All occasion card with a photo of a bee embellished with glittery butterflies

This is the final card from this long production run of cards created with photos trimmed from photo calendars given to me by my sister.   This one features a bee on a flowering chive.    The photo has a white border so needed no other embellishement.  I created a large purple card and then trimmed a coordinating background.  I added a strip of coordinating paper which I overlaid with a strip of purple then added three little coordinating eyelets.  I adhered this large layer to my card front and then added the photo at a bit of an angle.  As a final touch I added two little glittery butterflies!!  Done!!

It has been much fun!!!

Therese

 

January Card Club - hexagons over decorative paper backgrounds with flowers and leaves

Card #3 - I have been playing with hexagons lately inspired by several interesting ones on Splitcoast Stampers. 

OOPS!!!!!  I see that I snuck one of the #2 cards into this photo!!  See this post for details!!

These cards started with the hexagons cut from a variety of papers and then the coordinating backgrounds and cards were chosen.  The embellishments were then created to enhance the cards.  The flower embellishments were created by layering silk flowers and adding a sequin then a brad to hold them together.  The leaf was punched, embossed (TH) and then gold embossed to reveal the texture.  I tied on a little cording on the stem for yet more texture.  These embellishements were added to our card using 3D foam tape.  Therese

 

January Card Club - layered decorative paper backgrounds with fun images on scalloped circles

Card #2 - All the images on these cards are from Cre8tive Hands.  A great variety of digital images which I sized in Corel Draw and laser printed.  I punched them out with a 1.75" in punch (SU) and then layered onto coordinating scalloped circles (Nestibilities). I provided strips of coordinating papers and a large background and everyone just played until they were happy and glued everything down.  We added our focal elements with 3D foam tape.  Cards appropriate for a wide variety of occasions!!  Totally fun!!

Therese

 

January Card Club - little birds on a branch

 It has been two years since I hosted Card Club and last night I had girls over for a creative evening of fun!!!  We followed all the public health protocols and it was so nice to be together and making cards.  

Card #1 - these fun cards started with coordinating elements - a decorative background, a wavy label (SX) and a large oval.  The branch is actually a tree die cut (TH) trimmed to the single branch that spans the width of the oval.  The little birds were punched (SU), sponged on their edges and eyes and beaks added with a fine tip black marker.  The wings were embossed and glued on.  The birds were added to the layered card fronts using 3D foam tape.  The final touch was a little tulle embellishment which I created by folding a small piece of tulle (1.75" x 3" or so) into an accordion and then tying it off in the middle with crochet thread.  We applied them with glue dots to the right hand side of the branch.  Lots of fun papers and textures on these very versatile cards!!  Therese

Orange and black quilt

I have been working on this quilt (38" x 55") for a few weeks and have finally finished the hand stitching on it.  It is a large cotton panel to which I added a thin cotton batting and a yellow/orange cotton backing.  I put the panel and backing right side together, added the batting and stitched all the way around leaving an opening so I could turn it inside out.  After trimming it and turning it I double stitched the edge with black thread.  I used orange thread to stitch wavy lines between the circles in the center area.  I hand stitched french knots on all the small orange circles in the borders and a wavy line in the black piece I added to the top to cover up some wording.  You can see below some close ups of the hand stitching.  

 

Thank you cards with hand decorated paper backgrounds and fun greetings

 I made these two little thank you cards for my grand children who gave us handmade gifts for Christmas!!!  Always appreciate handmade!!

I cut two cards to fit in small envelopes in brown and black.  I added hand decorated papers from my stash and then some greetings.  The thank you is a laser printed font greeting. I tore the edges, added lines of paper piercing and used two eyelets to attach it to the paper before mounting it to the brown card.  The other one is a laser printed digital greeting that was die cut and then watercoloured to coordinate with the background.  I layered it over a coordinating circle before mounting it to my card using 3D foam tape.  

Therese