Showing posts with label manhattan rose. Show all posts
Showing posts with label manhattan rose. Show all posts

Wednesday, 13 April 2011

Mother's Day card





Forgot to add this card last week, so thought I'd show you it now - sorry the pics are a bit dull, my photography skills need a lot of improvement!!

I went for lots of embossing on this card and it was all made so easy with our new embossing folders and embosslit dies from the mini catalogue.  I have used the manhattan rose folder and embossed both sides of my base card, it just gives such a subtle embossed effect to then add my layers onto  - I have then used the new top note die cutter which was then embossed with the square lattice folder, the little dinky butterlies are cut and embossed with the Beautiful Wings embosslit die -this die is fast becoming a best seller- it cuts and embosses no less than 5 differnt sizes and patterns of butterfly in the one go, there is one butterfly smaller and two larger butterflies than the ones I have used  on my card on the same embosslit - great value!

My big flower was created by cutting a few flowers with the fun flowers sizzix die that we now sell and I just felt that I wanted to add more detail, so the flowers were also embossed with the manhattan flower embossing folder, I then rubbed my ink pad over them to pick up colour on the embossed detail.I added a little button from our brights collection of buttons and the setiment was from our occasional greetings set and cut with the decoartive label punch, and a little bow of taffeta ribbon to finish.

Hope you like all my embossing - Mum certainly did!

Tuesday, 12 April 2011

A manhattan rose bookmark


In this day and age where we have loads of electronic gadgets and new ways to read books and newsapapers etc, but for me there is nothing nice and more calming than sitting down and curling up on the sofa with a good book to read - a real book -one where i can turn the pages!  So if like me you like to read 'real' books, it is always handy to have a nice bookmark to keep your spot, when the dreaded Housew..k or the kids need to be attended to! 

I have used tempting turquoise, whisper whie and soft suede as my colour combo on this one, and as I have used the stunning manhattan flower embossing folder on it (isn't it just amazing!) I didn't feel it need a great deal else - my sentiment is the same one as yesterday and cut again with the decoraive label, - this punch is great as it fits loads of our sentiments from lots of the sets in both our current catalogues -the finishing touch was to add a few gems for some sparkle