Birthday Card

It's one of my best friends' birthday on Friday so I thought I'd better make her a card.  I recently went to The Glitter Pot and they are/were having a sale selling off their ex-demo stamps and I found this really cute rabbit holding an armful of hearts, it was probably an Easter stamp but I thought it would do for almost any occasion when you need to send love, so I bought it and had to use it.  There was no label on it, but someone had written "embraceable" on the back, so maybe this is the name of it, but couldn't say.

I thought I'd make an S-fold card as I hadn't made on in a while and reached for a Craftwork Cards paper pack called "Very Merry", I think it was a Christmas pack, but the paper still fitted for a birthday card so I carried on.  The round birthday sentiment is by Craftwork cards and the scalloped punch matting it is by SU.

Using my Cricut Elegant Edges cartridge I cut the oval scallop and shadow at 4.5" which covers the 4" oval scallop that's directly below on the inside of the card.  I stamped the inside with a mini clear stamp by kaisercraft.

I must get it in the post in the morning and I hope she likes it.

Thanks for looking x

New Home Card

A friend of mine is moving into her new home this week so I made her a New Home card, yup, you've guessed it, I have used the Cricut Create A Critter cartridge as I found this lovely house on it.

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Get Well Card

I've been very fortunate today and have found time to play in my craft room, that's in between waiting for coats of paint to dry in the bathroom!  I have been popping into my craft room and started playing with various bits of paper and then going back to do another coat of paint when the last one was dry, plus there was football on this evening, so that was another 90 minutes I could escape to my craft room!

 I thought I'd better make a get well card for my cousin who has just had a foot operation so I made this easel card...

The green mat and the patterned card stock came from a 6 x 6" SU paper pack that I had, I used a Martha Stewart edge punch for the scalloped edges, I found the frog on my Cricut Every Day Paper Dolls and gave him some goggly eyes!  The flowers came from Papermania that I found in my stash and thought they were lovely.  All edges have been inked with Tim Holtz Tea Dyes distressing ink.

Thanks for looking x

Valentines Colour Combo Challenge #9

This week's Colour Combo Challenge was to use the colours Basic Black, Daffoldil Delight and Old Olive, so I reached for my Cricut Create a Critter (this is an amazing cartridge, I am finding so many lovely creatures on it that i just have to make!)  I found this lovely duck and I guess the weather we're currently having is starting to affect me, as this is what I came up with....

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Valentines Colour Combo Challenge #8

This week's Valentine Colour Combo Challenge is using the SU colours Black Basic, Cherry Cobbler and Baja Breeze.  Having looked at these colours, I felt that they looked quite masculine so I set out with a view to making a masculine card.  I rummaged through my old faithful Cricut cartridges and came across this lighthouse in Life's A Beach

I tore a piece of sandy coloured paper and inked the edges with Tim Holtz tea dyed distress ink and inked the edges of the waves too to make them stand our more. I stamped it with "Wishing You A Lovely Day" as I haven't yet decided on what occasion I'm going to use this card for so the inside is still blank, apart from a wave I put along the bottom.

Thanks for looking x

Father's Day Card Part 2

I obviously needed to help Joshua make a father's day card so I cut out some bits and pieces for him, and yes, I did use the Create A Critter Cricut cartridge, but when it was going together I loved it so much I had to cut 2 of everything, one set I gave to Joshua for him to put together and the other set I kept, although the card started out life as a Father's Day card I think it would do just as well as a birthday card for a Dad.  Unfortunately I cannot take any credit for the design of this card as I saw it on You Tube and it was made by a very talented lady called Mary and I copied it because I thought it was soo cute, so here it is.....

Thanks for looking x

With Sympathy

I unfortunately had to make a sympathy card today, so I reached for my Storybook Cricut cartridge to cut out the butterflies, and used my nesties for the label and embossed it with the Swiss Dots folder.  It's very simple but hopefully effective.

