Roses, Roses, Roses

I'm so pleased that you stopped by today!!  I'm sharing another Napkin Fold Card, as they are so much fun to make, and so rewarding as well.  This one is much more "girly" than my first one, isn't it?  :)  I absolutely love roses and "girly," so I had to make another card and incorporate them both!  I added half pearls to the corners of the card itself and the tag on the "belly band" closure.  

This is what you see once you untie the ribbon closure.  As you can see, 3 coordinating papers are used to make this lovely card.  The edges of the base card stock are edged with a MS eyelet round the corner punch.

This photo shows the card after it's fully opened.  The inside has plenty of room to write sentiment and is embellished with a layered blue bird and a flower with leaves.  The flower has tiny blush half pearl in its center.  I would love to have used a rose, but it would have been too  tall and the card wouldn't close.  The printing underneath the blue bird says:  "Journal Des Roses."

Here's a photo of the back of the fully opened card.

The papers I used were Gypsy Chick's Pink Paislee Butterfly Garden Flower Blooms and Botanical Gardens and Graphic 45's Once Upon a Springtime Collection Fairy Folk.  All of these are gorgeous vintage papers.  Did I say I also love vintage??  LOL 

I hope you enjoyed your visit today and will return often!

xoxo Marilou 

I love Fairies!!

I made something to share with you today that I found just a few days ago.  It's called a Napkin Fold Card.  If you've never made one, I encourage you to give it a try.  It's so much fun and very rewarding!  I used a full 12" x 12" card stock sheet, plus additional patterned papers in 3 different designs to create it. 

This is the face of the card: 

In this shot, I've untied the ribbon and let the card start to open:

Here you can see the card is starting to open even further,
and  you begin to get a hint of what's inside:

Now the card is completely opened up and you can see the beautiful Fairy inside and that there is ample room for handwritten sentiment.  I used a MS glitter pen to highlight her wings. 

 This is the back of the completed 6" x 6" card.

The papers I used were from Graphic 45 and named "Once Upon a Springtime Collection, Butterfly Kisses" and "Once Upon a Springtime Frames" and from My Mind's Eye, 29th Street Market "Peaceful Treasures, Precious/Jade.  I'm sorry, but I don't remember the name of the card stock I used for the basic shape of the card itself.  I used a Fiskars Diamond border punch on the belly band that goes around the card to close it.

I used the instructions from Split Coast Stampers.  Please take a look at these beautiful examples of other Napkin Fold cards from other blogs:  SCS Gallery, Marianne's Papeirverden (page down), and another at Marianne's Papeirverden.  As you can see, they can be simple or quite elaborate!

Thank you for stopping by my blog today, I hope you enjoyed your visit and that you have a Blessed Sunday!

Big Hugs,

Marilou

Naturally Sweet

Sweet Nellie images are so precious, and this one, named "Joy sitting," is no exception.  She's so SWEET!!  I colored her with my Copic Markers.  The papers I choose are from Prima, and part of the Botanical Collection.  I used Missing you, Beloved, and Far, Far away.  If you look closely, you can see that I did a bit of layering of two different papers that had been edge punched.  I used two different edge punches on this card.  Embellishments include:  Latte half pearls, ribbon, and silk flowers.  The sentiment is from Paulette at Create with TLC.  I love the colors on this card, and hope you do, too!


Thanks for coming by to take a look.  Have a wonderful day!!
xo Marilou

May all your wishes come true.

I really enjoyed coloring this little Tilda image with my Copics.  She's so adorable!  The papers are from a Colorbok stack.  I machine stitched around the green polka dot paper, and then ripped the stitching away to give the ragged edge.  I also zigzagged around the added coordinating papers, and then distressed the papers and the card with Ranger Antique Linen.  I inserted floral brads through the middle of the lavender silk flowers, and then added a rhinestone on top of the brad and here and there around the card.  I use rickrack around the oval image and added a bow.  I use a leaf edge punch and another to round the corners of my card.  I used Stickles to embellish Tilda's dress and hair ribbon.  The sentiment is from Paulette at Create with TLC.


Thank you for dropping by to take a peak!  I hope your day is amazing!! 
xoxo
Marilou 

Your smile tickles me!

I used another adorable little image from Mo Manning, called "Cherry," for this 6" x 6" card.  She's colored with my Copics.  The papers I used were"with all my heart" from s.e.i.  The sentiment comes from Paulette at Create with TLC. I used a flower Die Cut, leaf punch and edge punch to add some of the embellishment.  The flower has a pretty little pink stud in the center of it from Bo Bunny.  I love her sweet attitude!


I'm so happy you dropped in to take a look.  I hope you have a great day!
xo Marilou

So, how's your day going?

I love, love, love this precious, pouting digi image from Mo Manning!  She's called "Mariko is mad."  I made the image a bit larger than I usually do, as I just wanted the details of her face and "attitude" to show clearly.  She's colored with my Copics.  I cut her out and mounted her on a sheet of white card that I ran through a dotted swiss folder using my Big Shot.  The other papers used are from  Cosmo Cricket's "Material Girl." I added a little flower I made with some of the papers, leaves and some red half pearls.  The sentiment is my own.  As someone who usually leans toward soft pastels, this was a real break away for me.  I like it!!  LOL


So, how's your day going??  I hope it's Blessed.  Thanks for stopping by to take a look!!  xoxo  Marilou

Wishing You Everything Wonderful...

This lovely image is a Sarah Kay Vintage stamp called "Josephine cuddling her pet cat Kiki."  They're so cute, aren't they?  I used my Copics to color using one of my favorite color combos, pink and green.  I added pink half pearls, vintage lace, dark green ribbon, and embellished the background paper by layering on flowers and a butterfly.  The papers I used were from the same pack I used in my last post; purchased at Ross.  I really like the delicate, vintage look of the background paper.  A couple of punches were used to make the flowers, and one edge punch was used on the paper, and one on the edge of the card itself.  ETA:  The sentiment is from Paulette at Create with TLC.


I hope you enjoyed your visit to my blog today and will return again soon.  Thank you for any comments you leave, they are such an encouragement to me.  Have a wonderful day! xoxo <3