Wonderful World meets Charming Sentiments & more

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Happy Birthday Judi

Custom sized (see below) card to fit the elements. Wanted to try out the new panel dies.

Materials required for this card are:

Card Stock: basic white

Designer Series Paper: sun prints

Dies: scalloped contours (3), sentiment silhouettes, split card textures

Embossing Folders: brick & mortar 3D

Ink: night of navy

Stamp Sets: charming sentiments, forever fern, *wonderful world

Accessories: iridescent pearls, *playing with patterns combo ribbon

 

* = no longer available, when using layering dies (1) is the smallest, wink of stella

1. Base card 14 x 21 scored at 10.5
2. White matt 14 x 10.5  - dry embossed 
3. dsp matt 13.5 x 10 - die cut
4. sentiment stamped and die cut
5. flower stamped and die cut with frame - ribbon added to frame 
6. Finished off with pearl elements and wink of stella on the flower head.

Hope you liked today's card. If you would like more information on how to make it, please don't hesitate to contact me, I'd love to hear from you.

If you wish to buy any of the items used, go to contacting me at the top of the page for details on how to order.

Will be back again soon with more cards, in the meantime take care and have a great day.

Annette 😘

Happiest Hippos meets Artistically Inked

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Happy Birthday Leah

Went with a cutesy card this year, just to let her know we love her.

She's not the girlie girl type but sometimes she surprises us.

Materials required for this card are:

Card Stock: basic white, mint macaron

Designer Series Paper: *rings of love

Dies: *hippo, floral gallery, layering diorama (3), stitched rectangles (8)

Embossing Folders: gingham

Ink: memento black, poppy parade

Stampin' Up Blends: color lifter, crumb cake, poppy parade, smoky slate, soft succulent

Stamp Sets: artistically inked, *hippest hippo

1. base card is 20.5 x 13.5 scored at 10.25, dry emboss the front of card 
2. hippo is stamped, coloured using blends and die cut
3. love you a ton sentiment is stamped and die cut
4. happy birthday is stamped and shaped.
5. the hearts are die cut
6. dsp is die cut with stitched frames and layering diorama

when using layering dies (1) is the smallest

Hope you liked today's card. If you would like more information on how to make it, please don't hesitate to contact me, I'd love to hear from you.

If you wish to buy any of the items used, go to contacting me at the top of the page for details on how to order.

Will be back again soon with more cards, in the meantime take care and have a great day.

Annette 😘

Nature's Prints meets Timeworn Type

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A very quick thank you card

I needed a thank you card in a flash and this is what I came up with. I thought I had a week to make it. I had a new wedding ring about 8 weeks ago and last week I noticed one of the diamonds had fallen out so went back to get it repaired. They said it would be about a week so no no rush on the card, then the next day they phoned to say it was ready, as the lady serving me had put a rush on it. Hence the rush, It's taken me until now to get it on my blog as for the last week I've had no internet. Just hope nothing else goes wrong.

1. die cut the 2 scalloped rectangles
2. Ink up the flower using stampin' markers and die cut
3. emboss the white scalloped rectangle
4. adhere the 2 scalloped rectangles to the note card
5. Attach the flower using dimensionals
6. Add the bow

Materials required for this card are:

Card Stock: basic white, basic white note card

Designer Series Paper: 21-23 in color 

Dies: natural prints, scalloped contours (3,4)

Embossing Folders: timeworn type 3D

Ink: fresh freesia

Stampin' Markers: evening evergreen, fresh freesia

Stamp Sets: nature's prints

Accessories: *21-23 in color jewels, open weave ribbon

 

* = no longer available, when using layering dies (1) is the smallest

Hope you liked today's card. If you would like more information on how to make it, please don't hesitate to contact me, I'd love to hear from you.

If you wish to buy any of the items used, go to contacting me at the top of the page for details on how to order.

Will be back again soon with more cards, in the meantime take care and have a great day.

Annette 😘

Alphabest meets He's That Man Suite

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Happy 40th Birthday Stuart

Hopefully he like's this one, VW camper vans are his thing at the moment and he would like to get one one day. Here's hoping his dream comes true.

