80th Birthday Card Commission

This was the second card for my friend. It is an 80th birthday card for her mum, who is only partially sighted, so I wanted the card to have some texture to it.
The beautiful fan is from Joanna Sheen's Fashion Boutique CD and is mounted onto some burgundy leather effect paper. The other half of the card is pink glitter card embossed with a cuttlebug and finished off with embellishments from my stash.
I owe a massive "thank you" to fellow Sheenie Jenny (Starcyl) who very kindly sent me a huge envelope full of different patterned and textured card she had embossed for me on her cuttlebug machine so that I could make this card more tactile. Thanks so much Jenny, hope you like the card.

40th Birthday Card Commission

Well, it feels like ages since I posted anything on either of my blogs. At long last I've started to feel a bit better and not a moment too soon. My best friend had asked me to make a couple of family cards for her ages ago, but it wasn't until yesterday that I felt up to making any cards, so the 40th birthday card was made yesterday and the 80th one today.
For some unknown reason my scanner will only recognise this card as being black and white. In actual fact it's pale pink glitter card with a silver miri card trim and silver peel offs, finished off with some pink, silver and clear adhesive gems.
Apologies for a terrible scanned image!

Golden Anniversary Cards

The second golden wedding card is made from black tapestry cardstock and the beautiful images used are from Joanna Sheen's Fashion Boutique CD (which I seem to use all the time as it's so gorgeous).
The main image I mounted onto black cardstock and then onto gold satin cardstock and completed it with some gold corner peel offs and a couple of tiny adhesive gems. I then mounted a piece of the matching backing paper onto some gold satin card and used this as a side panel. The whole card was finished off with some adhesive gems used in a row for the top corner and a couple of tiny gold peel offs.

Golden Anniversary Cards

I don't know what's been wrong with me, but I haven't felt like making any cards for about a week now even though I've got some commissions to make, but during a regular family chat last week, my family were invited to a get together for my uncle and aunt's golden wedding anniversary, so I got myself moving and made a couple of 50th anniversary cards for them (one will be from my mum and one from me). Hopefully this will have done the trick and got me back into the swing of card making again.
I wanted the cards to look quite special, so (with a little help from some friends on Joanna Sheen's forum) I made them as 8 x 8 cards and used some of Joanna Sheen's beautiful tapestry cardstock (one in white and one in black tapestry).
The first card was made from white tapestry cardstock and I mounted the cut off piece of A4 onto some black cardstock and popped it on the front to make a side panel. I wanted to use one of their wedding photos and mounted this together with their names onto some gold miri card for the side panel of the card (the little bridesmaid is me). I also embossed some gold satin card with the Glitter Girl's Majestic board to give a scalloped effect to this side panel, while for the main part of the card I printed a lovely verse onto some gold vellum. The whole card has been finished off with some gold border and corner peel offs, a large white daisy with a gold gem in the centre and last, but definitely not least, I've used some beautiful adhesive pearls on the corners of the card and the verse.

Get Well card

My daughter in law hasn't been well this week. She's never ill, so when she takes to her bed for days you know she's really poorly. She decided last week that she thought the Tilda stamps were cute, and she liked my "Tilda template challenge" card so much that she took it home with her, so I made her a "get well" card with my new stamp, as she hasn't seen this one before. I used similar colours to the other card as she had liked the denimy blue on that, let's just hope she likes this one! The wording reads "There's nothing wrong with me that chocolate can't fix".

Baking Tilda's debut

Well, my first Tilda arrived this morning from Joanna Sheen and all I can say is this will positively NOT be my last, as I think she is totally adorable! I couldn't wait to stamp her out and, bless her, she was just so grateful that she even baked biscuits!
She was stamped and then watercoloured with Caran D'Ache pencils, a little Stickles glitter was used for her wings and hairband then she was mounted onto some cream oval card and some chocolate brown sparkly cardstock. The little greeting was a Cuddly Buddly stamp which I watercoloured and then used Crystal Lacquer, the whole card was finished off with a little chocolate ribbon and a pretty pink bow. By the way, the card is from a gorgeous set of K & Co cards that I bought ages ago and forgot all about until recently.
My cousin has a birthday coming up next month so she may receive this card, then again, she is SO sweet, I may just have to keep her myself.

Vintage Cards for Men - part 2

The second card (from me this time) uses another vintage image from the same CD, to which I've simply added his name and a strip down the side which, hopefully, looks like a book spine. Finished off with a gold feather like embellishment and a peel off sentiment.
Inside this card I've popped a little bookmark that I made for him featuring another favourite pastime of golf.