If love is blind … then why is lingerie so popular?
I had so much fun making this card. It’s a large 8″x8″ card, made on white cardstock. The pink, rose and printed papers (at the two corners) are all papers which came free with magazines a while back; and the gold mirror board and flat gold card (die cut into a rectangle doily) were from my scraps drawer!
I’m very much a thrifty crafter and won’t waste great papers if I can save them – so where I knew I wanted to curl back I simply used a large triangle of paper to cover the corners of the base white card. ↑
The sentiment was stamped onto gold card and embossed in black.I felt that it needed more importance, so choose to use one of a selection of light-weight wooden frames – this one is warmer to look at than the photo shows.
I stamped out the basque ↑ onto the same colour of pink paper as the backing paper, embossed it and then attached it to a little hand-made, wire coat hanger. I punched a hole in the rectangular doily and ‘hung’ the basque from it.
If you look closely at the basque in the photo above ↑ you might be able to see that I used a white pen in places. This was to place ‘light’ in the places that natural light would have fallen on parts of the basque in real life. The ribbons, the seams, bits of the lace, etc etc.
I stamped peacock feathers ↑ over the paler of the pink backing pages, and embossed them with a pale pink, twinkly embossing powder. In the photo above you can see the embossed feathers. (I was checking the page for placement of the basque on the doily to make sure that it would look right.) ↑
Added roses in three shades, and some sprigs of a lilac type flower in white and pink. ↑
Close up photographs ↑ of the corners ↑ which were curled back so that you can see the patterned paper underneath and the two different colours of pink papers.
Although I’d curled and glued corners I wasn’t entirely convinced that the glue would hold, so I chose a large, warm pink brad for each corner to pin the paper in place.
I attached the rectangle doily, which I’d die cut on my Ebosser,to a piece of gold mirror board, then cut around the doily so that the mirror board fitted the doily exactly. Everything was then fixed in place, andvoila! One more card added to the pile for charity.
I had lots of fun making this card and loved the way it’s turned out. Hope you like it too.
Have a truly lovely Sunday all!
Sending love out into the ethernet – so grab some as it flies by!
I have this love affair going on with the colour Teal at the moment, and when I saw this beautiful, teal, velvet ribbon on sale at a haberdashery local to where I live I was shocked to find that some just jumped into my basket – where it promptly held me to ransom until I’d bought 5 metres of it. [tsk tsk. what an absolutely shocking way for ribbon to behave!]
Made on white cardstock which has a very slightly hammered texture to it. The powder blue edge strip along the fold line, was made using a Spellbinders Classic Petal Edgeabilities die; and the central circular, lacey type die cut, which includes the sentiment ‘With Love’, was made using a Tonic Indulgence Semi Circle (item number: 471e). The powder blue card which I used for the die cuts was a huge sized piece of random card which I’ve had for ever!
Of course me being me . . there had to be a little surprise waiting on the inside. . .
I made an insert from papers which had a sort of heavenly, cloudy effect – added another Spellbinders Edgeabilities die cut (from the same set) and made the little tag from some printed papers which I think I got free with a magazine a while ago, which I mounted onto a piece of the powder blue cardstock which all the die cuts were cut from. But this time, instead of the velvet ribbon (which would have been too thick and substantial to use on this tag) I used a short length of teal Rayon Seam Binding. (American Seam Binding).
I don’t normally make ‘elegant’ cards. I’m more the fun, shabby chic, steam punk, vintage type of card maker, so this card really was a step out of my comfort zone. But I like the way it turned out. Less is more really worked for this card.
Whoops – nearly forgot … the flowers on the front are all from Anna Marie Designs, who you can find on this clickable link:
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This post is dedicated to Stacey, a fellow blogger on WordPress, who came up with a brilliant idea of promoting other crafting blogs in posts. Stacey very kindly mentioned my blog (with a link) and other crafters blogs that I hadn’t seen before – which was enough to tell me that I too should take up her idea and promote crafters blogs on my own blog here.
So, since Stacey came up with the idea, I am firstly promoting her blog (link below) and dedicating this post – and this card – to Stacey.
To Stacey, a dedicated blog post and card, for an amazing idea! ~ from Cobs.
. . . join me on a journey through this card . . .
Every few days/weeks … now and again … I’ll make what I call a ‘labour intensive’ card. One of those cards which takes more time than the regular cards you’ve so far seen me post here. This card – ‘Life is a Journey, not a Destination’, is one of those cards.
It’s not that these types of cards are difficult, they just take a little more thinking and working out so that you end up with the ‘feel’ that you started out knowing you wanted. This particular card was inspired by a piece of wall art which I have hung in my bedroom, facing my bed. It’s an iron framed rectangle with a piece of calico strung in the centre and printed on the calico are the words Life is a Journey, not a Destination, and that’s what gave me the theme for the card.
