A vase of flowers

The lovely Margaret over on MSE made a fab get well card for a mutual friend and I fell in love with it. She has very kindly shared the image with me which she has coloured in using paintshop pro on the computer. I have spent all afternoon creating these two cards that are very different styles, but use exactly the same items.

First of all I have made this easel card that I would like to enter into the current Creative Craft World Challenge to make an easel card for any occassion. I have made a 4" x 4" card using some deep red card, to which I have matted silver mirror card and the red paper from the 'My Mind's Eye Spring Paper Pack. I have cut the image with an oval nestability, and backed it onto the same deep red card using a scalloped oval nestability.

To hold the card up I have used a Craftwork 'Happy Birthday' oval sentiment which has been put in the middle of red, silver and mind's eye paper.

To finish the card off I have added 3 punched flowers at the bottom of the base and put a silver card candy on the middle of each flower. Really pleased with how this card has turned out.

This second card, is my first ever gatefold card, and one that I found whilst searching on Youtube the other day. Now that I have mastered my MS Scoreboard I was able to score the lines on this card. The card and papers used are exactly the same as the ones in the above card, with the addition of a piece of red ribbon on the right hand side. This card was relatively easy to make, and the longest part was cutting out the rectangles to matt. I have also matted panels on the inside and when I send the card to someone, will use some cream pearlescent paper to write the greeting out. Again, I am really happy with the way this card has turned out. I'd like to enter this card into the DareU2 current challenge - anything goes.