Window Box Commissions.

Had two commissions waiting that could both have a catty theme so made two of these window box cards using the super die set that Helen bought me for my birthday! The die is by Sue Wilson from the Kinetics Collection called "Window Box and Accessories". (CED22003).

Papers are from a freebie kit in Making Cards (Springtime and We love llamas set). I coloured the flowers etc with copic pens.  The bricks are from a 12x12 Joy Paper pack called Tough Textures.

Font is "Script MT Bold". Added some stickles to finish.

 Close up of the flower box.

More experimental cutting!

As you might have guessed, there is now no stopping me cutting stuff up! :) This time I used a freebie celtic pattern to make a cutting file and used it on the eclips.

A few months ago, one of our newspapers was giving away free prints of Claude Monet paintings. They were abandoned everywhere in our local coffee shop so I swiped a few at the end of the day to perhaps use as a background image. However, I decided to cut a celtic design out of " Path in the Garden at Giverny" (1901-02) for this card. I wanted a floral/irish feeling card.

Flowers from Wild Orchid, Hobbycraft and stash. Papers from stash. Number from Amelia's Creative Craft Shop in Studley. Embelished with glossy accents, Nuvo crystal drops and stickles.

Cat cards!

Recently read someone's blog where they mentioned that they made a prototype of their card before making the final version, phew! I am glad I am not the only one to do this!  Because I am very new to the Eclips I was experimenting with free svg files and used one of a cat for a commissioned card order.

This is the prototype! I decided not to waste the cut and used it to make a card. The background and rainbow strips are using up a background I made on a previous "having a mess" day. I'm pretty sure it was using liquid distress ink refills on glossy cardstock.

So after making that card I edited the cutting file and made the cat a bit more streamlined. I also popped on some text to make it relevant to the customer's order.

This was another "having a mess" background. I used sequins from the stash, stickles on the text and some glossy accents in the eyes.