Sunday 17 February 2013

Doilies

It's Blog Party day over at Waltzingmouse again - sometimes the 17th creeps up on me and I have rush to make a project last minute, but not this month, oh no sirree not me!  I have not one, but two doily creations all ready to share with you.  I had a couple of birthdays this week just gone that I thought a doily card would be suitable for so I made them in advance and saved the blogging of them ready for today :-)


This is the "academic year" that my school friends and I reach one of those milestone birthdays we'd rather all forget!  Mine was last year, but I have a number of friends who ares till to take their turn and this one was for Vikki.  I die cut the doily using a cut file from the silhouette store from DP and using the offset function created a matching mat to layer it on.  The centre was again cut on my silhouette cameo and I distressed the edges of it.  I stamped the greeting using two sentiments from Compact Sentiments and added a subtle 40 in the corner using Woodenheart Alphabet both in crumbcake ink from SU.  I carefully (very carefully with my sharpest pointiest scissors!) cropped the word "sweet" from the beginning of the Birthday wishes stamp (sorry Claire!) - it still goes back together perfectly for when I want to use it but it gives me a little more diversity from the stamp set when I don't ;-)  I finished the card with some washi tape stripes and a little pool party inking around the panel onto which I mounted my doily - deliberately hanging it over the edge and trimming it off flush.


The second card was for my second Valentine's Day birthday - two of my friends were born that day - and I found another cute cut file in the silhouette store to make this adorable doily banner.  I swapped out the line and bows from the cut file for some twine to give it a more real feel.  I used DP from Craftwork Cards and embossed it with a spellbinders double folder.  I added a doily-style border (spellbinders die) across the bottom and fussy cut the Eiffel Tower from another sheet of DP (which bearly shows in the photo but does IRL).  The sentiment uses my trimmed Compact Sentiment again but this time I shadow stamped it using pool party and cocoa brilliance inks onto a die cut kraft label.  I used pool party ink to stamp one of the labels from Very Vintage labels No 10 onto the edge and finished with a couple of soft pool pearls.  In hindsight, I should have used a little distress ink on the edges of the DP for more definition and a more vintage feel.

Can't wait to waltz around and see what doily creations everyone else has come up with - I'm off to get a cuppa and a slice of cake - on a plate with a doily naturally :-)


19 comments:

  1. Great cards Tara love the doily effect and great colours

    Anne

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  2. How fun, you made two cards! Both are so beautiful!

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  3. Both wonderful cards, love the spring colours. Makes we wish for spring.

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  4. Wonderful WMS cards! The lacey banner is sooo sweet!

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  5. These are such fresh and fun cards with the theme this month, Tara! I love the Eiffel Tower card with the sweet doily banner. Excellent use of those cool washi tapes, they go so well with your patterned papers and color scheme. What a cheerful card for a 40th birthday, too...such great use of Claire's sentiments!

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  6. Great job on both of these card. Your doily banner is so sweet and such a great addition to the top of your card. I really like the layers and texture you have achieved with these card. Thanks so much for joining the WMS "party" today!

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  7. Tara - these are brilliant! I do like the doily with the mat (loving the Cameo), but it the second card that is my favourite - just love it!

    I know what you mean about cutting stamps - always makes me so nervous :)

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  8. Beautiful creations of yours :) Both are amazing ...second is my fave :)

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  9. Two lovely doily b'day designs Tara - wonderful colors on these!

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  10. Both your cards are so pretty. I really like the doily banner on your second card.

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  11. Both lovely! Looks like Valentine's Day is a popular day to enter the world as I share it as well for my birthday! :-) I know your friends love their cards!

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  12. Great cards. I love the adorable doily banner and border. I also surgically alter stamps now and then and appreciate getting more mileage out of them, too.

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  13. Oh wow, they are both gorgeous Tara!

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  14. Love them both! Colors are wonderful and fab use of the washi tape...love the look but, struggle on how to use it....your is perfect!!

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  15. Both sooo pretty! Love the little banner you made.

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  16. They're both fabulous and I LOVE that doily banner! :)

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  17. please link us up to the fab doily in the silhouette store, i'm in love! beautiful cards :)

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  18. These are both gorgeous Tara but I particularly like the second with that beautiful banner and the ornate base strip. I think it's a great idea to split sentiments to make them more versatile! Vicky x

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  19. Gorgeous cards Tara and it's ok, it only took me about half an hour to recover from the fainting fit I had when I read that you cut the polymer...LOL!!!! I do stuff like that too...Thank you for playing along with us at WMS!

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