Lavender Breeze’s Crafting Blog

Today I thought that I would share a card I made earlier in the year for an old college friend. I wasn’t able to attend the wedding, so wanted to send something extra special to let her know that I would be thinking about her on her special day.

I made an A5 card base from some sturdy white linen card, adding a simple plain vellum insert. The edged organza ribbon was wrapped round the inside of the card front to disguise the DST holding the insert in place, and tied in the top front corner.

The photo is one I chose from my pack of Joanna Sheen’s Victorian Photographs, backed onto some more of the linen card. I then wrapped each corner of the topper with lazer cut lace strips. The bouquets were constructed using a selection of Joanna’s Paper Flowers, tied with more edged organza ribbon, and then securely fixed to the edges of the photo with a firm glue before being further embellished with lazer cut hearts.

I decorated the back of the card simply with two more lazer cut hearts.

A box was constructed using double sided white pearlescent card stock, similiar to Stardream Card and decorated with more lazer cut hearts, embellished with Self Adhesive Pearls. The card was wrapped in pearly white tissue paper before being secured in the box with another length of edged organza.

I was, and still am, very happy with this card and feel that it’s one the best things I’ve ever made, so I hope that you enjoy looking at it too

Keep well everyone and look forward to posting again soon.

Jo XX

Well, what a relief to finally be able to do some crafting! The long drought was brought about by my arch nemesis, Sciatica, which comes and goes with no discernible trigger – one of life’s mysteries.

Not wishing to dwell upon that any longer, I’d like to share a baby card with you which is long overdue, as the baby wasn’t and is fast becoming not so little lol.

I chose the beautiful image from Joanna Sheen’s Cardmaker’s Year, CD 1, May’s chapter. I printed a sheet of toppers onto some thin linen card, and then used borderless print to print one of the backing papers onto a heavier A4 linen card, which was folded to make the A5 card base, and wrapped in a piece of white lace printed vellum, which was in turn corner punched. I added a strip of yellow satin ribbon front and back of the base card to hide the securing tape for the vellum, and added a thinner pink satin ribbon to the front, tying a bow. The yellow bow was added seperately, secured beneath a Scrapbook Sally flower, held by a green crystal brad. The main image was mounted onto pink and green before being added to the vellum, and then I added further flowers with crystal brads; two little pink brad feet in one corner, and used peel offs for the wording. The image on the back of the card is mounted onto pink only. An insert was printed from Joanna Sheen’s Jayne Netley Mayhew Collection and added with a generous amount of DST in order to cover the brad backs.

The wrapping paper is from the second backing paper in the set, printed onto reasonable copy paper, the tag being another small image from the topper sheet, backed onto pink and with a tie of pink ribbon added.

I hope that you like this project and would appreciate your comments. Keep well everyone and have a good day – hopefully I’ll post again tomorrow

Thank you for visiting my Blog,

Jo XX