Silver Wedding

Another special celebration card, this time for a silver wedding anniversary. The inspiration for this came from Gill, a fellow 'Pink Lady' SU demo, and her card can be seen here.
I started by making an A5 card blank with plain white cardstock and, onto this, matted a panel of Brushed Silver cardstock. Onto a slightly smaller piece of Whisper White I stamped two of the stamps from Wedding Sweet and the sentiment in Versamark and then heat embossed in silver. The 25 was cut from Brushed Silver cardsock with the Timeless Type Junior Alphabet dies, and I used Vicky's brilliant idea of cutting more than one layer and glueing them together to make them thicker. Two tiny hearts were added just below the sentiment and these were punched with the Owl punch. A small bow of (non SU) ribbon was placed to the right of the numbers and the card was finished by adding some Basic Rhinestones dotted around the card. The top left picture shows the box I made to put the card in 9made up as I went along!) and I used an embossed heart, punched with the Large Heart and run through the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing folder, as a closure for the flap.

Everyday Enchantment

At the moment I am looking for 'quick'n'easy' cards - you know for that time when you need a card but you haven't got ages to think about it let alone make it as well. I also wanted to incorporate some of the new stamp sets and papers that I have (not all are new to the catalogues but new to me) and here is one that uses the Everyday Enchantment DSP - one of the choices in the SAB catalogue. I have used Calypso Coral which is a colourI haven't used before, a bit bright for my usual style of card but sometimes I need to be just that bit more adventurous and cater for other people's taste as well as my own, and besides that it co-ordinates perfectly with the DSP I chose! I have teamed it up with Crumb Cake as I thought it tied the two together really well. The Calypso Coral cardstock was embossed with the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder and cut to size before layering onto a DL card blank and a piece of the DSP was butted up against this. I punched some Crumb Cake cardstock with the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch and I tied some Crumb Cake Taffeta ribbon around before placing down the join. The sentiment, from Create-a-Cupcake, was stamped in Calypso Coral onto a scrap of the DSP and punched with the Word Window punch and placed onto a Large Oval.

I will be back with some more quick cards, some of which have been inspired by Vicky aka Crafting Clare who is a constant source of inspiration to me and hundreds of others! I do try not to 'case' cards completely but use inspiring designs to change here & there and come up with my own version. So thank you Vicky, I spent a good few hours browsing your gorgeous creations the other night, which kept me happy while it was freezing cold and snowing like mad outside :0)

Gift Boxes

 

Something 3D for you today, some little Pillow Boxes cut with the SU die. Last week I posted a card I was asked to make for a 50th birthday on which I used the Everything Eleanor set teamed with some of the luxurious Mocha Morning DSP so, when I was asked to make three gift boxes for the same person's very special birthday presents, I decided to stick with the same colour scheme. The boxes are made with Whisper White, Soft Suede and Brushed Gold cardstock and I embossed the gold and suede with the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing folder and stamped the white with the Parlor Prints background stamp in Crumb Cake. After assembling the boxes I tied co-ordinating ribbon around each one (this is where I own up to using 2 lots of ribbon from my own stash as I didn't have the right colours in my collection of SU ribbons but the one I did use is Soft Suede Taffeta!). The embellishments were made by punching cardstock with the Lace Ribbon Border punch and cutting out one of the fancy circles which was then backed with a 1" circle in co-ordinating colour and a small (non-SU) pearl was added to the centre.