Jacks Birthday

Good Morning everyone

Today im sharing the 2 cards I made for my brothers birthday

This brother absolutely is NOT a morning person, mum would always threaten to take him to school in his pyjamas as he just wouldn't get up in the mornings.....and yes she would have and he knew that so It did work.  When he was in the army his mates would actually have to tip him out of bed in the mornings.  Even at 42 he is just as bad and don't even attempt to talk to him before 10am!  So when i saw these fun aall&create stamps in the sales i knew they would be perfect for him....He is also a caffeine addict!

I made a little concertina card from kraft card, each section measures 5x3"

I stamped the images onto kraft card and then papers without too much pattern from my scrap box.  I cut out one whole character from kraft card, just his head from a 2nd kraft card and then his PJ's, mug & slipper from the papers and adhered together.

I found this fab sky background with has kind of rays coming down and covered in dots of silver holographic which was perfect for the background so i added to each panel.  I tore green paper for some ground for him to stand on - this from my scrap drawer.   I added the character in place.  Stamped the sentiment onto more kraft card and cut into a funky shape- felt that kind of matches the vibe this card was giving me😁

Showing the card opened out, i carried on the blue sky and green grass on each panel.  To the middle panel i added the 2nd character.  To the left panel i die cut the sentiment from kraft card into a scalloped circle, which i matted onto a sun die cut from yellow.  On the right panel i added a yellow die cut oval to write the greeting on........which my other brother thought was an egg😁

This 2nd character I also stamped onto kraft card and paper pieced his PJ top and cup.  This quote reads 'Ok, but coffee first'

This photo also shows the holographic dots on the background too, when the light hits them they really come to life, like raindrops.

Items Used:

aall&create stamps  #252 'coffee first' #253 'Morning'

spellbinders oval & inverted scallop circle dies

MFT sun die

CraftUK ltd kraft card

patterned papers from the works

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and card 2 

6x6" stepper card die cut from kraft card. 

Last year i was lucky to win a choice of 3 digistamps from 'The paper shelter' and i choose this digi called 'cockatoo rules'.  For this card i used the precoloured image and found a marbled paper in my stash that worked well for the background.  After matting the paper panels on to the card front I added the cockatoo which i had printed out twice, cut out and decoupaged so he has lots of dimension.  I added glossy accents to his sunglasses and bike light.

Birthday sentiment & 2 screw heads die cut from gold mirri card to finish.  I added the screw heads to the top of the side panels for a little embellishment.

Sorry for the rubbish photos, had to take them on a dark dank day!

Items Used:

'cockatoo rules' from the paper shelter

presscut stepper die

sizzix sentiment die

spellbinders screw head dies

Kraft card

Thank you all for stopping by and all your previous comments.  Big hugs Emmax

Id love to enter the bear card in the following:

https://lovethoseprettypapers.blogspot.com/2025/01/atg-using-pretty-patterned-paper.html

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https://snarkystampers.blogspot.com/2025/01/soss-258-n-is-for-nbus-never-been-used.html - never used the bear stamp sets before

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https://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/2025/01/crafty-catz-686-atg-blue-and-green.html

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https://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/01/mttc-552-theme-of-masculine-starts-24.html

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Kitty-Bea is 4

Good Morning everyone

My niece Kitty-Bea was 4 last week.  These are the 2 cards ive made for her.  

6x6" Lever fold card.  A sheet of paper in a pad from B&M had all these colourful fish which i wanted to use as she loves her wildlife and living on the coast all things sea themed.  I made up my lever fold card and used a blue wave pattern paper on the front and got arranging the fish i had cut out.

This shows a different fish themed paper i used on the inside.  

Using offcuts of acetate i added 3 of the bigger fish to the top so they look like they are swimming along.  I added a few touches of glitter glue too as what little girl doesn't like glitter.

