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

Heart card

Good morning all and welcome to April, hope that doesn't mean we have even more showers to come.

Today's card is the one I made for Mum to send to Joe for his birthday yesterday. I took inspiration from Pinterest for this, I'm doing that a lot lately as my mojo seems to be non-existent lol. 

I liked the idea of using the different textures, so I started with the Tim Holtz bark embossing folder and Gathered Twigs Distress Ink. 

The I teamed it with a dark brown plain card and a blue dotty embossed card. 

The heart is cut with a Sizzix scalloped heart die and the fishtail flags are cut with an MFT die. 

I found a few scraps of coordinating paper in the scraps box for a couple of the flags, and used a bronze metallic pen to put a few dots on one.

I stamped a verse on the inside using a Molly Moo stamp and Memento Nautical Blue ink. Then I added the Happy Birthday with an old wooden stamp. (Can you see the cat trying to get in on the action? lol)

The Grandson sentiment is from a Crafters Companion Greetings - Male, stamp set and I stamped it with the same blue ink and then heat embossed over the top. 

Then I just added a brown and cream button with some blue twine, and the 21, to finish it off. 

Hope you like it, see you soon.

xxx

Welcome little bunny

Good morning all and welcome to Friday. Hope you're having a good week and looking forward to the weekend. 

We have a family birthday this weekend, our 'little' brother is 35 on Sunday, so we are getting together tomorrow evening for too much food and drink, lol. 

Today's card is one I made for a friend of my daughter's, who had a new baby girl a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately she has been really poorly and there will probably be some struggles ahead for the family. But, she is now home with her mummy, daddy and big sister and is ready for lots of cuddles and kisses from new visitors.

The bunny image is from a Complete Cardmaking CD that I've had for ages. I printed it on to lightweight card and then cut it out with a circle die. 

The papers are a mixture from the stash, teamed with a dark pink Coredinations card. 

I wrote the sentiment on the PC and then cut it out with a smaller circle die. 

Then I added some sticky back lace, polkadot ribbon and some It's a girl ribbon.

Then I finished it off with three buttons, three little charms and some small googly eyes.

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

xxx

Male colleague

Happy Sunday everyone.

My card today is one I have made for a colleague who's birthday is today.  

I won't tell you how old he is but he's only got a couple of years to the big 60! LOL!!

Have a very happy Birthday Mr Steve!

The digi stamp and sentiment are from Handmade Harbour and are coloured with Copics.  The banners are made using Blueprints #7.

I cut a mid sized star and added a metal button with twine behind.  It's more masculine than flowers, don't you think?

I like using this image for male cards, and I know quite a few men it suits perfectly, lol.

Anyway that's all for today.  TTFN Jude xx

Hula Hoop Love

 Hello again, I'm back with another simple card for you today.  

I've also used a DL card blank which is a size I don't use very often.

For this card I used another Saturated Canary image (I know I always use these, but I REALLY like them! lol)

This one is Hula Hoop Love.  She is coloured with Promarkers.

The background is plain card from the stash with a bunting paper from Jennifer Ellory's 'Bake a Cake' pack.

I added twine and a heart shaped button, which was coloured with a blue Promarker, to match.

Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx

Oriental flavour

Hello again.  I'm back to making but don't seem to have much enthusiasm!  I must still be in holiday mode lol.

The design for this card came from a sketch I found on Pinterest by freshlymadesketches.blogspot.com

  My interpretation of the above sketch.  What do you think?

I had some Oriental feel papers in my stash and really liked the colours, so they became the basis of my colour scheme.  The papers are from the Bo Bunny Serenity collection.

I used a stamp and die set we've had for a while and coloured the flowers with Distress Markers.  I layered them over a vine swirl cut from another of the matching papers.

I added a button and twine as per the sketch.

The sentiment stamp came from a set on one of the last Get Stamping magazines.  I was quite disappointed when the magazine was closed as I really enjoyed the free stamps and different techniques in each issue.

That's all from me.  TTFN Jude xx

Simple Male Cards

Good morning all, hope you are ready for a new week. I'm lucky enough to have another week off before I have to go back to work :o)) but poor old Jude has had to go back today :o(( But then again I think I need it, so much for coming home refreshed and ready to get back to some serious crafting. I have so far managed to make the grand total of 1 card since we got back last Thursday! and I can't share that as it's for my Daughter's birthday on Wednesday lol.  

So today's post is a couple of simple male cards that I made a few weeks ago. 

This one uses an embossing folder for the background and then I used the same embossing folder again on some yellow card. 

I cut a piece out and layered it over the top to give the Happy Birthday sentiment. Then I used Spellbinders Gold Corners One to cut a couple of pieces for the corners. 

I finished it off with some large yellow sticky numbers. 

I got inspiration for this second card from a Google search. I came across a very simple design for a male card which I just altered slightly so suit what I had in my scrap box. 

A simple Kraft card blank with a couple of pieces of torn paper on. 

Three buttons glued in between them and then finished off with a stamped sentiment. 

Both of these were really simple cards to make but still quite effective.

Hope you like them, see you soon.

Take care.

xxx

Birthday pennants

I have a line that keeps repeating every 7 days lol - "I don't like, I don't like, I don't like Mondays".  Bob Geldof had the right sentiment if not for the right reason!  

Monday means back to work and 5 days of travelling to work on the bus.  I REALLY don't like buses. However there is good cause for torturing myself like this - my daughter's wedding is in September and I'm trying to save some money to help them pay for the big day.  I just try to think of how bad I would feel if I were to let them down, and that keeps me motivated.  I didn't say I had to like it lol ;)

Anyway back to Chris's birthday cards.  This is the one I have sent to him.  It's a very clean and simple layout using one stamp, four scrap papers, a button and distress ink.

I cut four pennants using offcuts from my scrap box and inked the edges of each, before layering them on a 6 x 6 kraft blank.

The star was an after thought as the button needed something else.  I tried a few shapes behind before settling on the small star.  I think it works well, what do you think?

Our favourite Happy Birthday stamp was used again, straight on to the card with Tuxedo Black Memento ink.

That's all for today.  TTFN Jude xx

Wishing on a star

Hello again folks. Hope you're having a lovely day. 

I have seen lots of cards around lately that feature stars.  I tried cutting one by hand but it wasn't successful so I decided we needed (!) to purchase some star dies.  On Monday Jen and I were both home so we paid a visit to Hobbycraft to purchase said dies.  When we got there we found lots that we liked and ended up buying three sets!!  This is what we got.

We spent a bit more than intended but at least these are an investment and will be used lots ;)

On to my card.  I used the star dies as intended and a star border punch from Tonic that I've had a while.  I started with a 6 x 6 kraft blank and punched down both edges of the front.  I then cut into the top fold to creat two borders to fold back on my central paper.

I cut two strips of the same paper with the punch and stuck them to the inside over my base paper.

This shows it more clearly.

I glued the front strips back, added the stars, some string and a couple of buttons.  I then wasn't sure what to do for a sentiment.  I eventually stamped a white star with Happy Birthday for the inside and used a rub on for the wish.  I think it works ok.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx