Wedding Card for my Cousin

This card a made for a cousin overseas, who was getting married. We couldn't go, but my sister and brother in law were able to, so I decided to make a card for him and send some money as present.

This one turned up much better than I though, and it was a great learning experience. This is my first ever embossing experience. I loved it. I think I will be doing this again soon.

So what I did, embossed the wedding card on silver. Then used my colour spot and water brush to pain the flowers. At the bottom of the card I embossed the accompaning words to cake. Then I double matted that. I added dimentionals at the back. Put a silver ribbon across the card and the mounted the cake on top.

Here is the end result:

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Just a brief note

I've noticed something interesting about me. I love making cards for my friends and their kids. I'm not sure what happens to those cards after I present these to them, but it is such a rewarding experience watching them open the envelop and seeing the card, that that is enough for me.

A few days ago I made card for my girlfriends little girl. She was turning one and we had a small get together to celebrate with her and other friends and kids. I made a really cute card and for the first time in my life a made a card with stamping and water colouring. I loved the end result. And here is the bit I learnt ...... I'm TOO lazy and disorganised. I DIDN'T TAKE A PICTURE!!!! It is not the first time. I have made other cards (I can think of a couple of cards that I made for my sister in law, niece and friends, birthdays) where I was quite proud of my achievement and have no record of them. The intention was to create a post every time I did a card and then add the picture here. The obvious option would be to ask them to take a picture, but that would be too embarrassing to ask them to take a picture of the card I gave them and then send this to me.

Doh, doh, doh ...

Another option .... is to replicate them and do what I had originally planned. So the cards that come to mind are:

• Sister in law birthday card - origami ladies dress
• Niece 2nd birthday card - origami girl dress
• Friends son's 5th birthday card - soccer ball
• Friend daughter's 1st birthday card - stamping balloons and water/ink paiting with my water pencil
• Friend son's 4th birthday card - spider man

Boy it looks like I will be busy doing these.

Until then.
Anamaria

Birthday Card for one of my fans

I made this card for a work collegue who believes that my cards are wonderful. I was so happy with her reaction when I gave her the card. In addition I was very please with the results.

What I used: I used my scallop circle to make the large flowers and used my white gel pen to put dots around the scallops. Then I put them together and used stickers to spell the message. Then on the right hand side I matted the mini card that I created with some paper, 3 flowers and ribbon.

The following photo is a detail of the heading.

Not bad!
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Birthday Card for 5th Birthday Party

This card is a combination of things that I had a what to do with them. I had bought my daughter a pack of flower templates to do some craft and when i was tiding up my craft area I found them. I decided to use this one for my daughter's friend 5th birthday.

What I did: I used 2 of the flower templates to create the card. I scored the back one at about 2" from the edge to create a hinge so that I could stand the card. Then, I used some paper to create the various petals. I created a version of each and cut them a about 1/8" smaller all around to give that border to each item. Then I pasted each item. In the area where the petals joined the leaves instead of cutting and leaving a border, I put a ribbon around it. To the ribbon I attached with fibre a little 1" tag. In her I just wrote 5th.

I really liked the result. It turned up much better than I had anticipated.

I've become a Stampin Up Demonstrator

Well kind of.

I decide to join during the Scrapbook Special they had, where you paid a lower amount, but you only got the Scrapbook Additional Kit only. So my intention is to have a workshop at least every 2 months and perhaps organise a class in between depending on the upcoming events.

My lovely up line offered to do my first workshop because in my enthusiasm I had never even attended a workshop and so I have no idea how to run them. Anyway, my intention is to run one myself at the beginning of the next quarter.

I'm really looking forward to it. Plus in addition I participate in my up line's monthly stamping classes where I've been learning heaps (which I have been posting already and which I plan to continue still).



So a new adventure has began!!!!!



Anamaria

Kristina Werner Colour Challenge #51

Kristina Werner Colour Challenge #51

Another challenge that I missed on posting, however I took it on anyway and the result is quite cute. I had my mother-in-law in mind when I made this card for her birthday.

How I made it: A5 white card stock, folded in half, used my scallop border punch for the edge. Since my fiskars edge punch has some holes, I passed through them some cross stich fibres and added 1/2" circles behind the scallop. Then I punched the flowers in rose and cut them to form petals, then 1" and 1/2" circles in mustard and chocolate for the centres. As stems I saw these with the same chocolate fibres in the shape of a bouquet.

Here is the end result.

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Stamping Class - May 09

Today I atttended a Stamping Class at my Stampin Up Distributor. It was so much fun. It combined stamping with paper folding. A great combination as far as I was confirmed. Anyway, here it is.

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