Rose Heart wedding invitation

The 'Wedding Invitation' words were computer-generated, as were the swirly flourishes. The little heart flourish is stamped and coloured with art markers, and the rosebud just trimmed, beaded and stuck onto the card with glue dots.

Purple Hope

Well, there's this, with the 'Hope' metal word embellishment by Making Memories, and the silver cross, or you could opt for stopping with the relatively undecorated card version below...

Fridge Photo Frame

This is a large family photo 'frame' that I made for my mother a few years ago, but I've inherited it back again. It has magnetic strips on the back, and it resides on my fridge, as you see! There is a layer of acetate over the top of the photos to protect them.

The frame part was a bit fiddly to make, to get the mitred corners right, and I'm sure there are easier ways, but it worked in the end. It's kind of a box frame, made with layers of grey card (probably from an old cereal box!) that I covered with paper. The acetate sheet is sandwiched between the two top layers of card so that it sits over the photos without touching them.

Measurements: 12" x 7 ¼"

Glitter Hearts Rose wedding invitation

As (nearly) always, my wedding invitation designs are deliberately very simple, and of course, they can be easily swapped for another occasion by changing the sentiment.

This one is made simply by punching some hearts at random angles in some glitter card, 'draped' with an open rose with a curved stem, and the words here are stamped in silver Encore metallic ink.

Pink Skeleton Leaves card

This is a real blast from the past.. one of my earliest cards, back in the early noughties, but you can see the seeds of some ubiquitous elements frequently seen on my cards. Here, it's the pearl spray and the roses, wire and gems. The peel-off butterfly was stuck to a clear plastic off-cut from some injection moulded packaging to give the wings a permanent lift, and then glued to the card.

New Job

Yellow Bazzill CS, Making Memories letters, computer-generated 'Congratulations', silver star brads, curly clip, flower stickers, and the balloons and confetti were stamped onto acetate and glittered underneath, then the panel was attached over a white piece of card with the little yellow star brads.

Pink Circles wedding invitation

Hearts punched into different shades of pink paper and vellum circles, finishing with a glittered rose. Save The Date stamped in silver Encore metallic ink.

Welcome frame for Iris

I made this frame for the most beautiful, smiley baby, Iris Minnie, upon her arrival on this planet on 1st March 2018. All goodies from Hobbycraft. Sentiments are computer-generated.

Two Souls wedding invitation

Another thistle. More purple. You can see the verse more clearly in real life: "Two souls but with a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one." I think the stamp is Penny Black, but I'm not sure. That and the Wedding Invitation words are stamped in silver Encore metallic ink. The thistle is my favourite Fred Mullett stamp, and a couple of punched hearts complete the design.

Wedding Thank You

The word 'Wedding' was randomly stamped repeatedly in green, with a few done in silver Encore metallic ink on the top layer. It showed better in real life, than it does in the photo!

Rosy Birthday

I gave this as a birthday card for my aunt in 2014. As most of my cards are, it's very simple.. some pretty rose paper layered onto white card. I embossed some lines near the edge of the paper, wrapped some waxed cord around the card, tied in a bow and decorated with my signature roses, rosebuds and a pearl spray, mounted the panel onto 3D pads for extra dimension, and added some random clear gems in different sizes in opposite corners.

Christmas Wedding Invitation

Clearly intended for a Christmas Wedding. (I know.. the post title kind of gives it away! Also, the holly.) The only thing I can tell you that you would probably not guess is that the holly berries are made with red Tulip Paint, which remains dimensional when dry. This was made way before the days of Nuvo drops! Do you remember Tulip Paint? Dawn Bibby used to promote it a lot in her QVC days.

Eiffel Tower Valentines

These were made for a commission about seven years ago. It was for a male colleague who had proposed to his wife on the Eiffel Tower during a visit to Paris. How romantic! Makes me go all gooey inside!

Obviously, I used the same stamps in both cards for the tower and the Valentine. The image above was second generation, then drawn around for extra definition, layered onto silver mirror card, and used silver elasticated cord, paper rosebuds and some tiny red heart stickers.

