Anniversary Card

It's my parents 48th wedding anniversary on Monday, so I thought I'd better knuckle down and get a card made.  For some reason I felt that giraffes were appropriate, not sure why, but in the last few days i've seen a few cards on the web that had giraffes and I really liked them.

This is what I came up with.

It's an 8" x 8" scalloped edge card blank using Bazoo decoupage and Bazoo backing papers.  The giraffe background paper was edged in Tim Holtz Tea Dye distress ink and mounted onto some brown bazill card.  The scalloped heart was downloaded from the Cricut Craftroom and again edged in Tea Dye distress ink.  The label and shadow were from Cricut Elegant Edges and stamped with a Hobby Art Stamp and wrapped up in Dovecraft ribbon across the bottom. Oh, and some Craftwork Candi Safari Giraffe to add a little something to the edges!

I shall put it in the post tomorrow, I hope they like it.

Thanks for looking.
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Art Deco Card

A friend asked me to make her sister a 50th Birthday card and the only guidance I was given was that she likes art deco, so off I headed into my craft room and came up with this....

Believe it or not, there was not a Cricut in sight when I made this!  I had a CD with art deco images on and so I printed out a few, the dress is decoupaged but it looks flat in this picture, there are several layers of black and silver and some bling down the sides for a bit more pazazz!  It was very simple, but quite effective I think.

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Thank You Card

I needed to make a Thank You card for my Mum as she came down and stayed for a week during the school holiday to look after my munchkin, although I think she spent more time with Buckley than she did with Joshua! 

Anyway, my Mum is a card maker too, so I had to make something extra-special as she will examine it at close quarters to see how I made it (yes, just like the rest of us crafters would do!) and then she will love it (hopefully!).  The problem was to come up with something that was a little bit special, so I went over to Valentines website (you must check it out if you haven't already) and had a look through the cards Clair has made looking for inspiration, but instead of getting inspiration, I'm ashamed to admit it, I just blatantly copied one she had already made (thanks Clair) as it was just gorgeous.

Using the SU Rose Is A Rose stamp set, stamped the flowers and leaves and I had bought some diamante swirls from Ribbon Girl, cut off the swirls that I needed and stuck these on too.  I also stamped the greeting and using SU punches punched out the scallop and oval shapes and stuck that on too.  This card is very time consuming and expensive to make, the stamping takes quite some time and of course the expense of the diamante swirls, so you wouldn't give this card to just anyone, but as it was for my Mum, it was worth it.

I hope you like Clair's design!

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Get Whale Soon

And this is the card I've made for my friend's little boy who is about to go into hospital for an operation.

It's a 6" x 6" card, the backing papers are printed from the Nitwits Aye Aye Captain range, I also printed out the whale but when I tried cutting it out, I thought it would be a whole heap easier if I just reached for my Life's A Beach Cricut cartridge and cut one of those instead, so that's exactly what I did, and I was right, it was a lot quicker.  I then cut two wave borders from the same cartridge and layered them up and this is what I ended up with.

I hope he likes it.

Card In Support

This week my best friend's son goes into hospital for quite major operation and she is, naturally, worried sick, so I thought I would send her a card letting her know I'm here and giving her moral support.  I wish I could say I could take credit for this card, but alas, no, I've been on You Tube again and been watching my favourite crafty person, Mary from Craft TV and this is one that she did a tutorial on.

Using several mat layers using Bazzil cardstock and a piece of patterned paper from a paper stack that I got free with a craft magazine, I layered them onto the card, also using the Cricut Cartridges, Elegant Edges and Formal Occasions made the shaped mats and the dress and hangars.  Once the dress was cut I ran it through the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder and then ran the SU Old Olive stamp pad over it to highlight the dots and also ran it round the edges of the dress and also all the green layers of matting.  There was a belt that was cut at the same time as the wavy line at the bottom of the dress, but it was so small and fiddly, I didn't bother using it, but wrapped some embroidery thread around the dress instead.

I'm quite pleased with it and hopefully my friend will like it too.

Thanks for looking.

Another neighbours Birthday

On Thursday it was another neighbour's birthday so on Wednesday evening, a quick trip to the craft room to make a card, but inspiration didn't strike and men are so hard to make cards for, so I started rummaging through the internet to try and find some inspiration and I found a card on Pinterest that was quite similar so off I went.

This is a 6" x 6" card that I mounted a chocolate coloured mat and using the Happy Birthday cuttlebug folder embossed a piece of cream coloured card.  And yes using the Cricut Celebration Cartridge cut the word "celebrate".  Wrapped up with a piece of brown ribbon - job done in about 20 minutes - perfect!

Neighbour's Birthday

Firstly I must apologise for not posting on here for so long, I have no reasonable excuse but I've been nagged to get something posted, so here goes.  The other day I realised at the last minute that it was my neighbour's birthday and I didn't have a suitable card.  If the truth be known, I probably had one of a dozen suitable cards but I just felt I wanted to make something fresh, so nipping into my room I grabbed some co-ordinating bits and this is what I threw together.....

The card is a 6" square to which I mounted some orange patterned card stock, yes, it does actually have a pattern on it, but it doesn't really show up in the picture.  The frame is from Craftwork Cards which I chalked over and the two messages are pre-printed, again from Craftwork cards and mounted upon a scalloped oval and a scalloped circle, both made with a SU punch that seem to fit perfectly.  The flower was from a pack I had, but can't remember who they're by, with a diamante stuck in the middle

Believe it or not I didn't even use my cricut to make this card!

New Baby

A friend of mine asked me to make her a new baby card and I managed to sneak a couple of hours in my craft room, and this is what I came up with...

I used my Cricut New Arrivals cartridge for the baby-gro's using up scraps of paper, the hearts border is from the Elegant Edges cartridge and the baby details at the bottom were just printed on my computer.  The background paper is from a New Baby paper pack.

Thanks for looking x