Happy & Bright TMR

Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for 

I was stumped big time with the mixed media, but after looking online for ideas, I came to the conclusion that it was just using different things to make a card. Please correct me if I am wrong.

I had a few male birthdays, well 7, out of a total of 11 birthdays in March. I decided to do 2 similar, but, I didn't know where to start. Going through the many paper pads I have, I found bright papers, suitable for the male species. These were die cut for a landscape 5 x 7inch card.

Then my Silhouette came out to cut this layered happy birthday, in matching colours for each paper. Starting with the light blue background, then the black layer, the purple Happy was next, then the black and green for the birthday. I coloured all the additional letters cut in white card, for layering, in colours to match the papers. 

 

The Happy letter cut out, was used as a "stencil" to add a glass bead paste layer onto the Happy letters. The birthday letters were covered in 3D glaze, after I had attached them to the birthday layer. Just one thing, t looks like the B and the R are both red, nope, the B is red, the R is orange. It must be the light.

I then stamped a sentiment and die cut it, adding it to the finished card.

my mixed media, contains

die cut, stamping, stencil, glazing

 

paper -  Craft Sensations 

Happy Birthday - My Scrap Chick

die - Card Making Magic 5 x 7 Card & box set

Silhouette Cameo 2

layered card & paper - Lidl

white card - Crafters Companion

glass beads paste - Winsor & Newton

3D glaze - Nuvo Crystal glaze

birthday stamp & die - Julie Hickey Birthday Sentiment stamp set

I love the bead effect, I saw it originally on a Christmas tree on Loll's blog here. Not the same brand, though, hers looks finer and more even.

 

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

Something different!

 Hi Everyone, are you still enjoying the heat? I think it will help us go into cooler temperatures and Autumn easier, we’ll be glad of cooler temperatures? I've decided to stay in a cooler zone, my North facing craft room.

Anyhow, a win prompted my card today, Leslie at Love to Scrap, offered some digital images by My Scrapchick and I was lucky enough to win them. It's only now I have been able to use one. I love the colours and the quirky images. I decided to fussy cut, ugh!, I was so brave, the large flower, the yellow leaf and 2 of the small "lemon" flower with their stems and leaves. Then decided to stamp some quirky stamps I have in random areas.  Next, I added a sentiment to the lemon flower. The flowers, and leaves were layered with 3D pads. 

 

I don't think I have added stamps, apart from sentiments, to digital backgrounds before, but thought the stamps suited it. They were all layered onto black card and attached to the base card.

image - My Scrapchick

stamps - Polkadoodles

 

Cat loss card

 Hi Everyone, I had a call recently from one of my Sisters in Law who, through tears, told me they had to put their cat down to her illness and old age. She was a stray and was found full of fleas and sores, my brother and she, took her in, and saw she had a wonderful life of many more years.

This is the card I made for them. I used my Silhouette to cut the heart frame, and used Photoshop to make the centre. I used a photo they had sent me, of Chloe, on my brother's lap, using the same blue as his trousers, to make her stand out in the circle shape I used.

heart frame - My Scrap Chick

circle die - Tonic

For the insert, I found a couple of verses on the web and adapted them to suit. I used the same photo on the left of the page. 

verses - CraftsUprint

Hubby's 80th Birthday

 Hi Everyone, it was my dear hubby's 80th birthday on the 20th, so this is a picture heavy post with a few piccies of our day out included.

 

I went all out and decided on making a many layer box card, after seeing it on the MSC blog. I changed the colour mix, to make it more masculine. 

 

After taking all the pieces into my Silhouette, I made them larger, making the card approx. 215mm x 155mm (8.5in x 6in) and cut from the red, white, black, gold, and gold holographic card. They were cut and then layered. 

Birthday slice card  - My Scrap Chick

card - The Range

Silhouette die cutting machine

 

side view

 

That wasn't enough, I decided to make another, so that I could have a lovely verse inside.

 

I die cut a car, coloured with markers and then embossed it all over with clear embossing powder. I printed off the sentiment and stencilled it, with a stencil I cut myself on the Silhouette Die cutting machine. After inking it, I layered it onto green card and adhered it to the main card, with the car placed centre. The layer looks off kilter, but it's probably because of my straightening of it in Photoshop. I didn't notice until I looked at it here. Silly me.

I printed out a sloppy verse inside, (he deserves one.) It's green, because he loves the "Racing Green" that used to be on the old cars. The light has given it different green areas, it's the same colour all over. 

 car - Sweet Dixie Die

markers - Spectrum Noir

embossing powder - Papermania

silver gel pen - Uniball

stencil - Tanya Beatrak ID #63771 Silhouette Design Store

ink - Distress Oxide, lost shadow

Silhouette

 

I then went into my Silhouette again and cut out his name and age, from the same alphabet I used here by Extraordinary Chaos. Before I went to bed, I stuck them to the window, so that when he opened the curtains he could see them. I coloured them with Distress Oxides, not as precisely as it could have been, but it was a last minute thought, so quick colouring. It's 12 x 12 inches

 

 

you can see them in reverse in the window.

here's how they looked from outside, shame about the reflection.