Valentines Colour Combo Challenge # 7

Well, the football was on tonight so I had 90 minutes to escape to my craft room and have a go at last weeks' challenge as I hadn't had a chance to do it before.  So, challenge # 7 was to use Not Quite Navy, Basic Grey and Old Olive.  I used an Echo Park paper pack called This & That for the striped paper and the flower came from the Cricut Cartridge Pooh And Friends.  The sentiment stamp is from Personal Impressions and the birthday ribbon in Dovecraft.  If you're looking at the card and wondering where's the "Basic Grey"?, if you look really closely you'll see its the first mat on the sentiment stamp!

Thanks for looking x

Father's Day Cards

Now, it's not very often I say this, if ever, but I am sooo pleased with the way this card turned out!  I'm not one for the shabby chic look and I don't  "do" distressing but I wanted a particular look that I couldn't just "buy" off the shelf.  I started with the watch fob shape which is by Art Parts but it came in a regular chipboard colour so I used Tim Holtz Frayed Burlap distress stain to darken it, but it still wasn't the right colour for a watch so I added some Liquid Pearls in Buttercup and smudged it with my finger and it was then the perfect effect I was after.

The background paper is Bo Bunny "Time Piece" and using some Core d'inations I used the Clockworks Cuttlebug folder and then sanded it to distress it a little to show the embossing a little more.  I also used some Doodlebug twine for a little extra embellishment and I found a pack of DCWV bits n pieces where I found the key.

The cogs in the bottom right corner came from a die cuts sheet by Kanban, there are 2 sheets in a pack, one sheet of silver and one of grey.  I liked the silver ones but I didn't have enough of the right size for two cards (I obviously have to make two the same, one for my Dad and one for Father-in-law) so I set out to "alter" the grey ones, again I stained them with the Tim Holtz ink and dabbed a bit of Buttercup and actually I ended up liking the altered ones more than the silver ones which I initially liked!

I'm now feeling very chuffed with myself and I thank you for looking x

Birthday Card

Well, tomorrow is the birthday of two friends and as they don't know each other, I thought I'd cheat and make the same card for both of them (look, I've had a very busy week and didn't have time to get original, so I cheated), the card I have made, you workshop ladies will recognise from earlier in the year when we made something (very) similar for mother's day, so here is the card....

I used the SU stamp set 'A Rose Is A Rose' and stamped the foreground of the large rose onto plain yellow card stock and created my background patterned paper.  Using So Saffron and Pumpkin Pie I stamped the flowers.  I used the Elegant Edges Cricut cartridge I cut the white label and inked the edges in the same ink.  Then I decorated the inside in the same way....

Yes I know I cheated, but I have been very busy this week, but I think it turned out quite well.

Thanks for looking x

Valentines Colour Combo Challenge #6

This weeks' challenge was to use the colours Doffdodil Delight, Melon Mambo and Old Olive, I can't confirm that I've got the right colours but they're similar enough so i'm just going with it.  I sat at my desk with these three colours wondering how on earth I was going to get them to go together as they seemed so odd, however, Clair was right and I found a piece of patterned paper that (I think) had all these three colours in so off I went, as the Create a Critter cartridge was already on my desk.......

and this was what I came up with.  Hope you like it x

Valentine Colour Combo Challenge #5

I'm afraid I'm a bit late with this one but still wanted to participate in the challenge, this challenge was using the colours Rich Razzleberry, Soft Suede and Regal Rose, I did actually have all these colours but I found this challenge particularly difficult, I think my mojo took a holiday and this was about the third or fourth draft.....

I just about managed to use the Rich Razzleberry and the Regal Rose for the boarder and then the squirrel was using the Soft Suede, and yes the Squirrel came from the Create A Critter Cricut Cartridge.  I even managed to decorate the inside too using the same papers.

Hope you like it x

Renewal Of Vows Card

A friend of mine asked me to make her a renewal of vows card for a re-wedding tomorrow, this was not the design I set out to make, but it just kind of evolved!  Unfortunately the photo is not very good, but I now don't have the card to take another one.....

actually this IS a lousy photo, there was no yellow on the card, don't know where that came from!!  I can't remember who the stamp is by but as you can see from my previous post I think the stamp must have still be on my desk or within reach so grabbed it again as it always goes well for a wedding card.  Perhaps if you squint (no, squint more!) and tilt your head, then it might look a bit better!?

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