Some One is 50 !

Birthday wishes to one of my best friend's husband as he reaches that magical age 50....we can laugh as he is older than us.

The request was for a Mickey card with 50 on it. I know he likes his rugby so suggested adding a rugby ball to the card somewhere.

Using Cricut Mickey and Friends cartridge I cut one of the Mickey Mouse shapes out and all the layers . All pieces were layered up, I created a rugby ball by changing a circle shape on my Cricut Gypsy device .

I cut Mickey's hand away from his body to enable the rugby ball to fit underneath , the hand was attached on top using 1mm 3d foam pads to add dimension. .

Using Mickey Font cartridge I cut lots of numbers '5' and '0' out in both red and yellow card stock, these and the  main Mickey character were attached to white cardstock which was matted onto red and black card, to form the centre piece of the card.

The background section was created using Serif software , I position the words 'Happy 50th Birthday Iain' around each side with a scroll into each corner. this was printed out and again matted onto red and black card stock. the topper section was attached to the centre of the card to finish.

My only wonder is did we put enough '50's on the card.

A Christmas Cricut Character card

A card request for a Christmas card for my neighbours mum, a character card was requested.

Using Cricut Everyday day doll cartridge I cut a standard doll shape at 3.75 inches in height and an additional head.

I cut hair, shoes, dress and jumper from various characters on the cartridge. To make it a bit more Christmassy I cut a bobble hat out in red and white card stock and layered these parts up.

The tree was taken from Christmas Cheer cartridge , and baubles were cut out using glitter cardstock. A large silver glitter star was also cut out to attach to the top of the tree.

The presents were cut out in red and purple card stock and contrasting silver mirror card for the bows and ribbon sections.

All parts were fixed together, to add extra detail to the tree I added some glitter embroiderery thread to resemble tinsel.

A personalised message was printed and matt and layered to the base of the card to finish.

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A special Christmas birthday card

A request this month to create a special Christmas Birthday card.

Using a selection of creative Expression products , I started using Sue Wilson Peony flowers stamps and stamped the two smallest flowers with crimson red Stampin up ink.

Using Sue Wilson  Finishing touches collection Perfect Peony  I cut the stamped flowers out when dry and set these aside to make the main card.

Using white card stock and using  Sue Wilson dies striplet collection floral meadow - I cut one strip out . I layered this onto beige card and and then matted onto red card stock.

Using Sue Wilson Heart lattice embossing folder  I cut a large 7" x 7"  section of white card stock, this was matted onto red card and attached to the base card.

I stamped using black ink and Phil Martin scribbled sentimental stamps Happy Birthday stamp onto white card stock, these strips were cut down and matted onto red card card.

Finally all the red stamped flowers has iridescent glitter added tot the centre of each flower and red Nuvo glitter added to the middle part of the petals .

All flowers where then attached to the centre panel and the four larger flowers attached to the top and bottom of the sentiment strips with two smaller flowers.

A book Folded Book for My Mum

Time to create another book folding project, this time to celebrate my Mums Birthday.

I purchased a second hand book and a book folding pattern and a ruler and pencil and started following the pattern for the word Mum.  I completed the book folding over 2 hours. 

 I started decorating the cover of the book with cream and navy card stock. I covered the inside page next to where the word started and ended to make the word stand out more. I attached  some ribbon with a diamonte buckle and fixed this across the book and attached the end to both the front and back covers of the book .

I mat and layered card on the both front and back of the outside of the book and the spine. I cut 8 photo corners and fixed these on the outside of the book. 

I printed a message out and layered this onto navy card fie cut design and fixed to the front cover of the book.

 A personalised tag was printed and cut into a circle and matted onto a scalloped circle . Ribbon was attached to the tag.

To finish decorating I cut numerous buttons from navy, cream and light brown card stock.  Two manikin shapes were cut and one section was cut down , the base and body part was layered onto the remaining piece using 1mm 3d foam pads. Printed ribbon was attached around the body of the maniken and secured with strong tape at the back.

A few skeins shapes were cut from light brown card and blue and cream embroderiery thread wrapped around each. all the embellishemnst were attached using strong glue and the buttons fixed randomly on the cover , and on the pages of the book.

The finished book looked like this.

Finally the book was wrapped in clear cellaphane and finshed of with the personalised tag.

Brian's 70th Birthday Card - its just about caravaning around.

A birthday card required this week for a close family friend who is celebrating a special milestone of a birthday today.

Using my 'The Best Of La Pashe' CD, I printed out the decoupage sheet with the caravan couple image - as they used to have many a holiday in their caravan. I cut out the layered parts and fixed together using 1mm 3d foam pads.

The decoupaged image was matted onto brown and black card stock, and four black triangles added to each corner.

Using a matching printed background sheet and brown card both were matted onto black card. Four photo corners were cut and added to each corner with double sided tape.   

Black ribbon was fixed across the join of the backing section, this was fixed to the white base card. 

A message was printed onto white card stock and mat and layered onto black card and fixed to the lower section of the card. 

Let hope Brian enjoyed his surprise party last night and is enjoying his birthday today.