When I first saw the Music Collection printables on docrafts.com, I knew I had to use them to make my brother’s birthday card.
He’s passionate about music. He writes, plays and sings his music. So what else would have been more appropriate than a ‘musical’ card on his birthday? We send him many blessings of joy, happiness, health and luck! And wish him ‘Happy birthday’ and enjoy the party!
Bloomers. Shades of pink. Twine. Sentiments in dark red. And a nice layout to match them all. A birthday card that travelled, again, far away, to the North.
This time, I have also experienced with different backgrounds for the photos. Hope you like it.
Lili Psarudakis, a dear friend of mine has published her first book ‘Face Care’, a book with recipes and advice on natural homemade cosmetics.
What I love most is that it is thought and written for all skin types and it has great advice on how to use essential oils, clay, how to prepare creams, lotions and many more. It also includes some important advice for skin care during pregnancy.
And here’s the card I made for her on this occasion. It matches the colours of her book.
Winter is one of the busiest and happiest seasons in the year! A lot of gifts, a lot of greetings, family, friends and between Christmas and New Year some important birthdays to celebrate too!
Here’s a card I made for one of these birthdays. The themes I chose for them are flowers and pink. I used different materials such lace, string, twine and paper in various textures and shades.
The birthday card travelled to the North and reached the heart of a great person.
A year is almost ready to go and make room for a new one. It’s been a great one, with lots of new things learnt, meeting wonderful people, having a few great ones by our side, getting healthier, ‘greener’ and stronger, letting go (especially the bad habits) and moving on.
There are some great people to thank to for their encouragement to make my dream keep on, get better in what I do, for the awesome machines I got on my birthday and from Santa, then last but not least to those who entrusted me with their most important days, gifts and life events:
Thank you!
I wish us all to have a year filled up with health, joy and topped with good and happy thinking!
Happy New Year!
Photo credit: Cristian Istrate
Inspired by Keren Baker, a designer, whose work I admire so much, I went on trying a new technique and different materials, not to forget that I tried to keep it as simple as possible.
I used a snowflake die cut as a stencil for the multilayered background, heat embossing technique and watercolour markers for Gorjuss. Ofcourse, I had to add a bow as it became sort of my unwritten signature on almost all the cards I create.
Many thanks and photo credit go to Cristi Istrate!
Hope you all enjoy the card as much as my niece, Sara, adores it!
Please note: we experimented with the light so you can see the heat embossing effects better (especially the first one in the gallery).
Here are the photos:
We wish him to be blessed with happiness, health, joy and luck in everything he does!
We’d love him to enjoy his life and make his parents proud and happy!
Let’s hope his footsteps would be guided by all that’s good in doing right and great!
This is the first article about the collection of wedding cards and gifts. It started with lots of ideas and thrill as one of my friends was planning her marriage. We exchanged some ideas, we set the colour range and off I went putting them all to good work.
I made more than one sample. I wanted her and her husband to be to have a good wide range where to choose from.
In a future post, I will show you the one they chose, the colour range and the gift I gave them on their wedding day (all in matching colours).
Hope you’ll enjoy them. And please feel free to add your comments with favourites, likes and why not: suggestions.
A birthday card made in matching colours with the gift. That was the main idea of this project when I started it. First, I went looking for the gift and once I found it, I knew the colour range and started choosing the materials. I wanted something simple, but elegant. So, I used cream card and envelope, gold paper, brown paper, birthday sentiments paper, gold gems and string.
So, here it is:
Saying ‘thank you’ and showing gratitude are the most simple acts of response to meaningful experiences, to kindness, to support, to all that matters and happens to all of us!
Enjoy the clear sunny days,
wholehearted smiles and pure warm love,
beloved people – forever by your side.
Enjoy life the way it always is,
the sun, the stars and the beautiful dreams!
Happy birthday!
This handmade card travelled far away to wish ‘Happy Birthday’ to a dear friend!
