Get well soon

I received some bad news this morning, being that my sister, Lorraine, had a bad fall and has broken her shoulder in the joint where the arm is attached and chipped another section of the shoulder. She is ok but in incredible pain and will have to see a Specialist in the week coming. For the meantime, I thought I would make her a card to cheer her up and hopefully let her forget about all the pain for a wee while!

She loves sunflowers and I have a 6" x 6" paper stack from Prima called the Sun Kiss Collection so I have used this as the background paper, matted with cream and a fudge colour card stock. I have also distressed the edges with Tim Holtz vintage photo distress ink (my favourite ink ever).

I have a layer of cream lace and a lemon colour ribbon under the Couture Creations doily with handmade sunflowers. The flourish I did with individual gold rhinestones and the butterfly is stamped and coloured in with my spectrum noir pens and then embossed to give it that beautiful shine.

See ya

Anniversaries

Greetings all, I have to apologise once again for being so quite and not updating my blog as I should be but I am working on a few projects all at once and it does not leave me with much free time to be updating my blog. However, I have 5 different people having Anniversaries this month and for the first time ever I have decided to take the easy way out and make 5 of the same card just changing colours. Only because I do not have enough free time from the other projects to be trying to think up and make 5 different cards for each person plus all the Birthdays as well.

Anyway, I decided on this card:

There is only 4 cards in the picture but I decided to do 2 blue ones but only photographed one of them.

Very plain but I like the end result. The base is white cardstock and I have stamped each flower in its colour and cut out only the flower and then restamped the entire image in green and cut out only the leaves. A few mini rhinestones in the center and some faux stitching complete the card. The yellow one has stitching around the edge but it is difficult to see in the photo.

Hope I have inspired somebody today and please visit again

Valerie

Kaisercraft stamps

I have purchased quite a few different Kaisercraft clear stamp set off Ebay lately and I have been looking for an excuse to try out the stamps. I choose "These days" stamp set as I really like the big corner rose. I stamped it onto white card stock and then layered it with red card stock . Stamped the rose stamp in the left hand corner with a Happy Birthday sentiment as well. Coloured the rose in with the Red colours in the Spectrum Noir Markers. 3 red pearls and a faux stitching border completed the front.

This is for a very special friend visiting in the UK at the moment.

Thank you for looking

Egg Shell Technique

One of the latest "Weekly Inklings" at Splitcoaststampers was a mosiac technique using egg shells. Yes you read right - EGG SHELLS. Now its quite a long drawn out technique so its not something that you will be able to use if you need a quick card.

Follow the link below to see the tutorial:

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/eggshellmosaicbackground/

So I have been looking for an excuse to try out this technique but only have brown alcohol ink so had to go brown on this one. I also decided to try it and if I liked the outcome would use it on a card. Well not absolutely blown away with my attempt but happy enough to use on a project. I can see the possibilities if you had more colours to work with. Stained glass windows, water if using blues and greens and so many others!!

But to get back to the project - its my in-laws anniversary in 3 weeks time and I have used it on a card for them. Got to get it in the post to South Africa:

The daisies on the card are also handmade and if you want the tutorial on how to make these go to:

http://www.stampingwithloll.com/p/tutorials.html

See ya!!