A Brand New CD from Peerless Designs - Feathered Friends

You might be wandering why I havent posted any cards for a couple of days, firstly its been because I have been painting our bedroom and in the hot weather it wasnt particularly the best time to do it but unfortunately once started I could hardly stop. And the other reason is that my dear friend Sarah Hallam of Peerless Designs has asked me to create some samples for her from her brilliant new CD "Feathered Friends" to show on its launch day 17th June at 9am on Create and Craft.

Sarah has created the most gorgeous images again for this CD all birds as the title says and has even done some no stamp required digi stamps which I believe can be used for backgrounds and then you can stick any image in front of it, they can be left black like the one above behind the bird or it can also be coloured by any medium you like once youve printed it out.

I have chosen this gorgeous Blue Tit for my first card, and all Sarahs design sets come with many backing papers, tags and ribbons, decoupage, inserts, sentiments, boxes, this one has a calendar, envelopes, frames, extra toppers etc and also help files, so you wont be left alone if you have any problems.

Ive taken the main topper into my My Craft Studio program and reduced its size and flipped it so that I could create the right size topper for this card. Im not quite sure what they call this particular card design but to me its a card within a card, the outside one is a 8"x 8"x 4" card and the smaller one is 5"x 5", Ive used two papers for the larger one and placed them on gold mirri card to mount them up, and the smaller card has also got two papers mounted in the same way, remembering to make sure that the card opens in the opposite way to the normal one, I also put an insert inside the smaller one with a verse printed on it to.

To finish of the front I have taken the ribbon into My Craft Studio again and printed a sentiment on it and stuck it to the front small panel at the bottom, not to easy to see in this photo, but it says "Thinking of You". Ive also used my swirls template to create a swirl on the front and some green pearls. The flowers were created from of the left over paper and my Nellie Snellen flower punches, also some maidenhair fern leaves were stuck to the card first before the flowers were placed on top. And the very last thing is the three pearls placed at the bottom on the right hand side.

I sincerely hope you also agree what a beautiful image this one is and I will be making another card to post tomorrow, but I will keep one back from the six samples Ive been asked to make, to show you just before her show is due to go air so I can remind you of the time its due on.