3 Cards for CR84FN54

Posted by on 23/05/2012 2 Comments

CR84FN54AAt first I had no idea what to make with this color combination. But then I came across the beautiful picture of a girl on a swing, found on the site “The Graphics Fairy“. I had to use this image for a card! So I let my Silhouette draw the doily onto white cardstock (using the silver sketch pen) and attached the image on top of it. The dark mint stripe is masking tape, and the sentiment was cut out using the Silhouette:




GraphicsfairySo many thanks to Karen, your site is a great source for beautiful images! Many of them are perfect for cards :D

The other two cards were the result of a spontaneous idea, once again I let my Silhouette do the cutting:

 

Which card looks better?

Thanks a lot to the design team at CR84FN, your color inspirations are awesome!

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Mother’s Day Card

Posted by on 17/05/2012 Leave a Comment

Does your mom entertain all her friends and neighbors with embarrassing cute stories from your childhood? One of those stories involves me at age 4, and my mom walking past a flowerbed full of pansies which are called “Stiefmütterchen” in German – translated it would be “little stepmothers”. My mom asked me if I knew the name, and my reply was: “These are the mommies!”.

So when I came across the cute vintage pansies graphic at http://antiqueimages.blogspot.de, I instantly knew I would use it for this year’s Mother’s Day card. I printed it on cardstock, cut it out with my Silhouette, and attached it with dimensional glue dots:




Antique ImagesThanks to Carolyn for the great vintage graphics! I already downloaded a bunch for future use on cards. They make a nice addition to my vintage postcard scans.
Let’s see which anecdote (or ankedote, in my case) I’ll adapt next year :)

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Stamp in action: CFC51

Posted by on 09/05/2012 3 Comments

My selfmade elephant stamp was perfect for a birthday card inspired by the current “CAS-ual Fridays” challenge (the blog celebrates its first birthday. Congrats, ladies!): A one-layer birthday card. My new masking tape is a nice touch of color:


By the way, “Hoch sollst du leben” is a German sentiment which roughly translates to “May you rise up high”.

Here’s a second variation I made; both the balloon and the elephant are lightly colored with copics:

Well, I guess I like the first one better. How about you?

Please let me know (anke.arnold[ät]gmail.com) if you cannot access the comment form. Something’s quirky with the English versions of my posts :( – the German version should work fine.

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