Lavender Breeze’s Crafting Blog

…for my mum’s good friend who is having a really rough time of it at the moment. This is a style of card that I have seen Joanna demonstrate with many times, but which I haven’t made until now.

This has the base card constructed from a Craft Creations tri-fold, white, linen finish card, whereby the third panel was shortened and then cut to a point to make an envelope type flap. 

I printed out 2 topper sheets from Joanna Sheen’s Victorian Flowers, a collection which I simply love to bits, along with 2 of the 3 corresponding backing  papers, and then cut 3 pieces to size, lace corner punched them, and added them to the front, envelope flap side, and the two inner panels. An eyelet was added to the point of the flap, and a tassel attached through this, before decoupaging the flap rim with 3 large and 2 smaller images. The front panel  was further embellished with some pink Self Adhesive Pearls.

I added a complete image to the inside middle panel, which was decoupaged up with an additional layer. On the bottom inside panel I added an inner panel of white linen card, which had a sentiment box from the interactive section of Joanna Sheen’s Cottage Garden added, along with some decoupaged individual flowers taken from a further image off the printed sheets. The back was decorated with a small uncut image, and a velcro fastening added to keep  the card shut firmly .

The tassel looks tatty on the photo, but I promise that it was a new one, although suffering from static lol.

Thank you for swinging by my blog and I hope that everyone has a good day.

Jo XX

This is a card that I made for my mother in law’s birthday. She loves roses and has always favoured red, so I felt that the image, taken from Joanna Sheen’s Victorian Companion CD set, would be the perfect.

The square base card was made using 2 miscellaneous pieces of A4 double sided card, which matched the image well being as one side was red and the other pale pink. The seam on the reverse of the card was covered with a strip of the same card, turned with the pink side facing.

I then trimmed a piece of textured white card and applied this to the card base, on top of which I placed a trimmed down piece from a preprinted roses 12×12 paper, which I accented with a lace corner punch. Next I punched out a square piece of vellum using  an allDeco Multi-Shaper punch, and layered this on top.

To this I added a square doiley, turned through 90 degrees, upon which I attached the decoupaged flower basket, for which the layers had been printed out onto pearl finish photo paper. A blue bow was added to the handle to compliment the same coloured bow on the image. An insert was constructed using 2 pieces of thin white A4 card, cut down to size, and lace punched to the corners.

I wrapped my mother in law’s birthday present using the same roses backing paper as on her card, and made a gift tag from some of the cut-off card and a spare image which was left over from printing; this was finished by using some more of the thin blue fabric ribbon.

I hope that you like this project, and I must apologise for not having kept my blog up to date, but Christmas and life in general have been keeping me very occupied lol. Thank you for continuing to visit my blog though, it is very appreciated, and can I wish everyone a very happy and healthy 2009.

Jo XX