Birthday Card

    Hello.

Today I am showing a birthday card that I made recently for my mother in law, who was 101 years old!

Although I have quite a few dies, I rarely seem to use them, so I'm trying to make a little more effort to do so.

This is  a slightly different take on the flower pot card, so it involved cutting various flower shapes and putting them together.

The dies are a lovely Heartfelt creation set I have, and the label is a Spellbinders.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was in a bit of a rush to finish it, as usual, and couldn't find anything more interesting to put in the centres of the flowers, so used glitter glue, which was not ideal , I feel!
Buttons of some kind may have looked better.

                                                        Thanks for visiting.
                                                                 Carole

Flower pot card for a friend

Hello to anyone reading this .

Welcome to my blog and thank you for visiting.

Haven't been around blogging for a while as I have recently had a cataract operation and crafting and blogging has been a challenge, as my eyes are unbalanced at the moment.
An interesting experience!!


The card I am showing today is a flower pot card that I have made for a friend who likes gardening.
I really like this design which has been around for ages, but I have only made it once before.

It took me quite a long time  to cut  the  flowers out and put them together, but I think it was worth it.

The pot was cut from an embossed piece of card and the size adjusted to fit well with the large flowers.


The flowers are made with Heartfelt Creations stamps and dies.
The leaf flourish is a Marianne D die I think.

A message is written on the card  which pulls up from inside the pot.

Below is another version which is smaller in size and I used a poinsettia die.

The photo does not do the colours justice as they look a bit washed out! Terrible photography on my part.

 

 

Can't stop making them now and find making the flowers quite therapeutic.

At least it uses up papers that I have had in my stash for years!!!

 

Hope you have enjoyed looking.

Please visit again sometime.

 

Carole

100th Birthday card

A century old!!  Wow!!


We had a very special event in the family this week, as we celebrated my mother-in-laws  100th birthday.

I pondered for ages as to what type of card I would make, but decided I liked the format of one I posted previously, which I did as a wedding card.

                            I have used:

       Spellbinders - background die

                         Heartfelt Creations - Stamps and die cuts

  Artcuts - lazer cut butterfly

Distress inkpad - Peacock 

 

 

 

The etched heart above is from Artcuts and I have lightly inked around the edge.The family all signed their names on the back as a memento of the day.



Unfortunately my mother-in-law managed to fall at home, the day before her birthday, and broke her hip, so she spent her special day in hospital. Having had an operation the day before she was a bit "spaced out" and we are not sure whether she really recognized some of us.  She looked surprisingly well all things considered.
Ten members of the family all piled down the hospital and as she was in a room on her own, the ward let us all go in together and we had a little party with cake and tea. All the cards were opened, but pride of place, of course,  was the card from the queen, which she showed everyone who passed.

The staff were great and made her balloons and a special birthday hat and bought cup cakes for her.
She got lots of attention from everyone which she liked, of course.

Not the ideal way to spend your 100th birthday and she was most annoyed that her party had to be cancelled, but we shall have that celebration when she gets out of hospital.

Thank you for visiting my blog.

 

Bye for now

Carole

Wedding Card

Die Cuts

Hello.

 Today I would like to show you a wedding card that I made  for a friend recently.

I have used a die cut from Spellbinder for the background and the flowers are from  Heartfelt Creations.

The flowers are stamped first and then die cut, which is great. There are so many different flower shapes, in the Heartfelt creation stamps/dies, that it was a very difficult decision as to which I preferred.


This is quite an unusual card for me to make, as I rarely do die cutting,but I always enjoy the finished result. Must do some more in a similar style!