Hubby isn't one for fuss, although he deserves it, and all he wanted was to go out for a run in the car. He decided on West Wales, so off we toddle and first visit was St Davids Cathedral, a beautiful place to visit, we have been there several times, so our Pilgrimage has been completed over and over. AND, it was a glorious day, even though the wind was chilly. We drove through gorgeous countryside, seeing lots of Ewes with their lambs, cows, and horses in the fields. Everything is so very neat, with everyone having freshly painted outside their white or coloured houses. Also gardens so well looked after. A very beautiful part of Wales.

On our way, one of my favourite views from the car approaching Newgale beach

 

  

St David's the approach from the car park.

 

 

This is part of a sign inside the Cathedral about the Pilgrimage.

 Strumble Head Lighthouse,

 it doesn't look like it, but it's on its own island. A new place for us.

  

 

 

 

 In Fishguard we saw Cockle Pickers. 

Don't know what cockles are? here's a link, that may interest you.

 sorry this is out of focus, but they were a long way out in the bay.

 

 

I hope this wasn't too long a visit for you, but you enjoyed a little of our day.

Spaceman

 Hi Everyone, I hope you're all up to date with Christmas preparations? Am I - Nope! We'll get there won't we as we usually do.

The weather was so awful last night, I hope you were all safe, we felt like we were trying to sleep in the middle of an airport runway, it really was so bad. Luckily no damage around here. We have sun and very cold temperatures, with the wind still quite high, making it feel colder.

Anyhow, here is my card for today, it was for my GGNephew who was 2 last week. He really is a little darling, although, as they live 6 hours away, we still haven't met him, with Covid etc, except by WhatsApp. 

 I didn't know what to do, so I went through my files, as I usually do and found these beautiful images. All into my die cutting machine to cut out, I glued all layers of the images together, as I had cut at least 2 of each, the spaceman I had reversed one image so that he could be seen from the back of the card too. I then added clear glaze to his helmet, the spaceship and the eyes of the earth. I hung the spaceship on acetate so it was "flying! the spaceman was on 3D stickers so he looked off the page also. The stars were then added to the navy coloured card background. I have to say I was pleased with the end result. 

Spaceman images - CreativeFabrica  

this is an affiliate link, no charge to you, but 

these images and others in the kit are $0.50 today only

card rocker base cut design - My ScrapChick 

sentiment - web

glaze - Nuvo Crystal Glaze

Silhouette Cameo

this is the handsome little chap taken at his Nursery

I need to thank you all for your visits, I really love to see your comments and appreciate them all a great deal. Have a great weekend.

80th birthday

 Hi Everyone, some more of why I have been so busy. Our very long time friend had his birthday last week and I made the Thermometer card  for him. We don't buy presents for each other, but this calls for a celebration methinks, so we bought some Champagne for him to celebrate. I couldn't give it to him as it was and in the morning of us going to his Tea Party, I realised I hadn't got any bottle bags. Off to Silhouette again, (told you in my last post I had been busy with it).

I cut the bottle top with gold card, then added the bottle image with his name and age and greeting. I then printed it out and cut it with the Silhouette. Attached to the gold bottle topper.

bottle tag design - My Scrap Chick

bottle image - Jiovanna's Creations - Digital Scrapbooking Pixelscrapper

gold glitter - Tonic

gold glitter added to the bottle tag image

bottle cover 

I made the bottle cover on my scoreboard by following the instructions HERE.

 I lengthened and made the width larger of the design to fit the bottle. I also added 2 die cut circles to the bottom one outside and one inside, to help with the weight of the bottle.

bottle cover design - Kirstens Blog

card - Craft Sensations

ribbon stash

The Paper Shelter Going Digital

bottle is a digital image

25th Anniversary and Champagne

 Hi Everyone, an apology due from me for being awol visiting you all. I have been very busy and had a visitor, making time non existent for me. I won't be able to catch up, but I will have a looky to see what I've missed. So sorry.

Anyhow on to what I have been doing in my "spare" time. We had a visit from my niece she saw the bottle tag I made (I'll show you in my next post)  and asked if I could make 10 for a party she was throwing for her friend and husband. Then it was "I wonder if you could do table place names", then "OH! could you do a few tags for parting gifts!"  "Do you have time to make me a card?" Of course I said yes and happy to do it for her. 

