30th Birthday Girl

Good morning all and Happy Thursday. Hope you are all well and having a good week. 

Today's card is one I made for a friend of my son and daughter-in-law, who turned 30 a couple of weeks ago. I wanted something girly but grown-up, so I dug through our stamp selection and came up with this very old stamp that we got free in a magazine.

I coloured her with Copic markers and then mounted her on to some gold and black card. I used a corner chomper to round off all the corners. 

I made the rosette using three different sizes of round punch, and then added a 30 to the centre cut from MFT Bright Light Number dies. Then I used a couple of pieces of ribbon and stuck them together, then stuck them to the back of the circles.  

The Happy and Birthday dies are from Frantic Stamper and are the Happy Birthday Layer Makers. 

I added a little message to the inside using a Simon Says Stamp set called Happy and Smile. 

Then I finished it off with some sparkly sequins and stars. 

Because the girls were having a weekend away to celebrate, Staci asked me to make some stickers for champagne flutes for the train. So I used Safmat, and printed out these with the girls names on, then cut them out with oval dies. 

Then as a little gift for the birthday girl, I made her a badge using a wooden heart, a brooch back, Safmat and a gold pen. 

Hope you like them all, thanks for stopping by, take care and I'll see you soon. 

xxx

Out of this world

Good morning all, hope you have all had a good weekend. We celebrated a couple of birthdays this weekend. One of them was my sons, and this is the card that I made for me and his dad to send. 

I used the paper out of a Studio Calico paper pad, it was already printed with all of the little sayings around the earth. So I just added the main sentiment using Safmat.

I typed it on the computer and added the star around it then printed it on to Safmat and cut it out by hand. 

I really like this product as it's transparent so you don't lose the image behind. I just forget we have it lol. 

Then I used a Britannia die to cut the Son. I cut it twice from bright red card and layered it together. Then I covered it with Glossy Accents and left it to dry. 

Once it was dry I added it to the front. Then I layered the main image on to some bright red card and put it all on a 7 x 7 card blank. 

Then I used another Studio Calico paper for the inside. This one shows all of the constellations. I added a small arrow cut with an MFT Blueprints set and stamped his birthday date in the bottom corner. 

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

xxx

10th anniversary

Good morning all, hope you are having a good week.

Today's card is one I made for my son and his girlfriend who celebrated 10 years of being together yesterday. They are celebrating from Barcelona on a short break, lucky things.

He managed to keep it a surprise from Staci for months, about where they were going, and seen as how Barcelona is one of her favourite places, she was absolutely delighted when she found out. 

The image is a pre-coloured one from Lili of the Valley, cut out with a circle die. 

The Eiffel Tower die is by MFT Dienamics and the Love Die is by Paper Smooches. 

The paper is from an old set from the stash, all matted with grey embossed card.

I finished the card off with a simple sentiment made up with a number die and the rest printed on to Safmat. 

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

xxx

Faithful friends

Good morning crafty friends, and welcome to a new week. Hope things are well wherever you are in the world.

 

Today's card is one I made for a change for a little boy. I don't do many male cards, and never do any for little boys until I need one so I thought this would make a change.

 

 

I started with the image from Crafters Companion and matted this on to some blue textured card stock.

 

 

I used a paper from the same CC booklet and matted this with the blue card stock too. A small piece of cream Centura Pearl finished off the layering.

 

 

I then used a couple of buttons from the stash and added these to a punched circle. Then I added the sentiment which was printed on to Safmat in brown ink and stuck straight to the patterned paper.

 

 

 

I finished the card with some twine wrapped around the side and tied in a bow.

 

 

Hope you like this one too.

 

Thanks for stopping by, take care.

 

xxx