Vintage Rose

Die is by Sam Poole for Creative Expressions and is called Shabby Basics Vintage Rose.

I cased this design from Sam's samples. I've used old papers from Trimcraft, and added some Colour Cloud ink, sentiment stamp is PTI.

 

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Card for Dorothy's recent special birthday.

I've used a Crafter's Companion embossing folder, number dies are from Ali Express

Trellis die is by Chloe's Creative Cards, finished card is 8 x 8 inches

 

Birthday

Made for one of my lovely club ladies.
I've used an embossing folder by Creative Expressions for the frame and highlighted it with a little gilding wax.

Sentiment dies are also Creative Expressions. Flowers are from The Range

Pop-up card

This card was made using measurements from the Craft Spa blog.
It folds flat to fit in a standard envelope.

I've used flower stamp and punch from SU
Sentiment is a Phill Martin stamp. The cream card isn't dirty it has a flecked pattern!

Jan

Jan is one of my card club ladies.
I've used a card blank by Docrafts (Gorjuss), dies from eBay.

Birthday Wishes

Papers are by Graphic 45
Flowers from Hobbycraft
I think the die is Tonic
Card is 8 x 8 inches

Peony

Stamp and matching dies are from a set by Crafters Companion (Peony).
I really like these sets and think they're pretty good value, I'm trying to decide which Christmas ones to get...

Part of the appeal is that the finished card isn't too bulky so should hopefully be okay to post on a normal stamp, plus they're so quick and easy to do.

Sentiment is a stamp by Clearly Besotted.

Flowers

This is an 8 inch square card blank and I've added a purple matt before die-cutting a circle from the front.
Inside there's a lilac matt plus the stamped image. The stamp is by Woodware and I think one of the largest I've ever used!

Just For You

Card blank is made from Papermania 12 x 12 acetate, cut down to 6 x 12 and scored  (a bit hard to photograph)
Sentiment die by Tonic
Flowers dies from China.
I've just noticed the missing pearl, never mind.

Striped Flowers

Sentiment stamp is a cheap one from The Range (think it's Trimcraft or Dovecraft brand?)
Scalloped square die by Tonic
Flower stamp and matching die is Heartfelt Creations. I've embossed using SU copper powder which is a beautiful colour in real life. I also added heat embossing to some of the edges of the layered card by using a Versamark pen and the copper powder.

Kath

Kath is another of my lovely card club ladies who has been attending for many years. I don't think I have ever, in all that time, heard her complain about anything!

Papers are from The Works (their own brand £2 a pad)
Flowers are cheapies from The Range
Dies are Spellbinders and Sizzix Funky Brush for the letters

Poppies

One of my lovely ladies was recently celebrating her 80th birthday.
Joan has been attending my card club virtually since the start (January 2004) and I know she loves poppies so I try to feature them on her birthday cards.

This year I made the poppies myself using Foamiran and black glitter
The sentiment die is by Tonic
Number dies are Sunset by Sizzix

Orchid

Another card club project, idea is based on one in a project book from Stamps by Chloe
Orchid, foliage, and sentiment stamps are all from Chloe too.

We stamped the orchids on vellum and heat embossed with white powder. We then used pencils to colour in on the back of the orchids and layered up before adding dots of glitter.

The foliage stamps were used with heat-resistant acetate and WOW powder.
Finished card is 8 x 8 inches.

Flower Planter

I spotted this style of card on Pinterest and bought the tutorial from Bronwyn Eastley, it's similar to the pop-up box that was really popular a year or so ago.

Quite difficult to get a photograph without all the flowers looking like they are leaning over, in real life they are straight.

The hardwood stamp, sentiment, and leaf punch are Stampin' Up!
The flower stamp and matching die are Heartfelt Creations.

Woven Celebrate

Last year one of my ladies very kindly lent me her Sue Wilson weaving dies. I promptly cut four panels and put them in my 'to do' drawer where they have languished for months.
Every time I looked in the drawer I could see these things staring at me so a couple of weeks ago I finally managed to cobble a card together.

I enjoyed the weaving bit but to be honest I wouldn't personally buy these dies as I wouldn't know how to make any different styles using them. To get the effect here you need both weaving dies and together they are over £30. For that amount of money I would rather have dies that can be used in a larger variety of ways.

Most of the other dies here (flowers, flower outlines, frame and leaves) are also Sue Wilson, just the sentiment die that is Sizzix.

Happy Birthday

Flower/ leaf dies are by SU
I can't remember who makes the sentiment dies ...

I've used a landscape card and cut the front right-edge off using the long leaf die
I've then cut a piece of green card with the same die and attached it to the back edge, lining up the cut leaves.

Thinking About You

This started out as a birthday card, 8 x 8 inches, but it ended up "Thinking About You" instead.
I couldn't get a decent cut edge (think I'd done too many layers) and it started getting smaller and smaller...good job I'm not a hairdresser!

Papers are from Making Cards magazine and sentiment is a Waltzingmouse stamp.

Bloom

Stamp and matching die are by Taylored Expressions
I've used silver Wink of Stella on the jug, stamped the image twice and adhered with foam pads for a decoupage effect.

Birthday

Please excuse the messy edges to my poppies - I was rushing to get the card finished as a project for card club and I'm not a patient fussy-cutter at the best of times.


Card is 8 x 8 inches. I've stamped 'En Francais' stamp by Stampin' Up! and added white embossing powder. Next I used two different shades of Colour Cloud blending inks and smoothed them over the stamped images.

Sentiment stamp is by Woodware and poppy stamp set is by Heartfelt Creations

All Glammed Up

I've used a mix of Heartfelt Creations products here (All Glammed Up shoe stamp and die, Botanical Wings die and Botanical Rose stamps)

I stamped and embossed the shoe on a piece of black A4 and then scored it just inside the left-hand edge, before folding the card over. I then placed the die slightly over the fold line, this cuts a shoe-shaped card blank.

It's quite small so not a lot of room to write much inside but it's cute for a little thank-you note or similar.
The flowers stamp and die are genius - you can do six flowers at once, so the actual card is very very quick to make.