4 year old card

 Hi Everyone, my card today is for my Great Nephew's 4th birthday. I haven't been too well this last 6 weeks, and I was completely without mojo. I don't have "young" stamps, that i could think of. I didn't fancy any of my digital images, so I went down the svg route and this is what happened.

The paper was chosen before using card to match it. I printed and cut it to size and added it to the card. I cut the candles and sentiment on my Silhouette.  I added 4, of course, for his age. The tiny pieces required tweezers to add to the face. 

I used white pen to add the brightness in the eyes and inked around each candle for shadow. I added ink for the cheeks, but the darker shades wouldn't take it!

White pen and clear glitter pen were added to the flames of the candle card pieces. 

I then wrote the name and added a shadow, and cut it. I hope he likes it.

paper - Sweet Shoppe Designs R. Carlton 2014

candles - My ScrapChick

ink - Distress Oxides

white pen - Posca

glitter pen - Spectrum Noir 

sentiment font - Charade

Sun, Sea, Sand WLSC Mid Month

 

 Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme from Me, Myself, and I, Yours Truly! -

Sun, Sea, Sand

 

We were asked to write a little about ourselves and our crafting,  see my post on the 7th, to read it if you're interested?

Anyhow, my masculine cards today came about by a website, showing me images of products I may be interested in, I certainly was, and they were on offer, so bought them. I had Pirates in mind, I really don't know why, except they ruled the waves at one time. 

I searched for a map in my files, and came across this coloured, but blank cut edge map.  It's a Photoshop free download. I sent it into my Silhouette program and cut it out, Yep! I hate fussy cutting that much. These are the cards, with description above each card below.

 

ship stamp - Globeland, Amazon

all other stamps and dies - Nautical Collection by Sara Davies, all mag freebies

inks - Distress Inks, lots

white pen - Uniball Angelic White

I stamped the ship and other nautical stamps onto the "map" after I had ink blended the edge of it, then coloured them with DI's and a white gel pen. I die cut the anchor and tied a naval knot with jute cord. Stamped and die cut a sentiment, and it was done.

 

My second card, used the same set of stamps, the seahorse die is also in the Magazine freebie, Sara Davies Nautical set

I enjoyed it so much, I decided to do another with one of the other stamps. They were both done with the same map. Then I added different stamps and a seahorse die, cut out of white card and blended to match. I looked up the colour of the seahorse, and if they live at the bottom of the sea amongst the sand, they are the same colour as the sand, very handy for my card. I added gems to the treasure chest, and a different naval knot, in red, to match the jewels.  Sorry I have forgotten, what the knots are.

 

Don't forget, we now require At least one stamped element on entries. Those of you like us, who love to stamp, we would still love you to enter your fully stamped entry.

Two prizes from Craft Stash, paper pads and stamps

 

 

Oceans of happiness

 Hi Everyone, my card today is on the current theme at We Love Stamping challenge, but has no stamping! It did originally have the sentiment stamped, but I made a mess, so printed it instead.

 I started by using a stencil for the sea, using different blues, it was then die cut, and glued to the base card. Next, I got my dies out and cut them all in white card. I coloured them with marker pens, but left the seagulls white. These were then placed onto the die cut sea image. As I said earlier, I stamped the sentiment, but it came out wrong, so I went into Photoshop and made and printed the sentiment, then die cut it, and placed it over the original.

wave stencil - my own, cut on the Silhouette

cloud stencil - Funky Fossil

Distress Oxide inks - salty ocean, faded jeans, peacock feathers

markers - Spectrum Noir 

square die - Sue Wilson Noble square dies

dies -  Magazine freebies

sentiment die - Card Making Magic

sentiment - Oceans font - Baby Monkey. Wishing you font - Alef

 

 The insert was designed in Photoshop, printed, then placed inside the main card.

Sun, Sea, Sand WLSC

 Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme from Me, Myself, and I, Yours Truly! -

Sun, Sea, Sand

 

We were asked to write a little about ourselves and our crafting, here is my story! A long post, so flash past and go to the card if you're not interested?

 

I started card making many, many years ago, my first love was digital and PrintMaster. Then I had a copy of Photoshop, which I used to make cards for my family, I loved the fact I could design, print and send a card I had made. There was a Craft Fair a few miles from me, and I decided to attend. I saw stamping and embossing demonstrated and was hypnotised by it, so I bought a few stamps, ink, and a stamping block and came home, to find that I was useless at it, more being thrown away than used. 

