Black and White

This week seems to have had a "monochromatic" theme and this 2nd card was quick and easy. The card was folded on my wooden folding board from paper mill days. The first line was scored at gatefold A5 and creased then the card placed back on the board and scored along A5 from A4 sheet line. This gives the unusual gatefold . The finished card is A5 size. The border was done with the crafty edger. I forgot to take a note of which papers I used and there're none left to refer to, sorry, but it was nice to make use of both sides on the card. A little punched flower complete with gem just add the finishing touch. I added an insert trimmed with the same border which you can just about catch a glimpse of.

Hot Diggety Dog

Today's task was to create some cards using these decoupage from a Die-cut pack. They're pretty clean and simple. The dog with the little coat on reminds me of our own wee Suzie! The background is another tri-boss folder and the background on the shoe easel card is embossed with a butterfly folder which I think is from Craft concepts. Please correct me if I'm wrong tho! I put the Woodware crafty edger to use too, with the ribbon border amd the stars border.

My own Christmas cards.

These were two of the designs I used for the cards I sent out at Christmas.

Snowflake card.

The snowflake was cut with the cuttlebug die again. And the background embossed. This card needed very little else and was quick for batches. A peel-off greeting and some gems were all the embellishments required.

Bauble card.

Another quick card, the bauble was cut using a Marianne Creatables die from sparkly card. I then stuck these to a sheet of turquoise and cut around them by hand. The borders were created using the Woodware Crafty Edger and elegant flourish die.

Cards from a previous class

Cards from my 2nd class.

Rose pocket fold

I cut a 12X12 double sided paper to 11" so it would fit in the envelope. (have made that mistake before!!) the Crafty Edger ribbon border punch worked really nicely and the rose, made from a scalloped circle, just fills up the wee space at the corner. The only problem is that despite my efforts it still won't fit in the blinken envelope as the flower sits up too high! Aww well, better luck next time!

Let it snow

I made use of my collection of Cuttlebug folders for the 2nd card.(I didn't get the title 'cuttlebug queen' from my friends in Paper Mill shop days for nothing!!!!) the background was embossed using snow dots and the a larger tree using budding vine. The tree shapes were cut with a nellies die. Torn pearlised paper makes snow and "Let it snow" embossed and mounted on a scrap piece of silver sparkly card completes this one.