Relax birthday

Hi Everyone, my card today is for hubby's niece, whose birthday it is today, She cares for everyone in her family including her Mum. She has also taken on the role to come and help us out recently, when we have needed her. A busy but lovely lady, always smiling. I decided to make a card to remind herself to relax, as she's always on the go.

With no mojo, and little time, I went looking in my files. I found the Relaxation digital kit and went with that, as it suited her well. I designed the card in Photoshop adding her birthday date, and took the elements, papers and Phoebe into Silhouette, they were print and cut. With 2 layers of each element and image. Next, I coloured her in with Di's. 

Once I found the kit, it was pretty straight forward putting it all together. I then used more elements to add to the insert, and a verse, and that was printed out. All done with not much thinking, thankfully.

 image - Digi Stamp Boutique Phoebe Relaxing 2014

digital papers and elements -  Digital Press Relaxation Issue #80 2021

purple card - Lidl 

inks - Distress Inks 

Birthday Boys

Hi Everyone. I've been trying to make birthday cards in advance and these easy ones came together quickly for our Nephews, they don't visit here, so I'm OK to share them. I don't like to make cards the same for everyone, but things as they are at the moment I had to try to do easy, but different, although the same, if you get what I mean?

Anyhow, they were both die cut from white card and layered onto matching card. I cased the image on the package for the design, just different colours. I then went into Photoshop and looked through my files to see if I had balloons similar to the card colours. Luckily I found some, they were added to the insert design, a verse was added then both printed and inserted into the card. 

As I said nice and easy, no thinking as such, and I had 2 cards, but different for the boys birthday.

die - Crafters Companion Party Time

coloured card - Lidl

sentiment - Magazine freebie SCP 

   the coloured card version

 

the insert

 

 

 

die - Crafters Companion Party Time

metallic card - could be Papermania, it's OLD!

sentiment - Magazine freebie SCP

rose gold mirror card - The Range  

 

the metallic version 

the insert

Mid month Four Legged Friends 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 Pinky of  

Four Legged Friends

  

 

 A fun card today, based on a sketch, a change for me. I stamped the goat and the sentiment, coloured it with DI's, cut it out and inked around the edge of the goat and the card. I went looking for some paper to match, I should have chosen the paper first, but I was lucky to find some in my stash. It was cut it out, and then went looking in my Silhouette files for a border and found this one, that I cut down to fit. I cut it out of matching plainish paper, it's got little dots in it. They were all attached to the base card matching the sketch. Then I decided to add 3D gloss to the horns and eyes. A quick and quite simple card. 

sketch - Bugaboo 2015

  

stamp and sentiment - Art Impressions, Old Goat set

inks - Distress Inks, lots

paper - Craft Sensations, Happy Colours

3D gloss - Nuvo Crystal Glaze

border SVG - ZigZag ruffle border ID#11382
Loni Stevens, Silhouette Design Store

 

I hope you'll join us with your 4 legged friends. Beautiful Lavinia stamps are offered for the Winners.

 

Two prizes of Lavinia Stamps and stencil (photos not to scale). Please note, we (Lavinia) cannot provide exchanges/replacements/refunds for any products received through this third-party giveaway.

  

Cars 17th birthday card

Hi Everyone, it's my birthday today and I have my family coming for lunch, I love having all of us together.

We all live miles and hours from each other, and as all of us are older, I wonder, each time we meet, if this will be the last time we will be able to get together. With driving becoming more complex, and heavy traffic on the roads they have to travel. Thankfully, the furthest away from Lincolnshire is staying a few days. 

We have kept up a tradition, to meet at least once a year, it's usually a couple of times, as we did when my mother was alive. 

Here is a photo of us a few years ago, one other brother sadly passed. 

 

Anyhow, enough of my indulgence, here is a card you came here for, it's for a Great Nephew, on his 17th birthday, he is getting a driving licence, so I thought a car card would suit. I've had this in my files from Shirley, my blog friend, for a while and thought it would be great for him. I took it into my Silhouette files enlarged it to an 8 x 8 inch card size, and cut it out. Also added a 17, to cut and add to the centre card, as they are on racing cars. 

