Photos - Bah Humbug!

A bad workman blames his tools, or so they say, but honestly I cannot take a decent closeup photograph of any of my cards. Sorry for this being slightly blurred.

This is one of those step cards (if that is what they are called) similar to the ones I made in America for my friend Mary to use in her workshop. I was especially pleased to hear from her that my cream and gold one had been "the hit of the day - everyone loved it". Don't have a photograph of it to put on here so I made one today in the colours "Purple, Blue, White and Silver" which just happen to be the colours for the challenge on Play Date Cafe at the moment.

Just in case (doubtful) someone has not seen how it is here is a side view.

First of all I used Purple cardstock to make the base of the card, I think it may have looked better in Lilac but Purple was the colour required for this challenge. The cardstock was cut at 26 cm x 14 1/2 cm and folds were made at 3, 6, 10, 15 and 20 cm along the long side. These were then made into mountain and valley folds as shown below.

The images were stamped in Brilliance Pearlescent Sky Blue and I used Spellbinders Labels Seven to cut out the shapes. For this image (a PSX stamp) I used the largest die to cut out the blue mount and the next one down for the image.

The next image (again PSX) was cut out and mounted on the next size die down.

Finally the book. I used the next to the smallest die and cut three pieces out of paper, not cardstock. These were edged with a Silver Dabber and the words "Merry Christmas" were stamped in the same Brilliance ink. Only the right hand pages were stuck to one another and the 'book' was then stuck, again only the right side, to the main card. A blue gem was added to the top left hand corner for a bit of interest.

To finish off I put some silver stars on the main card and added a white, edged with silver, ribbon and bow.

I now need to do a red and gold one for my son and his partner. Andy loved my original card but Sam has definite views on what she wants and didn't want this shape of card as it won't hang up. I thought if I did one in her chosen colours for this year she might display it on the mantlepiece or something. We'll have to see.