He's Here frame it

This is one of my favourite cards at the moment, the blue and white of this is so clean and fresh.  Bp's and graphic as previous post only in blue, glamour dusted and trimmed with sheer white ribbon and bow.  Glamour dusted and finished, I'm delighted with the end result.  My eldest daughter wants these two cards for her sisters when their babies are born - so sold to her!!!

She's Here frame it

I've made this lovely baby pink card to have in for when my daughter has her 2nd daughter at the end of June . . . I've also made a blue one for my other daughter who is due to have her 2nd son on the same day!!!!!  I love this image, again from theclipartfairy  

I've used what was a small card and made it bigger by matting and layering onto a large oblong card base.  With added sheer white ribbon, bow and glamour dust, this card is finished off lovely.

80th Boxed Card

Blogger is back and playing ball again - thankfully so I can post my recent cards now, which pleases me as once I've made a card I do like to post then I also have a record of what I've done.

This is a lovely big oblong card (slightly smaller than A4) I used a lovely pink bp, and topped with a matted and layered image from My Craft Studio - one of the floral ones and I can't place which right now.  I printed out the image 3 times in order to give me the butterflies and flowers to decoupage.  Once layered up I painted the decoupage with clear nail varnish which gives a lovely shine and dries to a glassy finish which I like to use for this type of decoupage.

I've added the usual glamour dust and one of my new purchases dew drops which look like little droplets of dew, obviously.  The three glittery stripes on the left of the card are made with strips of double sided tape with glamour dust sprinkled on top and lightly pressed onto the tape, and finished off with a large double white bow.

 The pics on the left and below shows the box I made to present the card in as I didn't want the little butterflies and flowers to get crushed in a standard envelope.

I printed onto cardstock, a bp from theclipartfairy
and added some baby pink ribbon, finished off with a circle nestie and also at the last minute decided it needed something else, so added a gorgeous white and silver filigree butterfly from stash.

This last pic shows close-up of the decoupage and the layers on the gorgeous little butterflies, the picture doesn't do this card justice to be honest as it is a lovely card and the shine on the butterflies and the lovely colours don't show up true sadly.  I'm really pleased with the finished result tho and thats all that matters, because if I'm not happy with a card when finished, then I don't pass it on to the person, I re-do another one until I'm happy.

Easel Communion Card

 I made this card up entirely different to what it was intended to be . . . I mounted the 3 pages of the book-a-easel onto a tent fold card so it will stand independently.

The pages are from a set by theclipartfairy and come in a variety of colourways to be used for any occasion.  These pages I've used are from the "new baby" pages but I wanted the baby pink colour for this young girl's communion card.

 I've curled the pages slightly to give the effect of pages, glamour dusted the edges of each page and computer generated a sentiment.

Added to the card are two little "silver" charms, one a little cross, the other a little bar with two tiny gems and the words life's blessings.  A pale pink ribbon bow and some paper flowers from Fizzy Moon finish off this delicate card.

This pic on the right shows a close up of the paper flowers - with tiny silver studs for the centres.

Art Deco Glamour

 This gorgeous glamourous Art Deco lady is taken from a cd I've had for a while but haven't used very much at all . . . Debbie Moore's Art Deco Christmas (not strictly for Christmas tho).  There's some gorgeous ladies on the disc, all dressed in a similar way to this one.

I chose this particular lady as the colours are fabulous, and they turn out exactly as they should be on printing from my printer.

I made up the card as a large slightly narrower than A4 but A4 in height (image can be printed as small as you like) as it was requested to be a large card by a customer.

It is printed onto white linen cardstock and I've added a punched border to the outer edge and threaded it through with silver ribbon.  I've not done this before but am very pleased with the result - I think it works very well with this card.  I printed out the same lady to use as decoupage but printed this time onto super smooth card and it really makes a difference for the finish on the dress.  I took quite a while to add diamond sparkles to the head dress and the trimmings on the dress to make it look like they are hundreds of tiny jewels (I think it works).  Also I picked out some detail on the dress with the diamond sparkles to add some shimmer to the flow of the dress.

The pic on the left shows close-up of the jewel detail on the graphic really well.  The band around the hat looks so sparkly.

I've added a simple white circle cut with a nestie and a computer generated sentiment topped with a lovely sheer white double bow. 

I am delighted with the finished result of this card and hope my customer will be also.

Drawer Easel

I saw this design of easel card on another blogger's post and thought it a great idea.  So I had a play with my score board and came up with this little oblong drawer box to sit an easel card on top. . .

. . . The backing paper, shaper and gorgeous birthday girl graphic are from theclipartfairy.

I printed off sufficient of the graphic to layer up and also printed a smaller easel shaper to use as the stop for the easel.  I computer generated the sentiment, added the stop to the box with tiny pearl brads, also same brad for drawer "handle".  Edged the top of drawer with silver peel-offs to hide join in backing papers, glamour dusted and tiny flower heads added to give some sparkle.

You can see from the first pic, I've added lining to the drawer and inserted the message for the recipient.

For my first attempt at this kind of card, I am pleased with the end result.

Country Chic!

I've made this gorgeous card for one of my special customers, it's for her friends little granddaughter who's going to be 3 very soon.

I've used some "Country Chic" graphics from one of my favourite sellers of clip art - theclipartfairy. Wendy has some great graphics and digi stamps over on her page, you must visit.  She also produces some really great cd rom's (I have almost all of them) and these are the ones I use the most. 

The little pic on the right shows close up of the gorgeous country chic graphic - isn't she cute?

The pic on the left shows close-up my little bow on a bow, finished off with a tiny pearl flower head.

I've glamour dusted around the letters in Ava, and the number 3, also I've used clear nail varnish to give a shine to the little girls dress and shoes and her little hair bow.

I love this card especially as green is a favourite of mine, so clean and fresh.  Hope the little girl likes it too.