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.

Feminine 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 Feminine.

 

I saw a colour combination, that had me wanting to use it, so here it is. I had a looky through my stamps for something feminine, what's more feminine than flowers? So I included them, in the design that I thought would be better on a DL card. 

Next, I blended the colours with DO's on a piece of card to layer on the base card. The sentiments were then stamped, I decided to make the shine sentiment be white with sparkle, but it ruined the clarity. I stamped it again with Stazon on top of the white glitter, it worked, giving the black a glow outside the letters. A save, thankfully.

I stamped the bulbs and flowers, then fussy cut them out ugh! (you know I hate fussy cutting). I coloured them in matching DI's. They were added to the blended card and I drew a line to "hang" them onto the white sentiment.

I was colouring the stamps, when I accidentally dropped water onto the background, so I just added more.

stamps - Sheena

 inks - Distress Oxide, pine needles, lucky clover, twisted citron, squeezed lemonade

 

 

 

This months lovely prizes are from 

Lavinia stamps two prizes: 1)Small Pines, Christmas Joy and Eve, 2) Fairy Chain

 

 

Don't forget, we will 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.

A Greeting

Hi Everyone, today my card is for the Outlawz sketch challenge. One I like to participate in as it's always a challenge to use the sketches.

This time I used a sentiment instead of an image, quite a change for me. I stamped it in black, but it was too stark, so stamped it with the aid of my stamping platform a few times in pink on top of the black, I think it worked?

Anyhow, this is my card.

paper - Craft Sensations paper pad.

pearls - stash

cut file circle- Birds Cards

sentiment - stamp free from magazine

 around the background edge - Sheena Douglas sparkle pens

die - Sue Wilson square pin dot 

pearls - stash

white pearl card - Crafters Companion.

sketch used

Dream Big

Hi Everyone, my post today takes in a few challenges, that I like to participate in.
So straight onto the card, it HAD to be a red dragon, I can't think of a dragon being any other colour, as I've said before, as it's on our flag LOL.

Image and papers - Dragons Lair Designs

coloured in PS, 

with Sheena Douglas Sparkle pens over the dragon, I forgot they aren't "see through" straight onto paper, so I wasted all my time colouring oh! well.

 I print and cut, on the Cameo, the sentiment shape, 2 layers of buttons, centre and scalloped shape layer.

leaves - Tonic Arboreal Dream die set 

Outlawz sketch challenge

Dragons Lair Colouring challenge 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/636646656454888/

http://stampingdragondesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/dragons-lair-designs-monthly-challenge.html

http://colorthrowdown.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/color-throwdown-countdown-487.html Not sure if I will comply with the rules as I only hand coloured the dragon?

More daffodils

Hi Everyone, a thank you card today, using the beautiful kit I was given for my birthday by Hetty  I followed the "case my sketch" sketch CTS #90, as I'm not a CAS styler user usually. but I wanted to show this lovely image off. I made the shape and did a yellow "sponged edge", then coloured the daffodil digi stamp from the kit, in PS. I duplicated the daffodils and sent them to my Cameo to cut, I  then added Sheena Douglas sparkle pens. I hope the recipient liked it. she should have had it by now.

The sentiment I have had for an age, sorry don't know where it comes from.

Big Birthday Wishes

Hi Everyone I won't have a chance until Tuesday, (the reason in my next post!) to do anything on my blog, so thought I would add this today, late in the day, but at least I have done it. Sorry this is a rushed one as we have had visitors nealy all day and I have lots to catch up on tonight.

image - Whoopsiedaisy Designs for the freebie FB challenge

dp's - paper templates by Marisa Lerin at Pixelscrapper

the darker yellow was done with Sheena Douglas sparkle pens

sketch Outlawz sketch challenge

colours used below

Alphabet Angel

Hi Everyone, today's card was for a friend of mine, who rang to remind me it was her birthday and she wanted an angel on her card. She rings me every year to remind me. She knows me too well methinks. LOL

image "An Angels Alphabet" - Hugware

sadly no longer available, it's a watercolor image so it's not too sharp.

I used the "S" angel for my friends name.

background die  - Sheena Douglas

butterfly and flower dies magazine freebies - Simply Cards & Papercraft #173

card - Dovecraft

I added Versamark and clear embossing to her to add shine, 

then some glitter glue to her wings 

Hoot Hoot

Hi Everyone, one of my old workmates and lunch pals is 80 this week and this is the card I did for her, she is a fanatical owl collector of anything and everything, so it HAD to be an owl card.

The pattern was a freebie from Papercrafts Magazine, I added it into the Silhouette Cameo design area and made a cut file from it. The card is a 7x5 size (7inches tall), I LOVE LOVE how the eyelashes cut. I added faux stitching, again with the Cameo. I added "real" paper from a pad by Craft Sensations, then added glitter with my new Sheena Douglas Sparkle Pens.

The sentiment was done on the computer and added to a free owl die, again a freebie from a magazine. A ribbon bow, cut and write the insert with the Silhouette pens, using an owl digital doodle stamp by ECoombs at Pixel & Co, and it was done, I cut a slice from the back layer to help it stand straight. I hope she liked it. 

Another Lily

Hi Everyone, another card I made while my 'puter was poorly.

I used the Lily die by Sheena Douglas. This time I used water colour pencils to colour it and added it to the Scruffy Little Cat embossing folder background, I then added random "pearls" with my Perlen Pen.  I added strip of the background card to the front and curled a very fine strip of the card to go behind the flower. Another CAS card I suppose.

Lily die

Hi Everyone, I bought this Sheena Douglas Lily die a little while ago in the Cardiff Craft Show, I didn't know what I was going to do with it, you know what it's like, the "gotta have it" thingy! I was fascinated by the effects they were doing at the show with the dies. I haven't got a great deal of "stuff" to play with, but I did have some metallic rub ons I have had for more years than I care to remember and have hardly used them. This seemed the ideal thing to try them out on, so I embossed some black card, cut out the dies from the same card and let myself go with the metallic effects. I used different colours on the flower and then added a couple of different ones on the embossing. I am thrilled with the effect. I haven't added a sentiment, not sure yet what it will be.