This card was made for a friend's 50th birthday, and is a download from Craftsuprint, but I don't recall who was the designer, and it's not printed on the sheet. There was a lot of cutting out to do for the decoupage, which took some time, and I also punched out some gold grape leaves, and made a bunch of grapes from some burgundy coloured beads and wire.
I altered the base of the card slightly and put a strip of card across to take the grapes and leaves (the grapes were very hard to stick on and I resorted to sticky pads and red tape!), and I also added a couple of extra layers of decoupage. It was quite a time-consuming card, but the recipient was delighted with it, (and his wife and daughters) so that made it all worthwhile. I also made a box for this card, as it was quite bulky, particularly with the beaded grapes!
Thank you very much for visiting my blog, and special thanks to those visitors who leave such lovely comments. It's always nice to know when I'm blogging that I'm not just talking to myself!! It also means I can come and see everyone's blogs, which I always enjoy. xx Jill
32 comments:
This is a brilliant card, you do these easels so well :D
Absolutely fabulous Jill.
Wendy xx
Brilliant easel card Jill,I like the bunch of grapes.
Kevin xx
This card is brilliant. And the colours are so nice and rich.
Heike xx
great card sue xx
Fab card - those grapes look real! Maddy x
WOW, brilliant, I know lots of people that would love this. x
wow super card ... love the design and the rich colours ... well done ... just doing a bit of blog hopping ... happy crafting and love sandy xx
Mornin' what a fantastic card. I love the way you have altered it to your taste adding extra 'grapes' and everything. Have a great weekend.
Lovely male card, well done.
Maureen......x
Doesn,t it make it worthwhile when the recipient values what you have spent so much time making? It looks great. xxx
What a fab card x
great card xx
This is lovely! You can almost open the gate and go in!
Really lovely card for a man!
Fabulous card! :-) Happy Leapblogging! Elaine-xxx-
What a great card - makes me fancy a glass of wine right now!
hi Jill, superb card, love the grapes, well done for persevering with sticking them down, Fi x
Lovely easel card, gorgeous design
Gorgeous card ,blog hopped from DC Lorna xx (craftinglorna)
Lovely card - so much detail
Linda
Wow thats a really lovely card, well done Sharon x
fab card =) really great images, and rich colours.
kim
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brilliant card. love the rich colours x
Popping over from the docrafts weekend Blog Hop - some stunning cards here :) Hope you can pop by mine xx
Great card. Lovely rich colours. xx
Its brilliant I know just the person to give this card too, love it. Chris xx
Wow what a brilliant card xx
Beautiful card x
love your cards
What a brilliant card, the wee bunch of grapes and punched leaves are the perfect finishing touches. xx
Brilliant card. Male cards are so hard to make but this is fabulous. I love the bunch of grapes. Gail x
Brilliant card, Tinaxx
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