Happy Anniversary - Monday 5th May 2014

Hello Friends,

I hope those of you who are here in the UK have been enjoying some sunshine on the Holiday weekend, haven't we been lucky? Yesterday I mixed some time in the garden with some crafting, mostly working on samples for this week's workshop..goodness my craft room took some tidying last night!

Today I thought I would share an anniversary card I made recently....

This is a 7x7 card and it's very hard to see, but I embossed the base layer on double sided adhesive paper, using Sue Wilson's Hear Lattice folder. Once embossed, I coated it with micro beads. I then stamped the rose background on to lilac card with clear embossing ink and heat embossed with detail white powder. The stamp is Resplendent Roses by Phill Martin, one of the stamps I bought at Ally Pally.

 The stamped background was then cut into three and matted and layered on to three panels.

I added a ribbon and ribbon rose and a sentiment, which was computer generated.

That's all for today friends, we are off to a town called Malmesbury, to visit the Abbey Gardens. It's not far and somewhere we like to visit, but haven't been in a while.

Have a great day everyone,
Love and Hugs,
Carole X

Anniversary Card - Saturday 12th January

Good Morning Blog Friends,

Today's card is one that I made when trying to think of Valentine's ideas for our next workshop. We are  probably going to to give our group the choice of sentiment, so for this one I've used anniversary. This is a vintage style card using a Kanban rose stamp and Happy Anniversary Dreamweaver Stencil. I also used paper from a pad by Tilda and some some dusky pink  textured card.

I stamped the image in red and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder. I then distressed all around the edge with worn lipstick and turned up the corner after matting and layering  on the textured base card. 

For the stencil I scraped with Dreamweaver perlescent embossing paste and after removing the stencil, I sprinkled with red glitter and then left to dry before matting and layer on matching card to create the stopper.

Thanks so much for stopping by, I really do appreciate it!

Carole X