4 Clear Panel Flower Accordion Card

Hello dear bloggers. How are you today?
I am watching the news here in Australia and listening to the reflections about Scotland and how it is about to vote on their separation from the United Kingdom - or not!. It'll be interesting when all the votes are in. I suspect many are thinking about all the ramifications if there is a split, whether it be ... What will the new flag (The Union Jack or the Un-union Jack) look like? and what currency will Scotland use? We do live at an interesting time.
In Australia the Police have just uncovered the plot of IS militants to kidnap a stranger in Sydney and publicly execute them ... Horror of Horrors ... just horrendous. Hoe hard must it be for those families in the USA and UK who have lost their loved ones in this way.
I don't usually comment here on my blog about such matters however they do move me emotionally!

I do have a card to share - it seems such a small thing in light of these bigger issues happening in the world. However the small stuff is important too!

Here is the card. It has four clear panels with peel-off flowers on. Most of the parts are from Elizabeth Craft Designs and shown in the Ingredients list at the bottom of this post.

Here is the first panel. The Peel-off was placed on sticky backed acetate sheets and coloured with Copics after covering the sticky stuff with Warm Diamond glitter.
Then cut it out and added to the first clear panels.

I added a Lady Bug and a Bee with flowers to the Happy Birthday sentiment - all ECD dies.

Here is the third panel - with another of the three panels on the peel-off sheet.

Here is the last of the panels in this card.














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

ECD Accordion Fancy Label - 771	First Edition 12 x 12 Premium Paper Pa	Quill White MultiBoard 210gsm Card stoc	A4 Acetate Sheets (inkjet)	ECD Flower Labels 2 Peel-Offs (sku 2570)
ECD Double Sided Adhesive Sheets 8.5" x 11" - 5 pack (502	ECD Warm Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter	COPIC Sketch Markers	ECD Bunch of Flowers 1 (728)	ECD Bees Dies (710)
ECD Lady Bugs - 711	ECD Happy Birthday - 717

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Thanks for stopping by today and taking a look at my blog. I am hoping you have a fantastic day.

If I had a Star for every time you made me smile, ....

Hello blogging friends and family. I hope your weekend was Magolicious and your Monday has also gone well too.
I am obviously on a roll as I have another card to show you - two days in a row, my goodness!
Clare if you get to read this post, this card is the consequence of you introducing me to Sue Wilson. She creates some beautiful dies and has some great ideas on how to use them.
For those of you who don't know Clare is my sister based in the UK and we always talk crafting when we have our weekly call on Sundays and I know she reads this blog when she has a moment or two.

This card has been HUGELY influenced by Sue Wilson but the final layout is my own! See what you think.

Here it is:

I purchased some American Crafts pastel card stock which has some beautiful colours in the pack of 60 sheets, this blue was one of the particularly gorgeous ones in a sky blue that caught my eye.

I used an A3 sheet of white Quill card stock as my card ended up being 9 x 6.5 inches.

I used spacing ranging from a quarter of an inch or an eighth of an inch between the matted layers of blue and white.


The panels of blue and white were made using Spellbinders Timeless and Radiant Rectangles dies.

On the first white matt I used a pokey tool and a Tim Holtz ruler to make the faux stitching around the edge.

I stamped the Quietfire stamp with some distressed ink and cut the image out using a Spellbinders Circle die.

I then cut two Catalina Wreaths using the memory box die and layered them on top of the sentiment.

I finished off the central medallion with some Kaisercraft pearls.

Using the Sue Wilson Filigree Finishing Touches 3D bow die I made the ribbon and then placed a pearl on top.

Just behind it I placed some delicate fine pale blue tulle.

Here is another look at the bow at the bottom of the card.







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

Quill White A3 210gsm MultiBoard	Quill White MultiBoard 210gsm Card stoc	American Crafts - 12 x 12 Cardstock Pack - 60 Sheets - Pastels	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Clear 12 inch Design Ruler	Pokey Tool
Spellbinders Timeless Rectangles S5-158	Spellbinders Radiant Rectangles S5-161	Quietfire Rubber Stamps - If I had a Star...	Tim Holtz Salty Ocean Distress Ink Pad	Spellbinders Circles LG - S4-114
Memory Box Catalina Wreath #98189	KaiserCraft Denim Blue Pearls	KaiserCraft White Pearls	Sue Wilson - Filigree 3D Bow CED1406	Tulle

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Thanks so much for stopping by to read today's post, I hope you like my card, I certainly enjoyed making it.

A Million and One Thanks

Gracious it has been a while since I last added a post here. I hope you have been well in the meantime. Work has been pretty much full on for me, including a two week stint to Shanghai, China a first for me, and as it turned out, an amazing trip. The city is incredible and provides a home to 24 million people more than the entire population of Australia as a continent. It is a vibrant metropolis that is on the go 24/7.

I have a card to share with you today that I sent in thanks to a friend of mine in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.

Here it is:

This card was my version of the Karen Burniston (Designer and all round whizz with her Pop-it-up and other dies that she creates for ECD - Elizabeth Craft Designs) tutorial on how to use the ECD Butterfly Pivot die.


I used a MME 12 x 12 paper pad and DCWV Brights 12 x 12 card stock for the base colours for the card.

You can see I used a lovely pink gingham washi tape to add a bit of interest.

Here is the card opened fully - the one below is me holding it so you can see the triple feature that you can create using this die.

The stamp is from Technique Tuesday.

The centre butterfly fold very nicely when you close the card.

A view from the top looking down on the card so you can see more easily how the card all fits together.
Karen Burniston provides a great tutorial on finishing the card so that no space appears where the dies cut the card.

... and here is the back of the card.














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

MME Stella Rose 12 x 12 Design Paper	DCWV Bright Mat Stack Pad 12 x 12	ECD Butterfly Pivot Card - 767	ECD Butterfly Accessory Dies - 773	ECD Double Sided Adhesive Sheets 8.5" x 11" - 5 pack (502
ECD Warm Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter	Washi Tape - Pink Gingham	Lawn Fawn Flying by to say hi	Technique Tuesday A Million and One by Ali Edwards	Spellbinders Postage Stamp Dies S4-348
KaiserCraft White Pearls

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