Bright 50th

This card is for the 50th birthday of a very kind lady who spends a lot of time looking after her next door neighbour - my husband's aunt.  As her living room is black & red I just knew she'd love bright colours.

The starting point for this card was the chipboard numbers I'd made a few months ago for another friend's 50th but which, when they were finished, were too bright for that card.  They were coloured with Promarkers & given dimension using Anita's 3-D Clear Gloss.  I used Pink Petticoat backing papers (no longer available) but had to alter the colour slightly in Craft Artist 2 Professional to ensure they matched the numbers.  I also produced matching plain card in CA2P, too.

As I've been suffering from a distinct lack of mojo just lately I used a sketch from somewhere & kept it simple.

Card base: Craftwork Cards

Backing papers: Pink Petticoat

Diamante buckle: Meiflower

Confirmation card

I made this card recently at the request of my sister, who had been asked to be a sponsor for a teenage girl who was being confirmed.  The theme of the confirmation was "Include God in your Dreams" so I was asked if I could incorporate that phrase somehow.  That almost had me defeated!  I knew I wanted to create word art but I didn't know how, until I saw this blog which showed how to use Picasa to do more than just store & edit photos.

I printed the word art then filled some of the spaces in the letters with a Sakura Stardust pen in silver.  With that done, finishing the card was easy - a dove cut on my Craft Robo Lite, some elegant Pink Petticoat backing paper layered onto satin paper & flat-backed jewels to finish.