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.