 

So back to digi. After a while, I gave my not used stamps away, Then I saw what, maybe? I could achieve on a TV crafting channel. This led to me subscribing to a magazine. A stamping platform was purchased after hearing good reports, and that is how I started stamping. However, not seriously until an offer to join the DT on We Love Stamping. I'm still learning, but loving it.

I have had this sea stamp for quite a while and haven't used it, I have to ask myself why? It gives a wonderful feeling of the sea.  Perfect for the theme this month. 

I blended the background with DO's, then stamped the waves, and embossed it with white embossing powder, that I had to buy, as I didn't have it in my supplies, can you believe it? 

 

Anyhow, after stamping and embossing, I added more bits of colour within the waves also some white pen to enhance some of the sea. Something I hadn't done before was to add a shadow to the waves and the sea edge, it certainly makes a difference I feel. I had watched the video, which helped me. 

 

After looking and finding some sea related stamps in my stash, I stamped the seagulls and painted them with white pen. The sentiment was stamped next, also in my stash, I felt it needed something else and found the sandcastle dies. They were coloured with DO's, and the flags with markers. Next, the scene was layered onto a blue background, which matched the sea. I hope you will join me in the Challenge. There are Great prizes.

stamp - Waves,  Inkylicious

all other stamps - Magazine Freebies 

inks - Distress Oxide, too many to list sorry.

white pen - Uniball White pen

dies - Mini Tropical dies, Cut & Make (The Range)

markers - Spectrum Noir

Don't forget, we now require At least one stamped element on entries. Those of you like us, who love to stamp, we would still love you to enter your fully stamped entry.

Two prizes from Craft Stash, paper pads and stamps

 

Old? Pig! TMR

 Hi Everyone, my card today is for 

 OH! so much choice, but what design? In the end, I cased a card I did a while ago here.

I chose my pig and sentiment and took them into Silhouette. I sized them to fit a 6 x 6 inch card, and print and cut 3 layers of each, and also cut was a brown layer for the sentiment.  Next, I glued the sentiment layers together, and coloured the pig with DI's and added 3D gloss to his eyes.  That was when I realised, there would be no background, as you can tell, I don't plan my cards, they all evolve.

Searching my files for "farm", I found an enclosure and a background, that would be suitable for it. I layered them in PS and printed them out to fit the card, then fussy cut around the image. It was placed onto the base card, the pig was 3D'd and the sentiment was attached to the card. 

pig - Beccy's Place

inks - Distress inks, tattered rose, tea dye, ripe persimmon, vintage photo, aged mahogany, I took a lead from Beccy to colour him.

3D gloss - Nuvo Crystal Glaze

barn, background and insert farm - Hugware 2005

insert sentiment - my own

font -  Coffyan

  Beccy's July challenge 

 

Paperfundaychallenges #67 

Cow card & box CCC

 Hi Everyone, my DT cards today is for -

Critter Crazy

 Anything Goes but they MUST feature a critter as the main focus 

Whether Furry, Feathered, Fantasy, Fairytale, 

Scaly, or Insect, there must be a critter.

 

Something different today, a card and a box. I had this image amongst others a while ago and decided to use it. I printed it out, and die cut it, first cutting the ears to go outside the frame. After cutting, I added it to black card using 3D pads to lift the ears. I found some paper in my files and printed it fit a 5x7inch card. Then layered both onto black card. The sentiment I have had copied from somewhere, a long time ago. I arranged it in Photoshop and printed it out, then using the same die, cut it the same width as the cow image, added it to black card. All then attached to the base card. 

The milk box, again something I have had a long while, but I thought it would match the card, so off to my old Silhouette, cut the outer box in white card, then the black "tube" to fit inside the box. They were then put together.  A fun pair.

cow image - CreativeFabrika Funny Cows Clip Art 2024

paper -   Hugware 2007

milk box - So Fontsy, Silhouette School 2021

sentiment die cut - Card Making Magic

Elegant lady?

 Hi everyone, I want to thank you all for your suggestions on remembering birthdays, that I asked about a few weeks ago. I think I'll try a couple, at least one of them should work ay?

My card today was for one of my SiLs, I saw this file recently and had to have it, I followed the suggested colours, but changed them slightly.

The whole file was taken into my Silhouette and I cut each piece out. Putting them together, I inked some edges. It was quite straight forward, like die cuts, when I put the pieces together on my desk first. I was lucky to find in my paper pads a similar pattern for the collar and sleeves. The grey pieces are silver mirror card. 

