A card for Chloe

A birthday card required, this time for my Niece Chloe.

As she owns a Guinea Pig, I found the ideal image to use.

Using a Joanna Sheen House Mouse decoupage sheet, I cut each layer out of the main image. The layers were attached using 1mm 3d foam pads and silicon glue for the mouse tails and the ribbon sections.

The main image was matted on to pink card. Two backing papers were used and matted on to brown and pink card. Theses were both attached at an angle using double sided tape. Pink brads were attached to the main topper and this was fixed to the backing section.

A message was printed and fixed to the base of the card at an angle.

Lets hope Chloe has a lovely birthday.

50th Wedding Anniversary Card

A request last month for a 50th Wedding Anniversary card.

Using Lili of the valley stamp 'Together Forever' I stamped the image using Memento black ink onto plain white card stock.

I coloured the image in using Promarker pens, and added additional colour to create shadowing when the first colour had dried.

The main image was cut using a spellbinder circle die and a cream card was also cut using a slightly larger circle die. A blue scalloped circle was cut and the three pieces matted together. Using a border punch a section of blue and cream card were cut at two adjacent ends. These were fixed to the base 6" x 6" card.

A personalised message was printed and cut using a scalloped shaped oval, and matts cut to mirror the main image.

A piece of blue ribbon was fixed across the card. The main image was fixed using 1mm 3d foam pads above the ribbon and the oval message fixed slightly over the main image.

Small flowers were punched out using blue and cream card and fixed together, there were finished with a pearl diamante for the centre of each flower.

A Card for My Birthday Buddy

A Birthday Card required for a special friend and one of my sons Godmother.

I bought these stamps from Alexandra Big Stamp Show back in April and couldn't wait to use them.

I stamped each dress onto patterned card stock of a green design and yellow design.

I stamped all three dresses again onto white card stock. I coloured the manikin top part using Promarker pen - satin colour.

I cut the dresses out of the green and yellow card and fixed these over the stamped image on the white card. Further smaller sections of the green and yellow stamped image were cut and again fixed to the image on the white card stock. To increase the shadow and pleats of the dresses I used Propmarker pen - Marsh green colour to add colour to the patterned card, following the shadowing shown on the stamp. Promarker pen - Honeycomb colour was used to add colour to the yellow section.

Small gold diamante were added to the two outside dresses to create necklace effects. All three images were matted onto green card stock.

The same patterned backing card was used for the background , a narrow strip of green ribbon was used to hide the joins and to add detail. The whole back section was then matted onto green card.

The three images were fixed to the backing section using 1mm 3d foam pads. Finally a message was printed and matted onto green card and fixed to the base of the card.

I hope Deb had a fantastic birthday.

 

Laser Tag card for Jack

A birthday card required for a birthday boy having a laser tag partylast month.

Using Cricut 'Every Day Paper Dolls' I cut out a body and head at 3.75 inches. I cut out trousers, shoes, a top and a body warmer. I cut a small square with rounded corners out of white and black card to create the pad they fire at. The gun was cut from the 'Paper doll dress up' Cartridge. The glasses were cut from 'Every day Paper dolls Cartridge' using the skiers goggles but I cut round to made them narrower.

Using the Cricut Gypsy device I created a square with rounded corners and using Mickey Font Cartridge positioned the words Laser Tag round each edge. A green background was created , the words laser tag were cut from black card four times and fixed into the spaces on the white square.

Happy Birthday Jack was printed on the computer and cut and position coming out of the gun. Narrow strips of blue card were fixed as straps to the gun.

The face was stamped on to the head part only using Sizzix faces stamps, this was stamped again onto white copier paper. The eye sections were cut out and glued to the head section, the head was fixed to the body using 3d foam to give a slight layered effect. The glasses were fixed to finish.

Chelsea Footie shirt card for Kean

Football birthday card request this month for a young boy who celebrates his 12th birthday and is a mad Chelsea football fan.

I made this using my Cricut Create machine and the Cricut Gypsy. Cartridges used were Soccer and Disney - Mickey Font.

