Parchment Craft Card

A warm HI to everybody from a very cold Freestate in South-Africa!

This morning when we woke up, it looked like fairies were playing around outside with white paint! The frost was thick and it was cold!! It is now just after 14H30 and it is still cold. Heaters are working overtime - VBG.

I have not been able to craft as much as I would like to, but I have been busy. I took part in an Xmas in July swap in our RSA stamping group. Our hostess have received my cards - I will show them when all have been received back. In the meantime she's also had her birthday and I made her a parchment craft card. Susan use to make the most beautiful parchment cards! I still love to go to her parchment website for inspiration. The pattern for this card I got from Lovely Bags in Parchment Craft (by Amanda). I did change the center and am quite happy with how it turned out.

Okay, that's it from me for today! I am busy with preparations for a Prick-and-Stitch class I have to give in August. Lots of examples to make - my card stash is totally depleted! Decided I will teach the ladies to make a corner bookmark with not too much stitching on, as the time available to teach them, is very limited and none of them have ever done it. Will show some examples I am making as I go along.

Thanks so much for visiting!

Happy crafting.

Card for my Mother

Just a quick post today. My Mother is turning a young 75 on Thursday and I made her this card. She loves parchment creations and have had some I made for her, framed. I did not put anything to do with the '75' on the outside as it serves as a Mother's Day card as well. With her it normally works like that as her birthday and Mothers Day is so close together. Don't remember where this pattern is from, as I found it in my file of printed patterns that I still want to do. All the flowers with flat back pearl centers are 3D.

Hope you like what you see! May you have a wonderfully productive week! I am off to make a card for my grandson's first birthday, which is on Friday.

Thanks so much again for visiting.

Parchment Daisy Circle

Can you believe it - a second post this week!! Well, as I said, my stamping mojo is still on holiday and doing other crafts are definitely benefitting from it. And I so love doing parchment craft that I don't really mind but I do have some return cards that I have to make. Will have to do something to get back into stamping!

This was a pattern I found at ASM Designs and as normal, I thoroughly enjoyed working on it. The parchment is stitched to the cardstock with invisible thread all around the edge. To me, that is the only way that you can attach parchment and not see the product you have used to do it with. Unless of cause you put your glue or double sided tape under a heavily embossed area.

Thats all for today. I am off for some coffee with a friend.

Thanks so much again for visiting and for leaving such lovely comments.

Enjoy what is left of the week!

Card for Cariena

A very good day to all of you! Hope you are all doing well.

I did this card for a friend, Cariena Basson, who said she's never had a parchment craft card in her hands. I've done it some time ago already, but did not want to spoil it for her blogging it before she received it. She received it today.

This is also from The Language of Flowers by Tatsue Shibata. The card has two layers. The front part is held in place by two of the flowers which is cut loose from the back part partially and the front is then pushed in under these flowers. I thoroughly enjoyed doing this card.

In the meantime I have been working on my N, O & P ATC's for our group swap. See, I am not doing only parchment :-)

Well, we're almost halfway to the weekend. Enjoy what is left of this week and have lots of fun crafting.

Thanks so much for visiting!

Parchment cards

A very warm hello to all! Hope you are enjoying your weekend and that the 9 to 5 workers are getting lots of crafting done this weekend.

A project that I saw on a fellow RSA Stamper, Amanda Harrod's website, inspired me to make some boxes this week, into which I want to put 5 to 8 cards with envelopes, which can be given as gifts. I have found that people always appreciate a gift like that very much. So, I have been busy making some rather plain and quick cards too practically all week to put into these boxes. I got the pattern for the box from the Scor-Pal website and managed to make them quite easily, even though I don't have a Scor-Pal.
Inbetween making the cards and the boxes, I have been busy making some more parchment cards.

The first one is from the Pergamano World Magazine Nr. 39. Lots of cutting here but a very nice and easy pattern to do. There is another version of the pattern as well as a gift tag. I hope to do both at some or other stage. This specific magazine has some lovely wedding card patterns in it too.

The next is a pattern from a CD by Wendy Walters - Parchment Craft Pattern CD Vol 1, in the Flowers section. Both these cards are actually shown as a colored version, but as I am not so great on the coloring, I prefer to do it in plain whitework.

Well, that's all from me for this week. I hope you like what you see.

All the comments left on the previous posts is much appreciated. It really warms my heart.

Hope you will have a great first week of March. I know I have a rather busy week ahead of me.

Thanks for visiting again!

Daisies

A very good afternoon to all! Hope you are all doing very well and enjoying your weekend.

I am still making parchment craft cards and this one comes from a book called The lanuage of Flowers by Tatsue Shibata. She is an extremely talented lady and in this first book she wrote, she has 20 exquisite patterns. This one is called Daisies. Though it has taken me forever to do it, I loved it. I hope you can see from the scan that the four daisies with pearl centers are 3D. Unfortunately I don't have a camera at the moment and could not photograph it. These daisies were also given a light brush of Pergamano Pinta Perla White paint, just for that added effect.