After cutting it all out, I coloured the top layer of cars with the same colours Shirley had, with marker pens and then glazed them. When dry, they were added onto the black layer and glued together. Both layers of each car were attached to the main card.

The road backing layer is included in the file, so I printed that out and placed it inside the front layer. I had added a birthday verse inside by double printing. After taking the photos, I added glue to the front layers, to make them sit flatter onto the paper. I also made an envelope to fit. 

car card -  Car Birthday card Shirley Young

markers - Spectrum Noir

glaze - Nuvo Crystal Glaze

 

 

 this shows the glaze effect, which I'm pleased with

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.

 

Two Watercolour cards

 Hi Everyone, another birthday in the family, it was in January, a Great Niece this time. I had an idea to try to do a watercolour effect card, not something I usually do, I always colour in the images. Anyhow, I stamped the flowers and used watercolour paper to try it out, and decided it was OK for the card. I used plenty of water with the DI's and tried to loosely colour the flowers and leaves. I die cut the paper and stamped a sentiment. Luckily, the colours I used were good for the greyish effect of the watercolour paper, which I didn't mind on the white base card. 

stamps - Stamps By Me "Made With Love"

inks - Distress Inks fossilized amber, shaded lilac, wilted violet, bundled sage

watercolour card - Crawford & Black

 

My second watercolour card was for a cousin, who rang me from the USA over Christmas and let me know that she was 90 in two weeks. A quick card was needed, so I could post it, and she had it on time, thankfully. I decided to use the same design, but in different colours, and use die cut numbers for her age, coloured in the same colours as the flowers. The long swash on the F was perfect to add the numbers, I thought. Here it is

 

inks - Distress Inks twisted citron, worn lipstick, fossilized amber, ripe persimmon

It's the same watercolour card, again I didn't mind the greyish tones of it. It all looks so different from the first card I think.

 

my first card - colorfuloptions yellow, purple, and green!

Birthday & garden

 Hi everyone, sorry I've not been around, I will try to visit asap. Anyway, I had my son's 48th birthday card to make. Being under the weather and lacking mojo, I used a freebie digital card, which was made smaller for a 6x6inch card, and cut each layer image with Silhouette. Although I did change one of the sentiments to Dear Son. It was his interests and I thought it appropriate for him. Thankfully, he thought it was good. I added another layer of the front to the left of the insert, and added a verse I found online.

Tech Lover card - CraftUPrint, Crafty Bob

Here are some garden photos unedited, so sorry for the quality of the photos. It's been a wonderful year for our flowers, the rain has certainly helped, with the lawn too. The first 4 are at the top of the garden, taken last week, the last two were taken today, with rain expected, again!

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.

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

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

Little lion

 It's LEO time and I have 2 lion cards, one a DT card in a few days. This little lion is for my Niece's grandson. The image is an old one, and I haven't used it before. I am ashamed that so many digi stamps have been left in files, not even looked at. Something I am trying to rectify.

Anyhow, I print and cut 2 layers of the lion and the circle, with 3 layers of the 3, in Silhouette and coloured him in DI's. Next I blended the edge of the circle, to match the papers I had chosen and die cut. I also printed the title of the card.  They were all then attached to the main card. I used this MFT sketch to help with the design, not followed to the letter as such.

stuffed lion digi stamp - Meljen's Designs 2014

inks - Distress Inks. wild honey, rusty hinge, carved pumpkin, scattered straw

 card - crossed stitch embossed

paper - Craft Sensations, Kids

dies - Tonic

googly eyes - stash

Silhouette

Cut It Up #283 Animals on Parade.

Cheers!

 Hi Everyone, I've been in playing mode, at last. I have a few stamps that I really have to use. This is card has some of them, using 2 sets of stamps to put these together. I stamped the main celebration image, then decided to add corners to it and decided to copy myself from this card and add the Cheers. I coloured them with DI's and dripped a big spot, that was not removable! I hate wasting what I attempt and try to do something with it. Hence, the shape of the image and corners.

