At the end of each dance season I make a thank you card for our dance teacher and the lovely lady who helps him.
I used my Sizzix teddy bear die and my hearts embossing folder to make these two cards:
The bear were shaded using copics and the gold hearts added as this year’s dance exam was our gold.
By the way, DH and I did our dance test just over a week ago and we both did very well.
This was made for a friend’s birthday. She has just taken up dancing and claimed she had no shoes with a high heel . . . . well, she does now!
The ivory card blank was embossed using the D’vine Swirls embossing folder, the shoes were a Sizzix die (sorry, can’t remember the number) and the black “border” is paper tape (what a wonderful invention!!) I shaded the shoes using Copics and added a few rhinestones to add a bit of bling.
It’s been a busy few months and unfortunately this has kept me away from my blog – but I’m back and hopefully, I will be around a bit more.
Now, where to begin – Mother’s day I think.
This is one that I made for my MIL. Once again, I have made a parchment outer and stitched it to a lovely peach card blank.
This is another card that I made, this time with a parchment parasol and hand made paper roses.
The first birthday of the year is my MIL.
Having spent so long in “Christmas mode” I was looking forward to making something different. Going back to my much loved Pergamano, this is what I made:
I made a parchment outer, with the design on the front, which I then stitched to a deep red pearly card blank.
In December, my FIL turned 8o.
As always, I struggle to design cards for men, so I cheated and used the same design (just different numbers, of course) as the 65 I made back in October (see here)
It is always a busy bake time here on the lead up to Christmas, more so than when I lived in the UK, for two reasons: I can’t buy mince pies here and DS has a nut allergy.
The week before Christmas saw me making mince pies and our Christmas cake.
Shame that the ‘s’ fell off the big mince pie (but nobody noticed). For the first time (ever), I made my own mincemeat, using a recipe from the “Hairy Bikers”.
Our Christmas cake is a rich fruit cake, covered in fondant icing, with fondant icing holly.
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.
As is tradition, I made the Christmas crackers again this year. Each cracker has a motto, gift and cracker snap and I made 12. I nearly drove myself crazy with the silly jokes!!
In keeping with tradition, DS has a Christmas card with his favourite logo on:
This card was made using the same fusion techniques as in my previous post.
And one for DH:
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.
football. Way back in November (well it seems like ages ago now!) I needed a card for my cousin (who has followed Arsenal forever). This is what I came up with:
I used my new found Pergamano skills to design & make this card. When DS saw it he politely informed me that I could make him the same for his Christmas card! Men huh!
I always find making cards for men difficult, but this one seemed to come together quite easily. The ‘65’ was cut using the Craft Robo and then backed with matt silver paper. The card blank was embossed using a Sizzix texturz plate, birthday circles (Set#20 – 656372).
This time it is a card for my cousin. Once again, my regular readers will know that my cousin likes all things oriental – this is what I came up with for her this year.
This is one that I made for my Aunt. She loves purple and butterflies (as well as other things, of course). The butterflies are made in 3 parts, coloured with dorso crayons and then glued to the base design. I was really pleased with the result and my Aunt was pleased with it too.
DS celebrated his birthday in September too. As my regular readers will know, DS is a bit of slave to brands, so I always try to incorporate a logo somewhere in his card, although this is getting harder & harder to do.
Here are this years cards:
DS loved them (phew!)
Good friends of ours were leaving the Netherlands to return home to Columbia. I wanted to make them a special card and this is what I came up with. I based my colour choices on blue and white (very Dutch!) and I am pleased to report that they loved it. The message inside said: “Good friends never say goodbye, they simply say, see you soon”.
Back in September DH was 50. DS and I organised a “birthday weekend” for him which included a birthday party.
This is one of the invites – a 50 made from parchment with a cute baby pic.
I made him a 50 that lit up!
A 50 from wooden numbers – covered in pics of DH from the 50 years. . . . . . .
. . . . . and we decorated the front window with a big poster of DH as a baby, for all the world to see.
I also made him a scrapbook of his 50 years, with pictures and anecdotes.
Needless to say – he had a wonderful birthday.
