Lime Green and White Happy Birthday Card

Hello my blogging family and friends, I hope I find you well.

Today's card is a simple one and looks brilliant - it uses a couple of Sue Wilson's dies.

Here it is:

I began with making the card base with American Crafts white cardstock, then I added a mat of lime green. I used the Double Pierced Square dies by Sue Wilson to make the next layer. I then cut a smaller square which I embossed using the Sue Wilson Dotty Daisy A4 embossing folder. I then inked the edges with a Lime Patel chalk ink pad.

I cut two of the Sue Wilson Ornate Frame in white and backed it with the lime green card stock.

I cut one of these pieces into four quarters and added them behind the other complete die cut piece.

I used foam tape behind the combined centre pieces to give it some dimension.

I went berserk with small pearls and place slightly larger pearls strategically on this central panel.

For the very centre of the card. I used the Sue Wilson Charming Lace die which I used to cut two pieces. I layered them top and bottom of the circle cutting off the excess edges.

I used these spare/excess edges to "fill" what spaces were left in the circle most notably to the right and left of the circle.

I used a little oval die (sorry can't remember which die this was) inked the edges with the Lime Pastel Chalk Ink and then used a scrap of darker green card stock to die cut the Elizabeth Crafts Designs Happy Birthday sentiment.








..... and there you have it!

The main ingredients that I used to make this card:

American Crafts white cardstock pack	American Crafts Extreme Value Card stock	Sue Wilson Dotty Daisy Embossing Folder EF-064	Sue Wilson Expressions - Ornate Frame - Brighter Days CED5422	Sue Wilson Charming Lace Trim CED6404
Sue Wilson Noble Double Pierced Squares Set A CED5509	ECD Happy Birthday - 717	Colorbox Lime Pastel Chalk Ink Pad	KaiserCraft White Pearls

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A Heart of Hearts card

Hello, I hope you are well. As promised I am gradually showing some of the cards I have made in recent times. Today I have a card that I really enjoyed making. It is one of Sue Wilson's cards as you will no doubt recognise it when you see it!!!

Sue Wilson did a YouTube video tutorial to show how she made her card:

Here is my version of this card!

I used American Crafts white card stock as well as some Navy Blue Kaisercraft card stock. I cut the first Navy Blue layer to size once I had made the inner shaker card.

I used a beautiful Sue Wilson "Swirling Hearts" A4 embossing folder as the next layer for this card.

The frame I constructed using the Sue Wilson Delicate Filigree Buckle Bar which I cut out in white and lined it with the same Navy Card stock. I stuck all four pieces together in a square.

Using foam tape I added a piece of clear acetate to the back of the frame and put more sticky tape around the underside edge to raise the frame from the base of the card.

Before sticking the frame to the card base I cut out the two hearts using the Sue Wilson Heart of Hearts Die in white and then lined it in the same Navy Blue cardstock..

The cut out pieces became the contents of the shaker card.

I glued them together ensuring they fitted inside the frame. Then I stuck them to the base of the card.







I also glittered some other white card stock (from my stash) and cut out the Heart of Hearts die again - this generated some more sparkly contents.

... and there you have it!

The main ingredients that I used to make this card are:

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American Crafts white cardstock pack	Kaiser Craft Navy Weave card stock	Sue Wilson Swirling Hearts Embossing Folder EF-03	Sue Wilson Heart of Hearts CED 1452	Sue Wilson Delicate Filigree Buckle Bar CED1454
A4 Acetate Sheets (inkjet)	X-Press-It 6mm Double Sided Tape	Double Sided Foam Mounting Tape	KaiserCraft White Pearls

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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!