more than a just few years ago now.  If I remember right, I think that it was a C&C kit.  It got packed away along with all my other craft stuff and I just focused on the boys and myself getting through the day, one day at a time, that is until now, time to move on.

The cards in the kit are all square pre-printed flower theme designs (like the one in the next picture and theres 20 designs, 2 of each) so that you build the pyramage on one and the invertage onto the other, theres also a  great selection of patterned insert papers in various colours and a sheet of stickers too that match the card designs (as laid out above).  I like to play with the cards rather than use them as they are intended!

 Using a craft knife and metal edge ruler, I cut the flower picture out the middle leaving the thin border in place and matted it onto gold mirri card, I covered the inside of the card on both sides also with gold mirri.  I turned the card over onto the front so that I could cut the aperture back in, then using one of the patterned inserts, I made a mat on top of the mirri on both sides and again turned over to cut the aperture back in.  I placed the flower picture inside the card on the back, making sure it aligned with the aperture and stuck it down.  Opening the card out, I built up the layers of pyramage.  Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Caz xxx