Engine

Hi Everyone, a card today I have done for my eldest Brother who was a Fireman on the old Great Western Railway in the Age of Steam! He told me it was his SPECIAL birthday, I said "that was last year, when you were 80", he said "NO! everyone is special, as I will have reached it by dodging the Grim Reaper" LOL.

I have used the Outlawz sketch of this week, which I turned

The Engine Joanna Sheen Signature Die

Unibal gold glitter pen on embossed lines

Buttons First Edition Die
 Brother was cut on the Cameo

black ribbon used for both.

DP's Karen Lewis Designz 

Rail track Hugware, no longer available

Green card Tonic

Add ribbon challenge

Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for

http://www.artstampsstore.com/

the challenge this week is

 Add Ribbon

My card was one of those cards, where you say "where do I start", but it all came together in a short time and I am pleased with the overall effect. I will be giving it to Hubby for our Anniversary, hope I don't forget I have it, in June LOL. Anyhow here is the card.

Image Border 2 by Morgan Fitzsimons coloured digitally

sentiment and love circle Create with TLC with 

overlaid colour to match the rest of the card.

newspaper image, grunge layers over background,

and glitter hearts Pixelscrapper

dark brown circle corner is PS shape with the grunge overlay

Roses and heart are on 3D dimensionals.

                   corner ribbon knot

 

Shaped card

My card today is a shaped card, after I decided to upgrade to Designer Edition on my Cameo, I had so many SVG files that I had to really play with, between programs I had, to open in Silhouette, so when I saw it was on offer, no option I HAD to do it. I paid £21.77 with £6.77 into my store credit. BARGAIN Ay? This is one of the files I haven't been able to open. 

The card file and envelope is from Lettering Delights, I have had it for a couple of years, at least, and never used any of the shapes in the file. 

A recent freebie on Create with TLC was this beautiful image.

I coloured her with ordinary coloured pencils

I didn't want to add too much colour.

 I am pleased with how it's finished up.

The sentiment is also Create with TLC

coloured around the edge with a colour pencil

I cut both out with Tonic dies

the embossed background was done

 with Embossalicious folder onto 

Shimmer card by Jellybeancrafts

Horse rider card

Hi Everyone, my card today is for the Outlawz Sketch challenge, I had a card to make for one of my Nieces, I always make her a card with a horse on it as she is a fanatic horse lover. She does Dressage, so thought this rider would be good for her.

Cut file by Pauline at Create with TLC 

cut on my Cameo, and 3D layered onto the card with the

large horseshoe, don't who this is by, it's an OLD file,

3D gloss added to it. 

DP's Retrodiva Designs, not sure if she is still around.

the horseshoe border was made with the same horseshoe

duplicated and laid onto the paper 

the centre flower image is by Meljens Designs who is no longer open.

I coloured a few flowers with Spectrum Noir pens.

here is the sketch, which I turned

I thought I would share with you the daffodils coming in the garden,
we'll have flowers before long. I just noticed, hubby has planted the new bulbs this year in a line, ah! well, they are blooming, that's what matters.

STAMPED card!

Hi Everyone, here is a card I made with a stamp set sent to me by my blog friend Hetty,  she does the most amazing work with her stamps and I always admire them, she sent me a couple of vase stamps, now you know I am not a stamper, but, as she had been so generous, I was honour bound to use them. I had told her I didn't know what to do and she said "mix your digital and stamp."

That is what I have done and am I pleased? Oh! YES! I am so thrilled with the end result, I even added a zig pen glue and added embossing powder to it, to get the result on the digital flowers.

Stamp Michael Strong

digital image and DP's Studio Flergs 

I followed the sketch stamplorations challenge sketch47 june2016

ribbon from stash

gold mirror card

I measured the stamp and made the flowers the correct size in PS, then printed the image to stamp over, I had forgotten that stamping doesn't cover the image as it would have done with a digital image, so using the printed image and the stamp, I edited the flower and printed it again, lightening the background (which I preferred). I stamped again to make it look like the digi image was coming out of the vase. I'm really pleased with the result and will definitely use the stamp set again, I had forgotten the beautiful effect of a stamped and embossed image.  

Thank you Hetty.

Insert before printing

Use Washi tape The Male Room

Hi Everyone, the challenge at

 

now that made things a little difficult for me, I had one roll, I had used the other couple, I bought, in holding my dies to be cut! Well - it has been said that washi didn't stick to paper as much as other sticky tapes! - it does! so I found out, I took care when sticking my dies to card, just to use it up, THEN this challenge came along and I had a small amount on one roll left! What the heck was I to do? Look up my sketches and see what had one line across that I could use with the washi, Yipee! I found one.

image Deedee's Digis sadly no longer available

sentiment my own

fish Hugware again no longer available - sorry.

everything saved to the Cameo and cut out with an offset border.

added 3D gloss to his nose and eyes and glitter glue to the water.

Bath Congratulations

Hi Everyone, my card is one I sent to my Great Niece on her Wedding Day, last October, I saw a card on the web similar, looking for ideas, but haven't got a link sorry, as it one of 3 I liked. There is another Bridesmaid card I haven't posted too, maybe in another couple or so of days. Catching up on a few that I would like to share.

the image is from Paulette at Create with TLC 

the image was coloured to match the card, in PS

dies are Tattered Lace

I cut the Congratulations 4 times to add weight.

the border was cut once from gold and once from Kraft,

with the gold being the "shadow"

I layered the image onto gold card

cut a narrow strip of gold 

added a dimensional to hold the strip 

and placed 2 gems on the end

this allowed the towelling to hold,

name strips were done in PS

2 hearts were placed in the bottom corners, of Kraft card.