This card is slightly different, in that the Tower image is stamped with Versafine Onyx Black, then heat embossed with clear powder, then mounted on 3D pads for dimension. The embellishments are almost identical, except that I've included a pearl spray. There is also a co-ordinating box, which would have worked with whichever card he chose.

Cleo's Berries

This was fresh from my craft desk last week, and sent to a Facebook group buddy in the US, so I've had to wait a while to share it with you. It was totally inspired by a beautiful card created by Ingrid Kristina Vichova in the Simply Cards & Papercraft mag, #185. I used a different stamp and sentiment, and added gems to the black strip. Regretting that now. It looked better without.

The blackberry stamp is by Tin Can Mail for Inkadinkado, ref: 0204, and the sentiment is heat embossed in white. (NB: The berry stamp has a drop shadow on the alphabet on the left of the image, and some odd dotted lines which look peculiar to me, but maybe I'll get used to it. It is also a second generation print to echo the grey of the image Ingrid used in her card.)

Burgundy Lily wedding invitation

I think this is pretty self-explanatory, but here it is anyway... Paper burgundy calla lily with gold metal wire bow, wedding invitation words repeat stamped in gold Encore metallic ink on a cream panel, layered onto burgundy card, then gold card. This particular gold card has a kind of marbled surface, but I'm not sure what you'd call it. I bought it this way, but you could probably achieve something similar by swiping gold mirror card with a brown inkpad of some sort, and heat setting it, maybe? Let me know if you try it.

Purple Thanks

Purple card blank, purple pearlescent card panel over glittery purple panel, purple rosebuds and a Making Memories metal word plaque. Ridiculously simple.

Happy Birthday, Gladys!

This is a card I made some years ago, but I am dedicating it to my Facebook group friend in Oz, Gladys, who celebrates her 80th birthday on 26th January. I wanted to make something especially, but time has run away with me this week. She has admired similar cards of mine in the past, so I hope she likes this one. Happy birthday, Gladys! x

Funky Hand digital paper (from the Yule Be Funky CD-Rom), Prima flower, Cuttlebug Fantasy Flower embossing folder, Nestabilities Labels #1, Fiskars Threading Water border punch, Ash branch punch, Stampin' Up scalloped circle punch + two plain circle punches, Inksentials white pen, bit o' string, some tiny rosebuds and gems. And a partridge in a pear tree.

Purple Jazz wedding invitation

The only thing I can tell you about this card that isn't obvious and easily sourced is the shadow stamp under the rosebud on the top tag.. I made it by cutting a piece of funky foam with deckle-edged scissors. Ridiculously easy.

Christian Thank You card

Philippians 1:6

This was a thank you card, made some years ago, for the pastor of my church and his wife. We had been studying the book of Philippians, so it seemed appropriate.

The large rose stamp is from Stamps Happen Inc. ~ #80271 English Rose. The bible text was computer-generated, and the Thank You stamp was a lucky find.. a cheapie foam-backed one.

Pink Splash Thank You

Another family Thank You card, and also fresh from my craft desk today! You can probably tell; it's very similar to the black one below... the same IndigoBlu script stamp, this time over a Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide blend with an AALL & Create splatters stencil. I've used the same Thank You die from Cheery Lynn, and the lace border die from Card Making Magic, and the leaves from Crealies.

Black Rose Thank You

Fresh from my craft desk! A family thank you, using an IndigoBlu script stamp and Elzybells Sugar Candy white pigment ink, a Card Making Magic lace border die, coloured with a Broken China Distress Ink pad (direct to paper). The 'Thank You' die is by Cheery Lynn, plus various flowers, Basic Grey button, waxed cord and Crealies foliage.

Pink Paisley wedding invitation

 For this one, I've just used some pretty Paisley-patterned paper, a stamped wedding-appropriate sentiment, layered onto co-ordinating cardstock, with one of my favourite tricks.. the asymmetric tearing. I sculpted a couple of hearts punched from embossed silver card, and raised them on 3D pads. A paper rose and printed words complete the design.

