I think I will start by showing you some of my creations from the past few months...
My Gorjuss Girls...
These cards were the first ones I ever made using rubber stamps. I fell in love with Sugar Nellie's Gorjuss girls after seeing a decoupage pack in The Range. I had to get some stamps! So I bought Bumble Bee and Party Princess from Funky Kits. I didn't have a die cut machine or anything at the time. To obtain the lettering took me aaaages! I stamped each letter onto paper stock and then cut out each one using scissors and a craft knife! It took me about 5 hours for each card!
On the "Naomi" card I made a small mistake on the right hand side at the top.. I cut the card too short, so I made the tab with Happy Birthday on it. I didn't think about how I would fit it in the envelope which proved impossible! Luckily it was for my lovely friend and I gave it to her in person, so the envelope wasn't needed. I was so excited about giving her it that I forgot to write in it!! I put so much work into my cards that writing in them was really an after-thought! That's the thing with handmade cards. They take so much time, and so much creativity goes into them, they are like a gift in itself. They come from the heart and shows so much personality through them.
Beautiful Butterflies
After making cards for a while I started to get lots of orders from friends, family and neighbours. I decided I could no longer make personalised cards the way I was, with the stamping for the letters. It was taking far too long. I had also started making memory boxes and had to buy die cut outs from people off the internet to use as decorations as I had no way of doing them myself. I decided it was time to buy myself a Die Cut machine. There were so many on the market and I really didn't have a clue, so I drove the 30 miles to my nearest Hobbycraft store where I found the new Sizzix eclips being demonstrated. After looking at many of the others I decided the eclips was more value for money, since you get so many designs on each cartridge. I was sold!
This Beautiful Butterflies card was made using my eclips on an 8x8 card. For the border I used Martha Stewart's Punch around the page in Butterflies. I used pink card stock with spotted vellum for the backing. I finished it off with punched butterflies sitting atop of some papermania flowers.
I was also asked to make another one of these in Burnt orange, so I came up with this one...
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