21st Birthday Wishes

Good morning friends, I hope you are having a good week, can you believe we are now in August? I know with the recent weather you'd be hard pressed to believe it, but we really are. Which means pretty soon we'll be having to think about the Christmas cards 🙈!!!

But not today!, today's card is one I made for a young man at work who turned 21 last week. He is very fashion conscious and always immaculately dressed, so I thought I would go with a suit card.

I used a very soft grey shimmer card and cut two pieces to fit in the middle of a 7 x 5 card blank, with a small overlap for the buttons.

Then I measured the same distance from the centre along the top edges and the same distance down the middle overlapping edges on each piece, so that I could fold the lapels evenly. Then I laid these points on to a scoring board and used my bone folder to score and crease them.

For the shirt I used a small piece of white linen card and popped it behind the suit, then I cut a very thin strip of the same card and laid it down the centre, to put the buttons on. I added a bowtie by using a Presscut bow die, and I made the little pocket and hanky with offcuts of the card.

I added the stripes to the lapels and bowtie with just an HB2 pencil and a ruler. Then I added black stickers for his initials, a small happy birthday die cut from a 'new to me' brand called Make, and a 21 die cut from the MFT Stamps, Starlight Number dies.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Number card

Good morning all, hope you are well. This is the last of the 21st birthday cards that I made for my nephew.

I used a 7x7 card blank and cut a piece of grey SSS card to fit. Then I used an Xcut number die to cut the 21 out of the bottom corner. 

I found a piece of royal blue glitter card in the stash and put this behind. I tried a few different colours but really liked the blue and grey together. 

I used stamps from a Crafters Companion Sentimentals set for the sentiment and stamped them with Versamark ink and then heat embossed with Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder.

I then hunted through the stick on numbers that we have and came up with a few black and blue ones. Then I arranged them randomly over the front of the card. 

It's very simple but I hope you like it. Take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Twine birthday card

Good morning all, today's card is another that I made for my nephew's birthday last week. 

This time I dug deep in the twine stash for a change. 

The card is really simple if somewhat fiddly, with taping the twine down but I do think it's effective once done. 

I used a 7x5 card blank and cut down a piece of white card for the front. Then I used an oval die to cut the shape in the card. 

I used a few different twines cut down to roughly the same length, and then taped them to the back of the cut out. 

I matted this with a dark brown card and stuck it to the card blank. 

Then I used a couple of different stamps for the sentiments, one from a Molly Moo set and the Nephew from a Crafters Companion set. I stamped them with Aged Mahogany Distress Ink and then heat embossed with clear powder. 

The bike is cut with an MFT die from white card and then glued on top of the twine. 

I finished it off with a few sequins and a couple of dark red pearls.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Acetate card

Good morning all, hope you are well.

Today's card is another that I made for when my nephew turned 21. 

I used the Spellbinders Grand Decorative Label 1 dies to cut the aperture in the front and to decorate the front and inside of the card.

Then I used a Crafters Companion birthday embossing folder to emboss a piece of acetate to go in the aperture, and secured it with Redline tape. Then I covered over the edges on the inside of the card with one of the decorative label frames. 

I used the inner frame for the inside of the card and then put a white square with the number 21 cut with Xcut dies in the centre. 

I used the Memory Box Precious Heart die for the top corner and cut the largest die twice, once from grey card and the other from white card. 

Then I used star punches to make a few layered stars for the inside and outside. 

To finish it off I used a Britannia die to cut the Cousin sentiment. 

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Happy 21st Birthday

Good morning all, and happy Good Friday. I hope you have all got some pleasant things planned for this weekend. We have got some spring cleaning to do, but we are going out for the day on Sunday.

Today's card is the one I made for my son and daughter-in-law to send to Joe for his birthday on Tuesday. 

Again I took inspiration from Pinterest and came up with my version of a star card. 

I used a Sizzix star die to die cut the centre star, and then stamped it with a star scroll stamp.

The papers are a mixture from the stash, and the scalloped edges are made with a Tim Holtz edging die. 

The Happy and 21 are stamped with a wooden stamp set using Memento Danube Blue ink, and then cut out with a 3/4 inch square punch. 

The Birthday is cut by using half of a Memory Box Happy Birthday Banner die. 

Then I finished it off by using a Molly Moo stamp for the sentiment on the inside. 

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Heart card

Good morning all and welcome to April, hope that doesn't mean we have even more showers to come.

Today's card is the one I made for Mum to send to Joe for his birthday yesterday. I took inspiration from Pinterest for this, I'm doing that a lot lately as my mojo seems to be non-existent lol. 

I liked the idea of using the different textures, so I started with the Tim Holtz bark embossing folder and Gathered Twigs Distress Ink. 

The I teamed it with a dark brown plain card and a blue dotty embossed card. 

The heart is cut with a Sizzix scalloped heart die and the fishtail flags are cut with an MFT die. 

I found a few scraps of coordinating paper in the scraps box for a couple of the flags, and used a bronze metallic pen to put a few dots on one.

I stamped a verse on the inside using a Molly Moo stamp and Memento Nautical Blue ink. Then I added the Happy Birthday with an old wooden stamp. (Can you see the cat trying to get in on the action? lol)

The Grandson sentiment is from a Crafters Companion Greetings - Male, stamp set and I stamped it with the same blue ink and then heat embossed over the top. 

Then I just added a brown and cream button with some blue twine, and the 21, to finish it off. 

Hope you like it, see you soon.

xxx

Funky Moped

Today is my youngest son Joe's 21st birthday.  As Joe contracted meningitis at 13 months old and we were told he may not survive, being able to celebrate another milestone birthday is a blessing.

Happy birthday Joseph Patrick!  Here's hoping for many, many more.

This is the card I made for his sister to send him.  The moped stamp is from a Crafter's Companion set, while the papers are from the Man Made set by Trimcraft.

I stamped the moped with teal ink and clear embossed it.  I then used a Cosmic Shimmer pearlescent PVA in teal sky for the dots.

The numbers are an Xcut die which has matching stamps.  I decided not to stamp them but just add a fine liner edging.

Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx