a 70th birthday card

We were recently invited to a friend's 70th birthday - and I wanted to make her something a bit nicer than the normal card. A friend on my yahoo group mentioned a tri-fold card and bingo I knew it would be perfect.

The birthday girl loves purple so it was a matter of searching through all my 'purple' collection and starting from there. The only problem I really had was that the original sheet that I cut from was a little bit smaller than the specified 12x12 inch sheet. Never the less I will be trying this one a second time later in the year. I'm sure it gets easier - cutting the slits was a bit tricky - but my fiskars cutter worked well with it .

November and invitations

Well my Christmas cards are almost finished and I'm back to playing with colours other than those I've chosen for the 25th Dec. Yeah!!


I decided to make these invitations ... and got carried away - but they are in my favourite colours. I saw something similar on splitcoaststampers (for a child's invitation) and went from there. The invite isn't the exact one I saw - but you get the idea.

Hope you like this and it inspires you to future projects - thanks for stopping by

playtime

I saw something the other day - and have been playing (OK so I've been putting off making one of my swaps)

This is my first attempt - I cut out the dress template then fed it through my cuttlebug - a bit of DTP and then think about it. In hindsight I'm not happy with the eyelets - too fussy and too many. But hey you learn along the way.

I like my second attempt better - but then I'm more comfortable with stronger colours. Same principle - cuttlebug and DTP. The 'skirt' is a white flower that I sprayed with Glimmer Mist Oriental Poppy; then I highlighted the skirt with Crystellina Kiddy Glitz. Much happier with this one!

And yes I know I promised to show my white scraps solution. Just gives me another excuse to play