Kingfisher

After yesterday's epic, I've opted to show a simple card today.  I think that the picture is beautiful and doesn't need much to showcase it.

I've chosen yet another image by Jayne Netley Mayhew, I just love her artwork, from a CD-Rom by Joanna Sheen.  I covered an A6 card with a blue paper, leaving a small white border around the edge and matted the kingfisher onto brown card.  I cut the greeting, using a Tattered Lace die, from the brown card and put it all together.

Pop-up box card

This was my first attempt at making a pop-up box card.

I saw these on TV where they were selling kits of die-cut boxes and flowers and I thought to myself "the box would be easy to construct and I make my own flowers, so....".  So I worked it out and made one.
I started with a sheet of card and scored it at 7, 14, 21 and 28cm. This left a tab at the end to glue the structure together.  I then scored across the tab and the next three panels at 10cm down.  I cut down the 10cm score line between each of the panels and the tab, folded the card at all the score lines and cut the top of the tab off, as you only need to glue the bottom.  Before construction, I embossed two A4 papers with two different X-Cut embossing folders.  From one paper I cut three panels of 10.5 x 6.5cm.  From the other I cut three panels of 9.5 x 6.5cm and one panel of 20.5 x 6.5cm.  I coloured all of these panels with Bundled Sage Distress Ink.  I laid the card down flat and glued the first three green panels to the bottom panels of the card.  I then folded the top panels down and stuck the next three green panels onto these.
The next stage was to construct the box.  I put wet glue, or you could use strong double-sided tape, onto the tab and stuck the box together so that the tab is on the inside.  I stuck the final green panel onto the inside back panel, thus covering the tab and giving a nicer finish.
The next step was decoration.  I used two borders that I cut from the Joy Crafts Butterfly Border die, coloured them with Shaded Lilac Distress Ink and put these around the base of the box.  The large butterfly is the Demure Butterfly from Tattered Lace, which I coloured to match the butterfly border around the base.  The other butterflies are the Cheery Lynn Small Exotic Butterflies with angel wings, which I coloured using Spectrum Noir alcohol pens.  I cut the Tattered Lace Mini Blooms and Beautiful Blooms several times, coloured them with Spectrum Noir pens to match with the other colours used, shaped them and layered them up to create dimension.  I finished off by adding pearls to the flowers which hadn't already got a centre.

Oops, have got to edit this as I missed a bit - as if it isn't long enough already.  When constructing the box I cut two additional pieces of card measuring 8x1.5cm, scored in from each end at 0.5cm and folded into a Z shape. I added a 6.5x1cm strip of the green embossed paper to each and glued these pieces horizontally into the box, lining the top each to the top of the box.  I cut three strips of 1cm card and coloured it green (you could also use acetate) and stuck one of the butterflies onto each.  These were then glued to the strips going across.

Blooming Roses

My favourite flowers are roses and so, when I found some dies for cutting rose petals and stamens, I was delighted.  Each die cuts four rose petals and two stamens with each pass through the machine.  As I use 160gsm paper I cut two sheets together of the three different sizes of rose and the leaves at the same time.
Today's card is one I made last year and the first one I made using the roses.  It was for my Mum's birthday and I certainly used a lot of them.

The dies used are the small and medium rose dies, the rose leaves and the medium lattice from Britannia.  The one with the greeting on is by Spellbinders. 

I started with two pieces of A5 card, cut the lattice into both ends of each and joined them together with an extra piece of card to form an easel card.  I made loads of roses and buds, and because I had cut them from white paper, I selected several of the paler colours from the Spectrum Noir pens.  I also coloured the leaves.  I laid out the leaves, roses and buds to form the initial C, coloured the square die to match some of the roses, added a greeting and put this into the empty space with more leaves and a rose.  I adhered three flowers and some leaves to the bottom card to form a ledge to rest the top card against to make the easel.

As I said earlier this card was for Mum's birthday last year and her birthday is nearly upon us again.  I've got absolutely no idea what to create for her this year. Whatever I do has got to be something pretty good as (1) I want it to be better than the card above and (2) Mum's a crafter too, so it's got to be pretty impressive.

Tiger, tiger burning bright

Today's project is a 5x5in card.

Once again I chose a picture by Jayne Netley Mayhew from a CD-Rom by Joanna Sheen.  The topper sheet had seven pictures of the same image in three different sizes, this being the largest.  The background paper came from the same CD-Rom, but was actually paired with one of the other tiger images.  However, I decided to mix and match.  I put a narrow black mat between the topper and the background to create a frame.  I also used a black mat to put the gold peel-off greeting on so that it didn't get lost on the background.

Butterflies and flowers

I made this project using an 8x8in card blank and two mats.  I used a punch to round all the corners.

I coloured the base mat with Shaded Lilac Distress Ink and, after embossing the top mat with a stencil from Clarity Stamps, I coloured it with Bundled Sage Distress Ink.  I cut four of the Tattered Lace Detailed Flourish and coloured them with DG3 from the Spectrum Noir Pens.  I cut the Tattered Lace Mini Blooms several times, coloured them with Spectrum Noirs and layered them up to create dimensional flowers.  I used the Cheery Lynn Small Exotic Butterflies set and coloured the 'Angel Wings' with the Shaded Lilac to match the base mat.  For those of you who don't know 'Angel Wings' are the solid bit behind the filigree wings.  I added two matted circles just off-centre and a sentiment that was cut from the Tattered Lace Elegant Alphabet dies.  These were coloured with shades already used.  To finish, I added small blobs of Cosmic Shimmer Pearl Glue to the centre of each flower.
Isn't it amazing what can be made from plain white card and paper, colouring mediums and a little bit of glue.

Decadence?

Decadence, as in self-indulgence and over-blown.  At least, that's the way I've interpreted it.  You may ask, what on earth is she on about?  Well the answer is simple, I've decided to enter today's project into the monthly challenge on the Tattered Lace website - the title of the challenge, Decadence.  You can find this at http://challenge.tatteredlace.co.uk

I used the large easel by Pinflair and covered the 'canvas' and the bottom support with a paper from the Papermania Wild Rose Capsule Collection.  I cut two sections from a contrasting paper from the same collection using a frame from the Tattered Lace Kensington die set.  I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment and then used Bundled Sage Distress Ink on the outer frame and on the edge of the inner frame.  I coloured the 'canvas' supports with Bundled Sage Distress Ink and stuck everything together.  The large flowers are from the Capsule Collection, layering two together, but all the roses are handmade.  These were cut from an iridescent shimmer paper using the small, medium and large Rose dies by Britannia.  The pink roses were coloured with Victorian Velvet Distress Ink.  The leaves were also cut using a Britannia die and coloured with Bundled Sage Distress Ink.  I made the pearl sprays too.

Pink and beige

This card was made from a My Craft Studio CD-Rom, unfortunately I can't remember which one.

I printed the topper and matching background paper.  I adhered these onto paper that was coloured to enhance the rose on the topper, otherwise the rose was lost amongst all the beige.  I used two  die-cuts from the Tattered Lace Florentine Flourishes and coloured these to match.  I added two pearls in the opposing corners.