Umbrella flowers recycled

Here I recycled a broken umbrella skin for the background of ma card - its fabric was far too pretty to throw away! I embellished it with a length of black plastic mini pearl string, a button, and sequins.

Challenges: DRS Designs Ch. #78 (monochromatic); 

Green and blue ovals birthday card

Keeping with the theme of ovals, this is a more CAS version of the last card.

The product I used sold at Joan's Gardens is the Art Institute Designer "Dries Clear" Adhesive.

Challenges:
At Joan's Gardens Ch. July 11; 

Orange and pink ovals birthday card

The task was to make a card with at least two ovals - I decided to go for four in this card, and edged them with a pearl and glitter coating.

The embellishments and the sentiment are metallic foil confetti and a length of silver pearl string.

The product I used sold at Joan's Gardens is the Art Institute Designer "Dries Clear" Adhesive.

Challenges:
At Joan's Gardens Ch. July 11; 

Surfboard leaving card

Someone just jumped off his surfboard here... my attempt to make a funny "Leaving" card.
The surface of the sea is done as stripes, stamped in metallic ink with the background stamp from DRS designs.

Challenges: DRS designs Ch. #75;

Pop-up cake birthday

 For this card I used two ornamental punches, one on the corners of the card and the other one on the cake layers.

The candles and flames however were cut out by hand. I used two colours on the candles to make them appear three-dimensional.

On one of the corners I hadn't placed the card quite right into the punch and ended up with a slit punched into my card. In the end I decided to turn this mistake into a feature and decorate it with a piece of ribbon and sequins.

The product I used sold at Joan's Gardens is the Art Institute Designer "Dries Clear" Adhesive.

First father's day card

 I personalized this father's day card with a photo of the child, framed with some dash-dot pen work made with silver and gold metallic pens.

It's so difficult to get nice ribbon that is suitable for men's cards... this one (I think it's by MayArts) is timeless so I expect to use it quite often - and doesn't it fold just beautifully...!

The product I used sold at Joan's Gardens is the X-Press It High Tack Foam Mounting Tape.

Wine themed birthday card

A quick-to-make male birthday card using wine themed printed images. I happy with the fresh summery feel of the colours.

The background stamp with the "Happy Birthday" score is from DRS Design. I stamped and heat-embossed it in silver. It has been pointed out that it looks like it's a fading effect - no, it's not second generation stamping. I'm guessing that it might be due to a combination of my slightly dry ink pad, a bit more pressure on the stamp than normal, and an embossing powder that doesn't have the word "detail" in its name... in short, just a lucky coincidence!

The product I used sold at Joan's Gardens is the X-Press It High Tack Foam Mounting Tape.