card gallery

This is perhaps my favourite card to make at the moment

It takes a long time but is worth the effort. There are lots of panels to add mats and layers to.

The designs were from Pollyanna Pickering and the background paper was one I created with My Craft Studio Elite.

A very unusual shaped DL card. I added gold peel-offs to all the shaped edges and to the centre aperture. The flowers were from a digital file purchased from Fredshesaid designs. http://fred-she-said-store.blogspot.com .The designs are assorted flowers in assorted colours, or blank for you to colour yourself. Flowers and leaves were then shaped and arranged around part of the aperture.

This card had a background of printed background paper that had been punched along both long edges. The paper was then fixed down the front of the card approximately mid way across the page. The excess was wrapped around the fold and glued to the back of the card.. The flowers were another design from Fredshesaid designs. Petals were embossed with a ball tool and then each petal was folded along the centre to give extra dimension

This was a digital image printed directly on the card, and then punched flowers were added to give a 3d effect

Another design from Fredshesaid designs. This design was printed out onto parchment paper which allowed the flower to be embossed which turned the paper white in places. The edge of the card was punched with a Martha Stewart punch and a contrast card placed behind the whole front piece so it lined the inside front of the card with the colour showing through the punch design

Similar process to the pink design using the same design but in a different colour way. Instead of a wrap around backing paper, I used a printed card as a background

Stitched Cards

This was a set of three cards stitched from a pattern by Form-a lines.

The designs were stitched onto plain rectangular panels and then die cut afterwards. If you die cut before stitching there are a lot of places your threads can snag on the intricate cuts, plus there is a chance you can damage the delicate border. Die cutting the design afterwards you run the risk of cutting some of the threads that are close to the edges, but the bits I had to re-stitch were minimal