My cousin is 50 today. I wanted to make him an extra special card.
I dug out a photo of him when he was a baby, scanned it and used it as the base of my design.
Wasn’t he a cutie?
DH is 50 next year and he is slightly worried as to what I am going to come up with for him. Suggestions most welcome!!
And for another dear friend.
As always, I find designing cards for men more challenging. I don’t know why as the process is the same.
I decided on a “wine” themed card.
I started with a bronze coloured card blank
It was then embossed using my Sizzix Textured Impressions Embossing Folder – Plaid (657064)
I cut a piece of corrugated card to size and cut the scalloped piece using my trusty craft robo
I glued the scalloped piece to the card
I added a piece of green ribbon around the corrugated card, then glued this in place.
Adding half a cork, the card is done.
How time flies! It was our friend’s son’s first birthday this week.
As he was a Halloween baby I decided to use this as a starting point for the design.
Using my craft robo I designed and cut the components required.
The lattice frame was glued onto a dark blue pearlised card blank.
I made this cheeky fella using my Sizzix Sizzlits die “Kid in Pumpkin Costume” (655275). I used my Copic markers to give the pumpkin a bit of shading.
The finished card.
Once again it is time to make my cousin’s birthday card. Over the years, I have made her many things with an Oriental theme so each year it becomes a little more difficult to come up with something different.
This card was based on the symbol “double happiness” which I designed and cut using my craft robo.
I cut a circle from a red pearlised card blank. The cut symbol was first put on tissue paper (and trimmed), then mounted onto the card, over the aperture. Finished with a gold circle frame, here is the finished card.
To better show why I used tissue, I put a battery tea light inside and took a photo.