I used my Gypsy Device and selected the football shirt (from the Soccer Cartridge) and hid all the detail cut so I had a basic shirt shape, I then welded the shirt, boot (shadow feature) and ball (shadow). I positioned the name and numbers within the shirt, the font taken from Disney - Mickey Font. The shirt was cut at size 5inches high, the ball 1.35 inches and boot 1 inch high. This was cut out using the main football shirt colour.

I also cut in a contrast colour the name and number again to insert in the main shirt once main cut completed. The name font was approx 1 inch high and the number 1.5 inches high.

 

I cut the shirt again in white bazzill card stock to add the sleeve and collar detail.

 

I cut 2 further boot shadows and a ball shadow in white Bazzill card stock.

I cut the ball (detailed cut) and two boot (detailed cut) in bazzill black card stock. I attached the boots and football detail cuts over the relevant shadows.

 

The 2nd Boot was fixed on main shirt using 3d foam.

 

The banner was created using a Sizzix banner die, the greeting printed out on computer first and then cut from the die, two further banners were cut to create a shadow effect. Corner sections were cut using Dianamics corner dies , there were cut from both blue and black card and matted and added to each corner to finish.

Makey Bakey Mouse sewing card

 

Time to make my sister a birthday card. as she is a keen seamstress, I couldn't resist using my new Makey Bakey Mouse CD from Crafters Companion. 

 

The main decoupage sewing image was printed out. each section was cut out and layered up using 1mm 3d foam pads. Note this is quite a layered card so if posting beware.

 

I matted the decoupage image on to black card stock.

 

Two backing papers were also printed out and cut and matted onto black card and fixed to the 6" x 6" base card. Black grosgrain ribbon was fixed across the join of the backing papers.

 

Three spool shapes were die cut in cream card, embroidery thread was wrapped round each to match the backing paper colours. The decoupage image was matted centrally on to the card using 1mm 3d foam pads. The spools were attached using silicon glue as they were slightly curved prior to fixing.

 

A small tab shape was cut and attached to one spool and using peel off sticker 'happy birthday' was attached.

Time for some Golfing cards

Requests for some Golfing themed cards, for birthdays and retirement.

Using the Cricut Paper dolls and Every day Cartridges , I selected initially the golfing images. All the bodies were cut at 3.5 inches height and each character dressed accordingly.

The golf clubs were created using narrow rectangles which were welded together using the Cricut Gypsy device.

Apparently the man who was retiring throws his clubs around when he doesn't play well hence why the juggling of golf clubs above his head and the grumpy face.

The green back ground was also created using the Cricut Gypsy, using a slanted number '0' from the Mickey Font Cartridge created the hole section and the top grass section was welded to the rectangle base shape. Fine grade sand paper was fixed to the base card and the green section fixed over using 1mm 3d foam pads to create a Bunker effect.

The phrase missed was printed and cut into a flag top and fixed to a strip of grey card to create a flag pole.

The ladies 60th birthday golfer card was created in a similar way but this time the bunkers created were using the numbers '60' , again slanted. As there were no female golf clothes on the Cricut cartridges I modified other clothing on the cartridge to match what lady Golfer's wear.

 

Finally the last card was created using the accessories on the cartridge, the golf bag, ball and the small Tee.

 

 

Lets hope the joint 60th birthdays and retirement celebration all went of well.

Our first attempt at Decopatch

 After seeing completed projects whilst on holiday, I decided to have a go at a new craft Decopatch.

  

All you need to do to start Decopatch, is the object you’re going to cover (and it works on anything), some glue, water and a selection of decopatch papers.

 

I initially choose a pencil box to cover and because I love Giraffes - the paper was easy to choose too.

I cut some paper in to small pieces, approximately large stamp size.  The cut pieces will give a patchwork affect, torn pieces are more fluid.

 

I created a mix of PVA glue and water (a 50/50mix). Using a small brush I painted some glue onto my box, making sure I covered an area bigger than the paper pieces. 

Using the glue left on my brush, I then painted a thin coat over the paper, making sure all the edges were stuck down.

I continued to do this overlapping pieces until the box was completely covered.

 

Once dried  I then re painted again with the same mix of solution and allowed to dry, this created a glazed effect .

 

It was really fun creating this and my youngest son wanted to decorate a box too, so we purchased some book boxes for the boys and I choose a hexagonal box to decorate.

