70th foiling

Hi Everyone, my card today is for an old work colleague, she always insists I send her "angel" cards, so for her 70th birthday I chose this image, I thought it so pretty and perfect for her. I print and cut the image and coloured it in DI's, also print and cut the lilac paper with a rounded bottom, maybe I was thinking of our behinds in lockdown ahem! I then added foil for the sentiment. I used a punch again! 😄 for the stars. I also added a foil line around the lilac paper. A little pink card to brighten it and it was done, sounds so simple when I say it like that!

They're promising LOTS of rain for us this weekend, up to 100mm, that's nearly 4 inches, I hope their wrong,  I think it will have to be a crafty day, aw! what a shame hahaha. Keep warm if your covered in snow, dry in the rain and safe from Covid.

image - Elizabeth Dulemba

paper - Tiny Twinkles, The Lovely Studio (used to be Pink Petticoat)

Distress inks

pink card - Lidl

Silhouette Cameo

WRMK foil pens and foil

this shows how the foiling shines.

 

18th Birthday with foil

Hi Everyone, I hope your coping with lockdown especially with the news we have to go on for a few weeks more! Thankfully, I am busy, as I expect you are too, cleaning and clearing and crafting. Although I have also succumbed to adding a few more craftiness to my hoad! I hope I will use them soon, not for them to go into my NBUS, as Darnell says. LOL.

One of my GNieces was 18 recently and this is the card I made her, I found this image in my stash and as it looks a little like her, I added it to the flower frame and borders I also have and love. I designed it in Photoshop, transferred it to the Cameo added lines for the foil quill to make foiling lines on some of the flowers and the frame, then cut out each section. 

I dry embossed a piece of card, then added the pieces to the card, and placed it all 3D'd onto an A4 card. I'm was happy to hear she loved it.  

Image - Design Bundles

flowers - Creativefabrica

foiling - WRMK foil pen

Silhouette Cameo 2

EF - Craftwell Modern Stripe

you can see some of the foiling here,

 it is also on her earings, rings and bag!

Pop up elephant?

Hi Everyone, Well what a world we are in at the moment, one of my nieces is a podiatrist and has just rung me so very worried about her business and her livelihood. There are many people in business that are or will be affected by this virus. Such worries for every business - except the toilet roll industry whose products are getting very hard to buy and last Friday were the only shelves empty in our local supermarket. Well! I had to find a little humour? in all the bad news.

Onto why you are here. I was asked by my neighbour if I would make a card for her Great Grandson for his first birthday, however he was being Christened on the same day and she wanted to add a photo to the card and didn't want it religious.

After lots of talks and her coming in to choose the elephant she wanted, out of the quite a "few" I have in my files, she chose this one, which actually turned out the best she could have chosen, as it has an svg cut file to use with my Cameo.

Anyhow, I put it all together in Photoshop, then instead of printing it out as I would normally, I transferred the picture to the Cameo and made shapes to match. I also used print and cut trees, as they were so pretty. On the blue card background I used the foil pen and had Cameo to write the sentiments in silver foil. Cutting the elephant out was quite easy, but I had to add a photo on it too. I had recently seen this tutorial by Verity Biddlecombe and thought I would try it on the elephant. I'm thrilled to say it worked and my neighbour was thrilled with the card.

elephant - Miss Kate Cuttables
card - The Works

WRMK Foil Pen

trees - Creativefabrica

bunting paper - Craft Sensations

 this is where the photo will be added

this is the insert

20th and 21st

Hi Everyone, two (or even 3 LOL) cards for the price of one today. I saw a card from Vicky's blog and thought, ah! a nice quick and easy card for me to copy for for two G-Nephews, who don't know each other. Well I can only admire Vicky for her card as I didn't find it easy at all!

Here is my first attempt, I'm not happy with these, they were printed and stars left over from Christmas makes added, with Nuvo drops.

I had another go and these were the results. 

