Alice is 9

Good Morning everyone

This week my middle niece Alice is 9 so these are the 2 cards ive made for her.  The first one actually uses the same image i used for her dads card last year - now they are collecting horses and of course there is always a cat or 4 around - its a digi stamp from hetty clare called friends forever 

Alices favourite colours are purple & green 

approx 7x7" card made from white card with nesting dies.  I printed the image onto white along with the sentiment and coloured with inktense pencils, stencilled horse shoes around with and die cut into shape and adhered to the card front.  I die cut a frame from dark green card and added to the card front with 2mm foam tape

I bought this stamperia stencil with horse & horseshoes - but its so very thin and delicate it was very difficult to use

Just a close up

Now the better weather has arrived the girls love going out on a horse and cart ride with their dad and spend many happy hours seeing the countryside that way.

Items Used

Hettyclare digi image 'forever friends'

Stamperia stencil 'KSG468'

Derwent inktense pencils

nesting dies

Distress oxide inks vintage photo, black soot, fossilised amber

Id love to enter this card in the following:

https://farmquestgeneralstorechallenge.blogspot.com/2024/07/fqgs-18-theme-of-afcg-competition-plus.html

https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/07/week-7912.html

https://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2024/07/challenge-282.html

https://creativefriday.blogspot.com/2024/07/creative-friday-364-ohne-designpapier.html - no patterned paper

and card 2

Alice is a talented gymnast and a little contortionist so i borrowed these gymnast dies from a craft friend

A5 white cardbase.  

I die cut the gymnasts from green glitter cardstock and 4 layers of scrap white cardstock which I layered together with the green glitter as the top layer - this gave them a sturdy chipboard depth.  I die cut the letters from purple mirri card and white card and used the white as a drop shadow to help them stand out.

I matted a lilac happy birthday printed cardstock onto purple mirri and then green glitter cardstock and then the card front.  The gymnasts were a bit lost against the background so i tore a piece of vellum adhered my letters and gymnasts to it - i then added tacky pva to the back of the vellum behind the letters and gymnasts and adhered to the card front - that hid the glue holding the vellum in place.

Just a close up - in real life the purple mirri and green glitter really do sparkle and shine

Items Used:

Memory box alpha dies

 gymnast dies

Anna-marie design birthday printed cardstock

papermania white vellum

Green glitter card

Hunkydory purple mirri card

Id love to enter this card into:

https://die-cut-divas.blogspot.com/2024/07/welcome-to-scrappy-tails-monday.html

https://craftingacutabove.blogspot.com/2024/07/lets-start-off-with-bang.html

https://cinspirations.blogspot.com/2024/07/july-challenge-anything-goes.html

Thank you all for stopping by.  I hope you have a great week, I will be getting some crafting with my 5 nieces now schools out so that will be great fun.  Emmax

 

Horsey birthday

Good Morning everyone

I realised i haven't uploaded my brothers birthday card from September, i made a stair step card with a horse theme as he is now collecting horses (real ones)

I used 12x12 papers from paper pads from the works as they are the ideal weight for folding.  I went with a wood panel for the inside to give a stable feel and a green for the front for a meadow feel.  The front panel is matted onto brown and gold mirror card. After matting the green paper onto the brown card I die cut memory box circle from the middle and matted onto the gold mirror to give the effect of the sun.  Stamped sentiment die cut into a speech bubble to finish after gluing the image into place with glue gel.

I used digital images from HettyClare on Etsy - images called 'friends forever' & 'say cheese' .  Printed out at different sizes and watercoloured with inktense pencils and then cut out.  

and the inside.  I die cut the alphas from brown cardstock, matted onto circles die cut from white, gold mirror and brown card and adhered them to the steps. I added a die cut white oval to write the greeting on.  Then arranged the horses - I wanted some facing slightly different angles so i cut their heads off (promise it didn't hurt them) and glued back on at a different angle, also this digi stamp came with a girl rider which i didn't want so I also cut her away to leave just the horse.  

showing from a different angle.  Rob is really getting into training up work horses and took on a mother & foal in the autumn.....his old donkey is still the boss of the stables though😁

Thank you for stopping by once again.  Enjoy the rest of your week. Hugs Emmax

Id love to enter the first card in the following:

https://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/2024/01/crafty-catz-challenge-664.html - 'make me smile'

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https://secretstamper.com/2024/01/anything-goes-with-a-fun-fold-for-creative-creases-74/

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https://farmquestgeneralstorechallenge.blogspot.com/2024/01/fqgs-12-january-2024-anything-farm-and.html

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