Card in a Box

Well spring has finally arrived here in the UK. It is so nice to see the sun and spring flowers but it also means I can see all the jobs that need doing round the house and garden as well! Hence my lack of posts. We're doing a fairly major revamp of the garden to get rid of some of the very overgrown bushes, and I've had two large conifers taken out, which means a lot of empty space. I am going to put some more shrubs in but a lot less and more grass instead as it will be easier to manage.

Anyway when I did spend some time in the craft room I succumbed to making a card in a box which seem to be all the rage at the moment. To the extent that Craftwork Cards were selling kits for them on TV the other day.  Mine is not a kit - I made it and it is really quite easy.

I used the pretty Sweet Sorbet papers from Sale-a- Bration and the  co-ordinating stamp set Petal Parade.

 

 The leaves were punched out using the Owl Builder punch. The base card is Calypso Coral and I used Crisp Canteloupe, Pool Party and Pistachio pudding inks. The Happy Birthday  is Label Love with the matching punch.

A Sunburst Get Well!

There's not been much crafting done here last week as I had the decorators in and everything was topsy turvy. But I had made this card a while ago and not shown it yet.

I made it for my partner's brother who suffered a severe stroke back in September. I thought something bright and cheerful was in order and I'd been wanting to try one of these sunburst cards for a while.  I found the measurements to make it on YouTube, where there are lots of videos to choose from. they all seem to be for American sized A2 cards though. As my mathematical brain wasn't working (lol) I just went along with them and added a couple of mats to make it more the size I wanted.

The papers were all from my snippets box and are retired DSP (but it is a good way of using some of those snippets. I added some bits of card embossed with the square lattice EF, and a  strip punched with the dotted scallop punch, which I thought was more masculine than ribbon! The sentiment is from the Label Love set and punched with the matching punch.

As I used lots of snippets  I'm taking it over to Pixies Playground  as they like lots of snippets there. If you've never visited - you should go and have some fun there.

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Mosaic Madness

This card has been on my desk for some time now waiting to be put together. I embossed the background, stamped and punched out the shapes , then spent forever trying to decide how to

 

place them. Finally decided on this layout or else it might all have gone in the bin!

 

Recipe:

 

Cardstock: Whisper White, Crisp Canteloupe,

Stamp Set: Mosaic Madness,  Label Love

Inks: Crisp Cantaloupe, Coastal Cabana, Baked Brown Sugar, Pistachio Pudding

Other: Chevron Ribbon in Calypso Coral, Mosaic punch, Artisan Label punch, Modern Mosaic EF