A Card for Tony..

Thought I'd share  the anniversary card I made last year for Tony. The base card was a large 8 x8. The frame was from the Clipart Fairy, which I layered and traced in inkscape, added the text and did a print and cut with my Cougar.I then matted the frame onto silver mirri card.
 I decoupaged the lady, & added lots of bling. 
Hope you like it.....



Donna from Bearly Mine Crafts is giving away such a fab candy you should really go and check it out. See the pic on my sidebar, 


Would love to know what you think...

A Card for Tony

Hi there, me again...last year we celebrated our Ruby Wedding, this is the card I made for Tony.
Got the shape from watching Nancy Watt on C&C. It ended up quite large and heavy good job I could hand it to him. I used the silver foiled hunkydory card mated onto silver mirri board, then on black pearlised card. Made the clasp from the circle nesties, added some ribbon & pearls and punched the edge. 

This is it closed.



On the inside I decoupaged the lady and glittered her up a bit, matted it onto silver mirri then on black pearl card, then onto more mirri, then some white pearl card finally onto black pearl card again....phew..see what I mean about heavy..lol..






On the base I printed the sentiment and cut using nesties, and more of the silver foiled card.


Apologises for the photo's seems like I can never get them right...


Tony liked it, hope you do too..

A4 Anniversary Card

This one was for my Sister and Brother In Law's 26th Anniversary.

Used a full size white A4 card, glittered around the edge, and yes the glitter was white, the card was white and the sentiment all silvery.... just my poor photography... card was bought from C&C, I had quite a to do with them about delivery and about £3.00 in phone charges...trying to get it all sorted... but that's another story.

The couple were printed on to glossy photo paper, then decoupaged, quite a few layers on this one. I used Crystal Glitter around the frame, in the trees and on the dress. A silver Pentouch pen on the dress, hat, earrings and beads, and some black peewee glitter on the dress and hat. Matted it onto a glossy black card. Added a couple of black marabou feathers which I've cut the edges off in the photo, a ribbon the same colour as the dress and a little bow, made on the bow maker. The sentiment and names were cut on Robo from glittery silver wrapping paper.

I love this wrapping paper for cutting sentiments, in real life it so smooth, silvery and glittery, and cuts like a dream especially with fiddly bits on the Robo, the settings I used are.. Select film, pressure 17, blue cap, cut twice might be OK with one cut if you have a new blade.
If you have a Craft Robo try it, it's from Clintons, on a roll.

As far as the insert is concerned, still haven't figured out how to print one on folded A3 paper, but have wasted loads of paper trying, so I took Joanne's and Louise's advise and just printed it onto a single A4 sheet, and stuck it onto the card.

Hope you like it,

I would love you to leave some comments if you have time...

Our Anniversary Cards

We celebrated our Anniversary a couple of weeks ago, I find men's cards difficult to do at the best of times, but cards for Tony I never have a clue. Anyway this is what I came up with.


This was made from 2 sheets of A4 card, It was a lovely shimmery champagne colour unfortunately it doesn't show well in the photo, it seems to have taken on a grey hue, just me, not a very good photographer. Used the Cuttlebug Embossing Folders again, I'm getting quite addicted to them. Put a brown ribbon across the card, to hide the join. The hearts are a die that I put through the big kick, I just reversed the colours, and added a few gems. For the sentiments I used Design Master and cut them out with Robo.

We received 2 lovely hand made cards..............

The one on left was made by my Sister, Dawn, the one on the right was made by our friend Kate, I thought both of them were lovely, it's great to receive a hand made card.
If you see this, thanks to you both. xx

Hope you like them,

A couple of more cards, Deco Ladies

Well I managed to sort out a graphic for the header, I'm not really happy with it, but it will do for now. I've been try to get it to stretch across the screen, but it doesn't want to grow, so I thought I'd leave it for now and put on a few more cards for you to look at, I'll try and sort it out another time.

I love using these Deco Ladies, both are from a sheet of wrapping paper.

The blue lady was decoupaged, then some crystal glitter was added for a bit of sparkle. The large peel off down the side was one from the Glitter Girls. I rounded the corners on the card with a corner punch.

I didn't decoupage this lady, just added some glitter. Backed it onto card then using silicone matted on a thick silver embossed card. A peel off down the side and a lovely marabou feather to finish.

Names and sentiments on both cards were made using Design Master and cut with Robo.

Hope you like them,

Here goes... My first attempt at loading some cards

You will probably guess this was for my Mum's Birthday.
I wanted something a bit bigger than the normal A4 gate fold card, so I used 2 A4 cards. The heart was made using a keepsake board. The sentiment was cut using Robo, this was the first time I'd really used the Cuttlebug embossing folders...........now I've fallen in love with them.

The heart on the box was the original card I made for Mum but once I'd completed it I just didn't like it, thought it was a bit OTT, and I didn't like the colours, I would never had sent it to anyone, so I thought I'd pop it on the box.

I enjoyed making the card and liked the way it turned out, as I had to make a few anniversary cards, I thought I would use the same format, this is what I came up with...

The names and sentiments on both cards were cut using Robo and welded using the Design Master Software.from. The photo's are not very good, as the gold one looks a bit washed out, and the Ruby was in fact a white ice card from Keepsake.

These are the boxes that went with them.

The bow on the Golden Wedding box was made using a keepsake board. The hanging triple heart on the Ruby Wedding box was cut from a template someone shared on UKS, sorry I can't remember who designed it.

Phew....I've still got to get my head around the layout process, hopefully I'll do better next time.
I'm going to try and add some blogs to the list next, and I want to change the graphic in the heading.

Hope you enjoy looking and I'd love some comments...