Gift card holder

Here is the inside of the card shown here.

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I used a Sizzix die to make the gift card holder inside the card.

It's a little intimidating to figure out, but I checked out a video by Karen Burniston and she makes it very simple to figure out.  You can see the video here. This sure makes a nice way to present a gift card.  I will be using again very soon!

I blurred out the words written for my friend, so the right side of the card looks a little weird... :).

The border in blue is Stardream cardstock cut with a Stampin'Up punch.

I added the little blue border around the gift card and used glue and fine glitter to decorate it.

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Bonne Fête Chère Lucienne

Voici une carte que j'ai fait pour une amie qui célèbre ses 60 ans.  Bonne Fête ma chère Lucienne!

Encore une fois, je me suis inspirée d'un vidéo de Jennifer McGuire pour Hero Arts.

Voici la carte:

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L'étampe de fleur est de Hero Arts (S5482- Ruffled Flower)), embossée à chaud avec de la poudre blanche, puis colorée avec les Distress Inks de Ranger (Tumbled Glass et Sapphire Blue) puis vaporisée avec les Perfect Pearls dilués dans l'eau. J'ai étampé 2 fleurs et j'ai utilisé une fleur au complet et seulement la partie centrale de la 2ème.  Je les ai placées une sur l'autre avec des petits carrés de mousse (foam dots).

Les feuilles sont étampées sur du carton vert et embossées en blanc.

Le fond est couvert par les petits pois de Hero Arts qui j'ai couvert de Glossy Accents.
j'aime beaucoup l'effet!(une autre idée de Jennifer McGuire).

Le Bonne Fête vient de chez Bonnidée et est étampé en noir (Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink).

Les perles sont de Stampin'Up!.

Le carton bleu est un carton Stardream.  Le bleu plus pâle (pour le souhait) est de Stampin'up et j'ai distressé les bords avec l'encre Distress.

Je vous montre l'intérieur de la carte (vraiment spécial!) dans mon prochain message!

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Happy First Wedding Anniversary!

Today, Sunday September 11th,  my son Bobbie (oops Robert...) and his wife Marissa are celebrating their first Wedding Anniversary! It is hard to believe that it has already been a year since that special day when they got married.  It was a very beautiful wedding!

Here is a photo of the beautiful couple:

Bobbie and Marissa on their Wedding Day, September 11th 2010

This week I lost track of time (more than usual for those of you who know me and are smiling...).

I did not realize that their wedding anniversary was this weekend already... so I made our card (Jim and I) for them quite at the last minute.  It is very simple... I had lots of ideas to make it more elaborate, but I ran out of time and this is the card that we gave them:

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The card is 5 x 7, and the card base is Stardream Shimmer white cardstock.

The Patterned paper is by Best Creations and it doesn't show very much in the photo, but the white is embossed and glittered.

The "Happy Anniversary" is stamped in Jet Black Ranger Archival ink and the stamp is by "Stampin'UP!".  The shape is cut partly with a Nestability die "Labels 10" (the top and bottom of the die are missing (on purpose..)).  The gems are "Out to sea" Queen and Co.

For the inside of the card, I used a new Sizzix die, called "Floating Frames 3D".

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I used the "Nestabilities Label One small" to cut the little photo and to cut a small shape for the little text (out of blue Stardream cardstock).  I inserted both die cuts within the little frames of the Pop-up.

Here is a close-up of the floating frames:

The bottom of the card is decorated with a heart border, cut with a Martha Stewart border punch.

So Happy First Wedding Anniversary Bobbie and Marissa.  Wishing you Happiness and Love!  We love you very much!!

For everyone else, thanks for stopping by my blog and thanks for the comments - they are very appreciated!

Merci de votre visite et merci de me laisser un commentaire!  C'est toujours apprécié!

Thanks - Hero Arts Bouquet

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I liked doing my last card so much that I made another one in a different colour...

It is a Thank you for a friend whose favorite colour is purple.

The flowers were first stamped in Hero Arts Shadow ink in soft purple, then restamped overtop with another die ink, Versacolor in purple (must check the exact colour).





The yellow and mauve mats under the image are from my scraps drawer and the background paper is by Lasting Impressions.

The ribbon is from May Arts.

I covered the center of the flowers with Purple Stickles and added a few pearls by Hero Arts.

The greeting "Thanks very much" is by Hero Arts.

Thanks for visiting my blog. Merci de votre visite.

Louise

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