The card to start with, I had a paper pad with silver and white paper, after being die cut, it was placed onto white and silver card which had also been die cut. I die cut a 2 corner pieces and die cut them again with a doily design shape. More die cutting with hearts and champagne glass shapes. I had placed the photo into Silhouette and cut around it with another heart that was used as a base. 

patterned paper - Craft Sensations

square dies - Sue Wilson Noble dies

doily kind of shape - Creative Expressions

patterned heart shape die - magazine freebie

champagne die - Creative Dies magazine freebie

ribbon - stash

Then it was out with the Silhouette and off to go, it has been used so often this last week. 

the tag

simple cutting and drawing on the Silhouette,

with a strip of of double sided tape and silver glitter

glitter - Tonic

place name card design - by Bird

 I added the 25 into the top design, then covered it with a 25 and hearts in silver card, I also added silver pen to the initial of each card.

 

bottle tag

I took a champagne bottle image and placed it in Silhouette to print and cut. Before cutting, I added a photo of the couple and their names and anniversary. It was then cut and attached to the bottle tag.

bottle tag design - My Scrap Chick

bottle image - Jiovanna's Creations - Digital Scrapbooking Pixelscrapper

silver glitter - Tonic

the way the bottle image sits on the bottle.

 It sits better on a champagne bottle it's made for, but I didn't have any champagne handy to demonstrate! 😉

Sewing PopUp card

 Hi Everyone, after a busy week I have time to do a post. This was for my youngest SiL, who is a marvellous sewer, so much so, she has been to Paris, yes in France! to have a lesson on a couture jacket and how it's made. Anyhow, because it was her birthday, I decided to do something different for her. It's a cut file that I put together with papers from my stash. I was lucky to find a piece of the sewing paper and just enough of it to make this box, I may even have enough (just) to make it for hubby's Sister, also a sewer, who's birthday is in November. After cutting it all out on my digital cutting machine, I drew the lines on the leaves and added gems to the flowers. It was fiddly, but the effect when finished is quite impressive, (I hope you think so too?) It folds flat for postage. I'm glad to say she was thrilled with it.

cut file - My Scrap Chick, Sewing PopUp

check & sewing paper - Craft Sensations

plain cards - Lidl

gold mirror card - The Range

I thought it was more like a gift than a card, so I made a quick digital card for her also.

image - Create & Craft TV download

I added a piece of gold thread to add a little interest.

Well that's all from me at the moment, we still have our family problems, but who hasn't at this time. Everyone I talk to has some sort of problem. I hope you're not one of them. Take care.

Penguin fun

 Hi Everyone, I hope you are all well. A quickie post just to show you my penguin makes. I love, love these fun little gifts, so easy to make and fun to receive, I know, as one of my brothers and his wife have had a couple of already.

They are quick and easy to make with my Silhouette and I love doing something like this for Christmas and even as little gifts in the year too, OK! not as penguins, but you know what I mean. You could even fussy cut these, with perhaps a die for the hole. There is a pdf file included template for them. Anyhow, here they are.

penguin - My Scrap Chick

Cameo 2

card - Lidl

ribbons - stash

We need something to cheer us up, as we are into tier 4 lockdown on the 28th. Our main hospital is at crisis point. Wales as a whole isn't doing good with this virus. We are being so careful, only going out for food supplies and they last as long as possible, usually at least 2 weeks. Thank goodness for my Mum who had learned, in bad times, how to make something out of nothing and taught me.

Poinsettia box card

 Hi Everyone, I hope your all ready for the Christmas festivities? Me? just a couple of stocking fillers for hubby! and food of course. At least it won't be a huge amount as there are only the three of us and with Covid quite high around here, no visitors this year. Thankfully we are fit and well, I hope it stays that way, we are being very careful. I don't know how far down the list we are for the vaccine.

Anyhow, I saw this box card and had to try it, I'm thrilled to bits how it turned out. I'm so glad to have this hobby where I can flit from one way of making things to another. Can't get bored then LOL. Here it is.

card box - My Scrap Chick

cut with Silhouette Cameo

red card - pearl Centura card, Crafters COmpanion

green & orange card- Lidl

kraft card - The Works

Distress inks for edging details

stamp - magazine freebie

patterned paper - First Edition

gold peel offs top and bottom of the box edges

(I knew I would use them again!)

This is it sideways on, the greeting goes onto the back layer

this is it folded flat for postage

TMR #144 Toys

Hi Everyone our challenge today is for

Great subject I thought and went for my Silhouette! I have my GG Nephew's 1st birthday coming up, so this challenge was perfect timing. I made a mistake by adding the "C" a little lower than it should be, I had added it before putting it into the box, it's really stuck, so it shall have to remain as is. I added sparkle pen to zhuzh it up a little. I'm thrilled with it. I followed all the colours of the original design.

Toy box Design - My Scrap Chick

card - Lidl

name and one is my design

all cut with my digital die cutter

 embossed with wood EF - Crafters Companion