Wedding Anniversary

My mum is a seamstress.  She has made lots of clothes for her family over the years, including her husband.  So, when I saw this image from www.squiglysplayhouse.com (though the link doesn't seem to be working for me today), I knew that I would have to colour it up and use it for my mum's wedding anniversary.  [She loved it, by the way!]

The inspiration for my card came from here, from a blog by Sonja called "Flatis Stempelwelt".  I was inspired by her layout, the colours, and the flowers that she made.

The centre of my flower is a homemade "button", but without the button holes punched out.  I followed the instructions by Jennifer Pauli.

I've used a Martha Stewart punch called Arch Lattice, and adhered the pearls in my own swirls.

Regards
Vivienne.

Postcard card

Here is a card I made for a friend.  The image is a postcard, which I first trimmed down to the size that I wanted, and then cut into squares.  Each square had it's edges sanded with fine sandpaper to give that narrow white border.  The tricky part was attaching them to the card so that they were all neatly lined up!  Again I used the "flat ribbon trick" for my ribbon.

Regards
Vivienne.

Card for my step-sister

Here is a card that I made for my sister-in-law.  Again I've taken an old card from my stash, and spruced it up a bit.  I added the threads, and the flower.  (Hmm, it probably could've done with some shading too, but it looked all right IRL.)  Unfortunately, my flower got a little squashed in the scanner!  I made it using a technique from StampArtic.

Regards
Vivienne.

Mother's Day card

Here is the card that I made for my Mum and my Mum-in-Law this year (I made the same card twice).

The image is from Coloring-Page.biz.  I've coloured it with Crayola colouring pencils and baby oil.

The 2 lemon coloured flowers I've made myself.  The pink ones were bought from Bizzy Becs (which is a great online store, by the way!).

The ribbon was tied using the "flat ribbon trick".

Regards
Vivienne.

Ant

The above card was made for my MIL's husband.  It uses an image by Dustin Pike. I've coloured him using crayola colouring pencils and "De-Solv-it" (an orange based cleaner).  The buckle was taken from my broken shoes before I tossed them in the bin.

Dustin Pike is having the most amazing sale at the moment, but you'd better be quick as it ends on the 18th July.  He is selling all of his 2009 images that haven't been converted into stamps, all 233 of them, for only 10 USD.  (I took advantage when he had this sale at the beginning of this year.  The above is one of those images.)

He is also selling a new Autism Awareness set for 10USD.  As a "Christmas in July" special, you will also receive all of his 2010 images so far.  Now I'd already bought 1/2 of them (bummer!), but I still took advantage of the special!  Again, be quick.

Even if you don't go for the above specials, make sure that you visit his blog where he is giving away a freebie.  (Go back through his old posts, because he regularly gives one away).

Regards,
Vivienne.

Card for Niece

 

I used to be a consultant with Crafty Kids (now Kazazz - strange name!).  Anyway, during my time with them, I made quite a few "sample" cards.  By my standards now, these were very simple cards.  So I've set myself a challenge of improving on them.  I forgot to take a "before" pic of this one, but it was just the die-cut heart on the green card.  The "feature" of the card was that it opened in the middle (ie the heart is only attached on one side).

So my modifications were to add the ribbons, and the panels of coloured background paper.  Hmm, maybe it could've done with some inking somewhere too.  But it's a nice bright cheery card for my young niece.

Regards,
Vivienne.

Unicorn

Here is a card I made for a little friend of mine.  I've again used an image by Elizabeth Dulemba, called Unicorn.  The unicorn is coloured using colouring pencils and baby oil, and is mounted up on foam.
The nestibilities circle was kindly cut for me by a generous lady called Angie.
Regards,
Vivienne
 

Roses

This is a card that I made for some lovely friends of ours (husband and wife).  Their birthdays are very close together, so I always send them the one card for both of them (this is one way to get out of making a male card!).
My inspiration came from Lovely Linda's blog.
The roses image is a beautiful drawing by Beccy.  Her blog is called Beccy's Place.
Regards,
Vivienne.

Birthday Bear

This is a birthday card for another niece.  The card looks a bit better in real life, due to the flower not getting squished in the scanner!
The adorable image is from Elizabeth Dulemba's site, and I've coloured it using colouring pencils and baby oil.  The bear and cake are then carefully cut out, and raised up on foam mounts.

Regards
Vivienne.

Fairy Card

Here is a birthday card that I made for my niece with a colouring image from www.coloring.ws.
The fairy has been coloured with colouring pencils and baby oil. The flower has been made using a cool technique from StampArtic. The butterfly is a sticker, attached to acetate and the wings are lifted from the page.

Regards,
Vivienne.