Those dreaded cards...cards for men/ boys!

 

I was recently asked to make some cards for

some males... music, sport & graduation.

 

 First up, is the music card...for Lewis.

I decoupaged the ipod and used glossy accents on the window and button.

The music and the microphone were images on my pc that I have had for ages.

The backing paper is a sticky paper that I love...bought it

years ago, in Paperchase.

It's covered in music stuff...drawings of guitars, hifis, stereos, headphones, allsorts!

A bit of dry embossing round the edges finished this.

 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Make it Monday - 151 - anything goes (ends 4th August)

 Good ol' wrapping paper again!

Can't believe I have only just thought of buying it to use on my cards!

Think this one cost me 20p for the sheet...and I could prob make about 10 cards from it!

I backed all the pieces on card to give them more strength, then decoupaged the balls,

so that they stand out from the page.

I twiddled about on the pc to make the sentiment on the blue square.

I'm quite pleased with this one!

 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges...

Pile it on - 30 - anything goes (ends 3rd August)



Finally, this one was made using some of my pc images, and backing paper.

I decoupaged the scroll and balloon

and tried to make sure the sentiment looked like it could be handwriting.

I was asked to add something to do with music.. and as a final thing,

I popped on a brad in the shape of a camera.

 

 



Birthday cards for Mum and Dad

I made cards for both Mum and Dad recently, for their birthdays...

 This first one is for Dad.

He loves his sweets... esp the retro ones.

I fell in love with these images when I found them on a piece of wrapping paper!

Infact, I got about 40 images on the wrapping paper...

all jars of sweets, inc: wine gums, humbugs, mint imperials, 

aniseed balls, sherbet lemons, parma violets...  all with glitter here n there!

I used my new bargain punch (£1 at a boot sale) 

to make the shelves..and used a  (candy-striped) DCWV paper for backing.

I decoupaged some of the tags / labels and added glossy accents to some 

of the sweets.

Dad loved it!  x

 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges... 

Inky chicks - 9 - summer colours (ends 3rd August)

Craftin desert divas - 11 - birthdays (ends 4th August)

 





Mum loves her kitchen and all things american...

and I knew as soon as I saw this image - that she would love it.

I have had it quite a while...think I got it on PC Crafter website. 

I decoupaged lots of the bits on the shelf and added some glossy accents to some.

I found a poem that I thought she would like, too.

A bit of red ribbon down the side, and

backed on red gingham... it went down a treat! 

Birthday girls (comissions)

I was asked for two cards...one for a real pink / purple girly girl,

and the other for a girl... but not girlie colours.

 This was the pink / purple one.

I used a docrafts paper and decoupaged some of the images,

using glitter on some parts too. 

I made the sentiment in publisher, then diecut the shape on my bigshot. 

A couple of martha stewart butterflies, a ribbon and a bit of embossing round the edge,

finished this card off. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges...
 C.R.A.F.T. challenge - 217 - for the girls (ends 1st August)

Craft your passion - 172 -happy birthday (ends 29th July)

That craft place - its a girl things (ends 5th August)

 

Again, I used a docrafts paper, with a pink petticoat image and my own sentiment.

I added fanciful flourish swirls behind the image, some gems on the chandelier, a bit of

embossing and a narrow piece of red ribbon to finish the card.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges...
Inky impressions - 117 - birthdays (ends 31st July)
Crafty cardmakers - 96 - birthday (ends 29th July)


 



It's Wedding season!

I have had a few wedding commissions recently...

I was asked to make a card with the wedding colours...silver and fushia pink.

I think the image is stampin bella...but don't quote me on that. 

(I found this one image in my stash as I was searching through.)

Sentiments printed directly onto card. 

Embossed hearts background done on my bigshot.

Coloured in in promarkers.

Silver ribbon leftover from a box of chocs, I think!

Martha Stewart punched butterflies.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges...
Crafting with dragonflies - 7 - wedding card (ends 7th August)
Di's digi stamp challenge - wedding/anniversary/congrats (ends 3rd August)

 



 I was asked to make this card (and the one below) on July 4th...

the wedding was on July 5th! Lol!

I designed a sentiment, cut it on my bigshot, printed out a paper from 

"funky fairies" - sadly, no longer online.

Added a couple of MS butterflies and a little heart buckle and ribbon.

(Had just bought the buckle the day before... never used one before, but loved the look of this.)

Inked and embossed round the edge of the purple paper, to finish.

 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges... 

Paper playtime - 15 - use patterned paper (ends 4th August)
Eclectic ellapu -shades of purple, with butterfly. (ends 28th July)
Opus Gluei - 161- weddings (ends 28th July)






Yet another docrafts paper was used for the backing of this card..

I like the confetti look of the paper.