 

 

We choose denim, camouflage and stamps decopatch papers to decorate, the boys were delighted with their boxes.  

 

 

Nails Nails Nails Birthday Card

A card this time for Karen who celebrates her Birthday this month.

Karen runs a a Beauty Company and does my nails every month, so the theme of the card was quite easy too choose.

Using an Original Sizzix die 'Purse and Accesories', I cut out 15 nail varnish bottles. The lids were all cut in silver mirror card. the bottles were cut 15 times from clear acetate, and finally cut again in 15 different colours. The three sections were attached together using double sided tape. White squares were cut and placed over each bottle to act as a label and also to hide the tape.

The 'Happy Birthday' Message were cut using Sizzix sizzlets decorative strip die - Wingo Zingo Alphabet. the letters were attached to each bottle using PVA glue.

Two strips were printed and cut to create the effect of a shelf , these were glued to plain white card to add dimension.

A cream backing card was chosen and matted onto a dark pink card, this was fixed to an a5 sized card.

The shelves were positioned and fixed using 1mm 3d foam pads. The bottles were then positioned and fixed with both double sided tape and 1mm 3d foam pads.

Finally to decorate the top two corners, a set of false nails were purchased and fixed using silicon glue to finish.

The remaining two bottles were fixed at an angle to the back of the card.

A Card for Roger

 

A card for Roger required this week - so my chance to try to create the new Watford Football shirt Card.

 

I made this using my Cricut Create machine and the Cricut Gypsy. Cartridges used were Soccer and Disney - Mickey Font.

 

I used my Gypsy Device and selected the football shirt (from the Soccer Cartridge) and hid all the detail cut so I had a basic shirt shape, I then welded the shirt, boot (shadow feature) and ball (shadow). I positioned the name and numbers within the shirt, the font taken from Disney - Mickey Font. The shirt was cut at size 5inches high, the ball 1.35 inches and boot 1 inch high. This was cut out using the main football shirt colour.

 

I also cut in a contrast colour the name and number again to insert in the main shirt once main cut completed. The name font was approx 1 inch high and the number 1.5 inches high.

I cut the shirt again in the black bazzill card stock to add the sleeve and collar detail.

I cut 2 further boot shadows and a ball shadow in white Bazzill card stock.

 

I cut the ball (detailed cut) and two boot (detailed cut) in bazzill black card stock. I attached the boots and football detail cuts over the relevant shadows.

 

The 2nd Boot was fixed on main shirt using 3d foam.

The banner was created using a Sizzix banner die, the greeting printed out on computer first and then cut from the die, two further banners were cut to create a shadow effect. Corner sections were cut using Dianamics corner dies , there were cut from both yellow and black card and matted and added to each corner to finish.

 

Time for a Birthday Scrum Card

A card required this week for Paul, I know he enjoys Rugby, so this year I choose a La Pashe comical scene for his card.

The image was printed out from 'The Best of Lapashe' cd. The parts were cut out and layered up onto the main topper section using 1mm 3d foam pads.

The image was matted onto black card and matted onto a red card using 1mm 3d foam pads. This red section was matted onto black card and fixed to the 6" x 6" card base.

A personalised message was printed and matted onto black card, this was fixed to the base of the card.

Scouting Birthday Card

A card required this week for Nick, I normally go on a football theme but this year I decided to go on a different theme. As Nick has been involved in the scouting movement I decided on a La Pashe comical scene.

The image was printed out from 'The Best of Lapashe' cd. The parts were cut out and layered up onto the main topper section.

The image was matted onto black card and matted onto  a green card using 1mm 3d foam pads. This green section was matted onto black card and fixed to the 6" x 6" card base.

A personalised message was printed and matted onto black card, this was fixed to the base of the card.  

Good Luck card for Chloe

A good luck card required this week as our god daughter starts Secondary school.

Using my serif software, I created the following card. I am new to serif crafting but did find creating this fun and relatively easy to change colours of embellishments and to add and remove items.

I printed the main image off and matted it onto both brown craft card and black card, this was fixed to 6" x 6" card base. Black photo corners were cut and added to each corner to add detail.

