Cute Doggie Card

So Cute.  Brings back memories of our dog when she was a puppy many moons ago.  She went everywhere with us - and when all grown up - peeking out of rucksack when we were out hiking and the weather had turned so bad!  She knew where the  best place was!

I used all sorts on this card, although I kept to just 3 colour groups, browns, pinks and aqua.

I thought if I split my post into materials and tools, and then how I put it all together, it might make it easier for you to follow? 

So here's the list of materials and tools:

White card to stamp on

6x6 inch white card blank

Pampered Pets stamp by Docrafts

Spellbinders Nestablities, Fleur de Lis Squares for the frame; Square Nesties for the image

Promarkers

Distress Inks, Tumbles Glass, Tattered Rose, Worn Lipstick, Vintage Photo

Silver leaf and glue pen

Stickles - Waterfall (and some clear unbranded glitter glue in my stash for the rose).

Clear Glossy Accents

How I put it all together

1. I used Vintage Photo to stamp the Cutie and coloured in with aqua, pink and brown Promarkers.  The ink on the bag did bleed a little, but I'm okay with that.
2. From white card, cut out the largest Fleur De Lis frame.  I applied Distress Ink Tumbled Glass with a brush, then with my finger spread out the Stickles thinly over it - and set aside to dry.
3. Found the right size Square Nestie which would cut the Cutie out so it would sit behind the frame, the frame edge is so very narrow!
4. Very lightly added with Cut & Dry foam the Tattered Rose around the Cutie
5. Laid all the above down onto the 6x6" card blank to get an idea of size and again with a brush, flicked from the edge towards the centre with Worn Lipstick.
6. Returning to the Cutie - she looked a little flat, thought she might benefit from a bit of metal look for the bag furniture.  So using one of those really useful glue pens, "coloured" over the ring and zipper bit.  Let it dry until clear and placed a small piece of silver leaf over and rubbed away the bits that didn't stick.  It worked quite well.
7. Then mounted the cutie onto the card blank with the frame on top
8. Finally... a little iridescent glue (with pink tones) onto the rose and the tiniest of spots of glossy accents on the dogs nose and eyes to help them pop.

Well, that's about it, I made another after this one for my mum's birthday.  Her favourite colour is yellow, which goes really nicely with the aquas and browns.  I changed the colour of the rose on the bag to yellow too and didn't colour the background of the Cutie.  It was so much easier to make second time around!


Hope you find my post useful, Anna 

Please feel free to comment . . .

Dark Rosette

Sorry about the photo.  I don't have the rosette anymore - it was made for my friends leaving party.  Beside tulips, she likes most things black (see post Tulip Card).

I used Dovecraft linen 12x12 card stock in Juniper and Pepper Pot and plain white for the centre.

Firstly, with a border punch by EK Success, Scallop Diamond, I punched all the way along one side, put it in my paper trimmer and cut it to a depth of 2.5 inches (5cm for the younger folk).  Then, between each curve of the punch, I scored a line to make folding the card (like a fan) easier. Repeated the whole thing again so I had two strips of folded paper and attached them to each other to a make a tube.

Next came the tricky part of carefully pulling and encouraging the paper folds on one edge to move inwards to form the rosette.  With some very strong and sticky glue dots, I held the rosette in place by glueing a circle on the back (slightly smaller than the one you can see at the front). 

After this, I used my Spellbinders Nestabilities Circle and Scallop Circle for the front of the rosette, cut a strip of paper and attached to the back to look like ribbon.  Finally, I finished off the rosette with another slightly larger circle at the back to cover the ribbon attachment and added dabs of glitter glue on the rosette peaks and around the scallop circle for a bit of bling.


At party, when my friend was presented with the rosette, she absolutely loved it!  So it was a job well done :o)

Tulip Card

My first post! It's a little bit daunting to say the least. So please bear with me as I find my blogging feet so to speak.


My friend was leaving work and I wanted to make her a card.  I used her favourite things as inspiration.  She loves tulips, so I searched around my stash for a suitable image. 


I found an Anna Griffin topper, then looked for papers to bring out the colours in the topper from her range.  I'm not sure if you can see clearly enough in the photo that there are three layers of mats: a plain dark one closest to the topper followed by two patterned mats.


The sentiment was made using Spellbinders Shapeabilities, Fancy Tags Three onto the patterned paper for the base, topped with words stamped in Distress Ink Aged Mahogany onto off white card to match the topper.


I almost forgot, the card base is white and A5 size.  The background colour was a blend of several Distress Inks applied with brushes: Mustard Seed, Wild Honey, Scattered Straw with a flick of Aged Mahogany around the edges.


Well that's about it and the end of my first blog, phew!

Work in progress

Welcome to my blog.

I will post with a project soon  . . .