I drew and cut the main shape myself..and printed the sentiment

and pink petticoat image directly onto it.

I edged the shape with yellow chalk

and another little heart buckle, threaded with ribbon.

Woodware punched butterflies in gold, finish off this card.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges...
Glitter n sparkle - 42 - weddings (ends 28th July)
Little claires - 35 - wedding (ends 16th August)

Cats...

I bought a cute little memory box cat die weeks and weeks and weeks ago.....

and hadn't got round to using it yet,

so thought I had better have a play! 

This was a really quick card... a digi-stamp sentiment, digi stamp hearts, cat die, 

tied ribbon, some glossy accents on the hearts, and hand embossed around the edge.

Easy - and I like it! x

I would like to enter this into the following challenges...

Hanna and friends challenge - monochrome (ends 3rd July)

My hearts pieces challenge - use a digi stamp (ends 4th July)

Scrappers delight challenge - die cuts / punches (ends 9th July)

Cupcake craft challenge - CAS - no flowers (ends 30th June)

The paper nest dolls challenge - animals (ends 6th July)

Catered Crop - die cuts / punches (ends 6th July)

Quirky crafts challenge - everybody wants to be a cat! (ends 6th July)

Wedding card

 

Thought I would share a card I made recently, for a commission from a friend...

 

I was asked to make a card for her friends...who had been

cycling together around Madagascar!

I really thought that was worth including in the card.

I have had this digi image a while...sorry-I don't know where it's from.

I used a pink petticoat digi paper behind it,

as that was the blue they had used on the invitations they sent out.

I did the sentiment on the pc..  and added some pearls and liquid pearls.

The diecut came from a friend.

The ribbon was from my stash ... think I bought it in Abakhan - yonks ago! :)

 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges...

Digitally Sweet - celebration DSC 41 (ends 27th June)

Wags n Whiskers challenge - wedding / love / anniversary (ends 27th June)

C.R.A.F.T Challenge - recipe ... image, ribbon, pearls, sentiment (ends 26th June)

Creative Belli - wedding CBC 172 (ends 31 June)

Everybody Art challenge - wedding  (ends 15th June)

 

 

 



Fathers Day

  

I made this recently for my Dad - for fathers day.

I knew what I wanted to do with this (freebie) stamp, as soon as I saw it!

I have stamped the image onto a chalked background:

 I used a cotton wool ball and some dovecraft chalks, which I have had FOREVER! :)

I embossed around the image, onto kraft card, then added a stamped deckchair...

which also came on the freebie stamp set.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges...

Chalk n stock -GDT anything goes  (ends 28th June)  

DL.Art blog - fathers day (ends 26th June)

Addicted to stamps  - addicted to CAS (ends 18th June)

Crafting by design - fathers day (ends 18th June)      

Crafting for all seasons - one for the guys  (ends 29th June)

Belli challenge - fathers day (ends 18th June)

The sisterhood of crafters - men / boy (ends 23rd June)

The stamping chef - for dad (ends 19th June)

Anything challenge - fathers day (ends 17th June)

Creative craft challenge - we love you dad (ends 23rd June)

I made this card in a very similar way -
this was a commission for a friend, for her children to give to their dad.
My friend has just had a baby, so I had to play about and jiggle to size this pram so that
it would fit perfectly with the freebie stamp I had.
I made the sentiment on the computer, as she specifically wanted
the word "Daddy" on there.
This card is also a lot taller and slimmer than the first card I made (above).

I would like to enter this into the following challenges...

Scrap creations blog -  GGSC154 fathers day (ends 18th June)
Jellypark challenge - masculine (ends 27th June)
Kitty bee designs - fathers day / masculine (ends 21st June) 

 Polkadoodle blog - male (ends 23rd June)
Stamping with the Dragon blog - one for dad (ends 21st June)
Hobby Cutz challenges - masculine / fathers day (ends 22nd June)



Gorjuss girls...

I made this card recently for a friend to give to her sister...

 

 and she loved it soooooo much, she asked me to make her one,

so she could put it into a frame.

So..... I made her one, and put it into a lovely wood / glass frame,

for her birthday, recently. She LOVED it!

As you will see, I used a gorjuss girls image,

a digi backing paper in her fave colour, pc generated sentiment

(obviously, I left this out, on her framed piece),

I punched the border piece with my boot-sale bargain border punch ( £1 !),

some punched butterflies and glossy accents on the hearts.

 

 I would like to entre this into the following challenges....

Glitter n sparkle blog - anything beginning with "b" (ends 8th June )

 



And even more commissions...

Thought I would show a couple more cards I have been

making... requests from my work colleagues ....

 

"Can I have a card...from my toddler son, to his fave nursery nurse, who is leaving nursery?"

