Floral Craft - Cymbidium Orchid

A hand made orchid made from Craft Punch shapes although this one was made specifically for the Cymbidium Orchid.

I used the label nestabilities die cut shapes to mount the orchid onto and stamped some quotes from PTI Stamps.

I scored the base card and rounded the corners with a corner rounder punch then tied a top notch ribbon around the center of the card.

A close up view of the floral punch craft Orchid. you can see how I painted the petals on this view.

Twinklets Glass Glitter Accent Card

Using punched shaped from my floral craft punches I added the glossy accents as a glue and dipped the shapes into the glass glitter, once dried I stuck the shapes together using a wet paper glue and threaded a button with raffia before fixing in the center of the flower with a glue dot.

And so to the full card,

I used a Kraft coloured card stock from PTI for the 14 x 14cm base card and stamped the DCM rubber stamp border with Vintage Photo distress ink. I added a piece of chocolate coloured card which I distressed around the edges then tied a cream ribbon around the card.

I stamped the main image by Clarity stamps with the same Vintage Photo ink onto cream card stock and again distressed the edges and added this with double sided foam pads.

Lastly I added the glass glitter embellishment.

There’s a magic in the air again
For Christmas time is here,
There’s happiness in every heart
And all the season’s cheer,
There’s a special kind of joy
That’s part of Christmas too,
The joy of wishing all that’s best
Especially for you.

I would just like to wish you all the very warmest wishes for Christmas.

Vintage Greeting Cards - A couple from my Collection

This postcard is soon to be 100 years old so I thought it was very apt so show this to you.

I collect old postcards and greeting cards preferably before 1930 although I do have a good few older than that in my collection.

So if anyone has any that they would like to donate to me I promise to give them a good home.

Postal date for this one is 24th December 1908 so it will be at least 100 years old on Christmas Eve this year.

This is a Birthday Card from 1909 the greeting on it is unusual as it says "on this your Natel Day"

I love it when the back of the card has a letter attached, as you can see the postmark is 19th March 1909 on this one.

Verses for Cards

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Flippin' Men - Fishing

This is just 1 in a series of 20 Flippin' Men by La Pashe.

I love the way this one makes up all chunky pieces to cut out, I used one of aperture cards which were designed to compliment the Flippin' Men sheets and covered it with basic grey papers.

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