Thursday 29 March 2012

Penny Black Saturday Challenge 194 - Easter Eggstravaganza


This is my entry to the Penny Black Saturday Challenge this week which is "Easter Eggstravaganza".  I usually only make Easter cards for my nephew and niece and because their cards have already been made and posted I decided to make something a bit different with an Easter theme.  My inspiration came from a posting on Lisa's blog Wishcraft where she'd made a Mother's Day book card and had supplied the link to where she had found a tutorial to make it.  The picture above is the front of the book card and here is the back. 


The main image on the front of the card is from the Penny Black stamp "bunny bouquet" and is coloured with Promarkers.  The pink ribbon and pale pink card is from Stampin' up's Pretty in Pink collection and the dark pink card is from the Papeterie.  The printed backing paper came from a DCWV Spring Stack of 12" x 12" papers.  To cut the mats for layering I used dies from both the regular Nestabilities and Grand Calibur Labels Four sets.  Quickutz dies were used to cut the bunnies and the corners.



This is what the book card looks like on the inside. The verse is one I found using the internet and then tweeked it to this final version.  Martha Stewart's lace border punch was used to make the border strips for the frame and also the band on the front of the card.  There is another little bunny hiding underneath the bag of chocolate eggs.  A Woodware small daisy punch was used to make the flowers and a few pearls and some crystal dot peel offs were added to finish it all off.

I really enjoyed trying this project and can see how easily it could be adapted for any theme or celebration.

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges



Thanks for reading
Liz xx
  

Friday 23 March 2012

An Old Rocker


It's my brother-in-law's birthday tomorrow and this is the card I've made for him.  Andy loves rock music and as a young lad was involved in a group and in recent years he and and a few friends have got together to form a group again.  Andy plays guitar, sings and writes his own pieces.  Although he has a few favourite rock bands his number one must be ACDC and only last month he travelled with friends to see them perform in Inverness.


The main image is called Rock Dude from KennyKdownloads and is coloured using Promarkers.  As soon as I saw this image I immediately thought of Andy and had to get it for his birthday card.  He doesn't quite have the long hair but I have seen pictures of him wearing a long blonde wig when dressed to go to a sixties themed party.  Because this image is so bold I didn't feel the card needed many embellishments so just Quickutz die cut corners and tabs along with some brads were added.  The backing papers were taken from the DCWV The Rockstar Stack and the sentiment is from the Stampin' up Sincere Salutations stamp set and stamped using their Chocolate Chip ink.  The sentiment was cut and layered using oval nestabilities dies

On the reverse of the fold back I've attached the lyrics from a Byrds song.

  
Here's a picture of the old rocker himself. 


Happy Birthday Andy.  Hope you have a good day and keep rocking.

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges

Thanks for reading
Liz xx