Well, you guessed correctly, it is totally Joanna!
Today I didn't go to work because of a nasty tooth ache, actually I suffer from an inflammation of a nerve under a tooth so you get an idea....
So when the postman came, I was thrilled to find a birthday card from Joanna, it certainly made my day a whole lot brighter! Isn't she a doll?
The card is mostly in pink and green (have I ever mentioned that I love pink and green? LOL!) and it has several layers of material and a very pretty patterned paper. I also love the doily in the back as well as the pink distressed backround for the sweet Tilda (I think I'm addicted to Tildas, tell me doctor, will I survive it???). I also loved the pink ribbon detail because it reflects beautifully the pink dotted circle in the back.
Joanna, thanks so much for the gorgeous card, so fresh and cute and for your wishes, I wish joy and health to you and your family as well!
I really liked the process of making an album for Effie, so I decided to make another for my friend Maria whose birthday is approaching. I used a chipboard album from Sfragidomania and covered the pages with DCWV papers from the Garden Party paper stack.
As you can tell, green and pink is my favorite color combo, so I couldn't resist the temptation to use it once again! Also, I had the genious idea to write her name by mixing greek and english letters, but I just realized that it looks like I've written Mapia and not Maria! LOL!!!
As for the tiny flowers, I bet you've seen them again in my projects, it's a super easy and fast to make them, one of these days I'll make a post about how you can make them too!
I really love the image on the right page, it's a BW image I found online, I just printed it and colored it with my copics and on the back I wrote my wishes for my friend.
On this page I made a gatefold mini, I also added a separate photo tag on the back.
This is the back side of the photo tag on the right, I made a journaling spot, the stamps are from a Crafty Secrets clear stamps set, I colored it with my copics and finished it with colored pencils.
The image on the left is another BW image that I printed and colored with my copics, the "Mat Queen" was so suitable for my friend!
Here I made a trifold mini (on the left) and a booklet (on the right). The stamp is Crafty Secrets as well.
For the last two pages I made another tag and another mini mini (LOL!) the sweet Tilda was a loan from Joanna (thanks a bunch Joanna!) I was inspired from Effie's card and I made the background.
I guess my friend will like the album, she's not into scrapbooking but she loves the cards I make for her...and I hope you'll like it too!
Here 's a video as well:
I wanted to make a card for my friend's Eleni name day and I wanted to use this sweet Tilda, and I had the idea to place her outdoors. So I started by making the tree, I just made a tree trunk drawing, I cut it and colored it with my copics. For the folliage I just inked a piece of cardstock with green distress inks and then embossed it with a Cuttlebug embossing forlder.
After positioning the tree on the card, it seemed too bare to me so I made a picket fence out of beige cardstock with a ruler and a pencil, I also inked it with distress inks. Then I used some green cardstock and made the grass and on top I adhered the Tilda with foam squares.
Then I added more strips of grass in front of the Tilda, but that was not enough, so I also made a May wreath with green Flower Soft and Martha Stewart's microbeads.
When I thought that it was done, I realized that I forgot to add a "happy name day", so I made two little rocks with cardstock and distress inks and wrote the wish on them (LOL!) and...ready!
I had totally forgotten that I had to go to two weddings, so when the actual days approached, I realized that I had to make two cards for my wishes, ASAP! So I used the same pattern and I just varied the color scheme based on the color of the invitations.
After cutting the cardstock for the card base, I colored it with Ranger's distress inks (Antique Linen and Broken China). Then I stamped on a piece of white paper with a very cute Crafty Secrets clear stamp and colored the images with my copics and then cut them using an oval nestabillities die. Then I used a slightly larger nestabillities die in order to make the scalloped frame that I adhered on the colored image with foam squares.
The finishing touch was the two hearts I added, the red ones are colored with a Copic marker.
Quick and easy, but aren't they cute too?
