muted tones floral card

I've been trying to make some newer style floral cards as that's something I've been lacking in my stash recently. I've made a selection of 'modern' floral cards over the last few days.

This card starts with a simple 8x8 scalloped card that I inked with my 'dusty concord' distress ink. The backing paper comes from a DCWV 'latte' stack and I chose it because of the muted green shade. The flowers are an acrylic stamp from 'Little Claire designs'. I stamped the flower 3 times onto cardstock from the DCWV stack so that I had 3 different colours (brown, blue & purple) but all in muted shades again. The flowers were given a hint of extra colour by using my water brush to drag out some of the distress ink from the centre detail and the edge of each flower. After cutting out each flower, I used my embossing tool to create a bit of depth by embossing over the lines seperating the petals of each flower. I then rubbed over each flower with my gold 'memento' ink pad so they shimmer in the light. After attaching the flowers to the corner of the card, some flat & some with 3-d foam, I finished them by placing a new gold stripe 'card candi' in the centre of each flower.

'Gorjuss Girls' calendar cards

Went back to my roots with these cards.

I started my card making nearly 10 years ago with an old calendar and the idea of making cheap birthday cards for my family (as a student I needed to save my money for beer!). It's still an idea I sometimes use although my recent makes are much better that the originals!

May seem odd, but now is a great time to pick up cheap calendars (if you can still find them). I managed to get a large 'Gorjuss girls' calendar for only 50p from a local department store (well 4 actually). So far, I've made 10 cards using 2 of the calendars, some A3 card & some stickles glitter glue. They are all simply decoupaged cards with a hint of embellishment.

 

 

 

'Mimic' cards

The one serious bargain picked up at the NEC this year was a great cd-rom made by 'The Card Hut' who are a company I've never bought from before but this cd is ace! It contains a wide selection of backgrounds, toppers & phrases, all of which can be used to create your own base card, backgrounds, inserts, envelopes, decoupage, invertage, pyramage & toppers. There is a wide selection of characters on the cd such as doctor who, lady gaga, james bond & the a-team. You can also import your own pictures to create all of the things listed above from your own photos- plenty of fun to be had with Take That pics me thinks!

Anyway, here's a few cards that I've made so far- I've printed out characters only and also printed the twilight card background from the cd.