Hummingbird Happy Birthday Card

Thanks for stopping by to read my blog today. Today's post shows another card I have made using the Heartfelt Creations Botanic Orchid collection.

Here is my card:

I began by using American Crafts white card stock for the base of my card. I then matted a piece of the Tanya Whelan (gorgeous) design papers with some green pastel american crafts card stock.

I then cut a piece of Silver mirror card to create the backing for my layers.

Using the silver mirror card I used the Ara Gemini die to add a little feature at the top of this layer.

I cut out a white die cut using the Heartfelt Creations Botanic Window die and laid this on top of the silver mirror card.

Then it was a case of adding these gorgeous Botanic Orchid images and the Hummingbird, which I stamped, cut out and coloured with distress inks and a water brush.

I also added some leaves using the Sue Wilson Delicate Fronds.

Then at the bottom I added a flower and leaves using the Heartfelt creations Delightful Daisies stamps and dies which I heat embossed in white and coloured using a dauber and a Memento Lulu Lavender ink pad

I then added the "Happy Birthday" sentiment which I cut out using an Elizabeth Craft designs die in silver mirror card and matted it on the same pastel green card stock I had used previously.






It looks really beautiful in "real life" far better than what I first thought it would look like!

Here are the main ingredients that I used to make this card:

American Crafts white cardstock pack	Tanya Whelan Wild Rose 12 x 12 Premium Collection Paper Pad	American Crafts - 12 x 12 Cardstock Pack - 60 Sheets - Pastels	Mirri Card - Silver	Heartfelt Creations Botanic Orchid Bouquet Cling Stamp
Heartfelt Creations Botanic Orchid Bouquet Die	Heartfelt Creations Botanic Window Die	Sue Wilson Gemini Ara Die - CED4413	Sue Wilson Finishing Touches Delicate Fronds CED1426	Heartfelt Creations Butterfly Medley Die HCD!-759
Heartfelt Creations Butterfly Medley Stamp HCPC-3650	Heartfelt Creations Delightful Daisies Stamps HCPC-3656	Heartfelt Creations Delightful Daisy Die HCD1-760	Judikins White Opaque Embossing Powder	Heat it Craft Tool
Memento Lulu Lavender Ink Pad	ECD Happy Birthday - 717	Tim Holtz Distressed Ink Pens	Tim Holtz Medium Water Brush

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I do hope you enjoyed looking at this card and how I made it.

Wedding Card for S & V

Hello, how are you? I hope since last I posted that you have been keeping yourself well. I have been really busy at work and have also just taken a weeks holiday to celebrate our 26th Wedding Anniversary. It was actually meant to be for our 25th but we postponed from last year until late April this year because our work commitments meant we were out of the country.

Today I have a Wedding Card to show you that I was asked to make. WARNING! I have lots of pictures to show so grab a cup a cup of what you like to drink and take a browse!

Here we go!



Yes, it's a box! I made this from American Crafts white card stock to fit the card. When you know the principle of how a box is put together it can be simple to make them.

The Heart you see on the top is a Marianne Designs Anja Heart Die.

The satin ribbon I think I got from Really Reasonable Ribbon or Spotlight - one or the other!

This is the side on view of the box. It measures approximately 8" x 8" (20.5cms x 20.5cms) and 1/2" deep (1.5cms)





OK here's the card!

I am really pleased with how this card came out. It is the second Wedding Card that I have made for this lady who requested that I make this one for her other Granddaughter. So it had to be different from the first. (I made this first one for her back in May 2015 a year ago SEE HERE).

The card is a fold back gate card.

I used the Heartfelt Creations Regal borders dies for the top and sides.

Silver Mirror or Mirri card was used for the panel each side of the top flaps. I used one of Sue Wilsons embossing folders (Rows of Bows) to emboss these silver panels.

Here's a closer view of the top of the card.












Here is a closer view of the Sue Wilson Heart of hearts die that I used with the flower stamp that goes with it.
Although you cannot see in the picture, I stamped it with versa mark ink and heat embossed it with white powder.

The flowers were made by using vellum and a white gel pen and tracing over the packaging image that comes with the stamp as it is actual size, then fussy cutting them out and sticking them back over their twinned image.

At the centre of each flower I placed a gorgeous button, cutting the shank off with wire cutters.
No idea where I got these - I think it was a bead store based in China, that I found on the internet.
I used cosmic shimmer dies as clear glue to stick them onto the vellum.

When you open the card out fully this is what you see. I have more pictures showing all the parts of the card.

I folded back the flaps underneath the front of the card. You can see the initials of the bride and groom shown on these inner panels also embossed with the same Sue Wilson embossing folder that I used on the front.

This is the centre panel of the card. I used Marianne Designs Anja Heart and the Tiny Love Birds dies cut out of American Craft white cardstock backed by silver mirror card.

At the four corners I used creative expressions white bead corners.

On the back of the card I used the Cottage Cutz wedding car die and the Sue Wilson New Zealand Tag die, as well as the lower case alphabet dies called English Rose.

A Closer view - these are fun dies to put together. I coloured the white card stock used with my copic markers.










............. and there you have it! I hope you like it. It was fun to make once I had got the idea in my head of what to do. That's, for me the bit that often takes the longest to think through.

Here are the ingredients that I used to make this card:

American Crafts white cardstock pack	Sue Wilson Heart of Hearts CED 1452	Sue Wilson Heart of Blossoms Stamp -UMS677	Marianne Design Creatables Anja Heart LR0299	Marianne Design Creatables Tiny Love Birds LR0298
Heartfelt Creations Regal Borders and Pockets HCD1-779	Cottage Cutz Just Married CC4x6 - 072	Sue Wilson New Zealand Collection TAG CED8202	Quickutz English Rose Grand Alphabet	Sue Wilson Embossing Folder A4 Rows of Bows EFPP-002
Mirri Card - Silver	Vellum - White 12 x 12	Tsukineko - VersaMark Ink Pad	Judikins White Opaque Embossing Powder	Heat it Craft Tool
Uni-Ball Signo Broad Gel Pen	COPIC Sketch Markers	Creative Expressions Pearl Corner Embellishments SASCW3	Zva Creative - Self-Adhesive Pearls - Basic Lines - White	RRR White Satin Ribbon 7/8"
E-Z Rub-On Transfers #ROY-917SV	Cosmic Shimmer Specialist Acrylic Glue	Scor-Pal Tool

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Thanks for stopping by today, if time I will share the card I made for my Dad's Birthday tomorrow!