Last Christmas card for 2014

I am running short of time this year so I needed to come up with something quick and simple. This one is very easy to make. The background is heavy parchment card, with embossed gold paper layered on the top two thirds. I added ribbon and a loopy circle before topping with a bronze flower. The Christmas greeting is a circle on a circle, both from the same Spellbinders set.

2 Christmas Cards

Both cards use a similar greeting set up, with a circular greeting within 2 layered circles. Both are then layered and bows added. The two filigree circles are from the same Spellbinders set.

Christmas card 2

Finally a card using my own artwork. I scanned and printed one of my pastel paintings and used it within some spellbinders frames to complete this card. The printed picture has been edged with distress ink. The decoration on the bow is a heart shaped rosette.

An anniversary card for my husband although it could be used for any occasion. I used a spellbinders die for the background and then used a series of layered ovals. I threaded the ribbon through the background cut out and then tied a separate piece of ribbon around the centre of the two threaded pieces of ribbon. Two purchased paper roses finished the card.

Male Birthday 2

Yet another card fro a man. This started off life as the previous card but the inking made the vintage picture too yellowed so I worked on a different colour scheme. I printed the image on a bubble jet printer and inking it smudged the image, but I liked the smudging as it kind of aged/distressed it, so I left it. The image is from a  book of vintage steampunk illustrations from Dover. The circle behind was a floral one but I tucked the very flowery bit behind he larger circle. The black strip was cut using s Martha Stewart punch. I used my computer to put together the sentiment. Double click on the image below to open it full size, then right click to save it to your computer.