Magnifigue is Clearly Elegant

This card was made for the wonderful staff of Hillcrest school to thank them for a lovely floral bouquet. It brightened my world!

Tracey Mason can take credit for showing us that clear cards can be put through the cuttlebug and embossed. I discovered a lacey beauty of the clear embossed card , and I like layering the items on and under the front cover for effect. The inside of the card has a tag from Tender Tags acrylics and the thank you is from Gracious Greetings.

I totally LOVE the papers from Magnifique, and the gorgeous swirling peacock stamp from Circle of Love acrylix. I stamped the peacock in multi tones of purple, green, and blue using a sponging directly from the ink pad to the acrylic stamp. I then adhered it behind the clear card front.

Finally I poked holes in the side of the card and wound chocolate ribbon in and out , and added some large rhinestones. So satisfying.

Embossed clear cards with Veranda

I saw a few clear cards embossed so decided to put a few throught my Cuttlebug embosser using a few different folders.

The results are super elegant.

The inside of the card features 2 layers of Veranda paper, and a Thank You from Gracious Greetings.

The front of the card is simply Organza ribbon wrapped around, fastened with 3 layers of paper flowers.

All products are Close to my Heart except paper flowers (basic grey).

Clear scalloped card

Chipboard circle,

Papers,

Clear textured stickers

Clear scallop card :

Close to my Heart

paper ornament:

K and Company

(thanks Julia)

New Clear Cards

I now have the Summer 2010 idea book . The Clear Cards are my NEW FAVE . They really create a visual impact like nothing else.The whole idea for me is to produce intrigue . I get excited deciding what to reveal, by creating areas that overlap and partially cover the card . I made sure that what went on the front of the card was smaller than the inside of the card, so that some of the papers from the inside show . I used K and Company ornaments (thanks Julia!) on both cards alongwith papers from Key to my Heart.

The ribbon and button embellishment "float" alongside the image on the front of the card. To get this look, I punched holes in the clear card and wove ribbon through the holes. I added buttons with liquid glass.

The textured stickers from Close to my Heart also "float" over edges and between layers because of their clear background.

The cards are 4 1/2 inches scallop round , or square, and come with transparent cello envelopes!