Flower girl....

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Today's card is a digi stamp image from Mo Manning called 'Spring for Sale'.

 She's simply coloured using my promarkers. I've matted her onto some green coredinations card. In the background the strip of paper is from a christmas paper pad called 'Tis the season' from echo park. Then behind that a piece of white paper which I've embossed, and matted onto more green card. Then base card is a 5 x 7 kraft card.

The sentiment I found on Pinterest...love it.

The flowers are scraps of paper from the paper pad, cut with a blossom spellbinder die scrunched up, layered and a black gem popped in the centre.

Thought I'd join the Mosdigitalchallenge...Anything goes w/Mo Image

Hope you like todays card.

Happy crafting 

Clair xxx

A simple wedding card.

Post 60

Well summer is on it's way and we have a couple of weddings to go to, so wedding cards are to be the theme on and off for a few weeks!

Inspired by a few cards on Pinterest, this one is a fairly simple affair, just a 5x7 card base with matts of snow white silver centura pearl. The first matt is pierced around the edge, the second is stamped with the 'Congratulations' from the Just rite 'Celebrations, labels 1' stamp set and embossed in gold then run through the big shot in a damask embossing folder.

A piece of blue organza ribbon tied around the card and a few pearls to finish it off.

Hope you like todays card.

Happy crafting.

Clair xxx

Golden Wedding Anniversary

Post 59

Todays card is for a couple celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary.

I've used Ivory centura pearl card for my base card (7x7). I've matted it with some antique gold stardream card.

For the top layer I run some of the centura card through my big shot in the Couture Creations 'Tied Together embossing folder. The join between the embossed card and flat card is hidden under the gold ribbon. (big shot is 6 inch wide I needed 6.5!!!!) The ribbon is pinched together using a length of cotton thread.

I then used various flowers to decorate, from Wild Orchid Crafts.

The cross overs on the embossed card HAD to have some self adhesive pearls stuck on!!

I printed the greeting then cut it out using Sizzix 'Sassy Labels', and added more flowers.

The inside simply has a verse and few more pearls.

The box was also made from the ivory card. I stamped and embossed the Just rite'Celebrations Labels 1' ' frame in gold and inset the 'Celebrate' ( also from the Just rite set.)

Hope you like todays card.

Happy crafting.

Clair xxx

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More note books..

Post 58.

I've been busy making more notebooks....honestly you give a few cheap note books away with a pretty cover made for them and suddenly everyone wants one!!!! Love it.

I found a tutorial on youtube,by Sam of 'Pootles.co.uk' making these covers. I've made so many Morrisons have stopped making the jotters that go inside, so I've had to goto to Tesco instead...shocking!

I've used various papers from Pink Petticoat. The base card is ivory or snow white silver centura pearl.

I've made these covers before see 'Been Playing' for more details.

Hope you like todays project.

Happy crafting

Clair xxx

Chocolate baroque..... Mackintosh Beauty.

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I knew it wouldn't be long before I came back to the Chocolate Baroque 'Mackintosh Beauty'. I was feeling in a colourful mood, and the recipient like turquoise so thats what I went for.

The stamp is coloured with my promarkers. And cut out with a large spellbinder rectangle. She is matted onto some turquoise coredinations cardstock , from the 'Roy-g-biv' stack. The next matt is some white card with some of the Mackintosh roses stamped and embossed in white. Then on to more coredinations and finally a 5 x 7 card base.

I stamped and cut out some more roses to use as embellishments around the image and sentiment. 

I coloured some seam binding with my turquoise promarker and tied a double looped bow.

Inside is another stamped rose and a printed sentiment.

The back needed a rose too!!

And to house it, a box envelope, made with my envelope punch board.

Hope you like todays card.

Happy crafting.

Clair xxx

All a flutter!!

Post 56

This is another commissioned card...the only brief was butterflies please and room for 2 verses inside (one from each of  the grandchildren). So to begin I dug out my 'Just Butterflies' stamps from Chocolate Baroque. I had chosen to used the Ginger foundations card stock, so when I stamped and coloured the butterflies I used reds and oranges from my distress markers. I wanted a fluttering effect so I stamped 2 of the larger butterflies onto acetate, cut them out the glittered them, and stuck them on top of the coloured butterflies.

The base card is 7 x7 inches matted with the ginger card and white card. I cut a frame in one layer and matted some lattice cut from my lattice spellbinders die. I mounted the frame with the lattice with strategically placed foam pads ( behind the butterflies) to give it some height away from the backing paper behind.

The flowers are a few Chrysanthemums from Wild orchid crafts, mixed in with some roses. And a couple of crystal topped stick pins, from Creative expressions.

The label is cut using Sizzix Sassy Labels, and the sentiment printed.

On the inside I stamped and coloured some of the tiny butterflies. And cut out another of the larger butterflies to go between the 2 verses.

With all them flowers on the front a box was needed. Along with more sassy labels and a butterfly.

Hope you like todays card.

Happy crafting.

Clair xxx

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RHS cd....lovely.

Post 55

Yes! I'm back to Joannas cds, this time it's the RHS cd rom. I found this beautiful image for another 80th birthday card. I thought I'd keep the colours simple......the image really doesn't need embellishing does it!

 

The topper is matted onto some centura pearl card which has been embossed using the Couture creations 

'Tied Together' embossing folder, this was matted on some pink coredinations card, then onto more centura pearl base card.

The cross over parts from the embossing were screaming out for a pearl! 

A small length of pink organza, gathered in the middle with some cotton, then 3 sweetheart blossoms, from Wild Orchid Crafts , to finish it off.

I made a box envelope to house the card, using my Envelope punch board, the video is Here for a tutorial ,how to make any size box envelope with the punch board.

Hope you like todays card.

Happy crafting. 

Clair xxx

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