Box Card

I usually make this when people want to give chocolates as gift along with a card or if they want to give many cards.

You can add chocolates or sweets and put the card on top of them.

I have dyed the paper myself, Khaki or Army colour. Roughed it around the edges.

I drew the flowers on gold wrapping paper and applied glitter on the edges. For some flowers I used brown marker to give them an antique look.

There is a lot of sequence and embossing paste effects.

I totally forgot to take picture of the inner side. Hopefully I'll edit later, too lazy at the moment! hahahaha

This is how the box looks when closed. I spray painted the fern and the shells, along with some dried flowers. Sponged gold paint along the sides of the box. I dyed the box too so that I could get a rough look and textured card sheet in the end.

Desktop Card!

This card is created by Christina Fischer. I am sorry I do not have a link to her blog but I am mentioning her name. It's a wonderful card Christina! I had this card saved on my desktop since long, finally I had the courage to make one like it.

I made one like this, incorporating the colour red. As all of you know by now that I do not have stamps or punches so I doodled on it instead.

I dyed the red paper myself. It is not visible here but it has a beautifully distressed look.

I took the picture in direct light that is why the red is looking way too bright. The card colours are quite subtle then the ones in picture.

I took brown colour pencils, light and dark and shaded the entire card to give it an antique look.

Can you see the doodling??

Drew the heart myself. I had to cut it out so neatly just to safe the extra paper. You can see both the heart that I have cut and the paper from which it has been cut from.

This one is one of my neatest cuts! LOL

For a Friend...

I am making quite a few cards for a friend of mine, Sofia. I didn’t give her anything on her engagement and so I thought why not give her lots of cards. Therefore I am going to make lots of cards, mostly CASED. But these ones are my own.

I used the same wrapping paper and same design on both the cards. The only difference is that I made one with a butterfly for the Verve challenge.

I outlined the flowers and stems on the wrapping paper with gel pen and aqualip (embossing pen).

Faux stitched all around it and I also played a little with the edges to make it look rough. Then I outlined the edges with a pink gel pen and inside with a blue one.

The butterfly has been cut from the same paper. I used a few gel pens to outline it and added a little sequence. Doesn't show up clearly in the image though. I added pearly beaded feelers.

I did the same thing here too. The only time taking job was to draw these small flowers, cut them and then outline them with gel pen. These are really quite small.

Here you can look closely at how untidily I have made them! LOL

Bev's Fab Blog Candy!

The lovely Bev of "All the things I love" is offering blog candy. On offer is a selection of her crochet flowers, 20 odd Hanglar & Stanglar stamped images, a selection of flowers (mostly Prima), some Michaels Wedding Confetti flowers (pearlescent ivory), 2 reels of printed satin ribbon, 8 x 8 Papermania Simply Elegant pad, a Studio G Alphabet Set and a Studio G set of Christmas clear stamps.

If you havn't checked out her blog yet then please do and just leave a comment under the post "Blog Candy Time". She makes the most wonderful cards.

Swirls Again!

Lovin the swirls! :)

It's hard work, but I love the end result. They just look so beautiful. This card was made for the same person, my mom's colleague. He wanted it for someones birthday.

I discovered making swirls recently so I had to make one card specially based on swirls.

The card was looking quite empty, I drew a butterfly, coloured it up with the same colour pencil (I really wanted this colour to be the MAIN colour of the card). Enhanced it with some shading, embossing paste and glitter. One more empty space filled! LOL. I have been trying to get my hands on this sea-green colour but no luck at all. Just when I gave up any hope of getting this colour paper, I discovered I had a colour pencil just the same shade I wanted! So the light green parts you see in the card are coloured by a colouring pencil :)

Okay so this is no punched scallop shape or whatever you guys call it. This one is made using a compass. I individually drew semi circles and then cut this shape up. This is why a couple of them are a little different from the rest, and obviously the edges are not as neat as you get when you use punches. I wanted to write happy birthday in the circle but it was not appealing to me, so I made a flower and loved how it started looking. I did one more thing...

Inside the card I added this little print out. Coloured it up and did my thing with it, the colouring, glittering, faux stitching etc. Added a frame kinda thingy, just to liven it up a bit.