Friend of a friend

My friend in Cornwall asked me to make a birthday card for her very good friend so this is what I came up with.
I've used the spellbinders lattice die for the background in pale pink pearlised card and backed it with a dark red paper. The butterfly corner is also a spellbinder die cut from Ivory pearlised card. I mounted this in the bottom right hand corner then cut my favourite Marianne vintage swirl die out of the same card. I fixed the swirl to the card with a generous amount of silicone glue to which I added a pink bow, handmade flowers, two pearl stickpins and a couple of leaves to which I added a few dabs of glossy accents to look like dew drops. I stamped the sentiment 'for a special friend' onto a strip of card, added a sparkly gem and inserted this into the pocket created by the butterfly die. I also just added three gems to the body of the 'butterfly'.
I also made a box for the card and decorated the lid by sponging spun sugar distress ink through the outline left from cutting out the swirl. I think you'll agree it makes a good 'stencil'.

Dragonfly

This is a card that I made for my grandson-in-law's birthday. He lives in Cyprus and his birthday was last week. The background was done at one of my friend Kim's classes at Davina's using a gelli plate which was covered in distress inks and impressions were made using a dragonfly stamp. Card was then placed over the Plate to make a 'print'. A second print makes a more subtle image. On a piece of pearlised cream card I stamped the lovely Dragonfly Vine stamp by Stampendous. Mounted this onto medium brown card from stash. Added peel off greeting mounted to match. Faux pearls in adjacent corners to finish. Hope he got it in time!

Colourful card to bring cheer

 Next week is my eldest granddaughter's birthday. In June she gave birth to a beautiful daughter, another addition to the family and last week we said farewell to a member - her father! So I made this card to bring a little colour to her. I used a peel off by Woodware Francoise's Mums Round and laid the smaller ones at random on white card then sponged over with Brilliance ink pads. I then gently removed the peel offs.
                                  

I followed the same procedure with the large circular 'mum' but didn't remove the peel off, then cut it out using a nestie.  Using  blue card I next cut a scalloped circle onto which I mounted the  large one. With a strip of white card I punched a border using a Tonic punch, edged with the pale blue ink pad then mounted this onto the front of the card. Over the  centre of this I glued the main image. At the bottom I added a black peel off sentiment from stash. Out of the blue card I cut small rectangular shapes which I stuck in the corners. I think I will enter this into the Woodware challenge for September Woodware sketch 38