Kenny K wedding card

My Dad mentioned that he was going to a wedding next week and i foolishly volunteered myself to make a wedding card for him to take.  Knowing my Dad he would pop to a nearby newsagents on his way to the wedding and grab what ever is available.  I have therefore made my Dad a personalised card for him to take, which i am putting in the post for him today and i hope it makes it through the postal service in one piece.

I made the sentiment and the flowers myself, for the cream flowers I used pearlescent paper which gave the flowers a lovely finish without me having to use glitter.  I do love using glitter but it tends to get all over the rest of the card that i didn't want glittery!

My Best Friends Wedding Anniversary

My best friend Paula had her wedding anniversary last week and it was the ideal opportunity to taylor a card that i made to somebodys tastes.  My friend has fed back that she thought it was lovely and i was very touched by her comments that she gave me.  It was also really nice to pop round to her house and see my card on display and think to myself - I made that card! 

I used a Lily of the Valley image and coloured it with pro-markers, I mounted this onto coloured card and placed to the side.  I also embosed some lilac paper and mounted this to coloured card.  I wanted this card to be pretty but not too cluttered and so i cut a peice of coloured paper and used a border to the bottom of this paper.  I wrapped a piece of pink ribbon around the bottom of the paper and attached this paper to a folded coloured A4 sheet of lilac card.  On top of this i laid the embossed coloured panel and then i placed the coloured image lower down.  I contemplated doing a bow, but i was keen to use my newly aquired skill of making roses on a card that i was going to give to my own recipient rather than a card i had been asked to make for a friend. I stuck some pearlescent glitter to the edges of the flowers to give them an extra shimmer. 

I made my own sentiment for this card, which gave me the advantage of colour co-ordinating the pictures and the wording.  I cut this into a  circle shape and then combined this with a scalloped circle the same size in a contrasting colour and put little pearly drops around the scalloped cirlce to give it an extra pretty touch.

I know my friend loved it and it is so nice to hear good feedback for cards that i put time and effort into and i know that for the short time that my card is on display in my friends house that it will be looked on with an appreciation for the effort put in that only another card crafter can understand!!!!

Aniversary card well received

Well i didnt put my card into any challenges as i couldn't find a challenge that it fitted into, i did however get feedback this morning of how my card was received, and my friends mum cried when she opened the card.  I think it was so nice of my friend to of put so much thought into the card that she wanted even though it was short notice!!!  I am very happy that i made her Mum & Dad happy on their anniversary.

Handmade flowers and sentiment!!!!

I was asked yesterday, unbelievably for another anniversary card, thats 3 ive done in the last week! Considering i don't even give my own husband an anniversary card nor do i expect to receive one its suprising to me that so many people do give anniversary cards!

Anyways ... i was asked if i could do one at short notice (ie the next day) and i showed them the previous one that i had done which they loved, so i just replicated the basic style of the card and make another anniversary card but usig the colours that had been preferenced.

The card i made is shown below:

I used a Lily of the valley image, and coloured with promarkers.  I backed this on pearlescent paper, and then card.  I layered a basic card with green card which i covered with  pearlescent paper that i embossed with my new embossing folder! - Not that you can see any of it as i covered it all up!

I made the sentiment myself as i was struggling so much using digi sentiments and trying to edit them to suit me that i decided that it would be just as quick to make one up myself and then i have the advantage of being able to colour match the text etc.

I added a bit of ribbon and some hand made flowers, for the flowers that i made in plain coloured paper i added a bit of glitter with PVA glue, but i also made some flowers using the pearlescent paper that i had bought.  I was going to glitter these up to but i didnt feel that they needed it as the pearlescent give the flowers a nice shimmer. 

I thought maybe there were too many flowers on thecard but my friend loved it and said i was being far to fussy! 

I am going to look tonight and see if i can find any challenges that i can enter this card into - that is in-between making a card for my boss who i need to make a birthday card for tonight!!!!  Why dont peoplke give you more notice honestly!!!!!! She may just have top have a card from my stash!

Anniversary card

I was asked short notice last week to do an anniversary card for a friend at work and i spent 3 and a half hours of Wednesday evening producing the following card:

Great New site!

I have just seen a great new site from Darla:

Check it out ....

http://www.digitalstampclub.com/public/main.cfm

Lily of the Valley

I had some lovely free images that dropped through my front door and i am a huge fan of Lily of the Valley and so i wanted to make lovely cards with each of my images.... here is my first Lily of the Valley card.