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