Card lovin'

Some more cards that I whipped up at the end of last year, that I loved but never got the chance to blog about!

 This one was Felicity's birthday card. I used my Hexagon punch from Stampin Up to punch out different coloured scraps of aqua Patterned Paper and I love it!! The sweet little owl juuuuuusssstttt fit inside the hexagon, so he had to be included too!

 Next I broke out my hexagon embossing folder (also from SU) and thought I'd mix it up a bit by cutting along the embossed line to make an interesting edge. I'm so happy with it! I had this really sweet red patterned paper with a very baroque image on it, and I had no idea how to use it so you could still see the image. Well, when I mounted it behind the hexagon panel, it was perfect! I added the sentiment, some ribbon and a paper flower and voila!

 And cos it was so good, I made another one, just slightly different {wink!}

 I Love Hot Air Balloons! Do you? I'm loving this set from SU, and it goes so perfectly with the tiny Memory Box cloud dies I bought! Don't they cut such cute little clouds?! I embossed a piece of grey card with my chevron embossing folder and this card has to be one of my faves!

 Here's one that I threw together using all the scraps left over on my desk. I love when these cards practically make themselves! Cos I pick up all the bits, throw them down and just tweak the placement a little and I love it! The colour combo on these 2 cards- grey, aqua & yellow is gorgeous too, you can't go wrong!

 And for a totally different colour scheme I went with pale pink and aqua for these next 2 cards. I embossed 3/4 of the pink card so the top of the card would be patterned but the bottom 1/4 would be plain so you can see the pattern on the paper. Me muchos likey! It's quite interesting!

 And I made another one, similar. Hehe.

 Here's another fave card (have I said that about all the cards today?? {giggles}. The background paper is sooooo cool! Its from a pad of 12x12 paper, maybe even an Aldi one. Love it! I used some hexagon embossed aqua card, silver glitter washi tape and a punched shape for the sentiment. I love the colours and the patterns and the texture on this card!

So again, I made another one. {smiles}. This colour scheme is perfect for a modern wedding card, but for birthdays, babies, thanks, anything!
Have you been making cards lately?
Thanks for dropping by!
:) C

Cards from Fliss's :)

Hi Y'all!
I woke up and it's raining! I thought it was supposed to be a real hot weekend, I didn't know it was going to rain! I do love waking up the the sound of the soft droplets on the tin roof next door, it's quite soothing. At least the only plans we had for today is to go to Balmain for breakfast with our work friends. YAY! I love breakfasts out at a cafe, so much fun! I wonder what I'll have..... probably pancakes! {drool!}
Here are the cards I made during my cardmaking day with Felicity on Thursday :) {hugs Fliss} it was a fun day! I looked through my card box and decided that I needed more wedding/engagement/anniversary cards, especially beautiful, elegant ones. So that's what I set about doing. How do you like them? I do love light blue and brown for elegant wedding colours and on this first card I combined Baja Breeze and Soft Suede and used the medallion from Artistic Etchings to add a bit of interest. I love that set! The ribbon on this one is one of my fave's too, it's very elegant with it's 2 colours of satin ribbon with organza between.
The next card uses the beautiful Congratulations sentiment from {} set. The font they have used for these stamps is just soooo pretty! I embellished with some ribbon and sweet little Kaiser pearls. The small flourish is also from Artistic Etchings. This is a very simple card, but I really like it as a wedding or engagement card, especially cos the SEI paper is very chic too.
And while I was at it I made a second similar card! I also love this cream embossed BG paper that Yvette gave me. I love it a lot, but I'm finding it a bit easier to use up papers I like, instead of hoarding them! I know I have a lot of gorgeous papers and there are always nice ones to buy! It was the last of that brown and pink spotty ribbon too, hooray {cheering} cos I hardly ever use up ribbons! I have hundreds in my collection and I really need to start using up more of the older ones too. {Sigh}, I'm going to need to do crafting 36hrs a day (yes, a day, not a week! I need 1.5 days in one!) to put a dent in it all!
And just one more card.... I made a "man" anniversary card! I figured most of my customers are women and they probably need to get anniversary cards for their husbands so I made a man coloured card! I hope you like it!
:) C