DOUBLE FOLD CARD - WITH CENTRE CLOSING

Another card made in class with Ursula, credit was given to Annette's Creafarm for the template.

Card closed

Card open


Paper used was from the docrafts Papermania 'the little cake shoppe'

Stamps:      Free stamps received with a docrafts Creativity magazine

                  Stamps manufactured by our local craft shop

                  Tatty Teddy stamp

                  Small tea cup stamp - Marianne design - Eline's Huis

Cup cakes were coloured in using watercolour pencils and highlighted with Stickles glitter glue

DRESSING TABLE CARD

Tuesday was card making class at Country Crafts.  This is such a nice shape card and lends itself to such a lot of pretty embellishments.

Card made in class



Card made at home

As you can see if I like a card then I usually make more than one.  The card made in class used paper from the Country Companions pack, but the second card was made using scraps (all bits and pieces are saved for 'just in case'). Embellisments are bits of lace, flat backed pearls, pearls on a string as well as charms with a few punched flowers and leaves. The lady on the mirror is from a set of stamps - sorry cannot remember the make. Thank you Ursula for a great class.

PINK FANTASY

The pattern for this card came from Hobbyjournaal 85.

The following materials were used:

Marianne design - From the Don & Daisy stamp sets and coloured in with watercolour pencils

Marianne dies for the white background, some of the large leaves and the cream spray

Patterned paper from a Wilson & Maclagen paper pack

Fern leaves - Joy die

Small leaves & flowers punched with Papermania punches

Butterflies (I think its a Carl punch) edged with pink chalk & highlighted with Stickles glitter glue

Roses are bought ones

STEPPER CARD

One of our daughter Catherine's friends is having a baby boy - so, here is the card I made for her.

Another 'drawer' type card.  Thanks to Colette Smith for the inspiration behind this card.

The Marianne 'Snoesjes' stamp, coloured in with watercolour pencils and placed on a Marianne die.  The Teddy Bears were cut with two different size punches and the hanger from the Cricut Cartridge 'Everyday Paper Dolls'.  Both the bow tie and shirt cut by hand.

ALADDIN'S CAVE

Joan's shop is like an Aladdin's Cave - if only one could go into the shop with a 'pot of gold' to buy lots of the great papers, stamps and dies.

The new Mariaan dies and vintage ladies stamps are lovely and on this card I utilised one of the stamps and the great  new flourish.  The round dies are from 'Simply 2-die-4' which I have surrounded with small flat backed pearls and at the top I have used a Joy die for the leaves and made quilling flowers with flat backed pearls in the centre. The greeting was computer generated.

LOADS OF FUN

The Cricut Cartridge - Tags, Bags, Boxes & More 2 is giving me loads of fun.  The following card is cut so easily and quickly and lends itself to many different ways of decoration.  Have shown friends how to make this card and they all loved it.

Inside of card

Card open





Card closed, flowers cut with Cricut (Forever Young)
& top border punch Martha Stewart, white spray
Marianne die















Birds 3D Decoupage sheet & florish Marianne die,
border punch X-cut - Daisy Trail



















WEAVING USING SCRAPS

Bought the South African 'Craftwise' magazine and this card was demonstrated by Fransie Snyman who has also written a book 'Cards Galore'.

What a lot of fun I had using scraps - now I know why all scraps are 'saved'.  Thank you Fransie for sharing your idea with us in the magazine.

MENS BOX CARD

This is a 'snazzy' box card - both the front and back are part of the box (cut as one piece), but are attached to the 'box' with Velcro strips, thereby enabling one to open the little box.  Made using the cartridge 'Tags, Bags, Boxes and more 2'.

Front view

Side view 



VICTORIAN ROMANCE

My daughter, Catherine and husband Walter gave me two Cricut Cartridges for my birthday.  Lucky me.  The first card I made using the above cartridge turned out to be a bit dull!!  However, I showed two friends how to make the card and we used browns instead of the greys - much nicer I think.

Grey card

Brown card

                                                                     made by Maxi

CARD WITH ENVELOPE AT THE BACK

Attended a class where we made this card.  As usual if I like a card I make 2 or 3!  Here they are all together.

For the card in the middle I used flowers from a 3D Decoupage sheet and the other two have 'cut outs' from Cricut Cartridges.  The bird is too cute and comes from (of all things) 'Four Legged Friends' cartridge.

Thank you Hendrien for an easy and useful card.