Little girl birthday

A birthday card for a little girl.  I used my lacy square dies for the background.  The stamp was coloured with Copics.

Fabulous Five

A friend’s little boy recently turned five (where does the time go?)  He is a huge superhero fan, so my Edwin stamp was the one to use.  The five was hand cut and the stamped image was coloured with Promarkers.

A card for a knitter

A dear friend of mine recently celebrated her birthday.  As she is a dab hand with a crochet hook, can knit and sew,  so I wanted to make her a card involving yarn.

The stamp is by Marianne Design (Snoesjes HM9449), the embossing folder is by Craft Unlimited (hearts 4954012) and the dies used were the largest two from the Sizzix Framelits circles, Scallop (#657552).    The image and background were coloured with Promarkers.  The balls of yarn were made from embroidery thread and the knitting was originally done using stitch keepers (see below).  I transferred the knitting onto two hair pins (the sort used to keep rollers in place!)

  The knitting was difficult to do as it was so tiny and the springs from the stitch keepers kept getting in the way.  Again, I used embroidery thread to do the knitting.

Thankfully, my friend loved her card.  :-)

Thank you time again – part 1

Every year I make thank you cards & gifts for our dance teachers and their assistants.  This year I have had extra to do as we took an extra dance course.

                                                             
These two cards were made using the Sizzix Sizzlits Sewing Machine & Bobbins die (#658461) and the embossing folder Sewing & Measuring Tape Set (#657671).  The sewing machines were coloured with Promarkers and the greeting was computer generated.  The greeting was edged with my fake stitching tool.

The rosette was made using various size circles, die cut from gauze paper using the Sizzix Framelits Circles (#657551).  The frill was cut with the Sizzix decorative strip die – pleated ruffle, 3d (658974).  The stamp is from Docrafts mini clear stamp; Forever Friends “Fabulous” (#FFS907120).  The bear was coloured with Promarkers.

Fabulous Four!

I needed to make a card for a fabulous 4 year old, who is a huge football fan.

I hand cut the 4 from a white card blank and from red metallic paper.  The stamp is one of my old favourites, stamped onto white card and coloured with promarkers.

Dancing Stars

Last weekend my DS and his dance partner took their Bronze Dancing Exam.  It was very exciting for DH and me to go and watch (and offer support).  It really was a wonderful evening and they both passed with fantastic marks.  To put the icing on the cake, they were also the best 1st years overall in ballroom and Latin.

I used as much bronze as I could, cardstock & backing paper.  The backing paper was cut using my Sizzix frames die #3 (657939) and embossed with my Crafts Too Hearts Embossing Folder.  The stamp is from the Dirk & Dientje range and was coloured with Copics.

I hope some of their success is passed on to us:  DH and I have our Gold Star Dance exam next weekend – fingers crossed.

Anniversary & birthday

My friend celebrates her birthday and anniversary on the same day -  How lovely!

Christmas cards

All my cards for my ‘nearest & dearest’ were themed around Tilda stamps

A Christmas birthday

A friend of ours celebrates his birthday on Christmas day.  The challenge was to make a birthday card for him that was seasonal.

This is what I came up with:

First of all, I stamped  a pearly black card blank with snowflakes (one of my new stamps).  Then I added the copic coloured snowman (one of my favourite “old” stamps.  The greeting was done using the computer.

Christmas Cards

Each year I make a lot of Christmas cards for family & friends.  This year I tried something a little different – I like to call it “fusion”, simply because it uses multiple techniques.

 

Using a combination of heat embossing, rubber stamping (coloured with water colour pencils) and Pergamano, I came up with these 4 cards.

Mother’s Day

Made especially for my MIL – I had to use the boy with the tulips stamp (‘cos we live in the land of tulips!).  The daffodils are made using my new flower punch and the centres are made from paper rolled around a cocktail stick. MIL loved it (phew!)

Football Fan

A friend of ours recently celebrated his birthday. I decided on a football themed card as he is a keen football fan! 

and finally!

for our dancing teacher

and for our friends . . . . . .

and there’s more . . . . .

For DH from me

For DH from DS

The Yearly Challenge

As you know, DS is a bit of a brand slave and each year the challenge is to come up with two Christmas cards featuring the logo of his favourite brand.

Here are this year’s efforts:

Christmas is coming

I love making Christmas cards, I just don’t like making them in the summer.

Here are some of this year’s family cards:

Birthdays

On the tail of our anniversary it is DH’s birthday and our dear friend’s birthday.
Here’s what I came up with for DH’s birthday:



DH is an avid TV fan so DS wanted me to base his card on a TV.  We get a lot of error messages on our TV so I decided to use this as a starting point – and added DH’s age to give the error code and the reason being “Birthday Service Only” .

Missing In Action

Where has October disappeared to – seems to be a common complaint this year that the time is simply whipping by.  Of course, I haven’t been idle (probably why the days have slipped by without me noticing!)

We seem to have a lot of celebrations in September/October – so over the next few days I will try to play catch up.

As you know, we celebrated DS’ 18th.  This was followed by our wedding anniversary – guess what?  DH didn’t get me an anniversary card!  But of course, I made one for him.

Basing the card on a cupcake theme this is how it developed:

1. Stamped image onto card.

2.  Coloured required images using my beloved Copic Markers.

3. Carefully cut out my stamped & coloured images.

4.  Mounted the 3D elements with foam pads

Anniversary

Our dear friends are celebrating their anniversary today and as usual I made a card for them.
I wanted to do something a little different.  I started with one of my favourite stamps – a vintage style bride and groom.



I began by adding colour to the stamped image using my lovely Copic markers.  I then punched lots of tiny, tiny flowers and from these I made the groom’s buttonhole and the bride’s bouquet and headdress.  I used the left over flowers for the background (in the style of confetti).
The image was then trimmed, the corners rounded and I punched two holes for the ribbon.  Colour was added to the edges of the image with a Copic marker.  I threaded the ribbon and before tying the bow, stuck the completed image to a pale blue card blank.  I then tied the bow, trimmed the ends and the card was complete.