Happy Easter Card

hi everyone!  I made an Easter card for my sister in New York and wanted to share it with you today.

 

I've had these Mylar flowers in my stash for years (I'm embarrassed to admit it!).  You know, I sometimes buy something and save it until just the right moment.  Today was that day for these flowers. (I do plan on adding a tag sentiment to the front of my card...just haven't gotten to it yet)

The colors are vibrant and best of all they are mostly flat.  There is SOME dimension on them and they have some embossing too as you can see.  I think my sister will enjoy this card.

 

I actually have some translucent flowers too.  The orange layered flower has one in it.

 

 

 

I added some white pearls for centers and a few to accent the curve of the embossed pink shimmer cardstock beneath.

 

 

Did you know that you can make these pretty flowers? Paper Wishes sells the mylar material (Called Shimmer Sheetz ) that you can use to cut out flowers.  A few embossed lines and you will have a great set of flowers.  In fact, I may do that myself.

Have a Happy Easter!

Lis

 

A Friendly Hello!

Hi everyone and happy Sunday!

I've used shimmer paper this time around on my card:  a nice light/lime green, and a dark green for my tag.

I used a few different dies to make my card today:

The Paper Bow - Anna Griffin
The Ivory rectangle - Frantic Stamper
The Tag - Spellbinders

The paper:
Lime Green and Dark Green - Stardream paper by Neenah (You can find it at Kelly Paper or online at
     The PaperMillStore.com
     (Note: I have to say that if you love paper like I do, a visit online to the paper mill store will
     have your jaw dropping at the variety!  You can shop for paper by color (of course) or you can
     shop by company (of course) BUT have you ever been able to shop for paper by paper mill? It
     will blow your mind.)
The silver foil patterned cardstock - Its called silver linen paper, comes in 12 x 12 only, is a regular
     cardstock, and you can find it at Paperwishes.com

Directions:
I started out with an ivory card base.  I embossed a lime shimmer paper (Sizzix) measuring 5 1/4 x 4 inches.  I attached his to some silver linen paper and cut a 1/8 inch border with my Perfect Layers Rulers (see under New Tools).  I attached to my card base.
I cut out my ivory rectangle with fancy edge and embossed writing and music on it with silver embossing powder.  I layered this onto silver linen paper and made the same 1/8 inch border.  I attached the ivory rectangle to the silver linen with mounting tape, then attached the two layers to my card.

I added the bow, a paper flower 

 

and my tag. (The HELLO coms from Dazzles at Paper Wishes)

and finished off with some large crystals.

Thanks for stopping by!
Lis

Thank You in Copper and Gold

Hi everyone! Thanks for being patient with me while I get my act together!  Today's card is a flower cluster using paper, fabric and felt. And I have lots of close ups!

 

 

I started out with some of Tim Holtz vellum. This is the background that you see.  It has skeleton leaves as part of the pattern.  I adhered the vellum to an ivory card base.  I outlined my card in gold and then spattered more gold onto the card.  (It was so pretty I hated to cover it up.  I thought it would make a good note card too.)

Since the vellum and card base were more of an ivory/brown color, I chose the same from Prima flowers, and some paper flowers that I got from Wild Orchid Crafts.  The pearl in the middle of the orange fabric flower was white. I took some Tarnished Brass Distress Ink and colored it, added some heat from my heat gun to dry it. (I just rolled the tip over the pearl.  I probably should have gone back in with a q-tip or brush to do the edges but I liked it as is.)

I wanted a frame for my flowers and decided on copper foiled paper.  I used a Frantic Stamper die to cut out the frame.  Then I used an xacto blade to cut out the middle so I ended up with an evacuated frame.  I used the middle to create my sentiment flag.

I took this close up so that you could see the green leaf I added at the top of my card.  It has sparkle in it and has the look of vinyl or plastic.  I added it because this area of the vellum had no design and I wanted to add a dash of green.

Finally I added two pearl pins.  I added a small brass key to one.

 

I used interference Violet embossing powder to emboss my sentiment onto the copper. (I was trying to find my white but couldn't <sigh>). I wish they made ivory embossing powder.

There is one last thing I wanted you to note.  Did you see the tree crystals that I added between the copper flower and the leaves?  I was wandering through ebay one night and found ts place that sold wedding scatters -these are plastic crystals (fully faceted so not flat back) and they sold packs of 6.5/4.5mm.  I think those were the sizes. Anyway, I bought a few of the colors to experiment with.  The picture doesn't really show the sparkle.  Its not like crystal so it doesn't sparkle a LOT but it gives a nice twinkle.  I glued them on with some Aleenes thick glue.

So, that's my card for today!  I hope you enjoy it!
Lis