Joshua is 1

A card commission for a small boys 1st Birthday.

Using a digi stamp image, I printed direct onto white smooth card stock. I coloured the image in using Promarker pens. 

The image was cut into a rectangle shape and matted onto light brown and blue card. 

A square piece of coordination card stock was cut and embossed using Diesire Embossalicious - Birthday Text folder. This was then sanded down to reveal the lighter core colour and then buffered up, this was matted onto  brown card and a ribbon attached across with a tied section , this was then matted onto blue card and fixed to the base card.

A personalised message was printed and matted to match the card and the main image. A number 1 was cut using my Cricut machine and Don Juan cartridge , cutting a blue shadow section and  a brown number 1. Both pieces were fixed together using double sided tape.

The main coloured image, number one and personal message were all fixed using 1mm 3d foam pads.

Birthday card for my Sister in Law

Well my Sister in Law reaches a milestone of a birthday this year so, I had to create a card with the age on it would be unfair not too, me being younger that is.

As she is a keen crafty person , I decided to create a card using my button dies and manikin die.

I cut the manikin  and bobbins out twice in cream card stock. I then cut two styles of buttons in both red and green card stock.

I printed a personalised message and using craft dies by Sue Wilson Caribbean Island collection - St Kitts , cut a green mount section with lace detail. Using white card stock I cut an aperture out using one of the dies in the St Kitts set and matted the white card onto a red aground this was fixed to the base card.

The green die cut mount was then positioned over the matching aperture using 1mm 3d foam pads. the personalise message was attached also using 1mm 3d foam pads to raise the message slightly.

One of the manikin cut shapes was cut and parts layered onto the remaining piece . I then cut a thimble and scissors from mirror card and fixed these at the waist with small silver brads. Green ribbon was tied around the waist and attached with double sided tape to secure. This was positioned to the side of the mounted aperture.

Green embroidery thread was wrapped around both cream bobbins and fixed at the back these were fixed to the base card using stroing double sided tape.

Finally the buttons were attached along the base of the card using both glue and some 3d foam pads, 3 buttons were also added to each top corner of the card to finish.

Good Luck at your new School card

As my youngest son starts big school , I decided to make a card for him to hopefully wish him luck.

Using my Cricut Paper dolls cartridge I cut a doll out and used most of the cut pieces from the prom boy and groom sections.

I cut the tie section in three colour's and although quite fiddly created a striped tie to match his new uniform.

The white background section was created using Hessian embossing folder . This section was matted onto both red and black card stock and black photo corners were added.

The main doll figure was attached to the card with strong double sided tape.

Finally a personalised message was printed and matted and layered to the base of the card. Lets hope he enjoys his first day at secondary school, hope so as he has at least 5 more years to go there.

Birthday Card for Denise

Time to make a card for my special friend Denise.

Taking a Tatty Twinkles stamp , I stamped the girl image on white card stock. I cut a square of card and stamped the smaller icon stamps, the parcel , candle and swirl from the birthday set to create a back ground .

Using Promarker pens I coloured both the main image and the background in purples and reds, creating my own polka dot design on the dress and hair bands.

I stamped the birthday message and matted the image and the message onto purple glitter card, adding small triangular sections to add to the corners of the main image.

The background card was matted onto black glitter card and again small glitter corners were added , black ribbon was wrapper 2/3rds down the card for added detail. 

The main image and message were then attached with both 1mm and 2mm foam pads to add dimension.

Hope Denise has a lovely birthday and likes her card.