Cuttlebug Butterfly Card - Crushed Glass Glitter

Using the cuttlebug i cut out the butterfly and embossed the with the matching folder I then cut out a second butterfly from acetate and using the glossy accents and the diamond dust crushed glass glitter made this one nice and sparkly before attaching the two together.
I cut out 2 sizes of the label 1 nestabilities dies and wrapped and tied a ribbon around the smaller die, then layered the two together with foam pads.

I did stamped the words New Beginnings on the top label.
The base card was a pre-embossed square card that I found in my craft stash all I did was round off the corners.

Twinklets Crushed Glass Glitter

I made up a snowflake from a cuttlebug die and some craft punch shapes then added ranger glossy accents to the shapes and dropped them into the glitter and left them to dry while I made up one of Claire's 3 Kings shapes (Found here) it is sort of a flat bottomed cracker and when made up you can add goodies inside it.

I intend making a few for the Christmas table and adding gifts inside.

A close up view of crushed glass glitter on the snowflake layers.

I think this will be my favorite product for a long time to come.

I also tried the glitter out on some flower shapes

An even closer view

Prisma Pencil Lily's

Lily's coloured with Prisma Pencils, I stamped the ellusive images lily's with white stazon inl onto smooth black card.

I then coloured the image with Prisma pencils and blended the pencil marks with a Paper Stump and baby oil, I prefer this to Gamsol or Sansoder.

I used Nestibilities labels to create the shape of the card and to cut out the image, I used ink essential white pen to make the faux sewing border.

Friend Card

Made by stamping Spiral Bouquet blossoms onto the white base card with a wine coloured ink and using the same ink I distressed a piece of patterned card stock and layered a contrasting striped card on top.

I used an acrylic chip and glued this to pattern card then stamped bloom in Palette ink and tied the chip to the card with a wine coloured ribbon.

Added a couple of pearls and a couple of punched out blossoms to finish.

Greeting Card Museum - How it all Began

Hand made cards, where did it all begin? well I have had a favorite site for many years it takes you through the history of Postcards & Greeting cards and has some of the most beautiful examples that I have ever seen.

This is the site Postcard & Greeting Card Museum

Some of the designs are so intricate it is hard to believe they were created so long ago.

I think it is nice to look at a bit of our past and understand where we get the tradition of card making and sending from.