Materials required for this card are:

Card Stock: basic white thick, early expresso, sahara sand

Designer Series Paper: He's the man

Dies: all that, *curvy

Embossing Folders: *bark 3D

Ink: soft succulent, sahara sand

Punches: best label, *1¾ circle

Stamp Sets: alphabest, *make a difference

* = no longer available

1. Base card 14.5 x 10.5, plain mat and dsp mat are both 4cm smaller all round (for our US friends ⅛ inch)
2. to create the road (l used the curve with dots from the curvy dies and cut the dots off)
3. Die cut the wavy circle, punch out a 1¾ inch circle
4. Emboss both the punched circle and the road
5. stamp the letters and numbers (I stamped the background first followed by the letters) then punched them out.
6. The VW van is one of the pop outs from the dsp.
7. I used glue to adhere the road and circles then stampin' dimensions for the rest.

Hope you liked today's card. If you would like more information on how to make it, please don't hesitate to contact me, I'd love to hear from you.

If you wish to buy any of the items used, go to contacting me at the top of the page for details on how to order.

Will be back again soon with more cards, in the meantime take care and have a great day.

Annette 😘

Catching Butterflies

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Happy Birthday Evie

This is a free Sale-A-Bration set that's no longer available. I got this set a while ago and thought it would be great for my lovely grand daughter. Yes you guessed she's 11 today, hence the 11 butterflies. It's quick and easy to make except for the fussy cutting (I hate doing this) but  this card needed it.

Materials required for this card are:

Card Stock: basic white normal & thick

Ink: balmy blue, memento black, old olive, orchid oasis

Stampin' Markers: old olive

Stampin' Up Blends: daffodil delight, ivory, orchid oasis

Stamp Sets: *catching butterflies, peaceful moments

Accessories: iridescent rhinestones 

 * = no longer available

1. Use a basic sized base card with either a 3mm or ¼  inch smaller mat
2. With blending brushes, colour the mat using 2 colours
3. Stamp the image in black on a scrap piece of white, then colour using stampin' blends, and fussy cut 
4. Stamp the butterflies on the mat in black, the grass in green and the sentiment in purple.
5. Add the rhinestones and attach to the base card.

Hope you liked today's card. If you would like more information on how to make it, please don't hesitate to contact me, I'd love to hear from you.

If you wish to buy any of the items used, go to contacting me at the top of the page for details on how to order.

Will be back again soon with more cards, in the meantime take care and have a great day.

Annette 😘

Linen Speciality Paper meets Nature's Prints and more

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Happy 4th Anniversary to Alison & Rob

As the 4th anniversary is linen i incorporated it into the background, and used only 3 colours for this card. Also there is both dry and heat embossing used.

Materials required for this card are:

Card Stock: gray granite, very vanilla

Designer Series Paper: linen

Dies: deckled rectangles (6), natural prints

Embossing powder: clear

Embossing Folders: bricks & mortar 3D, fern 3D

Ink: blushing bride, versamark

Punches: lovely labels

Stamp Sets: * express yourself, *love & happiness, nature's prints

Accessories: *bakers twine, *polished dots

• Emboss the first layer using the bricks & mortar folder, then adhere to base card.
• Emboss the linen using the fern folder, remove backing and adhere to card.
• Stamp and die cut the flower elements and attach to card using dimensionals.
• Make two banners using the punch, one narrow and one not so narrow.
• Use the banners for the sentiments, double load the stamp with versamark and blushing bride before stamping and adding the embossing powder.
• Add a polished dot to the centre of the flower, then a bow to the stems.
• It sounds a lot, but once stamped and die cut it's easy to put together 

* = no longer available, when using layering dies (1) is the smallest.

Hope you liked today's card. If you would like more information on how to make it, please don't hesitate to contact me, I'd love to hear from you.

If you wish to buy any of the items used, go to contacting me at the top of the page for details on how to order.

Will be back again soon with more cards, in the meantime take care and have a great day.

Annette 😘