Autumn Anniversary

   I seemed to be in a Autumn theme mood for this card, I have never used Autumn colours together before but I was really pleased with the turn out.  This card was made for a lady who wanted a card to give to her husband who is celebrating their 12th Wedding Anniversary this October and it worked perfectly together.

  I used a card blank which was 175mm x 265mm, I then placed black cardstock which leaves a 5mm border of white.  I added a worn khaki colour backing paper and stamped fern leaves from Sheena Douglas 'A Little Bit Sketchy 2 - Optimism' stamp set and stamped them at random both bold and faded, and mounted this onto the black just leaving a 3mm border.

I stamped the church image from Sheena Douglas 'A Little Bit Sketchy 2 - Believe' stamp set onto watercolour card and coloured them using watercolours from Staedtler, then inked around the edge using a golden brown ink pad.  I mounted this onto the left over piece of the fern stamped worn khaki colour backing paper and made it into a three panel and mounted onto a black card then gold mirror card and added sticky pads for dimension.

  For the sentiment, I printed it onto white card and die cut using an scallop oval and mounted it on to a larger size scalloped oval in gold mirror card and inked the edge using the golden brown ink pad.  For added establishment I stamped a fern leaf three times in green onto white card cut out and then inked using the golden brown to tone down the white and placed them behind the sentiment.

I had a strip of black card which left a 25mm gap in the middle for ribbon.  I die cut both edges using 'Nellie Snellen Lace Edge Border Dies' and trimmed to fit the width of the card.  I wrapped 20mm pale gold, 10mm green and a 5mm tan satin ribbon on top of each other and added a large copper brown organza ribbon to add a finishing touch.

Inside the card I printed a verse, and made a 'Barbara Grey' style border using a ruler for a guide and used 3 fineliners, khaki, tan and light green. 

Method to Make:

• White Card blank
• Black Card
• Gold Mirror Card
• Scalloped Ovals (from cArt-Us)
• Church - (Sheena Douglas 'A Little Bit Sketchy 2 - Believe' stamp set)
• Fern Leaf - (from Sheena Douglas 'A Little Bit Sketchy 2 - Optimism' stamp set)
• Watercolours (from Staedtler)
• Nellie Snellen Lace Edge Border Die
• khaki background paper
• Fineliner Pen - Khaki, Tan and light Green
• Ribbon, Satin - 20mm Pale Gold, 10mm Khaki and a 5mm Tan.
• Ribbon Bow, Organza - Large Copper Brown
• Ink Pad - Golden Brown

I hope you like this card!

please feel free to rate and comment!

I will be entering this card into the following Blog challenges:

Allsorts - Week 117 Autumn Colours

Joanna Sheen - Autum Breeze

Challenge up your life - Challenge #80 Halloween / Autumn

Simple Silver

Next is a Simply Silver Christmas Card,  just like the above and the previous post (click here for a detail how to do).

Method to Make:

• White Card Blank
• Silver Mirror Card
• White Cardstock
• Hot Off the Press Enchanted Christmas Stamp (Tree)
• Cuttlebug Embossing Folder called Kassies Brocade
• Hand Punch (Star and Snowflake
• Silver Glitter thread
• Merry Christmas Sentiment
• Scalloped Scissors
• Stampendous Stamp ((Wishing you a Christmas Full of Joy and Peace) for sentiment insert)
• Silver Ink Pad

This is an upclose picture of the stamped tree on silver mirror card with a scalloped edge on the bottom and a rapped silver thread with a bow.

This is showing you the inside of the card.  Just using Silver Ink pad for the sentiment  and a silver fineliner for a wobble border to go with the Silver style.  This finishes the card off nicely.

I hope you like it.

Please feel free to comment!

I'm entering this card in the following blog challenges:

St Luke's Charity Cards - Simple Christmas Challenge

Simple Green

   I have made more simply style Christmas cards in the same style as my previous post (click here for a detail how to do)  but I only used one colour of mirror card.

  This is a Mirror Green simple Christmas Card.

Method to Make:

• White Card Blank
• Green Mirror Card
• White Cardstock
• Hot Off the Press Enchanted Christmas Stamp (Tree)
• Couture Creations Embossing Folder called Constellations
• Noel Backing paper (from First Editions Paper - Festive Treats)
• Hand Punch (Star and Snowflake
• Silver Glitter thread
• Stampendous Stamp ((Wishing you a Christmas Full of Joy and Peace) for sentiment insert)
• Green Ink Pad

 This is an upclose shot of the lovely detailed stamped tree and the embossed background.

This is showing you the inside of the card.  Just using green Ink pad for the sentiment to go with the green style finishes it off nicely.

I hope you like it.

Please feel free to comment!

I'm entering this card in the following blog challenges:

St Luke's Charity Cards - Simple Christmas Challenge