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 | This is a “OMG, its such-and-such tomorrow” last minute card from earlier in the year that I don’t seem to have posted. Its for a second wedding anniversary, for which a quick internet search told me ‘paper’ & ‘Lily Of The Valley’ was appropriate. I used a well worn sketch and added some lace and twine to try and appeal to both sexes… I also wrote a note on the inside to explain the image… :) |
Back in August, I posted these cards which were both on the theme of stripes of faux washi tape and I promised to revisit the idea… and this is the result:
I actually made a set of four, the backgrounds were fairly similar but I changed the sentiments and the ‘topper’ element using a couple of SJ’s girls and Pollycraft images:
I made the stripes up in Photoshop utilising papers from my digi stash and printing four to one sheet of Neenah Solar White card before trimming it to fit an A6 card.
The current challenge over on A Blog Named Hero is called Second Chances, the gist of which is they want you to revisit an old project and update it. I took inspiration from this card, which was created earlier this year for a work colleague:
I really love it and I should really revisit it more often but the revamp turned out like this, a requested card for an extended family member:
There are a few elements of it that niggle me but as my classmate likes to say “it adds to the charm” of the handmade card!
The challenge closes tomorrow, November 22nd, at 5pm EST.
My sweet little deer card wasn’t good enough for Nanny, she wanted something “…bigger”! Well this card is probably actually smaller but she seemed to like it (she’s not a fan of CAS in all truth):
I don’t know where I saw this idea but thanks to the wonders of watermarks, I can see it was originally from this blog post. Cute, huh?
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I love this Forest Friends set from Stampin’ Up and it seemed to fit with the “sweet baby” sentiment from the new Bitty Banners set in the 2012-2013 Catalogue which is out today…
To celebrate the birth of my ninth niece/nephew, if you’re interested…
Just a quick post to show the card I just finished for my colleague who is an avid crown green bowler. I’m really pleased with how it turned out and glad my gutter brained colleagues couldn’t come up with a smuttier sentiment:
Its a stepper card so I made smaller bowls for the background to try and create perspective:
Bowl-rilliant!
 | Kristina Werner set herself the challenge of using only the items on her desk and made this lovely washi tape card (left). |
| Well, I don’t make as many cards as she does so my desk is pretty empty but I did like the diagonal washi tape idea so I had a go for myself (right) Its only diddy and its a lot more pink that the image suggests but as my washi tape was a free gift, I didn’t have a lot of choice over the colourscheme! |  |
I am pretty ingenious, even if I do say so myself.
Its my parents wedding anniversary tomorrow. I’ve moaned, whined and complained often enough that they just about know better than to bring a shop bought card into the house, so of course they both asked me to produce a card for the other… which got my brain whirring – could I create two cards that would somehow coordinate with each other? Of course I could!
My dad is an avid jigsaw… um, putter-togetherer and when he has one on the go, we generally all end up having a go so the theme of jigsaw pieces became my starting point:
“To my puzzling husband” – you can take that however you like!
And where is the genius-ous-ness, I hear you ask? Here:
Pretty clever, huh? <huffs on nails and rubs against t-shirt>
| The following two cards are a CASE of this one by Karen Baker for the crafts meow which I think is just GORGEOUS! It was one of those found-in-lunch-hour-can’t-wait-to-get-home-n-try-for-myself moments… |  |
My best friend, who regularly says “Oh I forgot u make cards”, actually remembered and asked me to make a card and box for her sons teacher – he’s left nursery and going to big boy school now, I wish he’d stop getting older! – and I got a bit fixated on the idea of an apple for teacher but it worked out alright in the end:
The apple was a Robo Cop creation and he also cut the letters out but I did them out of white card and coloured them in with pro-markers to get the multi-coloured effect.
When it came to the card, I wanted to continue the writing paper theme but the negative of the above letters actually looked really funky so I used that too:
I tried to make the background look like a desktop, hence the pencils.
All in all, I’m pleased with the end result, I hope Miss Mallen was too!
 | It wasn’t a straightforward make, in fact I think this is version two but when it finally came together I was really pleased with the result. The tape image I used is from SJ by the way. |
Hands up if you’d ever thought about stamping on glitter? No? Me neither - I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw Jennifer McGuire try it. Of course I had to have a go! And I had to put my own twist on it – mainly cos I didn’t have white, micro fine glitter but I don’t let lil details like that stop me!
Back when I had a go at this die cut card, I also bought a few other Silhouette files including this Hero Arts Cherry Blossom:
After poking out all the awkward bits, I stuck it to a Woodware double sided adhesive sheet and filled in the gaps with glitter:
Then following the original example, I touched my promarkers to the glitter to add a bit of colour:
Ok so the post title is not what I did but it still looks alright, right?!
Another fine example of a card that didn’t end up like how it started out:
Clean and simple tho, huh? I’d like to enter it for the CAS-ual Fridays challenge – Pretty In Pink (sorry about the dodgy photo, I promise the fairy’s dress is pink!)
This should be a short post; I saw this gorgeous plate in Matalan:
(there’s still a chance I will go back and buy it) and came home and made this card:
Oh and this one:
I was aiming for a cross between the inimitable CAS style of Aimes (p.s. Happy Birthday, lady) and the out-of-the-box example of Julie Ebersole here.
Not sure of the blue, now, but otherwise I’m pretty happy with it! Whaddya think?
…and I don’t shop at Money Supermarket, but my weekend is turning out to be fairly EPIC!
On Friday, I got to see my favourite comedian of the last 12 months Tim Minchin and thanks to some friends we made in the car park we got to be this close to him with little or no effort on our part:
Plus after a promise of torrential rain at our outdoor picnic/gig, the weather turned out all evening like this:
And then tonight, having already convinced the chief cook and bottle washer to get a takeaway Chinese, I am catching up with my emails and blog roll and lo and behold I get a showCASe mention from the Less Is More challenge blog!
I really don’t ‘do’ less is more or clean and simple in any aspect of my life so this honourable mention is even more astounding. What a shame the queen has already released her honour roll, eh?!
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