Creative Expressions: sidestep card

Monday, October 8, 2012

Another Side Step

Hello,
I'd meant to post this card on Saturday..for World Card Making Day...but hubby is fighting a bought of viral infection and laryngitis...so never got around to it...Sat and Sun were spent in playing dumb charades with each other as he was not allowed to talk at all....it was fun...so I sacrificed a post in favor of my own Barfi!! He's much better now...
So ... when I made this side step card...one of my friends loved it and wanted me to make for her best friend's birthday...so last week I took this up...took me a while to finish it since i can't sit for long stretches...fall on your bum and it hurts you for the next 6 months...(I should really control my rambling)

She wanted a black red white combo, but cupcakes had to be there!! rest all was up to me! So I went to town with the A5 side step card...

So here's what I made for her....the bright piece of paper is the envelope I made on my MS scoreboard!

Here are my cupcakes and presents! The presents are just scraps of paper that had been hoarded...a simple ribbon and a bow transformed them into presents.. The cupcakes are from Inkadinkado...colored with watercolors, fussy cut and glittered.... the yellow cupcake has been popped up on dimensional...

The happy birthday sentiment is from hero arts...

Here you can probably see the shine on the cupcakes...its Martha Stewart Fine glitter...Both the ribbons are a RAK, the pink from Priya Venkat (please get used to my hoarding..you'll still find me using stuff you gave me, 5 yrs down the line! ) blue from Jan..

Here is the main panel...the background embossed sheet is again a RAK from Priya Venkat...the image..Penny Black..colored with watercolor pencils and fussy cut...

The swirls are MFT dies cut with itsy bitsy glitter paper...and the flowers are cut using a die from Cuttlebug (purchased from Itsy bitsy)and layered..and a little bling stones and pearls.

The square scallop is a Couture Creations die, after die cutting, kept the die in place and sponged the paper with Barn door distress ink.

So that's how this card was done...any questions..feel free to ask...

I made this keeping a few challenges in mind...

Itsy Bitsy - Dimensional Challenge

Crafter's Corner - Celebrate with flowers

Thursday, September 13, 2012

My First Side Step Card

When people mean most to you, it makes things harder to make a card for them. Coz you want each element, every thing perfect and when you are perfectionist like I am, you take even longer. This is my attempt number 3 for this card....one I created and couldn't finish...so ditched that, then tried again...left it as a trial, and then finally this one!!

It doesn't help that the birthday girl kept asking me every day for her birthday card...that's how she is!! So I had to make, and it had to be perfect...Following stuff is way too mushy...(please don't think I'm perverted)

So for the sweetest friend that I ever met online...doesn't really feel that I've never met you...Thank God for Blackberry...and thank God for that one phone call at 1 am on your birthday... my life is truly blessed and changed for the better.

Being around you is so much fun....When I'm down, you cheer me up, and you've taught me to stand up and speak up for myself....something that I was too scared to do....
You've made me a tad rebellious and I'm loving it... You boisterous and hearty laugh make me smile no matter how deep in S&*t I am!
I love the crazy planning we do on the BB for our swaps...the ideas, the solutions to the problems that crop up...there is no big a problem that we 3 can't solve!

Having a friend like you has made me realize what friends should be like... You're my yardstick for measuring what my future friends are going to be like!!
So having said all that mush, I do realize that a friend who can teach you to be a better person, enrich your life and make you a little bit rebellious..is worth keeping...unless you piss me off...that will be an entire different story lady!!
So to quote a very cute Quote, "The world couldn't handle two of us as sisters, So We became Friends" A very happy One month Belated birthday Khushboo!!