Lets hope Chloe has a great first day and secondary school and hasn't got too much homework.

A Card for a Knitter

A birthday card required this week for my sister in law's birthday.

As she is a keen knitter I decided on a design from Joanna Sheen's House Mouse Triple CD collection.

The main decoupage image was printed onto smooth white card and the separate pieces cut  out and assembled using 1mm 3d foam pads, PVA glue was used to secure the mices tails in place. This image was matted onto purple card stock, and metal coated brads fixed to each corner.

Using my smallest knitting needles, I knitted several rows using DMC embroidery thread, and slid these onto a cocktail stick. The points of the cocktail sticks were snipped to make blunt ends for saftey. At one end of each cocktail stick a narrow strip of paper was wound round and secured with PVA glue. Once dry the ends were coloured in using Promarker pen -sandstone, to match the cocktail stick.

A Happy Birthday message was printed and the knitting fixed using silicon glue, once dried this was matted onto purple cards stock.

The background paper was printed off The House Mouse Project Book CD , this was matted onto purple card and fixed tot the 6" x  6" base card.
The topper section's were fixed at a slanted angle using 3d foam pads to finish.

Jade is 30 - fly fly away.....

This time card requests for a Virgin Air stewardess who's reaching the BIG 30th Birthday this weekend.

I was asked to create two cards, both with a air stewardess theme using the Cricut Paperdolls Cartridges.

After investigating the current Virgin cabin crew uniform, I selected clothing from both Cricut Paperdoll  and Everyday Paperdolls cartridges.

For the larger a5 sized card, the doll was cut at 3.75 ". The face was created using Sizzix face stamps and then the eye sections were stamped onto white paper and cut out and glued to the main stamped image. The blue colour of the eyes was added using a Promarker pen with a fine nib attached.

The ticket messages were printed onto Bazzill white card stock, and cut using Whimsy Stamps Ticket Die, these were then cut again from both red and purple card stock. The coloured cut tickets were cut in half to create a border effect at each end. The suitcases were cut from Cricut Paperdolls Cartridge, there were cut from 3 different colours of brown card stock and sections cut out from each to create different coloured suitcases with contrasting detail.

White Bazzill card was matted onto red and purple card stock and fixed to the base card. Four photo corners were cut using  Die namic Photo corner dies set, from purple card stock and fixed to each corner using double sided tape.

The main doll image was fixed in the centre of the card and the two suitcases slanted outwards at the  bottom of the card.

The four tickets were attached overlapping each other using both double sided tape and 1mm 3d foam pads.

 

 

This others smaller card was created, cutting the Cricut doll at size 3" , the plane was cut from Paperdolls for Everyday cartridge, this was cut from both white and red card and sections cut out and joined to added detail and hopefully look similar to the Virgin planes currently in use.

 

The clouds were cut from Paperdolls Everyday cartridge and stretch and altered in height using the Cricut Gypsy Device.

 

The suitcase was created as above from Cricut Paperdolls Cartridge and the handle part was taken from the same cartridge but was originally the toddlers brick trolley, the handle and first wheel was used only, the remaining part was cut away. 

 

Light blue card was matted onto purple card stock and fixed to the 6" x 6" base card. A small green section was cut and fixed tot the bottom of the card. Two photo corners were cut and fixed to the lower corners only.

 

The clouds were fixed using both double sided tape and 1mm 3d foam pads, the aeroplane was fixed using 1m foam pads to add dimension.

 

The main doll image was fixed to the side of the card pulling the suitcase trolley, both were fixed using double sided tape. 

 

A personalised message was printed and cut using Sizzix Banner die, it was cut again in red card stock which was cut in half and fixed to create a border around the message.

 

 

Time for a coffee addicts birthday

Time to make a special card for a special friend.

Coffee was the easy theme for this card as Susan is a coffee addict.

Using an image from House Mouse CD, I printed the decoupage image sheet. The sections were cut out and layered up using 1mm 3d foam pads. The backing paper was taken from House CD Project Book.

The main image was matted onto two brown pieces of card (light and dark brown) , the backing paper was also matted onto the same card matts. The backing section was fixed using double sided tape to an a5 sized card.

