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 !!!

Green Santa ???

While I'm waiting for the glue to dry on my next card I thought I'd show you a card I made on Tuesday. Yes I know, it's that Santa again and it's that Raspberry Ribbons sketch again, but I really am struggling to come up with anything new and I'm dying to get my HM and Magnolia stamps out again, but until I finish my Dads cards I can't, so you'll just have to bear with my repeats...

Santa looks blue in the picture but he's actually green. Oh well, from the base up, here goes...

1. Stardream Pearlescent green card

2. DP is from DaisyD, it's called Antique Blue Wild Flowers, but trust me it's not blue, it's green. I was most miffed when it came and it was green, but it's a nice paper, so I'll forgive them for being colour blind!

3. Main image is mounted onto dark green linen paper and then silver silk Mirri card.

4. Dark green silk ribbon threaded down each side and some silver snowflake border peel offs and some thin silver border peel offs.

5. Prima flowers, the larger has a pearl brad and the smaller flowers silver brads. The leaves are from syntego.

6. The seal stamp is from Magnolia, stamped onto white pearlescent card with Brilliance pearlescent ivy ink pad.

The card I'm working on at the moment is an image I've not used before and it's lovely. Other than that I'm saying nothing else, other than you'll have to wait :)

Take care & keep smiling

House Mouse Challenge 9

Hello, good morning and welcome,
Yeahhh I finished my House Mouse Challenge. I didn’t think I was going to enter this week as the sketch looked complicated and my HM stamps are all on the large side or didn’t lend themselves to being put in a circle. But once I sat and had a good look at it, it wasn’t that hard at all…

The HM stamp I used is called “I can catch it” and the Christmas tree is of an unknown brand that I got off ebay. They are both coloured with my trusty Derwent Coloursoft pencils and Sansodor. The baubles and star have yellow Stickles glitter glue on them. They were both cut out and stuck on (mouse is stuck on with foam pads) some creamy coloured card that had been sponged with Brilliance Gamma Green. This was then mounted on gold silk Mirri card (I’m addicted to this stuff) that had been cut with my classic circle Nestabilities. The band going across the middle was made from the “waste” of a Sizzix swirl die I had used on my Peter Rabbit card I made a couple of days ago, which was again mounted on gold silk Mirri card. The DP is Daisy D’s Heirloom Red – Floral and Prima Marketing Urban Cosmos “Colony”. The flowers are Prima and I wasn’t going to put the red rhinestones on the scallop circle but I bodged the hole for the brad in the wrong place (serendipity). And lastly some gold organza ribbon as I didn’t want to hide the gold swirls then all stuck on some Stardream Pearlescent red (Mars) card. Well, for a card I didn’t think I could do, it didn’t turn out to bad. Hope you like it and thank you for looking.

PS. I forgot to say that the image was inspired by you ladies who didn’t have Halloween HM stamps last week, but all managed to enter by adapting the stamps you had got. Thank you Ladies for your ingenuity and inspiration.xxx