Happy Birthday

Hello

I took some time out to do some colouring for my card today, something with which I need a lot more practice.

I coloured Tilda with Big Ribbon with copics and cut her out using the out of the box technique.

There are loads of tutorials out there for this.

The border is Anja's Rose Border Creatable Die

The Happy Birthday is also a Creatable Die.

The butterflies are Cheery Lynns Exotic Butterflies .

Leaves are Cheery Lynn's Pair of Ferns.

The corner is Memory Box's Madera Corner (part of mine snapped off while using it in the Cuttlebug, very unhappy).

The paper used are from My minds Eye Ohh La La Paper pad.

Inking was done with the Antique Linen Distress Ink Pad.

The flowers I made with the medium Retro flower punch.

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and leaving a comment,

I do so love hearing from you.

Cards For Men

Hello Everyone

I hope you all had a very enjoyable Easter and were able to spend it with family and friends.

Ours was quiet but did get to spend some quality time with daughter Kathy and granddaughters Chloe and Aimee.

Onto my cards...............

I was asked to make twenty cards as a prize for a raffle and to please include some cards for men.

Below are two that I have come up with.

I have used pre-coloured digital images from FredSheSaid and added dimensional magic to them (which unfortunately doesn't show up in the photo's) but it does make the images pop.

The plaid backgrounds where from a Paper Pizazz Jewel Plaids Booklet given to me by my friend Angie which are perfect for those cards for men, thank you Angie.

The striped background is a digital paper from SheryK Designs.

I'm afraid I don't know which die the branches are they were another gift from Angie.

The background on the card below is the Mesh Cuttlebug embossing folder.

Many thanks for stopping by today.

Wedding Card

A friends youngest son is getting married next month and she asked me to make a card for her to give to him.

I decided on a Bookatrix card and made a rose spray for one side, the roses I made with the Marianne Creatable 6 petal flower die, the leaves are Martha Stewart punches and I used the Marianne Craftable Envelope die for the other side.

The cake and wine glasses are from Paper Shaper punches.

Here it is in its box.

Thank you for taking the time to visit today.

Orchids

Has it really been nearly two weeks since my last post, where has that time gone?

The orchids I made for this card were designed by another on line friend, I wanted to place them into a layout that looked like a brides bouquet.

The corners and the little pink bits at the end of the flower spray are from the Cheery Lynn Lace Corner Deco B set.

The little envelope is a Marianne Craftable Die.

The embossed background I made by embossing the top half with the Couture Creations Victorian embossing folder and scoring the lines on the bottom with my Martha Stewart score board.

Thank you for taking the time to visit.

Buttons and Bows

Hello, and thank you for stopping by today.

The online group I belong to has a set Monthly Theme and Technique, that we can choose weather or not to follow. I usually do and below are two cards I made for March's Theme and  Technique which was to use Buttons and Bows on your card and stitching as the technique.

For this first one I simply cut an oval Nestability and randomly glued buttons around the edge of it.

I threaded a thin bit of ribbon through the holes of the largest button at the top.

It originally was just going to have the stamped image in the centre , but I messed up and got some of the edge of the stamp on the card (this is why you should stamp before you put your card together), so I had to disguise it with the ribbon bow, then I thought I needed to balance it out and punched a butterfly added some shine to it with a gelly roll pen and adhered it to the top, on hind-site I would rather have left it off.

This next one is a shaped card using the largest of the Cheery Lynn French Flair Die cut set, I simply scored the back piece about three quarters of an inch down from the top, folded it back and stuck it to the front piece. 

My poor photography doesn't show the lovely sheen on the backing paper which is from the Kaisercraft Chanteuse Collection Paper Pad, also cut from the same die set.

The mannequin is a Die-Namics Die and I paper pieced the pink dress bodice and added a triple looped bow for the dress skirt.

The flowers and leaves were Martha Stewart punches, and I just glued buttons to the centres.

Hugs

Ballerina Flower

My friend Angie has designed a new flower which she based on the Fuchsia and has called it The Ballerina Flower.

I've made them to trail down the Marianne Creatable Basket Die, which I placed onto a pedestal I made with two of the Marianne Creatable Lamp post Die cuts.

The background is the Sizzix Bricked Embossing Folder.

The border frame is the Martha Stewart Punch Around Page String Lace.

Thank you for taking the time for visiting today.