Two sets of corners were cut using Die namic Photo corners dies, these were layered up and fixed to each corner using double sided tape.

The main image was fixed using 1mm 3d foam pads.

A personalised message was printed and matted onto brown card and fixed to the lower part of the card.

To decorate, real coffee beans were used. These were first glazed using Glossy Accents. When dry they were fixed to the card using silicon  glue. Once the glue and gloss had fully dried the true coffee smell came through again.

To finish and a matching coffee style insert was printed from House Mouse Inserts CD Rom.

Lets hope Susan has a lovely day, I'm sure there will be coffee flowing at some point through the day, lets hope she doesn't use the beans from the card though.

Housemouse chalk Birthday card

Time to make a card for Nish who celebrates her birthday this month.

Using House Mouse Triple CD, I printed both the background paper and the main image onto smooth white card.

The sections of the main image were cut and layered up using 1mm 3d foam pads. This was matted into black card and fixed to green card using 1mm 3d foam pads, this was matted onto black card to complete. 

The backing paper was matted also onto green and black card. This was fixed to an A5 card opening landscape.

The main image was fixed slightly slanted using double sided tape to the backing paper.

The tag was cut out and matted to match the background, this was attached to the card using a peg embellishments.

Four green pearl brads were fixed to each corner to finish.
Lets hope Nish has a lovely birthday.

Birthday Wishes to Rhys

Time to make a card for Rhys as he celebrates his birthday this month.

Using a football stamp form Crafters Companion Mulberry Wood - Champion, I stamped the image using Momento black ink onto smooth white card stock.

The image was coloured in using Promarker pens , and matted onto to red and yellow card stock, using a fine black liner pen faux stitches were drawn around the image. A message was printed and matted again onto two  coloured card stocks. A football backing paper was matted on to red and yellow card and fixed to the base card.

The main image was attached using 1mm 3d foampads, fixed at a slanted angle, the message topper was fixed to match.
Lets hope Rhys has a fab birthday and enjoys all his celebrations that his has planned.

LOV Engagement Card

Time to make an engagement card for a special couple of friends who've just announced their engagement.

Using Lili Of The Valley stamp - Anniversary surprise, I stamped the image onto white card stock using Momento black ink. The image was coloured in using Promarker pens. The backing papers were taken from paper pads from  Lili of the Valley pads Country Gent and Country Lady, a strip of red grosgrain ribbon was fixed across the join, a diamante ribbon buckle was threaded at one end. The main coloured image was cut using a Spellbinder die, this was cut again out of red card, the larger sized die was cut from both red and green card stock. The red sections were cut down the centre and fixed to create a shadow effect. the top colored section was fixed to the green section using 1mm 3d foam pads to give a layered effect.

Corner shapes were cut using Dienamics photo corner dies.

The backing section was matted on to both green and red card stock and the corner sections fixed using double sided tape.

Finally a personalised message was printed and matted onto green and red card and fixed using 1mm 3d foam pads to finish.

Congratulation to Paul and Angela on their engagement, lets hope they liked the personalised card.

Despicable Me Birthday Card

Time to make a card for our sons 12th Birthday. I was struggling with an idea initially as I always steer towards football themed cards, until we went to see Despicable Me 2 at the cinema.

Using my Cricut Gypsy device and selecting basic shapes of circles and rectangles, I welded circles and rectangles together to create the main body shape.  The arms were basically narrow rectangles welded at the elbow joint and welded to the main body shape, a narrow slit was cut for the mouth area. This main part was cut from yellow card stock.

Small white pieces of card were cut to create the teeth (bit fiddly) , black card was placed behind these to complete the main body part.

The gloves were taken from Cricut Paperdoll Cartridge and cut out in black card stock, these were fixed using double sided tape.

The dungarees and feet  were created using the same size circle and a rectangle welded to the top part to create a bib effect, small additional rectangles were attached at the top to create straps, the feet were taken from Cricut Paperdolls cartridge and welded to the circle, this was cut out of blue card stock.

The eye and goggles sections were again circles, small black circles cut from black card for the pupils , larger white circles for the main eyes. The grey goggles were two slight bigger circles welded together and rectangles at the side to create the arms of the goggles.

