Ladybird heart

Good Morning Everyone.

Thank you for your amazing comments on my Giant Ladybird card.  This ladybird heart came about as i couldn't waste all the little off cuts from my giant one so i turned my red mirri into little ladybirds(or ladybugs - not sure why we call them ladybirds here in the UK).  Then wondering how to use them i got asked to make a non traditional anniversary card - so a ladybird heart was born.  Sadly the photos don't show the mirror card at its best. 

7x7" scalloped cardbase.  On a white panel of card i lightly drew around a heart die with a pencil so i had the shape to follow.  I then stamped my sentiment in the middle. I then arranged my ladybirds around the heart.  I filled in the little gaps using all the little 'holes' that fell out of the die cut ladybirds as they look like little gems. I added one in each of the corners too.  3 black flower gems to embellished.  I then mounted this panel onto more of the red mirror card, black and then the base card. 

A close up, you can see the colour a bit better.  I do love alcohol inks on mirror card😁 The sentiment stamp came free with a magazine years ago.

Items Used:

Elizabeth Crafts Ladybird dies

Sentiment stamp

Tim Holtz alcohol inks

Gold mirror card

Payper box bloack card

CraftUk ltd 7x7 scalloped card blank

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  I hope you all have a good week & stay safe. Emmax

Giant Ladybird

 Good Morning Everyone

Today im sharing a fun card i made for my Niece Kitty-Bea's 2nd brithday.  She loves all her animals & creatures and never happier than when out about the farm with nature.  I used a gold mirror card that i had coloured with various red alcohol inks so it has a more marbled effect to the finish.  My giant ladybirds wings open to reveal the message.

approx A4 in size - so yep its giant😁. So i first die cut grand ovals - 2 black 1 red mirror.  From the red one i used circle dies to cut out the ladybird spots.  Adhered the red oval to a black oval and cut in half down the middle - this just made my wings more substantial for little hands playing with it and then the black underneath shows through the 'spots'..  

I then die cut 2 circles & 4 tiny circles from black card for my head - for the antenna I sandwiched 3 layers of black card strips between 2 tiny circles to give it more strength.  Using the spare black oval i glued on the bigger circle for the head. I attached my antenna. I then added my wings with brads. I then glued on the second circle to the bottom.  Doing it this way just makes it tidier underneath to look at and hides the brads from little hands!

I die cut a 3rd black oval, scored an inch down to create a hinge and glued to the back of the card. Off this back piece i cut along the bottom edge to make it flat so that my ladybird could stand upright. 

Opening up the wings i added my greeting using die cutting and scraps of card.  I added the number 2 too 2 of the spots too😃

this shows the wings opening

the wings fully open showing the die cut greeting, you can really see the colours of the alcohol inks on the gold mirror card here too.  Its amazing as you still get the mirror effect through the alcohol inks and you get a different tone with the alcohol inks if you start with silver mirror card rather than gold.

And finally this image shows side on how it stands up - much to my surprise it will even stand up nicely with the wings open.  This was one of those projects that had a life of its own and very much evolved as it went on.  It can simply be made smaller if you don't have the A4 grand dies and its all made from simple circle and oval dies. 

Items used:

Spellbinders grand and standard circle and oval dies

Alphabet dies 

Birthday sentiment die

Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol inks

Gold mirri card

Payper box black card

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  I hope you are all doing ok and keeping safe.  

A big thank you to all of you who are amazing in keeping our country going be it key workers, voluntering to help others and so many getting hands on -

 you are all wonderful💖.  Hugs Emmax

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Ladybird Penny Slider card

Good Morning everyone. 

Today im sharing the 2nd card i made for Alice's birthday, this one was for me to give to her.  I've made a penny slider so the ladybirds are 'flying' to and from the flowers.  My niece's are quite easy to make cards for as they are big into nature so lots of choice. 

A5 White cardbase.  I first took a piece of blue floral paper and attached it to red glitter card so that its more substantial.  I then worked out placement to die cut my slider slot dies, typically the slots turned out too narrow for the foam circles i had to i lined up the die again and cut it beside the first one, so this made it double width to easily fit my pennies and foam dots.  I then added alot of 2mm foam tape to the back, leaving room for the pennies to slide freely and attached to the white cardbase. 

I made up my ladybirds with black glossy & red glitter card. I then took 2 penny coins and added a foam dot between them, then attach the ladybird on top, i did this twice.  I die cut and made up 3 white flowers, adding a touch of yellow to the centres and the yellow buttons.  I inked up some card with lime oxide ink and die cut some leaves, I then used the same ink and stamped a tiny birthday sentiment to each leaf.  

Stamped greeting mounted on more of the red glitter card.  I then handwrote Alice in the top slider gap and 4 in the bottom one, just so i could personalise it and i think Alice will like the fact that the ladybirds move to reveal her name......well hopefully

Just showing the ladybirds in a different position

A close up on my middle flower and hopefully you can make out the birthday sentiment i stamped on the leaves.  Very subtle. 

Items Used:

Elizabeth crafts ladybird die set

Floral & leaf die set

Slider die set

Birthday sentiment stamps

Floral pattern paper

Jellybean red glitter card

We had a lovely day on Saturday for Alice's birthday, all 4 of my nieces are growing fast and seem to all have the tall gene.  Thank you all for stopping by again.  I hope you all have a good week. Emmax

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Ladybirds

Good Morning everyone.

Today im sharing a fun childrens birthday card using ladybirds or to my followers elsewhere in the world ladybugs.  I think its actually suitable for adults too.

DL cardbase.  This card using alot of scraps and snippets.  The squares, ladybirds and sentiment were all cut from little pieces of card inked with brushos, pixies powders and oxide inks.  The flowers left over bits of white card.  

I first cut a panel of white card slightly smaller than the cardfront, i embossed this with a brick wall embossing folder and lightly brushed oxide inks in tumbled glass & pistachio over the top.  I added this panel to the card front. 

I didnt have enough of one colour of inked card for 3 squares, so the 2 outside ones are from brusho/pixie powder card and the middle one is oxide inks. The ladybirds were cut from black card and red brusho card and layered up.  The sentiment is cut from the same red brusho card.  I gently shaped my white flowers and added to the circles and then my 3 ladybirds added one top. 

Close up on the ladybirds.  We don't get an awful lot of them here in this part of Cornwall due to the damp atmosphere so its always a little exciting to see the odd one or two in the garden.  

Items Used:

Elizabeth Crafts die - 711 Ladybugs

Elizabeth crafts happy birthday die

MFT stitched square dies

Flower die

Crafters companion wall embossing folder

Oxide inks - tumbled glass, pistachio

Brushos

Pixie powders

Thank you all for stopping by, i hope you all have a good end to the week and weekend.  Emmax

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