I wanted some sort of sentiment and found one that I had bought in a recent sale, just perfect methinks. I couldn't add it to the curved section of the main card, so stamped it on the same card, cut to fit, and added it to the corner.

I know a lot of you won't understand my liking for my Silhouette, but I love it, and appreciate how it can cut any size I want. I only hope my SiL will like the card.

SVG file - Dreaming Tree - Maisy

papers - Make & Create and Craft Sensations

mirror card - The Range

stamp - Spellbinders - Shopping Run Sentiments

Fabulous Florals WLSC

 

   Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, the 15th Anniversary of the challenge, we would love to see your cards with the theme from Brenda -

Fabulous Florals.

 

The lovely buttercup stamp was stamped onto white card, and then coloured with DI's. Next I stamped it again and fussy cut the flowers, then shaped them and went to add them to the card, but, decided it needed something else, so I stencilled 2 stencils, recently bought, one in yellow and one in green. I wanted a sentiment, so looked through my stamps and found one that I thought suited, and stamped it onto the card in black to match the flowers. 

Another decision, I felt it should have a base, so went looking for a paper that would suit. I use the search option a lot in my files, and this time searched for yellow paper. This was amongst them, although it's more green than yellow, it suited, it was printed and cut to size, then I attached it to the base card. The stamped layer was attached to the card, and then the extra flowers were added to the card. Next, I added gems to 3 of the flowers.

 buttercup stamp - Stamps by Me

sentiment stamp - Magazine freebie, Simply Cards & Papercraft #230

 dp - Designs by Brigit 2012

black ink - Stazon 

ink - Distress Inks, fossilized amber, squeezed lemonade

stencils - unmarked Amazon

 

 

The insert was done in Photoshop, with the same paper backing the stamped flowers. I asked Google for a simple birthday verse and this was the first it came up with. I chose a similar font to the stamped sentiment. I had some buttercups in my files and added them to the paper and sentiment. Outlining them in black to copy the stamped flowers. Should have used the stamp though. Oh! well, next time!

dp as above

buttercups - Toni McLeland 2007

font - Almondia

 Don't forget, we now require At least one stamped element on entries. Those of you like us, who love to stamp, we would still love you to enter your fully stamped entry.

 Our prizes this month

Floral birthday

 Hi Everyone, I had a quick card to do, as usual! I used to have a great desktop calendar, that showed me on the screen a birthday and a month before too, so I had plenty of time to make a card. However, I now have Google Calendar and not impressed, although it comes up with the information, I then go on to something and forget until the last moment. Maybe it's just an old age thing, but I wish they would have updated my old calendar.

Anyhow, back to my card, as I said a quick one, I took a tip from the We Love Stamping Challenge and used florals, no stamping though. 

  Fabulous Florals

   

 

I have this gorgeous digital paper in my files, so I printed it and die cut it to fit the card. I then die cut another layer of pink card to layer the floral onto. Next I took a butterfly die and cut it out of the same pink card and die cut a sentiment from blue card. 

 

digital paper -  Font Bundles -free craft bundle flowers 2015

butterfly die - Cut & Make?

sentiment die - Cut & Make

I then went into PS and made an insert, by enlarging the floral paper to the size of the card, next adding 2 white squares. I then added a butterfly to one and a sentiment onto the other, printed it out and cut it to size, card done.

Ribbon or Twine TMR

 Hello Everyone, my DT post today is for 

The Male Room

A celebration for me today, I have been with the DT here since June 2016, that's 8 years. This is my first card on the DT, plenty of changes of style, and usage of crafty things in between for me.  

I had a struggle to do this. I don't often add ribbon or twine to my cards, but somehow, I thought of a bird house hanging from a tree. After a couple of weeks thinking of other ways to use twine or ribbon, I decided to just go for it. This is the result.

I die cut a square background and blended some DI onto it to simulate the sky,  I wanted it still CAS, so didn't add too much. I then stamped the birdhouse onto wood grain card, and added shadow on the edges, for the house and red striped card for the roof, also with shadow edges. They were glued together. I then planned where the sentiment could go and stamped it onto the background die piece.

Next the branch was stamped, in different places and once onto card, which was fussy cut (ugh!) for the twine to hang from it, they were then were coloured. The swallow was stamped next and coloured. The twine was attached to the branch, which was 3D'd onto the card. The twine was stretched and attached to the house, which was also 3D'd. I added 3D pads to the swallow and attached a piece of twine to it's beak, I had to use more twine!The background was then attached to the base card. 

