Thursday, 9 April 2015

Wedding Card with WOW Factor!

This wedding cascade card is my favourite of all the cascade cards that I have made. It is a complicated card that takes approximately 2-3 hours to complete. This card has so much "wow factor" because it has so many elements to look at.

You can find my instructions on how to make these cascade cards under "My Tutorials" at the bottom of the page. Please note the measurements are for Australian paper sizes only (not American).



Wednesday, 8 April 2015

Masculine Star Card

A great masculine card! You can have what ever sentiment you want on this card.....I have the word "son", but you could also use father, dad, brother, or even "you're a star" would be a perfect sentiment.

Sadly I cannot remember where I got the idea for this card.....I probably saw a similar card somewhere, but for the life of me, have no idea where.



Trendy Wine Tags

Have you ever been stuck for a gift idea, and then end up buying a bottle of wine because you don't know what else to buy? Why not make the perfect tag to go with a bottle of wine.....

The sentiment was done on the computer and printed out in colours to match the card stock. Add some designer series paper and embellish with some banners, button and a bow/mustache and your done!



Beautiful Wedding Card

A beautiful card cased from Teneale Williams. I adore Teneale's work and loved the style of this card so much that I only made a couple of very minor changes. This really does make a perfect wedding card for that special couple.



Sunday, 5 April 2015

Birthday Banner Card

A nice and simple banner card that is really quick to make.

Firstly I stamped the hardwood background stamp in white ink on soft suede card stock. I glued some bakers twine to the card base and added 3 little bows. Next I punched out a heap of little banners in an assortment of colours and patterns (using designers series paper scraps) and stuck them to my bakers twine. I added the new pompom trim in between some of the banners and finally added a sentiment and embellished a few of the banners with a small flower and pearl.



Sunday, 22 March 2015

Embossed Birthday Card

I was inspired to make a card similar to the image on page 44 of the 2013/14 annual SU catalogue.

I used the alphabet press embossing folder on strawberry slush card stock and added a light coat of white chalk ink to give the letters a little lift. The flower was made using velum and the pansy punch, some leaves from the bird builder punch in coastal cabana and a boutique details embellishment for the centre of the flower.



Bow Card

A nice simple black and very vanilla card cased from Penny Smiley. I decided to use the large gift bow die instead of having a small bow.



Sunday, 8 March 2015

Bright & Happy Birthday Card

For those of you that don't know me, you will soon work out that I make a lot of cards using crumb cake as the base colour and then add pops of colour to really make the images or embellishments jump out.

For this card I have used the "Gorgeous Grunge Stamp Set" for the grungy background, the new "Hello You Thinlits Dies" for the word happy plus I added a little birthday banner through the letter "y" and also added a range of punched flowers and some tiny buttons. I used ten little banners for the bottom of the card and made sure that my card was exactly 155mm (6 1/8") wide to allow the banners to fit perfectly. The end result really is a bright and happy card.