Looking through some sketches to see if anything worked, I saw one that I could adapt, with a digital paper I found too, which I thought could work. I printed it and added it to red card. I cut a very narrow border then used a couple of off cuts for the banner shapes. Whew! A rescue that didn't turn out too bad.

I then went into Photoshop and designed an insert, and found a font similar to the font for "Cheers". Goodness knows where the verse came from, but I must have read it somewhere, as it popped into my head. I added a glass from my files and coloured it half full. A simple frame around the glass and sentiment, as I thought the front was busy enough and may have been overkill if I added the dp inside.

stamps - Polkadoodles,

 image - Celebration time

corners - Stamp Soup Rainbows

Distress inks - dried marigold, mermaid lagoon,candied apple,

crushed olive,tattered rose, tea dye 

digital paper - Nibble Skribbles Celebrate papers 2014 

 

 

 

Motorbiker

 Hi Everyone, well what a rush I have been in, so many things to do, however nearly at the end now and I'll be able to show, what I've been up to.

Anyhow, here is one card that had to be rushed! I had forgotten to update my calendar and had to rush and make this card for our Great Nephew. He was 3 last week, how quick time goes. 

 His Sister and he had been bought a motorbike for their combined birthdays, so I had at least an interest to make a card with. I found this dear little image in my files which has been in my files for a long time (2013).  As usual, I print and cut with my Cameo the frame and the image 3 times. I coloured him with DI's and silver ink. He was then layered and added to the frame which I had already attached to the card. 

I then stamped my envelope with the twine stamp I used for the bauble card, (previous post).

 image - Sleike Digital stamp

inks - Distress inks, salty ocean, squeezed lemonade, candied apple

silver ink - Kuretake

frame - JanniScrap Designs

twine stamps - Altenew

 

 This is the front with the envelope

 

This is a close up of the front where you can see 

the sheen of the silver ink where the chrome should be

  

 

 this is the insert, that I put together ion Photoshop and printed

I hope you are all dry and warm with this awful weather we are having, rain, rain and more rain. There we were worried that our reservoirs were too low, and people were worried about the drought, now we deal with flooding! Ah! The good old British weather ay? Have a great week.

Vase of flowers

 Hi Everyone, a post from me today that isn't scheduled weeks or months in advance. I'm hoping after what's been happening in my life, I can now get back to normal!

Anyhow, my SiL was due a birthday and with my mojo missing and still not feeling 100%, my card today is cased from the brilliant Loll Thompson, from here. I knew my SiL would like the flower in the vase, as she is a remarkable flower arranger and loves to have flowers in a vase around the house.

I was gifted some wonderful vases stamps from my blog friend Hetty some time ago, and used the round one, which I stamped and coloured with DI's. One of my dies was used to cut the leaves, and I used the die negative to stencil the leaves onto the card with DO's. I die cut the border and attached it to the card, placing the leaves and vase together onto the border die cut. A sentiment was then stamped and the whole layer was 3D'd onto the main card. I found a lovely sentiment stamp for the insert and off it went, luckily my SiL liked it.

vase - Michael Strong stamp

leaves die- no label 

flower die - Tattered Lace

border die - Magazine freebie

inks - Distress Oxide and Inks - spiced marmalade, mustard seed

red marker colour for flower - Spectrum Noir Markers

glaze on vase and flowers - Nuvo Crystal Glaze

birthday stamp - Magazine freebie

Butterfly Wishes

 Hi Everyone, I hope everyone is getting used to the cold? Have you got your heating on?

Apart from DT cards which set me into thinking mode, me and mojo have departed company months ago. My card today, is for my sweet Great, Great Niece who is 5. I heard she loves fairies, so I did a search in my files for fairies and found this card I had made in 2011. It was perfect for me at this time, because of my departed mojo. I decided to remake it, but using my Cameo to cut the images out, it was originally fussy cut, the flowers were also cut and layered, not done last time. I added sparkle and it was done. The printed image and computer generated greeting was added to a yellow card background. Easy, no thinking and in my mind set, no thinking. Not cheating, just a different way of making it, it's still handmade and took time to get it together. I hope you like it. As I hope she will.

showing the sparkle and layering