The first has a very traditional romantic feel using pastel shades and lots of pearls. I added stiching and some cream lace and lots of pearls and delicate cream flowers.
The next card has a more vintage feel and I used a layered Prima flower, some gorgeous grosgrain ribbon and papers in stronger colours.
...stored neatly in little boxes...
...makes me happy :-) Been having a bit of a tidy:-)
I used the Lavender collection Wordbook and decided to make similar Wordbooks for both. This colour scheme is just fabulous. The green is an amazing shade. It matches so well with the Lilac and Purple and looks really Funky. I printed out all the letters to start and then cut out the pages, trimmed them to size and scored the two top pages. I then stuck the book together and punched the bound edge with my Bind it all.
I tied coordinating ribbons through the punched holes. The ribbons are from various sources. The green ribbon was bought in the sale from Tesco's after Christmas and is a perfect match.
I printed small letters which I cut out with my Nestabilities, inked the edges and mounted them on to the card with foam pads and added a heart gem. I finished the cards off with gems and with Prima flowers. The little purple clips are from Making Memories.
I decided to do something constructive with my scraps and made a couple of gift tags to match the cards.
I set an eyelet for the ribbon, added small Making Memories letters, flowers and gems to finish them off. I did make matching flowers for the tags but Charlie, my Puppy, ate one, it has been a day for Charlie eating things he shouldn't, while we were having Dinner tonight, he chewed the end of the Laptop charger! He is not the most popular person in our house right now and I will be making an unscheduled trip to PC World tomorrow!
I love how happy these little characters seem and the Greeting Farm stamps are fast becoming some of my favourites. I ordered another couple today from Elaine at Quixotic paperie as she has a special offer at the moment, I can't wait for them to arrive!
I used American Crafts papers, Hero Arts and Prima flowers to make up my design. The sentiment is by Hero Arts and the brown accent strip and Butterflies are from Bazzill.
I finished the card off with some Making memories ribbon and lots of sparkly gems. I had lots of fun colouring in the images with my Promarkers. Jane's images are just wonderful to work with and if you take part in the ECP Challenge this month, you will be in with a chance of winning some of her digis and some of her fabulous handmade buttons! Make sure you check out the ECP blog for more details and for some more inspiration from the DT.
I decided to make a 'Box of Good Wishes'. The box is made from 2 12x12 sheets of Papermania cardstock which were scored, folded and cut to make a square box. I then filled the box with sheets of card which were stamped with small images or embellished with stickers and then everyone filled in a card with their good wishes. I made dividers so that the box was easier to look through and we also put some old photos in the back of the box.
I decorated the box with Paperchase wrapping paper, a sizzix tag cut from some K+Co paper, Papermania and Making memories letter made up the greeting on the tag and some Prima flowers held together with an Imaginisce brad finished it off.
I made a wallet to hold some cheques as she had asked for any collection money to be donated to some Cancer charities. This was made by folding a sheet of A4 card and I added a ribbon tie to close the wallet. The same papers and flower were used to decorate the wallet.
This is the box 'in action', you can see the dividers inside the box a bit here. She was delighted with the box and I am hoping that if she feels nostalgic and misses work and her Friends she can just reach for the box and pull out a few cards to read and cheer her up!
I used DCWV textured card for my matting and layering and a Stampendous sentiment stamp that I cut with Nestabilities. The flowers are Prima and I added some Flower soft to the white one to look like snow.
Here is a close up of the coloured in image. I used Promarkers to colour the cute little bear in and paperpieced the present with some of the backing papers. I used Flower soft on the hat and a little bit of glaze on the nose to make it nice and shiny. I am quite pleased with the colouring of this image and used 3 shades of brown on the bear. I am still a novice when it comes to the colouring so am still having to put in a lot of practise.
All the papers used in this card are from the DCWV blossoms and butterflies stack. I used 3 different papers for the front and coloured this gorgeous image I received in a RAK from Claire with my Promarkers. I bought 5 of the new colours recently and the yellow I used for the hat is one of them. It is lush!
I made the card base from some gorgeous rich Turquoise Paper Mill shop card so had to make inserts so you could write in it. I used 2 more patterned papers from the stack and another Elzybells sentiment stamped onto white card and cut with my lovely label Nesties (this are one of my Favourite Ally Pally purchases).