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