Thank You Card

Well while I recover from playing badminton this afternoon I suppose I ought to update you on some of my crafting antics from last weekend. I found one of my old favorites hidden away under in one of the many boxes in our craft room, the Latte 8 x 8" Stack from DCWV. They are lovely thick, textured papers in brown, purple, green, and beige. I decided to make a thank you card using one of the plainer floral papers as a background, which I mounted onto green card before building other elements on top of it.

The self-adhesive letters were from the Papermania Birdsong range as I thought the muted beige colour tied in well with the green wavy paper. To complete I added some purple punched flowers, green and purple gemstones and some green Candi from Craftwork Cards. As anyone that follows me on docraft will know I made another card at the weekend but I forgot to transfer the photo to my laptop so that I could blog about it while I was at uni, silly me!

Kraft Cards for Guys and Girls

I made a couple of cards at the weekend using some 6 x 6" Kraft cards: one for a male friends 19th birthday and a feminine version using the Sweet Pea papers from Craftwork Cards. For the male card I stuck with a simple pale blue, white and brown colour scheme to tie in with the colours in the cute Wellington image that I chose from the Ultimate Die Cut Pack. I used a large brown button from the Boofle Buttons pack which I threaded with some garden twine to add a bit of texture. I also poked holes around the torn paper to give the card a shabby chic look, as well as inking the edges of the checkered paper with Chestnut ink. To complete I added a Craftwork Card message tag, brown brads and some pale brown spotted Candi.

For the female version of this card I used the gorgeous Sweet Pea papers from Craftwork Cards. Tearing and inking the background paper as before, I layered up the foreground with a stamped image from the Papermania Botanical Prints Urban Stamps set that I then mounted onto pink, purple and Kraft card. I added a lilac ribbon to the background to tie in with the colour scheme as well as two of the die cut flowers from the Sweet Pea paper pack, to which I added button centers. To complete I added a Craftwork Cards message tag, some pink and purple pearl gems and three pink Candi to the bottom corner.

Purple Birdcage Card

Well it's Friday again and I've just got one final physiology lab to survive this afternoon before I get to go home for another weekend of crafting. I made this card last weekend and didn't realise that I hadn't put it up on here, so let me rectify that now! I found these Kraft Card birdcages from Craftwork Cards in my mum's stash and decided to go with a purple and brown colour scheme for this 5 x 7" card. I double-mounted a sheet of the Craftwork Cards Bohemian paper onto purple card and then Kraft card to create a background and added some handmade purple paper behind the love heart in the birdcage to keep with the colour scheme. I also threaded through some purple velour ribbon and added some purple gems to give it a bit of extra sparkle!

I added another strip of lilac ribbon along the top of the card and some more purple gems in the bottom corner to tie all the elements together. The "With Love" message is stamped in Chestnut ink onto Kraft Card using the Craftwork Cards Printer Block letters, which I love! I like how it produced a really subtle, almost watermark look that doesn't overpower the rest of the card. I cut the letters out individually and mounted them onto the same purple card I used in the background so that they weren't lost against the birdcage. To finish, I added a little birdy with a purple gemstone for the eye and some of the little Craftwork Cards flowers with purple gem centers. Hope you like it!

Sweet Pea Floral Card

I discovered this pack of Sweet Pea paper from Craftwork Cards in my mum's stash of new goodies and though the colours were just gorgeous! I started this 5 x 5" card with a decorative circle piece of the paper and then layered it up with a strip of the zig-zag paper and a torn section of spotty paper mounted onto some pale pink card. I made the co-ordinating flowers using the remains of a sheet of the Bohemian die-cut flowers (also from Craftwork Cards) as a template to form various styles of flowers to layer up. The buttons at the centers are from the Spots and Stripes Capsule collection by Papermania.

The message tag is a die-cut one from Craftwork Cards which I mounted onto co-ordinating lilac cardstock and embellished with some pink pearl gems. As a final touch I added some pink and lilac punched butterflies with flight lines in a purple pen.

DoCraft Designer!!!

Just been told that I'm getting the opportunity to design for docraft for 6 months!!! I'm so excited, can't wait to get started! :D

http://docraftsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/design-team-march-august-2013.html

Congrats to all the other new designers and good luck to everyone!

Tatty Ted Get Well Soon Card

Another of my friends had to go in for surgery last week and is finally back on her feet so I thought I'd cheer her up with a get well soon card and some lovely choccies. She loves the Tatty Ted bears so I used one of the images from the Ultimate Die Cut pack in combinations with some Craftwork Cards embossed cardstock from my mum's stash. I stuck with muted colours, choosing the lilac and blue that are in the flowers the teddy is holding. I re-shaped the embossed frame so that the center was a flower instead of the pre-cut square so that it tied in with the die-cut flower embellishments that I made.

To complete the card, I added some lilac gems and buttons to the center of the flowers as well as a Craftwork Cards sentiment mounted on some pale blue cardstock. Hope it cheers her up...if not I'm sure the choccies will do the trick!