Birthday card featuring a kid on a bike with a diamond plate background and a font greeting

This is one of the cards I made for my friends's grandchildren.  The image was printed and trimmed from the letter sized sheet.  I tore the edges of the image and the top and bottom of the font greeting.  I added several blue watercolours to make a background for the silhouette image.  I used a dark blue ink pad to highlight the torn edges.  I ran my pattern tracing wheel on all four sides to add some texture and movement.  I added watercolour to the greeting and added paper piercing to both long edges as well.  I used a background created a while back using watercolour.  I embossed it with a Diamond Plate embossing folder (CB) and the highlighted the texture with the same dark blue ink pad I used on the edges of the image.  Love the look!  I adhered the greeting to the background using two diamond brads and the adhered this elemen to blue card.  I mounted my focal element to my card using 3D foam tape.  Really happy with how it worked out!!       Therese
 

Thank you card featuring a large poppy with a layered oval greeting

Still creating for my stash.  This card started with a dark green card to which I adhered a large poppy image from Calico Collage.  It is a digital which I colour printed and trimmed to size.  I added a red strip of cardstock below it and then mounted my layered greeting over it.  The greeting is a font in a dotted oval which was punched (SU) and then sponged on the edges with just a bit of green.  I layered it onto a silver scalloped oval punchie (SU) which I paper pierced with a push pin on each scallop to add some texture.  I mounted it with 3D foam tape.  

Therese

Father's Day card featuring a fabric paper background, a stitched leather leaf and a layer oval greeting

 This is my third Father's Day card.  I created a large rust card to fit in a large ivory envelope from my stash.  I trimmed a piece of fabric paper which I made quite a while back for my background and adhered it to my card front.  I trimmed a rust cardstock scrap with a large rick rack die (SX) and then embossed it with large polka dots.  I trimmed the piece to fit across my card.  I used orange thread to add veins to my burgundy leather leaf.  I adhered it to my rick rack trim using double sided tape and then mounted this element to my card.  I layered my oval Father's Day greeting to a brown scalloped oval after I colour washed it to coordinate.  I added it to my card using 3D foam tape.            Therese