A Creative Card

Last week it was my lovely friend Charlie’s birthday and I wanted to make her a handmade card so that it was more personal and special. To be honest I really struggle to find cards that are just a little bit different in high street shops. And, well it’s not like I don’t have a ton of crafty goodness hanging around the studio now is it!? 

After all, Happiness is Handmade.

It also meant I got to play around with my old scrapbook supplies as well, which I miss doing as I am having a year off the commitment of ‘scrapbooking the everyday’ to launch this blog and my future creative biz. So happiness all round I would say and I wanted to show you all what I created as I was pretty darn chuffed with it.

I love love love doilies so this was my starting point. They add a really subtle prettiness, especially when paired with pearls!

I then wanted to add a real pop of colour and this docrafts® Papermania paper flower from their ‘Capsule Collection’ was just the trick and had a pre-made hole in the centre that was just crying out for a pastel pink brad.

An Autumn Anniversary

Before I plough head-first straight into Winter (I know, I know, its already December..be patient with me) I wanted to share a little project I whipped up in November. Our friends Jane and Neill were lovely enough to invite us to be a part of their big day last year, to share with them in their beautiful autumn themed wedding on the 10th November (which incidentally was 10.11.12 – how cool is that!) 

I wanted to keep the Autumn theme from the wedding, play around with my scrapbooking supplies and make them a card to celebrate their first year as a married couple. I found a lot of inspiration on-line which sparked a thousand ideas and I got stuck in. 

I started by cutting out little felt leaves in Autumn colours and matching and complimenting those Autumn colours in scrapbooking paper strips, edged with a thin red ribbon (red was a theme in their wedding) I added this ribbon using my Xyron Sticker Maker, which is one of my favourite and handy tools on my desk!