Wednesday 12 October 2011

Humphrey Thinking of You Card

Well,here I am back again with my second post of the evening.  In my last post I mentioned my friend (well she's actually my second cousin) who is fighting breast cancer and this is a card I have made to send to her.  Usually when I make a card I take the colours from the image.  This time I took the colours from some beautiful backing paper I spotted on my Joanna Sheen cd "Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady".  The colours are autumn colours which are my friend's favourite shades.  So I decided to use this Humphrey image with golden roses which match in with the golden colours in the backing paper.

Here is the card

The base card is a pre-scored 6x6 card from my stash.  I have used Whitewash Coredinations card which I have embossed using Creative Expressions mask (leaves) and then sanded back.  I have used a Spellbinders die to cut out the lovely autumn leaves backing paper and a smaller one the same shape to cut out some satin dusky pink mirror card, which matches the pink in the leaves on the backing paper.  I then embossed the pink shape using a Cuttlebug embossing folder.  Humphrey has been coloured with ProMarkers and I used another Spellbinders die to cut him out.  The dark green leaves are a ribbon and I have threaded this through each side of my cutout Humphrey and attached it at either side of the card.  Finally I added a sentiment and a paper rose.

I am pleased with the result and hope that my friend will like this card when she receives it too.

Since making this card I have decided to enter it into the following challenges

Papertake Weekly Challenge "Get in Shape"
Kaboodle Doodle "Let's See Those Leaves"
Crafty Cardmakers "Anything Goes"

Catherine x

12 comments:

  1. He is so sweet yet another great card hun xxx nicky

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  2. Another great card! So Cute
    Hugs
    Dawn xx

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  3. love it Catherine
    hugs linda xxx

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  4. Beautiful card, what is the name of dies?

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  5. Thank you Linda, Donka and Melanie. The dies I used are Spellbinders Shapeabilities Artisan Tags and Accents for the Humphrey image - it had twiddly bits on each side which I cut off - and Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 23 for the pink and autumn leaves Melanie.

    Catherine x

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  6. Catherine this is lovely, and your clever use of the spellbinders die is making me lust after it!

    Thanks for joining us at Crafty Cardmakers.

    Lin xx

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  7. Thank you Lin - I do like Spellbinders dies.

    Catherine x

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  8. Cute card love the image and the colours thanks for joining us at Papertake weekly
    Angie x

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  9. Nice card Catherine.
    Thanks for joining us over at Crafty Cardmakers.
    Hugs Kimx

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