I'm afraid my card isn't too imaginative in the use of twine, but I hope it will pass. After pasting it here, I thought perhaps it could be used for a new home card too. Oh! well, I suppose I could add a new home sentiment and a label die cut if needed.

stamps - all Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) magazine freebies

inks - Distress Inks

border die - Sue Wilson Noble Square die 

 

Go see what my creative Team Mates have produced. 

Fabulous Florals WLSC

 Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme from Brenda - A long post on Florals.

Fabulous Florals.

 

So many Floral stamps, what to choose? Most of my stamps are from a subscription magazine, that has helped me in my use of stamps.

I selected a bouquet of flowers stamp, but decided to add a mask and make it a round shape, with blue DI. I then cut it with a square die. Next I splashed some gold ink onto the base card, let it dry and added the square die florals. I didn't know where I was going, but decided to stamp separate flowers, colour them and fussy cut them, and add them to the left upper corner. Then I stamped the sentiment, which just about fit into the lower right corner. Next I stamped the bow and added that too. I'm not too sure about the flowers on the top, one minute I think I made a mistake in adding them, then I like them, they're added now so will have to be OK. 

stamps - Mag Freebie Simply Cards & Papercraft #241

inks - Distress Inks, mustard seed, picked raspberry, victoria velvet, seedless preserve, wilted violet, mermaid lagoon, tumbled glass

square die - Sue Wilson Noble square dies

I can't show the insert as it has already been posted.

I hope to see your Fabulous Florals in the challenge. 

Don't forget, we now require At least one stamped element on entries. Those of you like us, who love to stamp, we would still love you to enter your fully stamped entry.

Our prizes this month

 

 

 

I have another piccie, I'd like to share with you, I wonder if you could identify this cut flower? Admittedly, it is on the edge of being thrown out, but I didn't think it looked like its original shape and would never have thought it would fully open to this. identity below the image! I saw the flowers coming out, then hubby went cutting a shrub next to it and accidentally stepped on the 3 flowers. So I don't have a photo of them in their original shape. I put them into a vase where they flowered for 2 weeks and ended up like this. Still beautiful methinks.

 

 

 

they are Tulips.

Rainbow Lorikeets CCC

 Hi Everyone, my DT cards today is for -

Critter Crazy

 Anything Goes but they MUST feature a critter as the main focus 

Whether Furry, Feathered, Fantasy, Fairytale, 

Scaly, or Insect, there must be a critter.

 

I thought I would bombard you with colour today. I had to have this colourful Rainbow Lorikeet after seeing it on Beccy's page with discontinued digi stamps. I must admit to not being aware of the name Lorikeet. You learn something everyday day! 

Anyhow, he is a ready coloured image, I print and cut him 3 times on the Silhouette, then looked for the most colourful paper I had, the wavy paper is from my computer files, printed and then die cut. The other papers were found after a search in my paper pads. All die cut and layered onto the base card. The sentiments were played with in Photoshop to make them colourful too, printed and die cut. 

 Lorikeet and sentiments - Beccy's Place

wavy paper - Piggyscraps (2012)

all other papers - Craft Sensations - kids

square dies - Sue Wilson Noble dies

round die - Tonic Studios

sentiment die - Card Making Magic

On time birthday card

 Hi Everyone, if you've visited my blog in May, you would have seen this card I sent a month early. Well, I had to make it up to her and made sure I sent a birthday card on time.

I'd had this gorgeous digital image of a Gnome, that I decided to use. I took him into Silhouette, (you know I hate fussy cutting!) and cut the whole layer out, then cut him out with the foreground flowers. Next, he was printed out to fit a 5x7inch card, I had also added the greeting below him. The layer was then placed onto green card and attached to the base card. The other cut layers were then attached. 

I also cut the sentiment from Silhouette, I coloured it to match with DI ink and placed it onto the white shadow layer and attached it onto the card. I thought it needed more, but didn't want to detract from the lovely image, so die cut 3 butterflies and placed them to the side of the Gnome. Shame the layers don't show up in the photo.

Gnome -  Create with TLC

smile font - Ayanalove

ink - Tattered Rose Distress Ink

butterflies - Tattered Lace Die

 

 

The insert done in Photoshop. My own verse!

2 year old birthday card

 Hi Everyone, my card today was for my Niece's granddaughter.

I had seen a card with a scalloped edge, but didn't have a die to make it, so into Silhouette. I printed out the main images, as I had arranged them onto the background, also more images to do layers and cut them. Next I cut the 2 with a patterned font, also a bottom layer for it. The purple card was then cut larger to outline the image layer. 

