Next raft of cards

Birthday Cards

This is a birthday card for my husband - not what I intended to create at all - I had a little A*muse golf cart rubber stamp in pole position on my craft table, but somehow this evolved instead. I bought this doodlebug flock paper a while ago, with no clue what I would do with it but I couldn't resist it's lovely touchable texture. The main image is a rubber stamp from Cuddly Buddly and comes with a cute kitten image as well (I've done another card with that which I will share tomorrow)It was coloured with Whisper marker pens and an aqua painter. The colouring looks better in real life and I'm quite pleased with this technique.The flower doesn't really add to the male-ness of the card but I got ink on my fingers and smudged it on the white card so it had to be covered up somehow :) It's attached with a gromlet (I don't like that word at all) that came with my Crop-o-dile Big Bite.

Recycle, Re-use, Reduce

I have made this card for my Mother-in-law for Mothering Sunday which was nice and simple using an all-in-one decoupage kit from Cuddly Buddly. Everything is there so you can just print out, cut out and assemble. I see this as the "Ready Meal" of the craft world. Although I love to cook, sometimes I just want to eat something tasty without having to work too hard. Thus I have made this lovely card without too much effort, I just added some pink chiffon ribbon and a little bit of bling to make it "mine". It comes with a selection of four matching sentiments and I was wondering what to do with the surplus three (Thank You, Happy Birthday and With Love) when I remembered that my Mother-in-law had told me how she had reused my cards in the past by cutting off the front and using them as notecards so it occurred to me that I could give them to her so she could extend the life of the card. I will put a bit of double sided tape on the back of each sentiment and print off an extra insert so she can give it a new lease of life. Thrifty or what? I know she's going to like the idea. There is a new Easter Card in the same format at CB that I have got my eye on. Watch this space.

Merry Wishes

The spring card seems to be popular at the moment so I thought I'd have a go at one. I used a craft robo template from Patricia at UKS cut out on Pink Petticoat doodle-iscious Christmas and Christmas Rainbow papers in Poppy and Gold, with the central image stamp from the same collection. I have used a scallop punch and also craft robo shapes from Cuddly Buddly to make the scalloped layers. I also pierced small holes in the gold scallop using my pokie tool, but it doesn't really show up in the photo that well. I rather like the way this has turned out.

Fall Back

The clocks go back this weekend in the UK so winter draws on. I was inspired to make an autumnal card using the free Pink Petticoat papers that you can get when you subscribe to the newletter. The main focus of my card is actually a web graphic (a linkware gift celebrating Halloween) from Mulberry Street Graphics but I sought the permission of the artist, Sadie, to use it as a printable. The main image and the brown mat have been cut out in a square scalloped shape on my Craft Robo using designs purchased from Cuddly Buddly

Ooooh, Arrrrgh Mrs.

Well it's that time of year again, how quickly it rolls around. Yes tomorrow will be September 19th and of course that means it's "International Talk like a Pirate day" I shan't sleep a wink tonight, I'm so excited. Needless to say I couldn't let the day pass without making a card to mark the occasion, I'm only sorry I didn't have time to make them for all my friends and family. Next year I will plan ahead and be more organised. Anyway I used the Pirate Bear Printables set from Cuddly Buddly, scalloping the edge of the top layer with my corner rounder punch. The sentiment was printed directly onto the backing paper using Paint Shop Pro, adding a 3D drop shadow in a darker toning shade of blue.

Golf Thank You

My husband was invited to a "Men's Invitational" golf match on Saturday by a friend at another club and asked me to make a thank you card. I used the Cuddly Buddly Country Gents Golfer as the main element and the Freebie trophy from the same site that I coloured silver/grey and threaded on ribbon through the handles. The golfer is stuck on with foam pads and stands proud of the card but you can't see this in my photo. It probably doesn't look like it but it took me a couple of hours to make this card, although I was trying to make dinner at the same time. Not one of my better efforts but it'll do.