Hope you like what you see and that you will be back to visit again. To those who left comments on my previous posts, thank you sooo much. It is much appreciated.

Enjoy what is left of your weekend and happy crafting!

Thanks for visiting!

Parchment & Stamping Combination

I can hardly believe that it is my second posting for this week already! Well, I actually planned on finishing this piece yesterday already, but life just would not allow me to.

This is another one of Amanda's patterns (Amanda-Craft in Parchment) It is called Grid ATC. Yes, it is the size of an ATC. But I did not want to use it as an ATC and therefor made it into a card. In the pattern you are suppose to thread colored vellum through the slots where I have ribbon and Amanda has a flower painted in the middle. I suppose that is part of what cardmaking / parchment craft is about - each person interprets a pattern in his/her own way. And this is my interpretation of her pattern. I have no idea who the design paper is by. The little bunch of flowers stamp is from an Upikit set and it was embossed with Seafoam White and colored with my trusty old Tombows.

Hope you like what you see. I thoroughly enjoyed doing this ATC. I love doing gridwork even though it is very tiring on the eyes.

Enjoy what is left of the week!

Thanks for visiting again.

Butterfly & flowers circle card

A very happy Monday to all.

I had some time to make a parchment card again.  I still think it is the most therapeutic kind of craft around. I just love doing it. I found the pattern and instructions on Ching-Hsiang Yeh (Amanda) from Taiwans' blog. She has lots of interesting free patterns with detailed instructions. Thank you Amanda, I loved doing this one. I love how the circle part is fitted under the flaps that is partly separated from the base of the card. I've just added some bling and also made the butterfly 3D.

Hope everybody will have a very productive week. I know I plan to make as many parchment cards as possible.

Thanks for visiting again and happy crafting!!

Daisies and a poodle

A very good morning to all.  We had some lovely rain last night and this morning the sun is shining brightly (and very hot already) and everything looks so clean and fresh. Looks like we are going to have a lovely day.

After working on this parchment craft card on and off for about three day, I eventually managed to finish it yesterday afternoon. The daisies are 3D. Not one of the cards I enjoyed doing the most, yet still very satisfying now that it is done.

This Poodle card was done with an extra image that I stamped and colored when I was making the cards for my friend. It is a Micia image and was colored with Tombows. The border was done with a Fiskars punch and I used the glitter technique that Jowilna taught us at camp on the checkered paper. I think the glitter is far too rough/big but it was the only transparent glitter I could find in our little town. I finished it off with some Zoomz for the flower center and on the border.

Okay, that's it for today. I have to get started on my Christmas cards and today seems like the perfect day for it.

Thanks so much for visiting!

Have a wonderful day full of beautiful creations.

Parchment Craft Cards

A very good afternoon to all!

Here is two parchment craft cards that I made in the last two days. I just love making these even though they take much longer to make than rubber stamped cards.

Thanks so much for visiting!

Hope you will enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Stamping on vellum

A week ago this time we were busy with classes at camp and it was so nice. Can't we have camp more often? It does not matter, we don't have to have goodie bags and prezzies at meals - just classes will do fine :-)

I have finished the cards I still needed to do from Jowilna's class and I am rather satisfied with them. I am just having a royal battle to photograph or scan them. Will have a go at it again next week.

This card I finished on Thursday already.  Used my trusted ole stamp from Flourishes again. Stamped it on vellum with Versamark Watermark and embossed with Sea Foam White powder. Did some embossing and did the border on one of the PCA grids. It was colored on the back with Tombows. The ribbon is one of those that has the little string attached that you pull to make a bow. The rhinestone is actually a light pink.

That's it for this weekend.

Hope everybody will have a wonderful weekend.

Thanks so much for visiting!

Wedding card

Good morning friends! It is a lovely cool morning here but according to the weather forecast we are going to have a very hot day today.

A friend asked me for a card for her stepson's wedding which is towards the end of the month, but she wanted it today. As this is a card that I have made many of, specially for weddings, I decided to go with 'old trusty' again. I love doing this card as it looks never looks the same, depending on what colors and ribbons you use. This time they don't know what the wedding colors will be and I decided to go with just a hint of color and gold. The inlay is pearly white board.  I really hope she is going to be happy with it.

Well, that's it from me for today.  I am off to get ready to meet her for coffee a little later.

Thanks so much for visiting!

Have a great day!

Parchment Cards

Parchment craft is another one of my passions. Here is a card that I have made. A lot of my parchment cards are made for a friend of my Mother who prefer to give hand made cards to her friends. She has requested some cards again so for the next couple of days that is what I will be busy with.

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