I used  my WRMK foil pen with Silhouette after printing them. Then added stamped beer glasses, a magazine freebie, coloured with watercolour pencils. I'm still not sure about the cards, but they are the ones I sent. (I forgot to take a photo of the 20th card!) I think maybe I'm not a CAS card maker, I always want to add something else. Oh! Well. Thanks for the inspiration Clare.

a closeup of the foiling

Owl Congratulations

Hi Everyone,  my card today is one I made for my GNephew, who did really well in his exams. I had this image as a freebie and decided to use it for his card, you know "wise owl".

Anyhow, this image for made for the Foil Quill in mind, so that is what I used.

I had the Cameo to draw the image with the gold foil and at the same time draw the congratulations sentiment too. Then, had the Silhouette pen to outline the foiled text. The Cameo cut the frame of the owl at the same time as the outer gold layer card. I copied the size of  the centre of the owls eyes and made a circle to add to the owls eyes out of the gold card. I added it to the red card flat, as it had to be posted. The black and gold paper is glued to the base card.

Owl image - Printable Cuttable Creatables

Foil Quill - large pen

gold mirror card - stash

red textured card - Dovecraft

paper background - Modern Deco - Dovecraft

I had to take the sunset on 21st August, I always like sunsets, they are so beautiful and as our bungalow faces West we are lucky to see them from our home over the mountain.

This was the first on I took

then the colour intensified and spread a little further, so a closeup was called for!

http://outlawzchallenges.ning.com/group/friday-color/forum/topics/festive-friday-s-challenge-august-23-2019-through-september-5-201

Magpie stamping

Hi Everyone, more stamping from me, I may get to like it LOL. In fact this is my first go at masking a stamp, I'm thrilled it worked, not as good as you lovely stampers, but it's a start.

A story about the magpie first, I think it has a bad press, only because we have had a family of magpies for the last few years, they are wonderful parents, this year there are 3 chicks and the parents visit every day with the chicks, they teach them how to feed, how to take water and how to bathe in the bird baths we have.

What I didn't know and only recently found out was that, (this is from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) "They fledge after 26 to 30 days, and are fed by the parents for a further four weeks after leaving the nest. The young birds stay in the parents' territory until September or October, when they form loose flocks, feeding and roosting together."

They have a fluorescent black & blue wings and tail and shine in the sunlight, I tried to copy that shine with a little clear sparkle pen, shame you can't see it.
Here is one of the chicks today, the others flew away as I went to take the photo, as always!

OK! I'm boring you now, onto my card, I hope it's CAS enough.

I saw a challenge that I have admired a long time and didn't do stamping to join in, well I have stamped today, so I am joining in! Here's my card -

stamps - magazine freebie

coloured with Nuvo water colour pencils

Clear sparkle pen - Spectrum Noir

die - Tattered Lace

background sentiment - using WRMK Quill pen and

 silver foil with Silhouette Cameo.

Uniball white pen for highlights on birds

I am entering the 

https://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.com/2019/07/freshly-made-sketches-398-sketch-by.html

http://abitmoretimetocraft.blogspot.com/2019/07/a-bit-more-time-to-craft-challenge-96.html

https://crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/07/223.html

https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/07/miucb-27-anything-goes-foiling.html

90th birthdays

Hi Everyone, instead of spreading these cards out, I decided to blog them all, as I had made them for 3 90th birthdays within days.

This is made from a Hunkydory kit

the centres are 3D layered

90 was made with magazine freebie dies

ribbon - stash

 I  used the WRMK foil pens and silver foil, for the sentiments and square border

cut with the Silhouette Cameo

card - Hunkydory Springtime card block

Nuvo drops for corners

bow - Lil'inker

button - First Edition die

ribbon - stash

This card was meant to be the same as the previous, but went wrong for some reason, thought I could still use it, waste not want not???

I think it worked OK.

WRMK foil pens and gold foil for the sentiment and borders

paper pad - B&M

blue card - stash

gems - stash

bow - Lil'inker

twine - stash