Friend Card. For a Lady

This card has been a bit of an experiment. I`m not sure about the colours but wanted to try my Martha Stewart punch and was so impatient that I just grabbed any colour backing papers and worked with them.

Tilda sitting on the fence was stamped, then scanned and sized to the size I wanted. I find it easier that way because sometimes the stamps dont work for me. I`m a bit fingers and thumbs when stamping so I stamp as many as I can and when I get a good one I scan it.

I coloured her in using Promarkers which I`m not sure about. I think I prefer watercolours but having bought a lot of pens I am perservering.

As regard the friend tag,  I printed one out using my Silhouette SD sketch pens so it looks better

Art Deco Lady

I had a delivery from Wild Orchid Crafts lately and after seeing their website, I used it as some inspiration for a card

 

For this card I used a free backing paper from the Kate Knight Collect which I had with my Cardmaking and Papercraft Magazine

The Art Deco Lady was a topper by Kanban

A Martha Stewart Punch was used for the border currently on offer at Samuel Taylors Brighouse

 The flowers were supplied by Wild Orchid Crafts

The gingham ribbon and buttons by docrafts

The lace was from Wild Orchid Crafts anf the ribbon embellishment

The heart was purchased from a seller on ebay

Its my first attempt at something so different and it turned out beautifully so I very pleased with result as its for a friend

Fab Bowlers Day

This card is from a decoupage paper from Flippin Men series, I must admit I`ve had them a couple of years but read recently they were making a come back. This one is for a grandad and is quite open so can be used for Fathers Day or a Birthday

I used Kanban caerstock and backing papers and I store all my cards in cello to keep them prestine. I just wish I`d photographed it before I packed it.

I keep forgetting to do that. But now I`ve set up a portable studio in the craft room so hopefully I`ll remember a bit better

Welsh Card for Taff

My cousin is Welsh and to say he is proud of his heritage is an understatement. So I searched high and low to find some toppers and this is the result

The Sentiment is from a selection of Kanban`s at Shipley. The gold bunting I cut out of a sheet of gold backing papers. The three feathers were downloaded from google

New Grandparents Card

I wanted to make a friend a card to welcome her new grandson to the family. I enjoyed making the card but the sentiment was a little tricky so settled for a sentiment "Children are love made visable" as I know how excited she has been during her daughters pregnancy.


I cut the sheep out on my Silhouette SD. Sentiments were from Samuel Taylors and backing papers were from a stash I had printed for free on the internet.

Craft Fair Makes

First I stamped and painted with watercolours my Forever Friends Teddy. Onto 300gms Watercolour card.
Then using my Silhouette Sd I cut out the toppers in Raspberry Champagne Creative tones cardstock bought from Samuel Taylors
The  Flowers and Ribbon were from Wild Orchid Crafts

Realising I couldnt then fit the card into an envelope, I used my Silhouette Sd to make a box, which turned out fairly well for a first attempt but I will have to use thicker card I think

When I wanted to make some mini pamper hampers shown below I realised how much giftbags had increased in price . Unbelievably .......So I attempted to make some of my own. The winnie the pooh one was handmade using some tissue and papers and a lenght of rope. The embellishments are all images found on the net. The tree bag was a download from Silhouette America. I had to make some ajustments to resize and found it needed some adjusting from the original download as the sizing was wrong. I used a piece of blue cardstock and a ribbon from Hobbycraft. But all it cost was some time and a few pennies

 This is the contents of my mini pamer hampers.
And an image of the finished packaging, before putting the things in I wrapped them in tissue paper

These are everyday pegs Topped with ribbon and embellishments with magnet superglued to the back

These magnetic post it note packs were beer mats run through my xyron machine to attach the magnetics, covered with My Minds Eye Backing Papers Summer attach a pen and a post it note and packed in cello wrappers

Laura Ashley & Kate Knight backing papers were used to cover these notebooks. They were then packed with a little pen from £1 shop .

Some pen sets for school. Packed and adorned for sale. Also a small present for end of year for teachers. Thanks to some great offers at Vistaprint

Handmade Flowers

I decided to try my hand at flower making. I ordered some from the internet at Wild Orchid Crafts and thought while I wait for them to come, I`ll try these

I used my silhouette SD machine to cut out and used to Pinflair to glue from Create and Craft. After drying I coated in Cosmic Shimmers Iridescent Watercolour paint. They came out better than I thought but were very time consuming.