The small black dots on the Minion's head were punched out from my eyeletter and glued into position.

A personalised message was printed and fixed to brown card stock and a handle attached for the Minion to hold.

The embossed backing card in white was embossed using the Sizzix Big Shot machine using Happy Birthday embossing plate, this was matted onto blue card stock.

A Yellow border of card was added to a white 6" x 6" card and yellow ribbon attached across the joins, this backing section was attached to the main base card. The embossed section was attached and the Minion fixed using double sided tape. the message board was fixed using 1mm 3d foam to make it lift slightly from the card.

Lets hope he likes his card and has a fab day.

Sewing cards for the Twins

A request this month for twins who turn 65 - the theme of the cards being sewing.

Using Sizzix BigZ Tim Holtz Sewing die I cut the manikin shape out from brown, pink and blue card. The pink and blue cuts were trimmed down and fixed to the brown bases using double sided tape.

Thread holders were cut using Dienamics Sewing set and each thread holder was covered with embroidery silks.

The backing papers were created using stamps from Joanna sheen Haberdashery stamp set , bobbin and buttons were stamped randomly onto plain white card stock. These were then coloured in using Promarker pens. Each coloured backing card was matted onto two colours of card stock, pink and brown & blue and red.

Organsa ribbon was fixed and tied at the waist of each manikin.

Two personalised messages were printed onto white card and matted onto coloured card stock.

The pink version was matted onto a decorative rectangle cream card, cut form a Spellbinders romantic rectangle die.

The blue version was matted onto a cream coloured oval shape. the oval and scalloped oval were cut using the Cricut Create machine and the shapes were created using the Cricut Gypsy device.

Lets hope Maggie and Ann had a great Birthday.

A Card for a Prince

Time to make a card for William and Kate, following the safe arrival of baby George.

Using Lili of the Valley stamp - Snuggle time, I stamped the image using black ink onto white card stock. The image was coloured in using Promarker pens and then matted onto blue card stock.

Two contrasting backing papers were cut and joined, blue Ric Rak ribbon was fixed across the join. This was matted on to blue card and fixed to the 6" x 6" base card.

A personalised message was printed once the name was announced and matted onto blue card. Two little feet silver charms were attached to the name topper using organsa ribbon. Both main image and message topper were fixed to the card using 1mm 3d foam pads.

Lets hope the card reaches Will & Kate and that they are enjoying having George home with them at last.

Cards for the Teacher's

It's that time of year again when the schools break up and the boys are at home for 6 weeks.

 

Time to make cards for the teachers as the boys move on.

 

Using Joanna Sheen House Mouse Triple CD collection I found the ideal image and backing paper to suit leaving cards for teachers.

 

I printed 3 sets of backing papers off and 3 of the decoupage mouse images. I cut the individual pieces out and layered up the main card image. Each image was matted onto card stock (green chosen for the male teacher and purple for the ladies), I then added a further matt of black card. The backing paper was cut and matted to match the image and fixed to a 5" x 7" card.

 

A personalised message was printed and matted to match me the main images and both were fixed to the card using 1mm 3d foam pads.

 

Coordinating pencils were cut using a sizzix sizzlet die, each pencil shape was cut repeatedly for the individual parts and cut and glued together, these again were fixed to the card using 1mm 3d foam pads so they are slightly raised.

 

Also on the CD's are some Bookmark templates that can be personalised with a message and printed, three of these were printed and matted on to card, all with individual messages to the respective teacher. A hole was punched at the top and a black eyelet fixed and black ribbon added to finish. These bookmarks were attached to the card on the back by a pocket created from clear vellum, so they could slide in and out.

Finally the Bookmarks were cut again and using Sizzix Framelits 'Chalk Talk' from the Stampin up range. three matching tags were created to attach to the chocolates that were given to the teachers.

India Hat creation

Ok so the school are celebrating an Around the World theme day on the last day of term.

My youngest sons years were given Asia , and instructions to make a hat for one of the Countries.

Our original idea was to create a hat with all the countries flags that are in Asia but the homework instructions indicated to pick one country, India was my sons choice.

He wanted me to create it on my Cricut machine as he likes to hit the cut button, so the hat was decided.

