Two Pink Cards

Hello! Good to be with you again. After the Power Supply interruptions it's lovely to be back on my PC again. It serves from time to time to not be on your PC as sometimes the issue is not being connected, the issue is in being disconnected and giving you some breathing space away from the cyber environment.

Today I have two cards to show you; the thing they share in common is that they have pink in them and I have used more Marij Rahder 3D Decoupage papers on them.

Here's the first:

Opps! the photo is not quite square - apologies!

The Background Design Paper is from a Kaisercraft "These Days" 6.5" Paper Pad. I coloured the edges with a Vintage Photo ink pad. The Pink Polka Dot ribbon is from RRR.

The Marij Rahder sheet is #2574 and has flowers and this beautiful butterfly on it.

I used a Spellbinders Vintage Lace Motif die on DCWV card stock to provide the background to the flower medallion.

As you can see I went crazy with Gold and Opal white liquid pearls.

On the inside of this card, I carried the theme through in a very simple way, adding a gold "Peel Off" sentiment with more of the design paper and Marij papers.















Here's my second pink card:

This time I used a Kaisercraft "PInk Gelato" 6.5" Paper Pad and remnants from Marij Rahder sheets 2574 & 2575 for the flowers and butterfly.

The ribbon is from my local craft store and the little sentiment is made using a Just Rite stamp on some design paper scraps and cut out with pinking shears. I made up a whole stash of these and I use them a lot.

Similar to the previous card, I simply embellished the inside of this card too.










The main Ingredients I used for these cards:

Thanks for dripping by today. I hope all is well with you and yours

A Primrose card in the round

Wow! Did we have a doozy of a storm here! Here in Dorrigo we have broken records about rainfall in February. We had all kinds of winds and were off power for 36 hours. We have now ordered a little Generator as this is the second time we have been off the grid for longer than 24 hours. Frits tells me that in one day we had 332mm and up until 24th February we have had 698.5mm of rainfall. The previous record was in 2003 when the wettest February monthly total was 523mm with the wettest day dropping 240mm.

Rain has paused and we are told to expect another drop pretty soon, so we'll wait and see. The road between us and the town is closed as it has disappeared over the edge. We made a dash into town today (making sure we stayed as close to the safe edge as possible) to pick up some groceries as we don't know when the road will open!

Fortunately we can get down the Mountain to Coffs Harbour by avoiding both Dorrigo and Bellingen which is handy when we need to get out to get to work! WE hope that particular back road remains available to us through the National Rain Forest.

I'll keep you posted with updates.








Here's the card I wanted to share with you today. (I also have a quick video as well!)

I have photographed it onto a black background so that you might see it better.

I was playing with my Spellbinders Dies and used the Grand Decorative Circles One. This die creates a lovely patterned edge.

The video shows you how I backed it to make the card.

In the ingredients list shown below you can see what Design Papers I used. In this case I also used a Marij Rahder 3D Decoupage A4 sheet
# 2575.









Here is the video I took of this card:




The main ingredients used to make this card:

Thanks so much for stopping by to read my blog today. I hope all is well with you wherever you may find yourself on this planet of ours

Flip Cards are easier than you might think!

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope your day is either going well and/or gone well, such that you are now taking a load off and relaxing!

You may have noticed that I have added a Tab at the top of my Blog, next to the "Home" tag. I was chatting with a friend and they suggested putting my card commissions onto one page so that people can see them together. Always willing to listen and learn from feedback, I have created a page to do just that. Have a look if you have a minute!

I have also been experimenting with my Spellbinders Dies. I have noticed that Flip Cards are very popular at the moment. There are dies - Sizzix for instance, kindly provide them; that enable you to create this style of card.  I decided to see if I could use my Spellbinders Dies to create them and I have four cards to show you today that show you the results of my playtime! I also made a video of them as well - it shows the mechanism a lot clearer than a photo image.

This is the front of the first attempt I made of this style of card. All the cards shown here were made from Cream Quill Multiboard 210gsm acid free card stock.



For this card I used the Kaisercraft Pink Gelato 6.5" Paper Pad for my background papers.

The decoupage is a Marij Rahder A4 sheet #2571.

The Spellbinders die I used was Labels Eight S5-019.

As a final touch I used Ranger Gold Liquid Pearls.

The inside of the card shows the use of the Spellbinders Decorative Labels Eight Die  S5-148.

Card number two.
On top of the base card I used a Kaisercraft Sweet Nothings 6.5" Paper pad. It has some great foil edges at the back of the pad that can be cut into strips and used, as I have done here, as a side feature.

The Spellbinders Dies used were, Grand Ovals, Large Ovals and Lacey Ovals.

The stickers are from K & Company and I used DCWV card stock underneath them.

The inside of card number two shows more of the stickers used as well as the pearls added as a final embellishment.

This is card number three.
On top of the base card I used a Kaisercraft Tigerlily 6.5" Paper pad as well as another of the strips from the sweet nothings pad.


The Spellbinders Dies used were, Grand labels Twenty Three as well as the standard Labels Twenty Three dies.

The decoupage is a Marij Rahder A4 sheet #2573.

The inside of card number three.
I added some little pink wired butterflies, I have had these for ages and they seemed to fit this card, apologies I cannot remember where I purchased them. I do know you can get them in craft stores.

... and to card number four.


For this card I used the Kaisercraft The Lake House 6.5" Paper Pad for my background papers.

The decoupage is a Marij Rahder A4 sheet #2575 and I used some Judikins Diamond Glaze to add an enamel layer to these decoupage embellishments.

The Spellbinders die I used was Labels Grand Labels Eleven LF-246.


I again used Ranger Gold Liquid Pearls to add a little feature to the card as a final touch.

The inside shows another strip from the Sweet Nothings Paper Pad as well as how I decorated the reverse Flip.

I used the two smallest dies in the series of the Spellbinders Grand Eleven Dies.

If you are curious about the dimensions I used as well as a first introduction into making them with your Spellbinders dies, then this may be helpful to you. I also refer to it on the attached video clip.
















Here is the promised video clip:

The main ingredients I used to make these cards:

Thanks for dropping by I appreciate you taking time to look at my cards ...