I wanted the card to have a vintage style, with a slightly ‘steampunkery’ feel to it – but at the same time I knew I wanted it to carry a message, and wanted the message to be read as either literal or spiritual, depending on who the card ended up with, and the circumstances they were in within their life, at that time. And ... I think I’ve managed it.
This card could be for someone who’s:- moving house; going on a cruise or going abroad; it could be a simple regular birthday card (for either a man or a woman); it could be for someone who’s starting a new job; or perhaps for a person who needs some encouragement; maybe some tests soon?; or … it could be given to someone who is going through some sort of personal challenge or challenging time, and this card would be a gentle, loving way of saying that they’re going to get through this time and move on to a better place or time.
I’ll give you a list of everything I used to make this card at the end of the post, because I don’t want anyone to look at the list and think that they couldn’t make a card like this. I might have different stash to you, and I might have different cardstock; dies; ink pads; glues etc etc … but I’m pretty sure you will have things in your stash that you could use to pull a card like this or similar together. Just because the list of stuff I’ve used might look long – please don’t be put off. If you want to make something like this, go and look at your stash. You’d be surprised what you can use in order to make your own style of card.
For now .. I’ll just give you different photos of the card so that you can see things closer up….
Up up and away! . . .
A (working)compass to help you keep you going in the right direction . . .
Time passes quickly, – so some gentle encouragement to enjoy the beauty of every moment.
As followers and readers of my blog know … I LOVE to put surprises inside all the cards I make. I feel that the inside of a card is just so wasted and such a let down when you open a birthday/Christmas or any other time card, and find a big white space with a little bit of writing.
I like cards to be beautiful inside and out and surprise the receiver when they open their card! . . .
Oooo… I wonder what the magnifying glass is for?! ;D
OOhh .. another surprise! .. now we have a lucky wish star and a ticket which gives me ‘entitlement’ to one wish! But .. what the devil is that magnifying glass for???
Ah haaaa! . . . It’s so you can read the page from the dictionary/thesaurus! Ok .. one mystery solved, . . . but … what’s that pink ticket by the end of the handle?
Ah haaaa! . . . mystery number two solved! (Just call me Sherlock. lol)
Oh, and by the way … the postcard inside . . . is for you to write your message on, for the person you’re sending the card to! See? It all makes sense!
And that . . . (photo above) . . . is the just finished card, stood on a glass cutting mat, on my desk … and that’s all my mess important, essential, fabulous, well organised {cough} equipment and tools behind the card. (I’ll clean it up properly at some point, so that I can take a photograph of my craft room and share it.)
The Recipe for this card: I used:
Sheena Douglass – Little Bit Sketchy – Magnifying glass stamp.
Papermania Acetate (for the ‘window’ of the magnifying glass)
Papermania Black Embossing Powder
Stazon ‘Saddle Brown’ ink pad
” ‘Jet Black’ ink pad
Memento Dye Ink Pad in ‘Desert Sand’
” ” ” in ‘Rich Cocoa”
Xcut Build-a-Scene Dies – Vintage Hot Air Balloon
Heartfelt Creations 12×12 pad – which I used some of the images from.
Spellbinders ‘Once upon a Time’ Die
Tattered Lace ‘Postcards’ Die set
Heartfelt Creations ‘Time Sentiments’ stamp
” ” ‘Journey Sentiments’ stamp
Pinflair Gentle Blends – in Denim colour
” ” ” – in Dark Khaki colour
Graph It Glitter Ink Pen
Compass – was in a pack of 4 I bought a while ago, from the children’s section of either Asda or Tesco.
Dictionary page was cut from an old Dictionary/Thesaurus which was no longer used.
Cardstock used:
Warm Chocolate Brown 300gsm
Plain Black 270gsm
Orange – was scrap from my scrap draw
White – 270gsm
Kraft Card – 300gsm
Extras:
2 x short lengths of silver-grey Rayon Seam Binding.
Grey and white Bakers Twine
3 x fuzzy, funky fibre, Eyelash Knitting Yarn/Wool – 1 x length of warm brown. 1 x length of jet black. 1 x length of a blues and purples mix.
One tiny metal vintage looking Postcard embellishment.
And that’s all there is to it! 😀
Aw,please don’t be daunted by the apparently long list of ingredients for this recipe. I’ve named almost everything I used here just to be helpful to anyone who wants to know where I got a particular thing, or the make of the papers or dies etc, (named everything apart from glue .. but if you need to know: I used Collall All Purpose, Anita’s Tacky Glue, hot glue, and Double Sided Tape) – but I bet you use tons of stuff when you craft a card and you don’t even notice what you’re using anymore. It’s just all … ‘stuff’ … which is treasured and loved, and there because you use it!
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I stamped peacock feathers ↑ over the paler of the pink backing pages, and embossed them with a pale pink, twinkly embossing powder. In the photo above you can see the embossed feathers. (I was checking the page for placement of the basque on the doily to make sure that it would look right.) ↑
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