Best Family Ever and more

  Welcome to my blog

and  thank you for joining me today!

Happy Anniversary to the best Husband in the world

This is a mixture of old and new, didn't have a clue what I was going to do and this was the result.

Materials required for this card are:

Card Stock: basic white, *champagne foil, real read, 

Designer Series Paper: *pattern party

Dies: *playful alphabet, sentiment silhouettes, stylish shapes (2)

Embossing Folders: *subtle 3D

Ink: memento tuxedo black

Stamp Sets: best family ever

Accessories: basic pearls, *glittered organdy

 

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

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 😘

Weather Together meets Varied Vases

Well hello again, and welcome to my haven in a hectic world, thanks for popping by, this is my second video for today and I just loved making this card.

It's week 6 for Sue, she brings our Sunday dinner every week while we're on lockdown, so I pop her payment into a card.

Measurements are in centimetres.

Card Stock: Balmy Blue 2.5 x 6 (2 flowers), Thick Whisper White 14.8 x 21 scored at 10.5 (card base), 2 x 7.5 (handle), 6.5 x 4 (umbrella), 2.5 x 14 (5 flowers)
.7 x 6 (leaves).
My card base is (nsu).
DSP: 10 x 14 (1st layer), 10 x 1.5 (bottom stripe)
(cs) = card stock, (dsp) = designer series paper, (ef) = embossing folder, (nsu) = non stampin' up, (r) = retired.

• Stamp the sentiment from the (r) varied vases (ss) in night of navy ink toward the top right corner of the (r) tranquil tide (dsp) 1st layer 
• Emboss the (r) tranquil tide (dsp) 1st layer using the coastal weave (ef).
• Round off the 2 corners on the right of the 1st layer tranquil tide (dsp) using the detailed trio punch.
• Adhere the stripe of (r) tranquil tide (dsp) across the bottom of the 1st layer using liquid glue.
• Adhere the 1st layer ( r) tranquil tide (dsp) to the whisper white card base using liquid glue.
• Using the (r) weather together (ss) and whisper white (cs) stamp the umbrella in night of navy ink, and the handle in mint macaron ink, die cut these 2 pieces using the (r) umbrella weather dies.
• cut the top part off the handle and adhere to the top of the umbrella using liquid glue, now do the same with the bottom part of the handle.
• Stamp the flowers from the (r) sweetly swirled (ss) using rich razzleberry and rococo rose ink, stamping off for 2 of the rich razzleberry flowers.
• Punch out the flowers using the (r) bitty blooms punch (it's only the centres of the flowers you want).
• Then using the balmy blue (cs) punch a couple more flowers.
• Punch out at least 5 of the leaf shape from the bitty blooms punches. 
• Adhere these flowers and leaves across the bottom of the umbrella using liquid glue.
• Attach the finished umbrella to the card base using dimensional pads.
• Add a small basic rhinestone to each of the flowers and (r) fancy frost sequins around the umbrella.

Will be back again soon with more cards, thanks for popping by.

Annette X

Beauty Abounds meets Butterfly Gala and more

Hello and welcome, hope you're having a good day!

Happy Birthday Karine

It's actually only August 17th while i'm writing this, and the sun is shining beautifully, I like to get my cards done early along with the blog post.  For 2 reason's, 1. when I've finished the card if I do the blog straight away I can remember the order in which it was all done and 2. once I get my goodies from the new Autumn Winter catalogue I have quite a few Christmas cards to make ready to be sent out at the beginning of December.

Today's card was made for my aunt.

I really loved the Beauty Abounds set when I first saw it in the catalogue, but I've only just started using it.

To create this card follow the guide below:
(cs) = Card Stock, ⓡ Retired, (ss) = Stamp Set,

All measurements are in centimetres.

Blends: Calypso Coral, Crumb Cake, Granny Apple Green
Card Stock: Granny Apple Green 3.5 x 14.5 (scalloped edge)
Very Vanilla Thick 14.5 x 21 scored in half at 10.5 (card base)
Very Vanilla 2 pieces 14.5 x 7.3 (front panel), 2 x 29.7 (butterflies & sentiments)
Dies: Stitched be mine, Stitched Labels
Embossing Folders: Subtle
Ink: Calypso Coral, Granny Apple Green, Memento Tuxedo Black
Punches: Butterfly Duet
Ribbon: Braided Linen Trim, ⓡ Organdy combo
Stamp Sets: Beauty Abounds, Butterfly Gala,  Varied Vases, Well Said
Accessories:  ⓡ Gingham Gala Sequins

Starting with the front panel, stamp two scrolls from the beauty abounds (ss) in opposite directions using Memento ink (I used my stamparatus for this).

Once stamped colour using the blends, add shading by using both light and dark blends, then emboss using the subtle folder and adhere to the card base on the righthand side using liquid glue.

With the strip of very vanilla (cs) stamp the 3 butterflies using the butterfly gala (ss), the happy from the well said (ss)  and the birthday wishes from the varied vases (ss).

Using the butterfly duet punch, punch out the 3 butterflies.

For the birthday wishes, I just cut down the (cs) to fit the sentiment.

Using the small tag from the stitched labels dies, die cut the happy and at the same time with the granny apple green (cs) die cut the scalloped edge using the stitched be mine dies.

It's now time to put it all together.

Add the ribbon down the middle of the scalloped edge piece and attach to the card base using dimensional pads. Use liquid glue to add the butterflies and dimensional pads to add the greetings. Lastly add the sequin using liquid glue next to the happy. You may want to use a glue dot to attach the butterfly on the ribbon instead of liquid glue.

Will be back again soon with more cards
Annette X