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and onto card 2 which i made before Christmas when i was playing with the tonic rabbit die set.  I used Kitty-Beas 2 favourite colours of Yellow & Blue.  Funnily when i uploaded my first ones using this die set here  Steph mentioned she'd wondered if you could have them joining up which i had also wondered when i was using the dies....great minds think alike😁

Showing the front of my rabbit chain.  I die cut the front and back from blue 350gsm cardstock.  Using a lemon yellow heavyweight paper i folded it into 4 and using the smaller rabbit layer die i ran it through the machine, ensuring that where the tips of the arms/hands are were just overhanging the folds and therefore didn't cut.  This gave me a concertina of rabbits.  

Using paper scraps i die cut her outfits.  Computer printed the sentiment and die cut with the sentiment tag die in the set. 

The back of the card, or front😁

and inside is my concertina of rabbits, i did 4 as its a 4th birthday, each with a different outfit...ideal for using up paper scraps

 This shows the back plainer side to write the greeting and also showing that they do stand up to display.  I did actually reinforce the join of the arms with little tiny strips of the yellow paper.

Items Used:

Tonic studio rabbit die set 3638e

Old Paper pads from the works & B&M

We've been without internet most of the week after the storms, all fixed now hopefully.  I hope its a good week for you all. Emmax

Id love to enter the fish card in the following:

http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.com/2022/02/challenge-264-more-than-i-fold.html

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Alice is 5

Good Morning everyone, i hope you enjoyed the weekend.

My middle niece Alice is 5 today - scary.  Anyway ive made a giant concentina style card for her, it came about as i had lots of offcuts from making a batch of tri fold cards which seemed a shame to bin so i glued them together in one long strip.  Alice loves school and learning so im sure she will love reading the message.  I used lots of off cuts of various papers on each panel - many of them with unicorns which she loves.  Lots of photos ahead....

This is the box i made for it, i added the knob on the top so that its easy for little hands to open the box.

I also added the little ribbon tab so its easy to pull out of the box

Starting to pull it out - each panel is approx 10x6.5cm in size

Pulling it out further

and showing the message 'Happy'  I added a silver holographic drop shadow to each letter so the light dances off them - i used a bigz die for all the letters

birthday

Alice

In between each word i added a panel with a little silver holographic butterfly.  It was very difficult to take photos as its so long - i had to do it on the floor in the end but hopefully you get the gist of it😁  I did also add papers to the backs of each panel so i think she will also enjoy that as lots of them have magical theme with unicorns, mermaids, fairies etc

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and onto the card i made for my parents for Alice - a very simple one using a sizzix flip it die.

I die cut the base from lilac cardstock and the matting layers from the fab fairy paper.  Alice fav colour has always been purple so this paper was ideal (B&M magical beasts) I inked all the edges with purple ink.  I computer printed the sentiments and die cut into circles to fit.  I die cut the fairy once from white card and again from silver glitter card - i taped all the pieces in on the silver one so that stayed solid and shows through the front white fairy. Glitter glue highlights to finish.

Showing it stood up with the flip panel

One side says Happy 5th Birthday and the other side Alice

And the back of the card, i used a soft paper so that the message can easily be written.

Items Used:

B&M Papers - magical beasts, ombre

Tim holtz bigz die - word play

Spellbinders circle dies

Sizzix butterfly die

Sizzix flip it die set

Spellbinders fairy die

Thank you all for stopping by once again - i do appreciate it.  I hope you have a good week.  I can finally venture out so having a hair cut tomorrow at last - only at my mums so won't be going too mad but can't wait for the hairdresser to work her magic on it after so long😁   Stay safe. Emmax

Id love to enter my first card into the following:

https://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.com/2020/07/pixies-snippets-playground-challenge-383.html

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http://abitmoretimetocraft.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-bit-more-time-to-craft-challenge-120.html

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http://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com/2020/08/august-crafts-galore-encore-challenge-78.html

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https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2020/08/ltccb-49-august-anything-goes.html

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https://creativecrafterschallenge.blogspot.com/2020/07/challenge-30.html

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