Well, I thought I was going to be stumped with that request...

I thought and thought and decided I wanted it to have

something childlike on there, somewhere...

I eventually came up with this...

Papers from my minds eye.

Butterflies punched from new Martha Stewart punch.

Inked edges, matted and layered,

and hand drawn faux stitching.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges...
Love to Create challenge - For a child (this card is "for a child...  to give"... ends 27th May)

 

 

This is an A4 card.

"Can you make a card with a morrocan theme, for my sister? Oh, she loves bags too!"

Sentiment - computer generated.

Bag - pink petticoat image.

Paper - found on the internet.

Border... not sure, but I bought this one in a load of punched

 borders on a car boot sale last yr!

Butterflies,..again, Martha Stewart.

 

I would like to add this to the following challenges...

That craft place - dies and punches. (ends 8th June)

Papertake weekly - Paper piecing (the "40") (ends 27th May)

Chocolate coffee and cards - use a number (ends 31st May)

 

 

Both cards were extremely well received! ;)

I love that feeling,,, when you make someone so happy, with something you've made! xx

 



Engagement cards

 I made these recently...just felt like making some engagement cards for my 

ever-handy "box."

 I was inspired by a card I saw on Docrafts...

and made my own version. 

I drew a hand shaped template and chalked round the edge

to get the hand-print shape, added a large gem and a little gold promarker -

for the ring - and a computer generated sentiment. 

Finished the edges with a bit of rounding on the corners.

I would like to add this into the following challenges...

CAS on Sunday - pastel pretties (ends 24th May)

The corrosive challenge - use a sentiment (ends may 26th May)

My craft spot - invitations and announcements (ends 22nd May)

Sarah Hurley challenge blog - shades of blue (ends 26th May)

Chalk n stock - use chalk (ends 31st May)

This is a dovecrafts paper that I found in my stash on a recent clear out.
It was not quite big enough of a piece, to cover a card, so was about to be resigned
to my "bits of paper box" when this card popped into my head!

I found loads of scraps I'd forgotten I had!  Lol...

I printed on a sentiment, added a thin (hand-tied-bow) ribbon,

and Bobs-your-uncle!   ;)

I would like to add this to the following challenges...

Hiding in my craft room challenge - use those scraps! (ends 17th May) HIMCR97
Pumpkin spice - flowers (ends 18th May)
Use your stuff - flowers (ends 20th May)
Shopping our stash - scrap attack (ends 21st May)

More commissions...

A couple more cards I made recently for commissions...

 

A Zumba card!

Made for a zumba fanatic! :)

Simple. All about Man U. :)

Christening cards...again!

Wow! I have never had to make sooo many christening cards, before!

I think these two make about 6 already this year!

 

 This first one, is for my friends little girl...

Tillie Belle. 

I thought that such a pretty name, she needed a pretty card!

I used Nitwits bears,

Funky fairies gingham paper ,

Image from pc, faded so I could put the message on the top.

I got the phone call to say they loved it! ;)

 

This card was for a comission.

Again, image from pc,

paper from Funky Fairies,

punched butterflies,

matted and embossed around the edge.

 

 



I'm back with one...for now! :)

I'm still here:)  Thought I would add a few over the next few days, that I made for commissions recently...

This one to start with....

This one looks sooo much better in real life...

I used a purple paper I have had for yonks, from a 6 x 6 paper pack.

My new (ish) darice butterflies embossing folder,

xcut label shape die, and a bit of dry (simple line) embossing...

with a bit of stickles here n there.

Computer generated sentiment.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges

Catered Crop - embossing. (ends 11th May)

Dream Valley Challenge - things with wings  (ends 3rd May )

Glitter n Sparkle - white and one other colour (ends 4th May)

Paper Playtime - emboss (ends 12th May)

Die Cuttin Divas - anything goes (ends 6th May)

Scrap Creations -Insects or animals (ends 6th May)

Creative Corner Challenges - clean and simple (ends 2nd May)

Babies...

I made these a cuple of days ago, before I started the big craftroom clearout!

 

I was in a very CAS mood last weekend,

and knew I wanted some more cards for my box.

So, I made these!

I had these images a while, and thought I would use them...

they are digi stamps. (images and sentiments for both cards)

 

I would like to add this card to the following challenges...

 Card Crafters Circle - Babies ('til 4th April)

Totally Gorjuss - Something Blue ('til 5th April)



Glitter and Sparkle - Cute ('til 5th April)



I also used a bit of glossy accents on the buttons for each card.

The babygrows are on foam pads so raised from the card.

 

I would like to add this card to the following challenges..

