Wednesday Weekly Card Giveaway/ It's A Two- Fer

Hello all!  I have a double card giveaway today.  Since I am no longer doing any of the Heartfelt Creations shows, I thought I would offer up a couple of the cards for the giveaway this week (and maybe next week too!)  We have one white and one black card, just for a bit of variety!  For the background of the first card, I stamped the Majestic Morning flowers all over using a Clear Perfect Medium.  I heat embossed them with white detail embossing powder for a tone on tone look.  In the centre of the card, I cut a Stately Circle die, giving me an aperture to use.  I added mounting foam to the back to raise it for dimension.  I added it to a thin periwinkle blue mat.  The Stately Circle cut earlier was recessed back down into the aperture, showing the blue card through the cut outs.  I stamped a sentiment from the Creative Expressions stamp set called Nature's Sentiments and cut it out with a smaller die from that set and added it in the centre.  I stamped the Majestic Morning flowers in black onto periwinkle card and cut them out with the matching die.  I added black glitter to the edges of each of the petals after assembling each of the flowers.  I tied a messy bow out of black seam binding, added some white tulle and pearl strings and seated the largest flower on it.  I added a few more flowers on the opposite side of the sentiment.  I made a stick pin using beads from my craft stash and added it to my bow.  I finished this card with a double white pierced mat layer.  Finished dimensions are
 7 1/4" x 8 1/4" in size.  Scroll down to see the second card on offer.

 Card no. two for today's giveaway.  This one was a demo during my last Heartfelt Creations shows in January.  I started with a piece of black card and stamped the background using a Clear Perfect Medium pad.  I heat embossed it with gold.  Using mica powders, I made a paint by adding some water and coloured all the flowers with it.  Mica powders really pop against black card, giving a cloisonne look to them.    I used a small circle die to cut the opening in the background area.  I masked some of the vines on the stamp and stamped the sentiment and cut it into a strip.  I tucked the end into the opening and gave it a bit of dimension.  I made a scrunched flower using the Majestic blooms cut out of lavender card.  I added the flower with a black jute bow to the corner of the sentiment strip.  I matted the background with a thin lavender mat, then added a black mat edged in Midnight Snow before finishing with a double gold pierced mat layer.  Finished dimensions are 6 1/4" x 7 1/2" in size.

If you would like a chance to win either of these cards, please leave a comment on today's blog post.  The winners will be drawn and announced on Saturday's blog post.

A couple of quick announcement to make too today.  Firstly, Julia Watt's showtimes have been changed for today.  They are now 10am and 1pm today so don't forget  to tune in and set your recorders!

The other thing that I wanted to say was a great big thank you for everyone that took the time to go vote for Nick!  Although the outcome wasn't what we had hoped for as C & C cancelled the competition before it ended.  While Nick does maintain an address in the UK and C & C emailed him to say that that was fine, there were others that complained, so they decided to just cancel it.  So many of you have emailed me about sending donations directly to Nick to help with his club and that is fabulous, but it is very expensive to ship to Bulgaria.  I know this first hand as I sent him a parcel last month.  He would be grateful for any donations and has said that I can even give out his address, you just need to email me.  Someone else suggested doing a donation in the form of vouchers for Joanna Sheen's website as she ships internationally for free.  I think that would be a better way to go and probably less expensive in the long run if you would like to help out.  Nick would even be able to pick out the consumable items that he needs the most for his craft club too that way.  He was so overwhelmed at the response from everyone and is just humbled and pleased that so many people want to help.  I told him that my blog family is like that!  (I am such a proud Mom!)  All for now,
Sue x