For the Bride

My son asked me to make a card for him to give to his bride on their big day in a few weeks time. It is to go with a beautiful present he has bought for her.. I let him choose from my catalogue of stamps and he chose this lovely Kanban stamp. He wanted it fairly plain but still with a bit of bling so this is what I came up with!

The fan of the dress I havedone in white very fine glitter. 

The body is done in very fine black glitter. The hat is black and white. I have added a diamanté at the top of the fan and at the nape of the hat. It was mounted onto black card to which I have also added a small diamanté heart in alternate corners. A LOTV sentiment 'On your Wedding Day' mounted onto black added underneath. Both were mounted onto cream card which has a pearlised flower swirl pattern on it. He has written his own tribute to her which I have still to type out and insert.     

Wedding Bells

This card is for my granddaughters to give to their father on his wedding day in three weeks time.
I used Woodware stamp Bubble Bells which I have decorated with card candi in grey and white.

 

Mounted onto white embossed card which in turn is mounted onto pale grey and again onto cream card which has been cut using grand nestie decorative circle.
On the grey card I have used peel offs stating date of the wedding, bride and groom's names and two wine glasses.        

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Well, holidays are almost over. I spent a week with family in Yorkshire a few weeks back. It was for my latest gt.granddaughter's christening. Then last week I took my two youngest granddaughters on a caravan holiday to Rye. They love caravanning, thinking it a great adventure. We had a wonderful time, full of fun and laughter, that's the beauty of being 70 (well almost) you don't mind making a fool of yourself when playing with children.
However, one of my best friends is 70 just six days before me and this the card I have just made for her.

She loves knitting and doing cross-stitch.
So what could be more appropriate than these house mouse
stamps by  stampendous  Knit Gift.
The second stamp was from an old set by Joanna Sheen
The numbers I have added to embroidery thread bobbins and stuck a sample of the thread inside a wrapper.
I included a wrapper from a ball of baby wool to compliment the sample of knitting on the wooden needles.
All these were mounted onto a spellbinder decorative circle grand nestie die.
This I ran through my ebosser with the purl one A4 embossing folder. This give a perfect likeness of plain and purl knitting. I then coloured it with Spun Sugar distress
ink.
I used 8x8 card onto which I stamped ' birthdays are sew special' and 'enjoy your special day'  also in the Spun Sugar ink.

Card for a brave boy

This birthday card is for my friends grandson who will reach double figures next week. Over the past three years he has undergone three brain operations, a brave boy indeed!
I have used a LOTV topper which I have enhanced slightly on the stars and the hat band with a Sakura gelly roll pen in clear sparkle. This I mounted onto LOTV paper and card that I brayered. I added his name and age in self coloured peel offs along with a LOTV sentiment.
The lasso was made out of very fine twine and just to finish a silver star was added to the top right corner.