Roses & Die Cuts

 Hi Everybody,  

All three of these cards have been produced in the same way. They are all 5x7 with the fold at the top. They have all had an aperture cut with a die and they all have the same handmade background behind each aperture

The flowers are all cut from the same red card and the leaves from two shades of green, though the flowers have been decorated in a different way.

They are all Christmas Cards but with different sentiments on them. One is stamped and two are wooden plaques

So to start the process I created the background panel by ink smooshing in reds and silver inks and trimmed it down to fit the front  on my my card below the aperture

The aperture panel is cut in white and added with foam pads to the base card.

The flowers are all cut from the same die and this top card has had the petals inked with white and white stamens added.

They have been layered onto the top left corner of the card with leaves arranged beneath them, and the red bow added for an extra effect..

This next card has used a snowflake aperture die with the red panel underneath.

These two flowers have been stamped in white with a snowflake stamp on all the layers, and tiny diamante gems added to the centres of the flowers and the bow.

The same gemstone has been added to all the bow centres

They have been arranged to the lower left, on top of the leaves, and the bow placed to the bottom of the card.

Seasons Greetings has been stamped in Candied Apple

The last card has used a lot of the background panel to cover the card, the Grid die has been cut in silver to blend with the red and silver panel.

Theses flowers have been inked with silver and silver stamens in the middle. They have been arranged along the right side of the grid with the leaves tucked in under them. 

The bow has been edged with a white gel pen and added to the flowers.

Three cards now all ready to send for Christmas and all three, although made with the same ingredients, look different and I am happy with all of them.

All they need now are boxes to put them in.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Christmas Past

 Hi Everybody,

This is a series of cards that I made for Christmases in the past and these are already in my Blogger account and so I can use them until I get my computer fixed.

I am not able to do videos as yet because I cannot get the filmed ones onto my PC to edit them and then upload to YouTube.

Such a pain .....

Many of them have been created using items that where free with magazines and some of these may have even been passed on to you as the Friday Freebies.

This one was so cute and I did make quite a few cards with this for family and friends.

I stamped the images and then coloured them 

in with water colours.

Both cards are A6 size and although they have layers to them they will fit into a standard envelope, and save on postage.

One of  my favourite stamp sets was "The Twelve Days Of Christmas"  and I gave a set of them away on the blog a long time ago.

This was another favourite and this was a die that cut the tree out for you but again it was a long time ago.

I don't remember which magazines they came with  but all would have been a really good give away and it as been nice to look back over these older cards.

I hope you have enjoyed this little look back also

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx