Football Crazy

Good morning folks and happy hump day! I hope you are all having a good week. Tomorrow is my youngest grandson’s 8^th birthday so today’s card is one that I made for him from his mamma (my mum).

 

I used a Marianne Designs embossing folder with a hexagon shape for the background. Then I used it’s matching die to cut some black hexagons and stuck them on in a pattern to make it look like a football.

I did the same for the football and cut it out with a circle die, and then drew in the black lines between the hexagons with a black fine liner.

The grass is cut with an MFT Grassy Edges die, in a few different shades of green card. 

Then I cut the sentiment using a Clearly Besotted die set in green and black card. I slightly offset the black behind the green to give it a bit of shadow and depth.

Then I added a simple diecut 8 to the football and layered in onto a green card base with a black stitched mat.

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

xxx

Have a Magical Day in Fairyland

Good morning all and welcome to the start of another week. And for us another run of birthdays, starting with my great niece Charlotte Rose who turns 1 today. So happy birthday princess, hope you have a lovely day. xxxxx

Today's card is one I made for my granddaughter last week for her 8th birthday. I used the Lawn Fawn Fairy Friends set, along with a few bits and pieces from my leftover stash.

I cut the fairies out using there coordinating dies and coloured everything with Copic markers. Then I added clear Wink of Stella to the fairy wings to make them sparkle.

The tree and birdhouse are from the MFT Stamps set called Things with Wings. These were already cut and left over from a previous card, so I coloured them up and added them to the scene.

The big toadstool was sent to me when I bought some craft items online. It must be well over a year ago, so I can't remember who sent it, but it is lovely and fits right in on this card.

I added the grass cut with MFT Stamps Grassy Edges die and then hung the 8 from the tree to finish it off.

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

xxx

Bee-you-tiful

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. Today is my oldest granddaughters 8th birthday, and this is one of the cards I made for her. Happy Birthday Lily May, hope you have a wonderful day. xxxxxxxx

I started by typing the sentiment on the PC and then printing it with the Laserjet printer. Then I used gold and platinum foil half and half over the words and ran it through the Minc machine. This gives the letters the two-tone look.

I used a Marianne Designs hexagon die and paper from the stash to create the honeycomb pattern. I stuck some of them flat to the card and raised some of them on foam pads.

Then I used an MFT die called Grassy Edges for the grass border and a Lawn Fawn stamp and die set called Hello Sunshine, for the big bees.

I coloured these with Copic Markers and then used a tiny bee from the Hero Arts My Monthly Hero March kit, to stamp here and there around the card.

I did add a granddaughter word under the sentiment before I gave it to Lily, but after I'd took the photos.

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

xxx

Happy 8th Birthday Cody

Good morning all. Today is my grandson's 8th birthday, they grow up far too quickly lol. So this is the card that I made for Alan and I to send to him. 

The image is Popcorn the Bear from Crafters Companion, coloured with Flexmarkers and then cut out with Spellbinders Majestic Squares. 

I matted him on Kraft card and then layered him on some papers that I had on my desk lol. Then sat them all on some blue Centura Pearl card on an A5 card blank. 

The grandson and number 8 are silver peel offs, but the Happy Birthday I stamped on to Kraft card and then cut in to a small banner. 

Anyway that's all from me today. I hope Cody has the best birthday ever and I'll see you all soon.

Take care.

xxx

To a Great-Grandson

Morning all.  As you know, this weekend we have been busy making birthday cards for Jen's grandson, Cody.  We have sent them down with his uncle Danny and auntie Staci who stayed at his house last night, en route to Liverpool airport this morning for a flight to Barcelona.  Lucky beggars!

So this is the card I made for my parents (Cody's Great-Grandparents!) to send.  What do you think?

The paper is from a Bo Bunny set which I think is called On the Go.  I drew the letters out freehand and matted them on yellow card.  This was then cut to follow the word.  Then it was a simple matter of building up coloured layers until the word fit comfortably on a DL card blank.

The embellishments are a Spellbinder die set called Cogs, and these are the three smallest dies.  I think they work quite well.

I took the largest of the three dies and stamped my sentiment.

Once it was all together I was very happy with how it looked.  It was quite quick and simple to make once the letters were cut.  Hope you like it.

See you soon.  TTFN Jude xx