Happy Christmas

Would like wish my customers & all those who have encouraged me through the year a very Merry Christmas & best wishes for the New Year

Leaving Card - shoes

Unusual request this time - not my choice of message on the front but I'm sure the recipient will find the funny side of it - this inside message was lovely though.

Another card for an employee of Kodak as she leaves the Company.

The shoes were cut out using my Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting machine and the sizzlet die set shoes.

The shoes were cut from cork material, black glossy card stock and silver glitter card. The pieces were fixed together. All the shoes were matted onto white card and then black and finally a silver mirror card to finish the squares off.

A black and silver glittered card stock was matted on to black card and fixed to the base card.

The four panels were fixed using 1mm 3d foam pads.

The personalised message was printed (Pauline it truly wasn't my idea) and matted onto the same black and silver mirror card and fixed across the centre of the card, faux brads from Craftwork cards were fixed on the message panel.

 

The message inside was

 

B = Beautiful

I = intelligent

T = Tenacious

C = Charming

H = Humorous

We will Miss you loads!!

 

All the Best Pauline for the future.

On Your new Journey Leaving Card

A card request for a staff member of Kodak who leaves the company today.

 

The card was created using Kanban 'Car stamps' set , I coloured in the image using promarker pens and stamped the spare wheel again and cut the section out and layered the wheel using 1mm 3d foam pads. Large brad crystals where added to highlight the headlights section.

 

The coloured image was matted onto a scalloped  circle cut using Spellbinder scalloped circle die set.

 

An easel style card was created and a personalised message printed and matted onto orange card stock.

 

All the best Ruth for the future. 

Musical Trio Christmas Card

This card was created using an acryclic stamp of three snow people,  stamped onto white card stock and coloured in lightly using promarker pens. Faux black stitches were hand drawn round the edge. The coloured image was then matted onto both blue and brown cardstock.

Using a musical note background card and another scroll background, both pieces were matted onto brown cardstock. the musical note part was twisted and fixed and the edges cut where it over hung the base card. A brown ribbon was fixed across the card and a personalised message printed and matted onto blue and brown card.

The message and main image were fixed using 1mm 3d foam pads.

Pauline's Leaving Card

A request from a friend, for her special friend who leaves Kodak today after many years of working together and friendship - so an extra special card was required, the theme being drink!

This design was taken from Tumble Tizzy CD - from the decoupage section.

The page was printed direct form the CD, I didn't particularly like the scalloped background that was on the printout so I decided to cut the base section away from the background. All other parts were cut out and layered up using 1mm 3d foam pads.

I matted the decoupage bear and glass onto cream cardstock and then on a ruby red card stock.

The base section was again using cream card and brown striped cardstock (from Stampin Up range), a cream ribbon was attached across the join. The back section was matted onto red card and fixed to the base card.

A personalised message for Pauline was printed and matted onto red card and fixed to the lower striped section of the card.

I hope Pauline likes her leaving card and wish her well for the future.

Golfing Cards

A request this month for a card on a golfing theme for a man who reaches the big 50 on Christmas Day.

 

Using a black and white digitable image taken from 'The Best JustInkedLined' CD by La Pashe.

 

I printed the image on to smooth white card stock and coloured in using Promarkers pens, using colours denim blue, sandstone, cinnamon, tan, ice greys, marsh green and pear green.

 

The coloured image was matted onto blue and brown card stock.

 

A personalised message was printed and again matted onto blue and brown cardstock.

 

A patterned backing paper was joined to a plain blue paper, a dark brown narrow ribbon was fixed across the join. The square backing section was matted onto brown card and fixed to the base card.

 

The coloured image and personalised message where fixed using 1mm 3d foam pad to finish.

 

 

I repeated this card again for my husband, who also celebrates his birthday this month, and altered the personalised message accordingly.

 

Lets hope both men have great birthdays. 

 

 

Football Cards

 

This card was created for a Liverpool supporter who celebrated his birthday in December.

 

The image was stamped onto plain white card stock and coloured in using Promarker pens.

 

A football backing paper was matted onto black card stock.

 

A personalised message was printed and both this and the coloured image where matted on to black card stock. Both where fixed to the card using 1mm 3d foam pads.

 

 

 

A similar card but this time , coloured in for a special Watford supporter.

 

Green House Leaving Card

Time for a card for a colleague of my husband as he leaves the company on redundancy terms.

A card request for an avid gardener.

A stamp by Stamposaurus- Green House door.

I stamped the image onto white cardstock and stamped the water butt and plant pot either side of the main image. I coloured in using Promarker pens.  I drew faux stitch lines around the edge of the rectangle for detail. This was matted onto brown card, a message was printed and matted onto brown card also.

Two background papers were fixed together and a white border punched using Martha Stewart Doily Lace punch, green ribbon was fixed to hide the join of the backing paper. A small hole was punched on the bottom part of the card and a spade charm fixed. The backing paper section was then matted onto brown cardstock.

The stamped image and message were fixed to the card using 1mm 3d foam to finish.

Lets wish Ray all the best for the future.

50th Birthday Card for Sallie

A card request for a female - another 50th Birthday.

 

Using the Sarah Kaye stamp, the image was stamped onto smooth white card stock and coloured in using Promarker pens.

 

The image was matted onto brown card stock which had a scalloped edge punched at the lower section.

 

A cream embossed card stock was matted onto read card which had the scalloped punch design at the top edge. A green section of card was fixed to the red section and again the same scalloped edging was punched. This main section was fixed to the base card.

 

The coloured image was fixed over the base section using 1mm foam pads.

 

A personalised message was printed and matted onto a circle cut from green card and then matted again on to a scalloped circle in red card.

 

Flowers were punched out of the red card stock and smaller flowers punched out of brown card. a pearl bead was fixed to  the middle of each flower, these where fixed to the card using 1mm 3d foam pads.

Christmas Cards for the Parents

Time to create the Christmas cards for the parents.

 

Using Joanna Sheen's House mouse Decoupage sheets , I selected two images and cut all the pieces out. The pieces were then layered up using 1mm 3d foam pads where possible and on the tails a tiny amount of wet glue was used to secure.

 

The images were matted onto a coordinated card stock along with the backing papers chosen. The coloured images was fixed to the backing paper section using 1mm 3d foam pads.

 

Narrow ribbon was fixed across the cards and a 'made with love' charm was attached using Organza ribbon. 

 

Messages were printed and matted onto card stock and fixed over the ribbon sections to finish.