Sunday, January 31, 2010

Card & gift box for Helen.



Hi all,

Well I guess I've slowed down on the crafty side of life, I haven't made much at all over the last few days. Although I made this card & gift box for my dear friend Helen Thursday night.

Helen gave me this Hero Arts Cling stamp - Hello for Christmas. I thought it would be a good idea to use it on a card for her. I went through the Hero Arts Flickr group for inspiration & came across this gorgeous card by Jane & decided to do something simular. If you don't know already Jane has a wonderful blog here & designs some gorgeous digi stamps at Squigglefly. I just didn't realise that I was using simular colours for the colouring in until the end (whoops sorry about that Jane). I added a lot of Diamond glaze to the Muted Aqua on the checks as well as Diamond Stickles on the white checks. I also added more crystals to the small dots amongst the flowers & more stickles to the centre of the flowers.




I brought Helen the latest Hero Arts Cling Cupcake CG157. So of course I had to make a gift box for it ;). This gift box was a make it up as you go kinda thing. I started out by making a template with printer paper. Then when I was happy with the result I used some of my favourite Basic Grey papers & Bazzil to make it. I also had to use some of my "lacy ribbon" only because I have been itching to use it on a project for a while now ;). The image is a digi stamp, sorry I forgot where it came from :(. I used my Prismacolour pencils, stickles & diamond glaze to jazz it up. I cut some of the flowers out of the little bit of scraps & then added gems & more diamond stickles.

Thanks so much for stoppin' by :) - TTFN

7 comments:

Anne said...

Hi, Paula! Wonderful card and gift box. I like how you cut out the "Hello" and made it into a window so you can see into the card! Very creative! :-)

Tiffany Ervin said...

Oh my, now these cards are so delightful, I love the mix of fun colors and that pp is so wonderful!

Lucy Abrams said...

What a beautiful pair of cards. Love them both Paula.

donna mikasa said...

Gor-geous! Love both of your cards, Paula! Bug must be inspiring you to create from within! Take care!

Dawn T said...

Both the card and the gift box are awesome Paula. Love how you cut out the HELLO to make a window. Most creative. ( and suits the idea behind the card better)
The gift box is so sweet - love the cut out and stickled flowers. Finishes it so well. Sorry to hear it's been sooo HOT - seems worse with all that baby inside!!!!

Alice said...

i love all the beautiful details in this, Paula! wonderful card!!

Stamping Cafe said...

OMG, Paula!! They are both gorgeous and cheery with all the wonderful details!! Love them!!