This is the one I made for my MIL. I embossed a piece of black linen card using my Cuttlebug Folder – Thanks. To make the embossing stand out a little more, I wiped the top part of the folder with a white ink pad. To finish off I added various coloured punched flowers with gem centres.
Now the second card has a story behind it. As you know, DH and I are having ballroom and Latin American dance lessons and we have just started our 2nd year of lessons. My MIL had wanted to see us dance so DH contacted a dance school close to where my in-laws live to see if it would be possible for us to join one of their classes so that his parents could see us dance. Well, the lady said yes. During his communications with the lady who runs the classes, DH discovered that a) she was Dutch and b) she had danced at our dance school here in NL.
We decided to take the dancing teacher back a little “taste of home” – kruidnoten, Sint & Piet speculaars, stroopwafels and a chocolate letter A. All meaningless items to the average Brit!! I also made her a Dutch themed thank you card (bedankt meaning thank you).
Once again I used my Cuttlebug Folders – this time D’vine swirls, the letters were cut using the Night & Day alphabet and the pictures are from some Dutch gift wrap, mounted on blue circles of card.
paul said...We love what you have achived with the ink and embossing folder Lesley, stunning effect.
