Thinking of You card with a fake bow

Good afternoon all, I hope you have had a great week.

This week's card is another one that was inspired by Sue Wilson's blog (link to Particraft).  I made this card for someone who was ill, but a get well card wasn't appropriate and I thought of Sue's card and how I could adapt it.  It is quite different from my usual cards as the card I used is glossy photo card and the colours are bolder than I would usually use.

I started by making a 6x6 card out of some dark pearl card I had in my stash and on top matted a cream piece of card that I had pierced with my Tim Holtz ruler.  Next I printed a glossy piece of card from my Klever Konstruction My Craft Studio CD and then cut the middle edges using the Classic Scallop Edgeabilities.

Next I took two pieces of contrasting ribbon and wove them in and out of the border … it took a while and I didn't get it right first go as I had to keep altering the tension until I was happy with it.  As I have mentioned before bows are a bit of a trial for me, so I actually took a cream piece of ribbon and made a bunny ears shape and then hot glued a single loop of brown ribbon then had a look.  It still looked a bit thin so I did another piece of brown ribbon and made another wider set of bunny ears and  hot glued the cream and brown piece on top of them.  Well it looks like a bow to me!  With all the glue for the woven bits of ribbon and then the glue for the bow, there was a bit of a mess to cover so I got a large button and threaded through another piece of ribbon and tied a small bow and stuck it on top of the big bow.  I finished off with a hat pin, I have had the pins for ages and love the look when they are put on bows, but as I don’t make that many bows I hardly ever use them, so here was my chance.

The sentiment was printed on the PC and then cut out using a punch and matted on one of the Parisian Accents, with a bit of inking round the edge.  All that was left was the inner for the card, so I took the same image from MCS that I used for the card front and faded it down a bit, added a shape with a border and then added my message, and it was done.

Not a real blooper on this one ... more that I never get the corners quite right when I do the piercing round the edge of a card.  I hope the recipient didn't notice it, but it still bugs me when I look at the top photo!

Have a crafty week everyone.

Bright Floral 18th Birthday Easel Card

Hi again, I hope everyone is still enjoying the weather.  It has been a bit mixed here this weekend, baking hot then heavy rain.  My son has gone camping with his girlfriend, so I hope the weather is sunny in Barmouth!

This card was made for my friends daughter who was 18 a little while ago who both me and my son are godparents to (or should that be 'my son and I')?  I liked the dimension of the flowers on this card and the fact that both the flowers and card colour are cheerful and bright.  I thought I would show it as quite a lot of my cards now have die cuts of one kind or another and this is one of the few that doesn't have a die cut in sight!

I started out with 6x6 card and folded the front in half to make the base of the easel.

Then from the Klever Konstruction CD by My Craft Studio I printed off a topper that I had added my own sentiment to in the MCS software, and also a backing paper, an extra strip to use as a stopper and finally a back plate for the message (you can just about see the back plate on the photo above).

Next I cut out some of the Klever Konstruction flowers that matched the colours (if not the shape) of the flowers on the topper and backing paper.  Then you heat them and mould them ... now this did take me a long time to get them how I liked them.  The good news is, if you mess it up you can just reheat them and start again.  The bad news is my fingers were sore from the pointy flowers by the time I had finished.  This might be because I over worked the flowers a bit as I hadn't used them before, but I thought the sore fingers were worth it when I'd finished.  I added some glue and large glitter to the centre of the flowers and then glued some leaves on to give a bit of contrast.

All that was left to do to the card was add the stopper bar (that I had already added some flowers to) and the card was finished.

As the flowers on the card were quite dimensional, I also made a box using my Ultimate Pro from Crafters Companion and printing another topper from the CD, changing the sentiment for the name.

I outlined the flowers in with a Quickie Glue pen and crystal glitter rather than adding more flowers as I thought they might get knocked off the box.  I did a close up picture of the glitter below as you can hardly see it on the photo above that shows the card and the box together.

I enjoyed making this card as it combines playing around on the computer and then getting crafty with what you have printed off.

Hope everyone has a great week and thanks for stopping by.