Dressing it up

Found this really sweet dress pattern somewhere on the 'net and thought it would fit perfectly with a butterfly background paper from the Jane Shasky CDrom.

The card itself is a regular easel fold, lilac cardstock lined with butterfly paper and a bit of green.

Took some trial-and-error to get the folds on the dress right but in the end it worked. And a nice bow at the waist hides any imperfections :-)

The extra butterflies I decoupaged to give a bit of height, Add a ribbon, some liquid perl and some embossed greetings - card finished.

 This is the pattern (not sure if the size is good to use but with a paint program (or a plain copier) it can be resized fairly easily). Dotted lines are scored and folded as seen above.

The bottom text of the card reads (translated)
"A friend is someone who knows everything about you and still likes you"

Tip-toe through the tulips

Tulips. Is there a better way to signal that spring is finally around the corner?
Not so fast in Sweden of course, but at least they are a colorful addition to dark and dreary (or snowy and cold) January when the first batches arrive from Holland (where else than from the Land of Tulips)

I've got a dear friend who adores tulips and also has her birthday in January, So of course she gets masses of tulips in all shapes.

To the left is the 2015 version of my tulip card for her. Nothing exceptional, a regular easel card based on cream cardstock, lined with soft spring green cardstock and a pretty victorian tulip paper with a boquet so nicely placed for the main focal point.

Dies from Joanna Sheen (those leafy dies are so pretty!), border made with a Martha Stewart punch.

Doily, a wooden heart-shaped button and some bling to complete the card.

The gift placed inside the fold was of course a gift card at a scrapbooking web shop :-)

To the right is last year's card. Also a regular easel card. Neat and easy.

I was temporarily out of tulip paper (!) so went to craftsuprint.com, an excellent resource for all kinds of cards and craft projects You download and pay for the designs you want to use (prices from 0,20 and up), and once donwloaded they can be used as many times as you like.



As one of my favorite authors would say..

"But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and orange and yellow, like the ember in a nursery fire of a winter's evening. I remember them" - Neil Gaiman in Coraline