Floral decoupage...

This is a card for my friend's mum, who has been having a really bad time lately. She has had a melanoma removed from her face and a skin graft which has involved a lot of pain. As she is not a well woman anyway it's been and still is a lot to go through.

I'm hoping this will cheer her up - I certainly enjoyed making it and even made a box to protect my decoupage in the post. Think someone is getting a little carried away after their break!!

The layout is from the sketch at The Next Level where the challenge is to use the sketch, but also make a card with a decoupaged element on it. If you haven't heard about The Next Level yet you really must check it out. It's amazing - full of really interesting stuff - I love it.

Fabulous Folds...

Well actually the folds might be fabulous but I'm not that keen on the decoupage on them. I was trying to use up some of my QVC stash and really would have preferred to have done some stamping. The card is for the challenge at http://tandastamps.blogspot.com/ .

Ah well lessons learned. Not done one of these kind of cards before, but I think the effect of the stand up central diamond shape could be quite effective and it certainly something I would use again. I got the instructions from a magazine but I'm sure they will be available on the web somewhere.

Birthday card for Grandma...

This card was created using a frame image from Joanna Sheen's CD 'The Cardmaker's Year'. I must admit that I took the image to an art programme and resized it to ensure it was just the size I needed for my A5 card. I printed the image several times to enable me to decoupage the roses. They are also glittered as Grandma loves glitter!!!

The die cut ovals are cut and embossed using the Wizard machine. I also embossed lines to both hold and emphasise the gold organza ribbon on the card. As the challenge at http://lotstodocallenges.blogspot.com/ is embossing I think (at a push) this card may be suitable for their embossing challenge this week.

The sentiment is computer generated and printed on to the same colour backing paper as the frame image. It looks slightly askew in the photo but in reality is straight - honest!!

Materials used:

• Joanna Sheen's CD 'The Cardmakers Year'
• gold card
• cream pearlescent for matting and layering
• oval Wizard dies
• fine glitter
• gold organza ribbon

Using clipart...

I think we have so many fabulous materials available to us that sometimes it's easy to forget that clipart freely available from many sources on the internet can be also be used. At http://artygirlzchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ this week the challenge was to be creative using clip art.

I have some clipart books and CD sets by Dover publications so rather than searching the web I decided to use an image from one of them. I picked out a beautiful picture of a little girl at her writing table. I then made it into a decoupage sheet for the card size I wanted to achieve using the CD Decoupage builder. I also used the programme to create matching backing paper.

Last card for the box Irene - good eh?

Materials used:

• Floral Vignettes Book and CD Rom by Dover Publications
• Decoupage Builder 3D
• Satin photo paper
• cream pearlescent card
• gold paper used for matting and layering
• gold corner and sentiment peel offs

Red...

The challenge at http://artygirlzchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ this week is 'red'. I've used a poppy decoupage and striking corrugated red and black corrugated card to make this 'thank you' card. It's the same design as a sunflower card I made a little while ago, but I've used the layout again on purpose as my daughter wants two thank you cards for the people she is working with at the moment and it seemed a good idea to keep them both in a similar theme.

Materials used:

• poppy decoupage sheet


• red and black corrugated card


• white heavy base card


• red card


• tag punch


• gold sentiment peel off


• red ribbon and gold eyelet

Decoupage...

Once I start making acetate cards I can't stop - having said that I only have 2 sheets left so will have to move on soon!

This card is for the challenge on http://abc-challenge.blogspot.com/. I have only just found this challenge and love the idea they have for a challenge each week based on the alphabet. Really great idea.

I used my Wizard octagon die to create the mount for the central image - a gorgeous baby in the cabbage patch.

Sunflowers

This is my card for the first challenge on Joanna Sheen's craft forum. The theme for this new challenge was 'Sunshine and flowers' which led me to making a card with sunflowers on. The sunflowers are from a sheet of decoupage that I have had in a folder for far too long (there's about another 50 sheets of different flowers in there too but reckon I'll cope with those another day).

When I was looking through my stash of card stock to find the right colours to match the flower the yellow and green corrugated ones seemed to jump out at me. I am really please they did as I love the texture they bring to the card.

I finished the card off with a fine green satin ribbon edged with gold tied around the yellow card and holding the tagged greeting in place.

CPS 62 Pirates

Hurray a challenge which I am actually doing in the first few days of it being posted - that must be a miracle! The is a sketch from http://cardpositioningsystems.blogspot.com/. The decoupaged pirate image and card inner is from the CD Kiddiwinks.
I must admit that I set out doing Pirates because there was a challenge on http://thankgoditsfriday.wordpress.com/ involving pirates but as per usual I didn't read the write up properly and sort of missed the bit that said you should be using stamps. Does anyone remember the way just before exams when we used to be told to read things more than once before putting pen to paper - well I think I ought to start following that advice!!!