White On White Easel Card

Hi Everyone

... big welcome to my newest followers Inger and Heather Kate

How is your Spring bank holiday weekend going? 

I have been expecting warmer weather for ages because our boiler was

pronounced caput 5 weeks ago and since then it has been

living like in the fridge for me in our house!

Any good boiler recommendations? 

Does anyone have Worcester brand and is very happy with it?

Today I would like to share an easel card. I had no juice left in my printer 

in 3 cartridges ( and still waiting for my arm and a leg to grow back 

after my last  ink cartridge purchase .. which was not that long ago ): 

so I decided to do white on white instead because I love this kind of style too.

I started die cutting with 250gsm cardstock but soon realized that 

I needed much more heavier cardstock for the whole structure to keep its shape.

Instead I decided to use a heavy weight cardstock off cuts which I always end up with 

after I finish making boxes for my cards and never know what to do with it 

because this type of card just seems to be only good  for box making 

and even scoring it on my Hougie presents quite a tough task with the 

scoring tool being pushed to its limits! (Bendy tools... not a good idea me thinks)

I have to say the card was too thick for dies to cope with

and I had to make lots of passes with each die to get a proper cut and also to

see the embossing but it was worth it in the end because you could play footie

with it now how sturdy it is (LOL).

Here is the Easel card

 Please excuse my terrible  pictures! For some reason it shows up with

lilac tint instead of pure white! 

Here is a little close up

Dies used-Dienamics,Joy!,Marianne,Cheery Lynn,Spellbinders

MS PATP, Woodware punch

I would like to enter following challenges:

1.Papercraft Star - Challenge 146 - What Do You Find Beautiful? ( I find flowers and butterflies beautiful. Flowers always announce the Spring arriving and I love to watch for the first sign of my Spring flowers in my garden. Butterflies! They say without change there would be no butterflies! I love them for their elegance.

2.Shelly's Images - Show Us What You Got

3.Crafts 4 Eternity - R#125 - Get Into Shape

4.Unstampabelles Challenges - Ch#23- Easel Card
5.Polka Doodles-Week 21- To Die For

Thank you very much for visiting and your lovely comments
* Michaela *

Happy Mother's Day

Hi everyone,

I would like to say thank you for all your get well wishes... 

it worked..... my flu and cold are gone now so I am fine from this angle.

The root of my creation was inspired by one of the challenges they are having over 

at SJ Crafts. I decided to use their current sketch and made it into a card.
I would have gone larger in scale to show off the photo a bit more but
I was restricted by the size of my largest Jiffy bag. After I made a box for it,
it was a pretty tight squeeze! I better measure more than twice next time (LOL).

Here it is

I am still loving kraft card so I used it again. I printed out the papers and

all the paper elements on super smooth paper which gives me better qulality looking image

 than printing straight onto a card and cut them out. Then I glued all the elements

onto heavy weight card to give it much needed strength and cut it out again.

I also used a hessian which gives a fantastic texture, favourite Vintage Floral

MS punch and did a bit of stitching and finished of with some of my embellies

from my stash. 

Thank you very much for visiting and all your lovely comments.

*Michaela *