Handmade With Love

ROBYN made this card which she was happy to share with us. As you can see it's not your average 4 sided card, however, it did start off that way and from the photo below you will see that using a blade you can cut through at least 2/3's of the card then create a concertina effect on one side. Well done! The following card was made by ANNE - check out how much detail is in it, lots of layers and she has also used diamond glaze to give the shapes more depth. The owl is a stamp which Anne has stamped a couple of times and cut out sections to layer it, giving a 3D effect. So much work - absolutely amazing!

GINA has created the card below using a layer effect as well and doubled sided foam mount to give it height. Gina has used patterned paper to create this card - just beautiful! I also love the use of brads and ribbon to embellish it.

MARCIA has used a shimmer glitter effect which unfortunately the computer image doesn't show, as well as lots of gorgeous diamantes ... love that bling!

ROSA has created the card below by using one of her beautiful tulip photos which I think she snapped in Canberra. You know I love photos Rosa ... well done.

I included the below card which was made by my son BEN. Somewhere he's found a photo on my computer and printed it out. Without using any stamps he has written the word HAPPINESS which is what this card brought to me.

Recipe Book by Marg

Being a mother of 3 boys I don't get to often buy girlie gifts but my son recently was invited to a fellow school mates birthday party which happened to be a girl. Thinking what to buy I decided that with all the recent interest in cooking shows I'd put together a little cooking kit along with this book that I decorated and covered in contact for Sammy to put all her favourite recipes in. I also added a few to start her off. Being one of 5 kids I hope Sam makes lots of yummy treats for her family.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAMMY!

RAINY DAY CARDS By Marg

Cards don't have to be complicated - just by using simple laying you can create something special. Best of all, it's a great way to use up your offcuts.
The hardest thing about card making is coming up with the ideas and where to start. I find once you've created something that you are happy with, it's a great idea to make a couple more and try to incorporate different colours. Once you have a bit of a production line going, you'll be surprised how many cards you can produce. Below are a few samples of the same stamp, same layout but using different colours.

I love using the little diamantes that are now available for papercrafts - they just add that little bit of bling. I've also used diamond glaze on some of the petals as well as the bodice above to give a little 3D effect.

I've used diamond glaze on the thong straps below to give this card a bit of 3D effect, along with the mounted frangipani.

I find it hard to know what to do with rollagraphs, best advice is to roll an extra print and cut some of the content out such as the elephant and lion below, then mount with foam doubled sided tape to give it a bit of depth. Rollagraphs are also good for creating backgrounds. Diamond glaze was used on the little circle love hearts which were cut using a hole punch, this once again just lifts the card from being totally flat.