Steampunk Card

Bought lots and lots of crafty supplies from a craft fair back in March, one of them being this lovely stamp and though I'd give it the Steampunk treatment :)

Stamp - House of Zandra - "Safari Girl"
Backing Paper  - Creative Imaginations, Marah Johnson - "True"
Dies - Memory Box  - Steampunk Corner
           Cheery Lynn Designs  - Chicken wire
Flowers  - Mirri Satin card
                 EK Success Reto Flower punch
                 Nellie Snellen Floral punch - Stamen 1
                 Cuttlebug embossing folder - Diamond Plate
Sentiment - computer generated and gone over with Atyou Spica glitter pens

Take Care & Keep Smiling :)

Tilda and Edwin friendship card

I made this card for a friend who has been ill and is currantly living in a nursing home. I wanted to make something cheery and bright. I was going to upcycle the Chasing butterflies card I made, but decided the colours weren't bright enough ...

Front image -
Magnolia Chasing Butterflies background and Summer background.
Helloooo - computer generated hand cut and then glazed with Sakura clear glaze pen.
Lace and cross stitch sewn by hand.
Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Inside image -
Magnolia Chasing Butterflies Chasing Tilda, Chasing Edwin and Summer background
Butterfly - Cheery Lynn Designs small exotic butterflies dies coloured with Tim Holtz Mustard Seed and Wild Honey inkpads and sprayed with Glimmer mist Dazzling Diamonds
Flowers - punches from EK Success and Tonic Studios
Foliage - Cheery Lynn mini fanciful flourish die.
Cross stitch - hand sewn

Sentiment page -
Sentiment is computer generated.
Clouds - Memory Box mini clouds die
Cross stitch - hand sewn

All ovals are Spellbinders Grand caliber ovals and scalloped ovals. All images coloured with Derwents coloursoft pencils and Sansodor.
Gingham backing paper made by me on my extremely old graphics program and printed on hessian paper.

Thank you for looking. Take care and keep smiling :)

Friendship / Thank you Card

Hello, I was asked to make a friend / thank you card, and here is my effort...

The image on the front is a painting "Sweet Pea Blossoms" by Edward John Poynter. The frame was make with VERY thick grey card gone over with Verafine Olympic Green ink pad and Stayzon metallic copper.
Inside and back the frames are Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles, cut with green card and sponged with Stayzon metallic copper ink.The rubber stamp used on the sentiments and back of card is from Elusive Images "Wild Meadow", (but I think this company has now gone out of business) using Tim Holtz Peeled Paint ink pad. The flourish die is from Cheery Lyn Mini Fanciful Flourish. The flowers don't come with the die, they were made with a tiny punch. The "lace" at the bottom is made with Martha Stewarts Doily Lace punch, and the put the the Cuttlebug with the Swiss dots embossing folder. There, think I covered everything, just got to make a box for it now :o)
Take care and keep smiling

PS. The paper used is Daisy D's Antique Blue - Wild Flowers. Though it's not blue it's green !!!