I attached the main image to the purple card, then 3D'd the bears and stars onto it, I glued the 2 together, then added sparkle pen and added to the main card. I thought it portrayed fun and love for the little one.

background and bears - Creative Fabrika, Bears and Unicorns Clip Art 

font - Happy Party 

sparkle pen - Spectrum Noir

Silhouette

I then put together the insert in Photoshop, with the same font, but the regular font version. The verse is a mixture of a few I have in my files. I used the same background of hearts and stars and different bears. The blurred bit is my writing, I forgot to take a photo before writing it.

this is the cutie whose birthday it was

Vintage Mid month WLSC

   Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme, chosen by Lynn -

Vintage.

 

As I said at the beginning of the month, this theme threw me, but, I found a die cut strip of card in my bits box, so decided to see if I could make it vintage. I blended DO's, mustard seed, vintage photo and antique linen ink, all over the strip, then used a text stamp and DO vintage photo to add texture. 

 

The flowers were stamped with mustard seed and coloured with fired brick, the leaves were stamped with Stazon black, and coloured with DO's forest moss, mowed lawn. The sentiment die cut, was shaded the same colours as the main piece and the sentiment stamped with DO vintage photo.  

inks - Distress Oxide colours as above

flowers, text & sentiment stamps - Magazine freebies SC&P #239

Don't forget, we now require At least one stamped element on entries. Those of you like us, who love to stamp, we would still love you to enter your fully stamped entry.

The wonderful Prizes are from Lisa Horton Crafts, coordinating embossing folder, die and stencils and two dies from Highlight Crafts

Our Sister Challenge "Allsorts" is celebrating 15 fabulous years, today. Congratulations to you all. 

They have a Fun Fold Challenge until the end of the month, I'm sure they would love you to join in and share the badge.

Yellow flowers birthday card

 Hi Everyone, my card today was for a girlfriend of one of the Nephews in the family. I had had the stamp in my magazine subscription and wanted to use it right away. I thought of a design of adding the image as a centrepiece of the card. The flowers were stamped twice and coloured. Next I stencilled a flower stencil avoiding the stamped flower, I also only went to the bottom of the stems to help "ground" the flower, although it doesn't seem it has in the photo. 

The stamped flowers were added to yellow card and attached onto the base card. I stamped the sentiment. Next, the flower heads were fussy cut and placed onto the flower image. 3 yellow gems were then added.

I forgot to take a photo of the insert, as it was a bit of a rush to send it. I stamped a flower head and added more stencilling and a verse.

stamp set - The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady

Magazine freebies SC&P #254

stencil set -  Amazon

inks - Distress Inks, squeezed lemonade, fossilised amber, mowed lawn, rustic wilderness, tumbled glass

yellow card - Lidl

gems - stash

EDIT! I was in so much of a rush I sent it a month early DUH!

 

A Celebration too, at the

Allsorts Challenge

Light Bulb birthday card.

 Hi Everyone, I have been lax in posting and comments, I'm apologising again, in between other things, I have also been ill with some sort of virus, don't know if it was Covid, but I felt quite ill. OH! Well, hopefully the year will improve from now on. As I sit here typing, the sun is out and making everything seem wonderful. At last!

My card today was for my Hubby's birthday in April, yep! I'm that far behind. Be warned, this post is picture heavy.

Anyhow, there are a few images to show you. I started off, by choosing a light bulb stamp, which was then followed by light bulb digital paper, which I changed the background colour from white to blue. I designed the card in Photoshop, I did the sentiment on the front, a little joke? In blue to match the paper. It was printed and sized for the 7inch x 10 inch card, larger than I usually make, but he is pretty special. I then printed out the light bulb paper and cut it to size. 

I stamped, coloured and die cut the bulb, placed it onto the paper and worked out where I wanted it. I then stamped the rays, the bulb paper was attached, and the bulb was 3D'd onto the main front piece under the rays, next the bottom sentiment was also 3D'd onto the lightbulb paper.  They were added to blue card and then attached to the base card, I had cut to make the card.

 

light bulb and rays stamps and die - "Sheena"  Simply Cards & Papercraft #244. Magazine freebies

light bulb dp - Digi Dewi

birthday font - School

blue card - Lidl

 

I didn't know what to  do with the insert, so, went searching for verses for hubby. I found one, that I liked and went about designing the pages in Photoshop, I used Photoshop shapes for hearts and coloured them. I wrote the verses on each page, changing the position of the hearts. They were printed out and added to the centre of the card. I'm glad to say he liked his card.