We created a hat, a tube of card, and created the India flag, I must say Japan would have been an easier choice!. The strips were easy to create but the image on the White section was not so easy. I cut a blue circle and then a flower from a Marianna die and cut slits from the centre out, a further small blue circle was added to the middle.

We then used the Cricut machine to cut wording out - currency details, capital, language and river.

The flag colours continued around the hat and on the back were details of what India is famous for - so an informative hat.

 

 

Happy Anniversary

An Anniversary card for my Brother and sister in law.

Using rubber stamp from Lili of the Valley - Close you eyes. I stamped the image using black ink onto smooth white card stock.

The image was coloured in using Promarker pens and was then matted onto red card stock.

Using patterned paper from Lili of the Valley - Country Lady , I cut and joined two pieces together and fixed a strip of ribbon across the join, this section was then matted onto brown card and fixed to 6 x 6 inch square card base.

A personalised message was printed and matted onto red card, this and the main coloured image were fixed using 1mm 3d foam pads.

Four decorative photo corners were cut and fixed to finish each corner. Three flowers were punched from both red and brown card and joined by a white brad. 

A Special Ladies 60th Birthday

Last minute card for a lady who turns 60 this month.

I cut the birthday hat image out using a sizzix sizzlets die and cut from two coloured card stock - was a bit fiddle but switched the cut section to create two hats - one pink with brown inserts and one brown with pink inserts. 

The muffin cake was cut out using Sizzix Original die - Cupcake & ice cream - the icing part of the cupcake was edged using the colour 'London Fog' Momento ink pad.

Using Peachy Keen face stamps I added a cheerful face to  the cake and stamped the mouth piece again onto red card stock, the mouth was cut out and glued into place on the main image.

The cake and hat were fixed together and mounted onto white card stock. This was then matted onto corresponding coloured card. 

Using 'Stampin Up' backing paper of dots and striped card the base of the card was covered, a decorative border was cut from white card stock and fixed at the lower part of the card. Contrasting ribbon was fixed across the top of the decorative strip to cover join.

A message was printed and fixed to the base of each card. Lets hope Shirley had a great Birthday.

Christmas Cracker Time

OK so its July....

Its always been my aim to have a go at making my own Christmas Crackers so I could both personalise the design and the gifts inside.

Adapting a template for a hexagonal cracker, I created my square cracker from an a4 sheet of card.

Using Centura Pearl white card, I scored down the short side of the card at 2", 3" and 4" from the end. I rotated the card and repeated from the other side.

Turning the card lengthwise I scored down at 5cm intervals this leaving a small section at the end for gluing.

At each end there is now 2 sets of 3 score lines, fold the card down the middle score line. Using scissors I cut v shapes along the fold line. Each point of the v's need to finish at the cross created by the score lines, a 1cm gap should be left between each V on the fold line, this was repeated at the other end, when you open it back up you should have diamond shapes cut out.

I run a bone folder over all score lines before making the cracker up. The tab was fixed under the first side using strong double sided tape.

Using two 6cm strips of ribbon , these were tied at each end to seal the cracker.

I  created a couple of sample crackers , this one I intend to personalise in the panel with the recipients name or a seasonal Christmas Wish. Both crackers were edged with a ribbon strip cut using Tonic studio punch 'Celtic Strip' using black card.

 

This one was decorated with a die cut Merry Christmas wording and two glitter cut die snowflakes.

This smaller cracker was created from a new die from Tonic Studios 'Christmas cracker and sentiments', although a smaller cracker size this would be ideal for the children or a special piece of jewellery.

Rabbit Birthday Card

A card request for a card with a rabbit on.

Using a Digi stamp - I printed the image onto white card stock. Using light coloured Promarker pens I coloured the image in adding small amounts of colour.

The main image was cut into a circle shape and a scalloped circle matt was cut from blue card stock. A pre printed circle message was used and a corresponding scalloped circle was cut from blue card.

Using some Dottie card from Anne Marie Designs using blue and brown colours were fixed together and a narrow blue ribbon used to hide the join, this whole section was matted onto blue card. Four scalloped decorative corners were cut and fixed to add detail on each corner.

The scalloped circles were fixed to the card using 1mm 3d foam pads.