Window to the world

Good morning all.  Hope you have had a pleasant weekend.  Ours has been very busy with birthdays for two very special people.  

Saturday was our Mum's birthday and this is the card I made her from her youngest grandson, Joe.

I used a couple of dies that I haven't used before - the opening window and city scenes, which I cut down to fit in the window.  The night sky is a denim effect paper which I thought worked well.

The scene is a two part die. I cut one in black and the other in gold to make it look like the windows are backlit.

I cut the window a second time from some patterned paper and used the negative to act like wallpaper.  I then used a sentiment die and cut the words in black card.

I like the effect of all this together but it does make quite a thick and heavy card!

TTFN Jude xx

Grandma

Good morning all, Monday again so soon! Oh well I hope you all enjoyed your weekend. 

Today's card is one I made for a friend at work. She wanted something for her grandma so this is what I came up with.

There's quite a bit going on with this one lol. I started with the window! which was cut with a Britannia die, and then looked for an image to go behind it. This one is from a Lili of the Valley artpad. 

I chose the papers and card from the stash to co-ordinate and matted and layered them on to a 6x6 card blank.

The spray of flowers are made up with rolled roses from a Marianne die and ready made flowers. Then I added a fern die cut and some twirly bits. 

The butterfly and tree dies are freebies from craft magazines I think

and the little bird is another Marianne die. 

I inked all the edges and stamped the grandma using Dusty Concord distress ink, and then finished the card with the Lili of the Valley sentiment and loads of purple jewels and pearls. 

I thought a special card deserved a special box too so I covered a ready made box with some paper and then stencilled a couple of ferns on to it using more Dusty Concord.

I added a couple of white rectangles for a Happy Birthday and a message and then finished it with a flower and a purple bow.

Hope you like it, take care, see you soon.

xxx

Through the arched window

Morning bloggers.  We've had a lovely few days here weather wise but today is supposed to be a little overcast, even drizzly.  Let's hope its not too wet as I've enjoyed sitting outside for my lunch this week.

 

I finally handed the keys over to my old house yesterday so I am officially a resident of Jen and Alan's house.  The house rules are pretty simple - keep everything tidy and don't upset Jen!  I think I can manage that (some of the time) rofl :-))

 

Today's card is a very quick make.  It is another from my abundance of Hunkydory toppers simply matted on to a dark red piece of co-ordinations and three simple flowers with gem centres.  Nothing difficult about this and no real skill involved, but I thought it a nice pretty card suitable for most occasions.

 

 

What do you think?  TTFN Jude xx