In the Frame

It's Friday-Dareday again already adn this week we have the fabby, super-talented Lynne setting the dare:

Good Morning Darers, Lynne here - are you ready for a new dare? Thanks for all the amazing work for Gill’s Op shop dare last Friday, and Tuesday’s Cars, Boats, Trains & Planes Little Extra - we love seeing all the different takes on the dares that are set. Of course we still have our fab Guest Designer Rachel with us this week.

So, on with the dare.
This week I’d like you to use a FRAME or FRAMES on your card. You can use any type of frame you so wish. How about a die cut frame or a hand cut frame.
You can frame your card with brackets or flowers or how about some doodling ?
the choice is yours.

Remember to leave a comment on the Daring Card Makers Blog so we can hot-tail it over to see your creations. We do visit every Blog and try to leave as many comments as possible. There are so many amazing creations that we can't all leave a comment - we hope you understand.

Thanks Lynne for a fun dare. Here are my cards:

I cut the frame 3 times with the Robo and embossied the top layer with the Dots and Spots Cuttlebug folder before sticking all three layers together. I inked and heat embossed the whole frame.
Papers are Blonde Moments, Blooms are a mix of Angel Kisses and Prima and the brads are those pretty jewel ones from Dovecraft, I think.
I'm still not convinced this card is finished - it looks to me like it needs a greeting of some kind = probably in the top right corner - I keep looking at it and trying to work out what to do to finish it off. Usually the three brads trick works but this time it doesn't seem to have done the trick.
I made this one in about 30 minutes this morning - only because I already had the slidemount lying around from making a few of them a year or so back!
The slidemount was inked and UTEEd with red and gold inks, and there's also some red glitter embossing powder in there. I stamped into the hot UTEE with a little swirl stamp too.
Yhe little holly charm is actually a pewter one from Eclipse in the US but I needed gold so I Krylon-ed it and put some red glitter glu berries on to perk it up a bit more. Papers are from the DCWV Christmas pad - which btw is fab - lots of the papers aren't too Christmassy at all so will be really useful for other cards. More inking and glitter glue dots - oh and the fabby tiny greeting comes from a mini stamp set by Hampton Arts and available from the wonderful Bubbly Funk shop. I bought a couple of these stamp sets recentlyand they are just soooo cute!

It's another of those "difficult" days - It would have been Mum's birthday today. My birthday was also mum and dad's wedding anniversary so celebrating my birthday is always tinged with a bit of sadness too. In exactly two weeks time it would be Dad's birthday. Makes for a difficult few weeks - but in a way it's much better to remember them on their special days and wish them "Happy Birthday" rather than on those much less happy anniversaries.
Spare a thought for me today please.