Mum's birthday

My Mum's birthday is today and this is the card I made for her using papers and my adaptation of an idea from the July issue of Making Cards magazine. All I added apart from the white card base was some pink card and silver mirror board for layering and some pink self adhesive gems.

Making Cards is the only magazine I regularly buy as the papers and vellums given free each month are such good quality and there are usually some super card ideas to go with them. I try to make at least 2 cards from each issue and as I do so come up with more ideas of my own. It is nice to have a starting point though to begin with.

Wedding wishes

For this I used a combination of stamping and printed images both on pearlescent paper.
The A5 card is cream pearlescent and has silver mirror board layered onto it. The backer is from the Artylicious filigree Cd by Elusive Images. I shrunk it down to an A5 size.
The stamped hearts and sentiment are from the same people, from their With Love set of unmounted stamps.
They are stamped in pearl grey ink by Colour Box. Tiny beads in grey and pale pink have been attached to each heart.
Not a great photo for this one which is a pity as the pearlescent paper is really lovely in real life.

I've just re-placed this with what appears to be a slightly better image.

Crafter's Companion challenge #2

This week on the Crafter's Companion challenge blog we have been given this sketch and asked to make a card with a child/teenager/young person in mind.

My card is for my Nephew's 5th birthday next month and uses 2 background papers from the Cute Companions cd. The stars and checks are both printed onto pale blue card to give extra intensity to the colours. They are layered up with silver mirror board and have peel-offs added for the greeting, name, number and stars at the base of the card.