Welcome Home card

Hello everyone,

I'm back today with a quick post to share a card. I have some good friends who returned from a 3 month cruise yesterday and wanted to make a little card to welcome them back after their adventures.

I kept this very simple with an embossed sentiment and the pink die cut and stamped house. I added a striped paper heart to the house and put glossy accents over it for some shine, and finally added three flower sequins for some extra sparkle.

I was inspired by the current Muse challenge card by Gillian Ross




which had lots of white space and a pop of pink.

I also wanted to play for the first time over at Keep it Simple challenge



where we are asked to use bright colours and sparkly things.



The challenge at the Cas-ual Fridays challenge this time is to use threes and this has three layers and three sequins.

That's all for today, but thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day.

Hugs
Carol x

Welcome Home card Papertrey Ink

Hello everyone, and welcome to Annie who is a new follower this week.

I've been busy working on the wedding scrapbook and have managed to complete several layouts but there is a long way to go and I haven't had much time to follow the on line course I signed up for called 'A Cut Above'.

The first lessons are about using die cuts and have been very informative and I hope to be able to either make a new card for each lesson, or highlight a previously made card that uses the required technique because of time constraints.

Lesson  1 was simply to use die cuts on a card and  I made a Welcome Home card for some friends who have just returned from a 3 month cruise. They were very sensible to go away for our winter and have returned just in time for all the spring colour. I had missed them and thought it was appropriate to hang the flags out so I made a springlike card to reflect this

I started by inking up a plain panel of card to make a background sky and grass, and then added a banner that I fussy cut and stamped with a sentiment before fixing it to a stamped cord. I die cut a birdhouse and some birds to sit on a garden gate and added a little foliage and and a couple of flowers.

All materials were from Papertrey Ink.

You may remember the  bon voyage card  I made for these friends when they set out on their cruise, using die cuts from my Silhouette Cameo.

Day 2 of the course was to use a die to make a window card and here is one I made a little while ago that fits the bill

 

I hope to catch up with the course, especially when it gets on to using the Silhouette cutter because I need lots of instruction to get to grips with that!

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Carol x