Farewell to a work Colleague

A card required this time for Karson, who leaves the Company I work for, after many years service.

I decided to create a figure card to look like Karson. Using the Cricut machine and cartridge Every Day Dolls, I created the figure and outfit from various characters. The workman's vest was a vest cut in half, cut in both yellow and grey card. The grey card was cut down by hand to reflect the fluorescent section of the vest

The small hammers were created form the DIY cartridge and cut out on yellow, grey and black card, they were cut and fixed together to create the detail. A face was stamped using Sizzix Dress Up Faces stamps,  onto the figure and again onto white paper to create the white eyes, the eyes were cut out and glued to the main face stamped image.

The words were cut out in yellow for the main letters and with a blue card shadow, using Mickey Font Cartridge.

The cut pieces were fixed to white card stock, matted onto yellow and blue card and fixed to the base card.

I wish Karson well for the future and will miss his visits to the office, he always had a smile on his face.

A Birthday Card for a Well Dressed Gent

A birthday card required this time for a very well dressed Gentleman and friend.

I decided to create a shirt and waistcoat based topper, to add to a card base.

Using the template below, I cut each section out individually.

I cut two shirt sections out using cream pearlescent card. I removed the collar section from one piece and fixed them  together, wrong sides together, and folded the collar section round..   I cut the waistcoat out of striped brown card twice and created a flap over section at the front.  I left extra card tags at the waist and shoulder sections to wrap around the shirt and attach from behind. The waistcost was joined at the front opening using small black button style brads.

The tie was cut from stripped paper and a further knot section was cut and fixed to the top of the tie. 

Two sheets of striped were used and mounted onto brown card stock, ensuring the striped pattern continued across the card.

A narrow message was created and matted onto card and fixed to the base card using 1mm 3d foam pads. Small button brads were added to finish the message strip.

My Special Valentine

 

 

It's that time of year again for a nice slushy romantic card.  Not this year I decided! 

 

My husband is so mad about football and loves going to both home and away matches that I decided to do a love football card. I ordered some personalised Match Attax cards to add to the finished card.

 

Using the Cricut Machine and cartridge 'Soccer' , I cut the shadow section of a player in red card stock. I cut the detailed section in both black and yellow. I glued the detailed section slight off to create a shadow and then matted and glued this to the main red shadow section.

 

A large football was cut from both black and white card - the design again from the Soccer Cartridge.

 

The words forward and the boots were cut and layered and glued together.

 

The White pocket section was created using the Cricut Gypsy and Cartridge Tags Bags & Boxes - the dimensions were adjusted using the Gypsy Machine to fit a Match Attax card.

 

All the cut pieces were attached to yellow card which was matted onto black card and fixed to the base card.

 

A personalised message was created and matted onto both red and black card and fixed to the base of the card.

 

I think my husband was pleased with his unique Valentines card.

 

 

Christmas crafting In January

Having time off work over Christmas , my husband and I started a small clear out of our loft space. In the loft and I noticed my boxes of wool and a kilo bag of toy stufffing. 

 

I decided to make something I had been thinking about for a long time, Mr Perry Christmas and Perry Postbox. Using the pattern from Jean Greenhowe's Celebration Clowns - part 2.

 

There is quite a lot of detail involved so has taken me the month of January to complete - there are 11 a4 pages of knitting instructions, but as all small bits quite rewarding when you make a part and make up. I did have to buy a bit more wool for colours I didn't have, so I haven't created much space in loft.

 

The post box was fairly straight forward to make, I replaced all cardboard strengthen in both the clown and post box with plastic so they can both go through the washing machine if needed in later years.

 

 

 Here are two clowns I've made previously and still have - Mr Fortywinks & O.Yummy. These were taken from Jean Greenhowe Knitted clowns - The Red Nose Gang.