Vintage style

A dear friend of mine loves vintage style.  I wanted to make a vintage styled card and came up with the idea of a vintage style dress.
I cut the dress form (mannequin) from burlap paper to give it some texture.  The dress form was trimmed top and bottom, just to leave the body.  I cut a second complete one from white card.  Die used:  Sizzix Bigz Sewing Room #657186.  I coloured the base with Copics.
I then made myself a dress pattern to fit the dress form, which I found quite fiddly, but I got there in the end.  The necklace is made from self adhesive pearls.
The card blank was embossed using my big dots embossing folder from craft Sensations.

A Christmas birthday

A dear friend of ours celebrates his birthday on Christmas day.  I always aim to make him an unusual card, just so that it stands out from the Christmas cards.

 

The front of the card blank was shaped to form the top of the piano.  The keys were cut from white and black card and added to the card blank.  The roses are hand made, fiddly to do but oh-so worth it.

Thank you time again – part 2

    
I made 2 of these dancing shoes.  The shoe was a Christmas decoration but it is sparkly enough to be a dancing shoe.  The flowers are made from vellum using the following Sizzix Thinlits:  Fuchsia (#658858), Rose & Rose Bud (#658411).
The lion was made from a kit, the mug & hat were shop bought.  The letters on the lion’s paws were cut from felt using a Joy Crafts die – alphabet & numbers (#6002/0139)

Finally

It’s been a busy few months and unfortunately this has kept me away from my blog – but I’m back and hopefully, I will be around a bit more.

Now, where to begin – Mother’s day I think.

This is one that I made for my MIL.  Once again, I have made a parchment outer and stitched it to a lovely peach card blank.

This is another card that I made, this time with a parchment parasol and hand made paper roses.

First Birthday of 2012

It is my MIL’s birthday today – Happy Birthday Mum!

As usual I have made her cards:

   

First Anniversary

My cousin’s son & his wife recently celebrated their 1st wedding anniversary.
I used one of their wedding pics, made it black & white and printed it onto printable canvas.


This was mounted onto silver paper and then a pinkish coloured card mount. I then added paper leaves & handmade paper roses.




Grace said...

fantastic as usual hope you got a good comment from Ben and Leanne, my Birthday card was great too and Sue was just as thrilled as well, make it all more pesonal when it is done for you alone thankyou
28 October 2011 11:25

If it doesn´t go to plan . . . . . improvise!!!!

We wanted to get something special and different for our friends to celebrate their 30th anniversary. After a lot of thought we decided on a rose bush, a white one (as you can´t get pearl coloured ones!!).

We bought it weeks in advance and put it in the greenhouse hoping that it would be in bloom for the day. Despite our best efforts, it refused to bloom, although there were plenty of buds.

I decided to improvise - I made 5 large paper roses and stuck them to the front of the cellophane wrapping.

Certainly looks different eh?