Swinging By

Hello and welcome.

As of today all my posts are pre-scheduled as I am on holiday with my daughter, son-in-law and granddaughters.  I am leaving you in Jen's very capable hands, but I think she would rather be coming with me!

Today is Jen's son-in-law Ian's 34th birthday, so Happy Birthday Ian!

When I need a quick card I often rely on these (very old) pre-printed images from Lili of the Valley.  We have quite a few sets but I don't think they make them any more.

I often adapt these by colouring over the printed colours or building a scene around them, but this time I left it alone.

I cut the image down and used a piece of black textured card as the background.  I then added a simple sentiment to the bottom of the panel before sticking it all to a navy blue card blank.

An easy card idea for when you need to produce something quickly!

TTFN Jude xx

Happy 30th Birthday

Good morning all.  Today's card is another that I made for Ian last week. 

A very simple card using off cuts of papers and card strips. 

I found all of the bits and pieces in my scraps box in red, black and grey and then cut them into small strips. I then cut a triangle piece of card the same size as half the card blank front and covered it with the strips of paper using double sided tape. 

I neatened all of the edges up with scissors and laid a piece of black card corner to corner. 

I used a new Memory Box die for the Happy birthday and then added the 30 with sticky numbers. 

To finish the card off I added a couple of strips of matching paper to the inside page.

Hope you like it, take care, see you soon.

xxx

The Wizard

Good afternoon all, sorry I am so late posting today, but it's been a bit manic around here with all the prep for today's wedding. 

But while I have a few minutes I thought I would put a card on that I made for Ian's birthday on Thursday. 

This one is using the Wizard digi stamp from Tiddly Inks.

I coloured him with Copics and Spectrum Noirs and then cut him out by hand. 

I used bits of paper from my scraps box with a piece of green paper with stars on, and backed them all with dark brown card. 

The 30 is chipboard numbers which I coloured with a marker pen. Then I added a couple of punched stars etc. to finish it off.

Hope you like it.

Take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Male birthday

This is one of the cards I made for Ian's birthday yesterday.

Isn't he a cutie?

I layered a few papers from my scrap box and used the offcuts to make the flags. 

The sentiment is from Lili of the Valley.

TTFN Jude xx

Happy 30th Birthday Ian

Good morning all, today is my son-in-law's 30th birthday, and we haven't taken too much delight in keep telling him he's getting old! honestly ;o)) But the worst culprit for it is my daughter K, she thinks it's highly amusing to keep reminding him of how old he is today lol. So I decided to make her an amusing card to send to him too, this is what I came up with. 

The image is from The Stamping Chef, and was great fun to colour. I coloured her with Copics and Spectrum Noirs and then cut her out by hand. 

The papers are a mixture from a couple of different collections and the piece of backing card was in my scrap box. 

I found some coordinating ribbon in the stash and used this down one side and across the bottom.

I wrote up a couple of sentiments on the PC and printed them out on plain white card. Then I used a small tag die and Labels 29 to cut them out. 

I finished the card off with a few chunky black pearls.

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

xxx

Key chest

Hello again.  I have a very quick makeover to share with you today. 

You may recall a while ago I distressed a wooden key cabinet for Kay and Ian. Well now they are moving house the cupboard doesn't match the colours in their hallway, so Kay asked if I could do anything with it. 

This is how it looked when she brought it to me. 

I stripped off the green paper and sanded the whole piece. Then I went in search of a suitable paper to recover the door. I left the owls in tact as they still fit in nicely. 

The paper I chose is a grey chevron. I cut strips the width of the door frame and glued them in place. 

When they were dry I took grey and black inks and dirtied the papers.  This is how it turned out. 

Kay and Ian loved it and it is now waiting to be fastened to the wall in the new house. 

TTFN Jude xx

Altered words.

Good morning all. Hope all is well with you. These words were plain white ones that my daughter and son in law had for their wedding a couple of years ago. 

She wanted them jazzing up a bit, so gave them to me just saying "do something with them!" Lol. Did she know what she was saying? hahaha.......

But I'm not that naughty so I did my best to alter them to something that would appeal to them both. Nothing too girly but nothing too plain. 

I have been playing with acrylic paint and Pebeo paints. These give a lovely glimmer to the surface but to cover all of the letters would have taken a lot of paint, so I used the acrylic paint to give them a base cover first. 

I did start by decoupaging the & sign but I didn't like the finished result, so I took it all off again lol. That's the beauty of a lot of crafts. If you don't like it you can start again :o))

Once I had the purple layer I wasn't sure what to do with them so they have sat in the craft room for quite some time waiting to be finished.

Then the other day I was looking for something and came across the glitter sprays that we've had for ages and thought the gold one would look good on those letters!

So they had a good spray of gold sparkle front and back and after that they didn't need much else. So the little hearts and butterflies just finished them off.

Hope K likes them now after all this time!

Thanks for stopping by today, hope to see you soon.

Take care

xxx

Kraft and black today

Happy Saturday everyone, hope the sun is shining where you are. We have had some sunshine the last couple of days, so it feels more like a normal September now lol.

 

Anyway today's card, is another that I made for my Son-In-Law last week. I started with some matt black card and stamped the scooter image all over it using Versamark ink. I then added black embossing powder and heat set it.

 

 

 

I cut the black card to fit on a 6x6 Kraft card blank and then stamped the same image again on some Kraft card, but this time using Cocoa Memento ink and clear embossing powder.

 

I cut the image out with a Spellbinders Adorning Squares die.

 

Then I decided that the piece of card I had cut it from was too pretty not to use ;o)) so I decided to trim it down and use it. I mounted it on foam pads and then set the fancy cut image back inside.

 

I used my little craft alphabet stickers to make the sentiments and mounted them on Kraft and black card.

 

Even though you don't really see the embossing on the black card I still really like this one. Hope you do too.

 

See you soon.

 

xxx

 

 



More male cards

Good morning folks, hope all is well in your little part of the world ;o)) All is good here, we had a nice family meal last night to celebrate my son-in-law's birthday.

 

Today's cards are some of the ones I made for the family to send to him.

 

They are quite simple, but made using different methods.

 

A very straightforward ready made topper and sentiment.

 

 

Then a photo in a ready made frame card.

 

 

Some more toppers but this time on hand made paper.

 

 

and finally, my little owls that I printed and cut using my Silhouette Cameo, and added on to a cork background.

 

 

I do have another couple but I'll save them for another day lol, Hope you like these ones. Thanks for stopping by again.

 

See you soon

 

xxx

 

Normal service resumed

September already!!  Can you believe how the year is flying?  Pretty soon we'll have to start on Christmas :o

After 2 weeks leave I am back to work today.  The time has flown but I needed the break.  It is also time for the kiddly winks to return to school so the roads will be hellish again.  Oh well only 16 weeks to Christmas break ;)
 

As well as returning to work, today is also Kayleigh and Ian's 2nd wedding anniversary.  It seems no time at all since she was stressing us all out with details of the wedding. Forcing us to make cards and table decorations, instructing us on how she wanted the tables arranged, and the message tree (!) - well don't get me started.....
 

Seriously though it was a lovely day and the fact we had all made something or had some input to the day made it even more special.
 

Here is the happy couple.

Don't they look sweet??

 

Today's offering is one of the cards I have made for them.

 

A quick card with one of our Hunkydory sets.

 

Hope you like it.

 

TTFN

 

Jude

xx