Valentine Rose

Made years ago for a male colleague to give to his wife. I forgot to take a photo before putting it in the cardbag. D'uhh! The sentiments were printed directly onto the card first, then I used a Fiskars Shapecutter template to trace around the heart shape with a red pen, added some pretty green skeleton leaves, curled some gold (brass) wire, added some beaded paper rosebuds and some pearl spray strands, secured everything underneath a ribbon carnation.

Tulips wedding invitation

This one was achieved using a square punch, capturing partial images of stamped and watercoloured tulips. The word squares were punched from the best parts of repeat overlapping stampings.. first, second and third generations, giving a graduated appearance in colour, but showing different parts of the words so there was no mistaking what they were. The squares were mounted on 3D foam pads onto a large purple square background.

Birthday Rose

This is another old one, but I promise to have more new ones soon! The heart is the outer of a green (small) Sizzix die.. what they now call Bigz, but you no longer get the three sizes in Bigz dies.. not since the introduction of Thinlits. A panel of pretty paper, a panel of glittery card, a paper rose and a sentiment creates this very simple design. The Birthday word is computer-generated using a vintage typewriter font, with a pink background, then glossed up with Glossy Accents to make it look like Dymo tape.

Braveheart wedding invitation

This one is from several years ago. I haven't used peel-offs in years. Not that I'm snooty about them; I just prefer other methods for sentiments now. As with 99% of my wedding designs.. and other designs, come to that..  it's very simple. The hearts are punched out of embossed silver card, and the head of the Fred Mullett thistle stamp is coloured with navy blue and purple art markers.

Mother's Day Card

This was made last year for the friend I made the draft Rainbow invitation designs for (scroll back about three posts for them). Her baby arrived two weeks early, just in time for Mother's Day, so I had to act fast! This uses some pretty rose paper, Anna Griffin rose die-cuts and a Quickutz alphabet for the letters.

Sequin Hearts wedding invitations

These were very simple, again, with just a strip of coloured paper, punched hearts on top, a cascade of tiny sequin hearts (difficult to photograph because of the reflection), and the words were stamped in silver Encore metallic ink.

Here's a purple version...

Brother-In-Law's birthday card

This card was made for my brother-in-law (you may have guessed that) about 10 years ago. I've used and distressed Basic Grey papers, and used a Cuttlebug script embossing folder on the green. I found the brown button in my mum's old button tin, and sanded it. The letters for the greeting are computer-generated in upper and lower case and cut out separately to ink the edges and set them in that up and down style.The letters for his name are chipboard. I covered them in paper, inked the edges and used clear heat embossing to make them shine.

Rainbow Invitations

These are a collection of draft designs for a friend to choose from for her wedding and baby naming ceremony. Her baby, Iris, is called a Rainbow Baby, as she was a miracle following three babies lost to miscarriage. I used coloured card for some and watercolour for others to convey the spectrum.

Please feel free to ask if you have any questions.

Ultimate Roses

Pretty paper (torn), over pink vellum (also torn), two paper rosebuds, a bow, computer-generated words and two tiny heart sequins. Simple.

Wired Rosebud

Meh. This was a very early effort, back in the day. It is a square of silk dupion fabric that I've frayed, and you can see that my obsession with rosebuds started very soon in my card-making career. There is a glass bead tucked under the calyx of the bud, and a gold (aka brass) wire wrapped around it.

Queen Bee card

This one started out life as an ATC,  just a week ago, using just the bee from a stamp designed by Olga Heldwein for AALL & Create, #81. My friend, Lisa, told me that when she was an Occupational Therapist, she was required to check in by phone once she arrived home at the end of her shift, for security reasons. She would say, "The Queen Bee is in the hive!"

I recently received a RAK from Lisa with some crafting goodies and a beautiful card, so I was about to make a card for her anyway to say thank you, and this was the obvious thing to do!

For more details about the ATC, scroll back a few posts. All I have done for the card is add a honeycomb die-cut from the same embossed gold card I used for her majesty's crown, and computer-generated wording in the same vintage typewriter font that I used for the ATC.

The card is A5 (7" x 5").