Minnie Mouse Style Cards

Good morning all, I hope you have had a great weekend. I have two cards for you today, but as they are virtually identical two cards is a bit of a stretch lol.

I had seen a Minnie Mouse design card on Pinterest, and as I needed cards for a couple of little girls, I thought these would be perfect. 

I altered the design to suit my stash, and as you can see I made small changes from the red card to the pink version. It's such a simple card, and looks great in the different colours. 

I used my circle punches for the head and ears, and a bow die from a Blueprints Dienamics set. The red version was just matted on plain squares, but for the pink version, I used Lawn Fawn, Stitched Square dies.

I just used papers from the stash and reinforced the bow with a plain die cut behind the patterned paper. The stamp is one of our all time favourite birthday stamps. It's an old wooden stamp made by Funstamps, and it always stamps beautifully.

I added die cut numbers to the cards for the little girls ages, and then finished them off with a gem in the centre of the bow.

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

xxx

6th Birthday Shaker

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. Today's card is one I made for my granddaughter's 6th birthday last week, the idea came from Pinterest again lol.

I used an MFT Blueprints Stitched Rectangle Die to cut a panel to the size of an A2 card blank. Then I used another Blueprints die to cut the inside aperture.

I enlisted Jude's help, and got her cutting lots of sixes for me, using MFT Stamps Starlight Numbers, Creative Dies Numbers, and a Go Kreate number plate, to give me all of the multicoloured sixes for the shaker.

Using foam tape to raise the frame, I added all of my sixes behind acetate on the card front, I stuck a few of them to the card front, so that when it stands up, they don't all fall down.

Then I used an MFT Stitched Banner die, to create the sentiment strip and the small flag in the corner, which I coloured with a pink Copic Marker.

I added the Happy die cut and the number 6, and then found a Birthday sentiment that fitted nicely, from a Simon Says Stamp set.

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

xxx

Balloon Shaker

Good morning folks, I hope you are having a good week so far. Today is the 2nd day in a new job for me, I wonder how long it will take before I feel like I have the hang of things????? knowing me, never lol.

Anyway, today's card is another of the ones I made for my grandson's birthday at the end of January, this time from mum.

I used the tonic studios It's Party Time set, with the matching balloon die and shaker pouch, and teamed it with the Clearly Besotted Playful Pair stamp set, for those cute elephants.

I stamped the elephants and small balloons, and coloured them with Copic Markers. 

Then I used the Tonic Studios Balloon Shaker die to cut the large balloon shape, and popped in the balloon pouch. 

I used MFT Stamps Starlight Number dies to cut the 12, and positioned these on the background underneath the die cut window. 

Then I filled the balloon with iridescent sequins from Lucy's Cards, and placed it all on to a dark blue A2 note card.

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

xxx

Embossed Birthday

Good morning folks, hope you are having a good week so far. I have been so busy with Christmas stuff that Jude has been filling in for me on the days that I just couldn't find the time to blog. So thank you sis - love ya 💝

Today's card is the last of the birthday cards that I made at the beginning of December for one of our grandsons. This one is really simple to make and could easily be adapted for boy or girl, and any age really.

I used a birthday embossing folder on to heavy Kraft card, which gives a lovely effect, almost like leather.

Then I used the MFT Shaker Star die set to cut the aperture in the centre, then I cut an insert and surround in a contrasting card.

I used some paper from the stash to sit behind and added the panel to a 6 x 4 Kraft card blank.

The number is cut from brown card using the MFT Starlight Number dies, and I added a small Spellbinders tag, stamped with Today, and added it with a twine bow.

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

xxx

85th Birthday Wishes

Good morning all, I hope your week is starting off well. We went over to see our grandsons at the weekend, and watched them take part in a street dance show. They were so good, we had a brilliant time, even if they were absolutely shattered by the end of it lol.

Anyway, today's card is one mum asked me to make for a lady that goes line dancing with her. She reached the age of 85 at the weekend, and so was having a little party that some of the ladies from group attended.

I didn't want to do anything specifically line dancing so I played it safe and went floral instead. I wanted something classy but simple, so stuck with a cream and black colour scheme.

I got the idea for the layout from a few cards I saw on Pinterest, but adapted it to suit my design and materials. I used the Floral Bliss stamp set from Simon Says Stamp, and heat embossed the flower bouquet with black embossing powder.

I stamped it a couple of times and cut one of them up to layer behind the main image. Then I backed them all with black card. For the sentiment I heat embossed stamps from the Clearly Besotted Happy Birthday set. Then added numbers cut with the MFT Starlight Number dies and covered with Glossy Accents.

I layered everything up on a 7 x 5 card blank and added some scored lines to the panels, a ribbon, and a sheer ribbon bow. Then I finished it off with some black and cream pearls.

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

xxx

Cheeky Monkey

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good start to your week. Today's card is one I made for my great niece who was 6 on Saturday.

I used the MFT stamps set called Cheeky Monkey for the images and then coloured them with Copic markers.

The name is stamped using the Concord and 9th Sophisticated Script stamp set with Tuxedo Black Memento ink.

I cut the number from a scrap of brown card using the MFT Starlight number dies, and then added it to an orange card blank to finish.

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

xxx

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

Hap-Bee Birthday

Good morning folks, hope you have had a good weekend and for those of us with the extra day, hope you enjoyed your Bank Holiday too :)

Today's card is one I made for my youngest granddaughter who turned 5 on Sunday. We had a lovely day in the garden having a BBQ, and she was thoroughly spoilt as usual.

I started by cutting lots of strips of coordinating papers and sticking them side by side on a piece of plain card. Then I used the Go-Kreate large scalloped hearts die to cut the heart shape.

I raised this onto a 6 x 6 plain white card blank and then cut a little Sizzix bee from gold card, and coloured some black stripes along the top.

I added a small scalloped circle punch, and a smaller star to put the number 5 on which is from the MFT Starlight Numbers set.

Then I printed a sentiment with our label maker, backed it with yellow card and added it in the corner.

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

xxx