Aud sentiments - for a child ('til 9th April)

Crafts 4 Eternity Recipie Challenge - Cute as you like ('til 4th April)

Pink Gem Challenge - Make it cute (til 5th April) 

Twist of Faith - New Life ('til 8th April)

Addicted to stamps - CAS ('til 8th April)
Totally Papercrafts - Birthday girl in pink ('til 12th April)

Clearing out!

I don't really make Easter cards,

But I do always make one for my niece!

 

I have been having a major tidy in my craft room...
at the moment, it is a TIP!
I have even been clearing all the stuff I have on the pc...
I was inspired when I saw this cute little rabbit digi
from Sarah Hurley.
I knew my niece would love it as it looks just like her rabbit...hunny.
I used a paper I found a scrap of, for the background. (sky)
The yellow gingham has been sat on my yellow shelf for I-don't-know-how-long!
The little eggs were stamped from a freebie set I got with a magazine.
 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges...

Creative Belli Blog - Easter ( 'til 9th April)
4 Crafty Chicks  - Easter ('til 3rd April)
Crafty Calendar - Easter ('til 5th April)
One stop craft challenge - Easter ('til 5th April)
Creative Creations - Easter ('til 14th April)

Scrap Creations - Easter ('til 8th April)
Artistic Inspirations - Easter / Spring ('til 8th April) 

Comissioned card

  "Can I have a card for kate - she's 16

and LOVES horses.  PS... not too girly!"

 

--stress!!--

 

Well, I don't have a clue what to do,

and put it off, and put it off.

Then I started to play and it just came together.

I goggled and found the horse image.

I made the little rosette myself...a strip of paper which I folded over and over.

Computer generated sentiment printed directly onto the card.

Backing paper is a digi paper I have had for ages.

Flowers are also digi flowers I pinted out and cut round.

It was a hit!!! Phew!!!



My new embossing folder...

A kindly person on docrafts, pointed out

an ebay seller who was selling this gorgeous embossing folder...

 

and I knew I had to have one! ( its by Darice...
called "butterflies" i think!)

(Well, it was very close to my birthday, so I got hubby to treat me :) )

I embossed it several times and made each one slightly different...

some have computer generated sentiments,

and some have a stamped sentiment.

Some have butterflies embossed,

or extra, punched butterflies added... with and without gems / sparkle.

I am entering the "with love" butterflies card into
the following challenge...
CAS on Sunday - Flutterby (closes 29/03/13)

The Easter holidays have started! Yipeee!!!!

 I'm SO glad the easter hols are finally here!

 

So...I thought I would make some cards for my "box"...

I have used a few recently, and need some I can just pull out - last minute -

when the need arises. I made this to start with...

I used part of a paper I ha already used and was in my

"paper bits n bobs" folder. I always put the left over pieces and bits in there.

The cute stamp came free, with a card making mag, last month.

Butterflies are punched.

 

I would like to enter this into the challenges...

The perfect sentiment - challenge PSC71 (ENDS 27/03/13)

Card Making Mamas - Spring colours ( ends 29/03/13)





A couple more for Mothers day...

I was asked to make a couple of cards for the weekend...

 

The forst one was for a mum who was recieving a "Charlie Bear" for mothers day.

"Can I have a card to go with the bear?!"

This went down well! Phew!

Image from my pc....decoupaged bear and sunflowers,
(glossy accents added here and there. )

Fanciful flourish swirls.

Punched butterflies.



This card was for an auntie - who is like a mum.

This needed to be floral.

Image from pc...decoupaged tulips,

 on gingham paper from stash,

 with punched butterflies.

 

Both were well received! x

 

 

 

 



2 Mums..2 cards...

One for my Mum,

One for my Mother in Law...

Both - fab mums!

I have made a card for each Mum, each very similar!

I used...

Funky fairies digi paper (no longer online, sadly)

Hunkdory diecut birdcage - a bargain sheet, from Crab Apple crafts...Rosemerry merrys craft shop

at Lady Heyes, in Frodsham. (she and her hubby Nige, are so friendly, welcoming and chatty!)

Punched butterflies...with a little sparkle on their wings!

Handcut pennants.

Floral delights flowers - memory box die....with a little sparkle round the edges!

Computer generated sentiment.

Organza ribbon and gems from stash...had for yonks!

I would like to enter this into the following challenges... 

One stop craft challenge - Mothers Day (closes 08.03.13)

Glitter and Sparkle challenge - Mothers day /Ladies day (closes 09.03.13)
Sincerely Yours creations - Mothers day (closes 12.03.13)

Made in a similar way, using the same embellishments as the first card, 

only I made this one in my personal favourite colour...

a soft lilac. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges...

Creative creations - Just for Mum ( closes 17.03.13)
Songbird challenge - Mama I Love You (closes 15.03.13)
The Hybrid Chick - Fur or Feathers (closes 15.03.13)