Good Luck in your new Home Card

Hi, thanks for stopping by today. I have a card to show you today. It is a "Moving House" card.

I used an A4 sheet of white card and cut it down to fit the Teal Cardstock (DCWV) that I had left over.

I embossed the teal cardstock using a Couture Creations Swiss dots embossing folder.
In the corners I used a crop-o-dile corner chomper.

On the bottom edge I used a Spellbinders A2 Bracket Border die.
Above which I used some teal ribbon, pearls and a Carl punch to make the flowers adding some liquid pearls in their centres.

I used a Sizzix fancy frame bigz die with a centre piece "New Home" that I created on my computer.

I had the key in my stash as well as the little tag which I added the number of the new house onto.

Inside I added the branch from the bird branch bigz die and some more Carl punch flowers with white liquid pearls.

The little sentiment is something i found on the web which I coloured with a little distress stain.






Here are most of the ingredients I used to make this card:

Quill White MultiBoard 210gsm Card stoc	DCWV Neutral Mat Stack 12 x 12	Couture Creations Swiss dot embossing folder	Sizzix Fancy Frame BIgz Die 658038	We R Memory Keepers - Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper - Scallop and Cloud
Sizzix Bigz Die - Bird Branch - 657833	Tim Holtz Distress Stain - Broken China	Carl CP1 Sakura Punch	PORTACraft Self Adhesive 5mm Pearls	Ranger White Opal Liquid Pearls

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Happy 55th Birthday Card for Dave

Hello it's good to be with you on this last day of July! Wow! Really seven months into 2013 already??
I have another commission to share with you today. This is another one for Dave who was 55 this month, last year I did the Red, Black and white Handyman look.
This year it's the Blue look ....

It was hard to find a photo of Dave, however perseverance paid off.

Gail gave me lots of hints for his card so I used them all. I did experiment with some metal work for the card as I was aiming for a bit of the Grunge Steampunk look.

The base card was made from an A3 Quill 210gsm sheet of card stock. I added a sheets of blue design paper from my stash.

I cut a small sheet of silver metal with Spellbinders Circles die, then embossed with a Tim Holtz metal rivet embossing folder. From the waste ( in the centre) I used Spellbinders Sprightly sprockets to make some more gears.
On the corners I used one of the Spellbinders Parisian Accents, for the sentiment I used a Just Rite stamp and Spellbinders Fancy Tags Two die.

I used the cut circle as the frame behind which I added some blue feathers, then created words on my Computer, then fussy cut them out and distressed the edges with some Tim Holtz Faded Jeans blue distressed stain. I added these with glue dots around the edges of the metal as well.

I added some great metal charms that I bought from My2Angels, like this one here, which I decorated with some fine blue ribbon from my stash.

Although this image looks like it's upside down, this is the way it looks on the card, you can see some of the metal gears I added and another of the metal charms from My2Angels.

On the onside of the card I used a variety of stamps from Tim Holtz - Stampendous and also a Hero Arts Clear Stamps FIND JOY 2011 CL497

I used a couple of Peel Offs in the right hand corner (and hand wrote the word 'Today'.

I really like these stamps so here's a close up.

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

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A Birthday card for Catherine

Hello, how are you?
I have a lovely Birthday card to share with you today. It was another commission for a friend from a friend.

I was told the person in question likes the Beach and will often pick up shells as she walks along the water's edge. I have this gorgeous Just Rite Stamp called Sea Shell Bay Labels Twenty Two which I felt would be ideal. Plus I had some great inspiration for this card from Linda Lucas.

I used a few shells I had collected from a beach as well as those I made with the stamp set. I used a memento rich cocoa ink pad and a variety of "E" Copics, then some clear enamel on top to add dimension.

The net is actually a medical dressing from my first aid box that I added a variety of Tim Holtz blue and green distressed stains and inks to.

I also created the first letter of her name using Kaisercraft pale green rhinestones as well as dotting a few pearls on the page.

On the inside of the card I used a lovely sentiment, a few more shells and more of the medical net.

I really love the seahorse, so I re-stamped this a couple of times, stuck them together, coloured the top one and then added dimensional gloss enamel.















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

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