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.