Christening dress

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week and a good start to October.

Today's card is one I made for Jude's youngest Granddaughter Charlotte for her Christening last month. I wanted a card with a Christening dress on, but didn't have a die or stamp so I made one myself.

I used a paper doily for the skirt and folded it until I had the shape I wanted. Then I used a small rectangular piece of white card and used a circle punch to chop out the neck hole and to make the underarm section.

Then I tidied it up with scissors and a corner rounder for the arms. I put it all together with a small pink bow and then decorated it with tiny pearls.

I then used a pearl trim on the bottom of the skirt, around the neck and down the side of the card, after putting it on a pink paper background.

As we don't have stamps for Christenings or Baptism's, I wrote the sentiment on the PC and then printed it onto Safmat. (A clear sticky film which you can print on).

Hope you like it, have a great week and I'll see you Thursday.

xxx

One in a minion

Good morning all and welcome to the start of another week. We are now in the midst of major birthday season for us, and this is one of the cards that I made for my granddaughter, when she turned 4 last week. We have another 7 birthdays over the next 4 weeks!!! so busy, busy, busy ;o))

Anyway, today's card came about after seeing other Minion cards on Pinterest. I cut myself a basic egg shape by cutting off the bottom part of an oval.

Then I just made the other bits of the Minion's outfit up as I went along. For quite a while she didn't have any arms or hands lol, but I looked at what others had done, then cut the arms by hand and used tiny hearts for the hands.

I used a couple of circle punches for the mouth and then added some googly eyes. Then I drew in some eyelashes and hair with a fineliner.

I typed the sentiment on the computer then printed it on the laser printer and added some pink foil with my Minc machine.

The balloons are from a Paper Smooches die set and I added stickers for the sentiments, then I drew in the balloon strings with a silver glitter pen.

I embossed a piece of white card with a Marianne Designs stars embossing folder and then cut it out with a stitched rectangle die.

Then I added it all to a 7 x 5 card blank. Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Nannan Frame

Good morning all, hope you had a good weekend. Today's project is one a friend asked me to make for her mum for her 50th birthday on Sunday. 

She sent me an image of something she had seen online and asked if I could make something similar. 

So I popped off down to The Range and picked up a big box frame and some wooden hearts from Hobbycraft and set to work. 

I printed the sentiment from the computer using a dark brown font on to Neenah Desert Storm Card from Crafters Companion. 

Then I wrote on the hearts with a Sakura Micron Pen in brown ink. 

A ribbon bow, some twine and a button and it was all finished.

 And I am pleased to say Zoe loved it and so did her mum. Hope you do too. 

Take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

You're fabulous

Good morning all, today's card features a stamp that we've had forever lol. This came as a free gift with a magazine about two years ago I think. I have used it before but a long time ago. 

Anyway I wanted something girly for my cousin's birthday yesterday. So I was browsing through the stamps when I came across this one. 

I inked her with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then heat embossed with Fine Detail clear embossing powder. Then I coloured her with Copics and cut her out by hand. 

I used some papers from the stash for the background backed it with lilac Centura Pearl card. Then I added a scalloped trim across the middle.

I used an embossing folder on some Centura Pearl white card for the centre, and then stuck the lady on top.

I found some matching flowers in the stash and tied a double white bow to one side and added a material flower on top. 

Then I used a stamp from a Creative Expressions stamp set called Antique Dressforms for the sentiment.  I inked it with Memento Elderberry ink and heat embossed it again. Then I added the happy birthday to the inside with the same ink.

Then it just needed a few pearls and gems to finish it off. 

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

xxx

Happy 50th Birthday

Good morning all, hope you are well and enjoying the weekend. We haven't done a lot this weekend, all suffering a bit with the January sniffles and still recovering from a very busy December lol. 

I did manage to finish a card on Friday though, that I had been asked to make for a friend of my daughter in law's, mum. 

I used a Lili of the Valley pre-coloured image and cut it out with a circle die. 

The paper is from the stash, backed with a dark red Hunkydory card,  and it's all on an 8 x 8 scalloped card blank.

The sentiment stamp inside is from a Molly Moo stamp set. 

I went a bit to town with embellishments on the is one and used Marianne Vintage Lace with dark red ribbon and some string pearls. 

Then I used a few different coloured flowers with a couple of swirl leaves and more string pearls. 

The corner die cut is one from a die that came with a recent crafting magazine. The Happy Birthday is a chipboard sentiment coloured with a matching Copic marker, and the 50th was die cut from the dark red card. 

Because I went a little OTT with flowers and such it needed a box rather than an envelope so I made one using Centura Pearl card and then decorated the top with some patterned card. 

By the time I had got the box made it was dark lol, hence the rubbish photos. 

Anyway hope you like it, take care and I'll see you all soon.

xxx

Three Feathers

Good morning all, no I haven't nipped down the local pub lol. Three Feathers is what I'm calling my card as I couldn't think of anything else!

I used the same feather die from the other day, but this time I cut three and coloured two of them with Distress Inks. I used Peacock Feathers and Chipped Sapphire. 

The sentiment is a ready made one from Lili of the Valley which I have backed with a couple of punched scalloped circles. 

The white card was run through a flower embossing folder and I used the de-bossed side just for a change. 

I finished it all off with a piece of ribbon, a small bow, some jewels and a few tiny pearls. 

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

xxx

Heidi with sledge

Good morning all and happy Sunday, hope you are all having a good weekend.

Today's card is made using a new rubber stamp from Whimsy called Heidi with sledge.

I coloured it with Copics and then cut it out with a Spellbinders Decagon die. 

The backing card is Hunkydory I think, I'm not sure as it's been in the stash forever lol. I used the Noor snowflake die at the top and a Marianne Die for the Santa sleigh and reindeer.

I found some icy blue ribbon in the stash and put this across the card then added a blue stripey ribbon bow and a snowflake charm. 

The corner die and stamps are more Marianne ones and I thought the words were perfect for this scene.

I finished it off with some Stickles glitter glue on the image and the Santa sleigh. 

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

xxx