Charlotte is 3

Good Morning everyone

Yesterday my youngest niece Charlotte turned 3, these are the 2 cards i made for her, one from me and one from my parents.  

7x7" lever fold card.  I found this fab mermaid image in my stash from hobbyhouse so  I picked up on the colours in the topper and found a purply water themed paper, its all matted onto chocolate box purple mirri card.  I die cut my sea elements from scraps of paper, using green for my fish to pick up on the green in the image. Computer printed sentiments die cut into circles and lots of glitter highlights to finish. 

Showing it fully opened out, i had another smaller mermaid topper and decided to fussy cut and add to the inside with lots more sea creatures. 

I picked out the die cut details in the creatures with paint pens, the net behind the mermaid was die cut from an off cut of the purple mirri card.  I added a panel to the back of the card to write the greeting on. 

card 2.

Its always hard coming up with 2 totally different cards for each niece and also having 5 nieces to keep coming up with different ideas!   I found this fab flying pig paper in one of my paper pads from the works and thought it would be ideal as they had just had a little of piglets arrive on the farm so its always an exciting time for the children.  I teamed the paper up with a copper satin card.

XL DL (4x11.5")  card, so A4 folded in half lengthways.

I matted the paper onto the copper satin card, rounding all the corners as i went.  I then die cut the alphas from the satin card and mounted onto white die cut circles, these i added to the base with foam tape.  Die cut the birthday sentiment from copper & white and added a drop shadow with the white to help it stand out a bit. Glitter highlights to the wings to finish.

This isn't really the layout i would have gone with, with the placement of the alphas but when i came to attaching them i tried not to hide all the pigs faces.  

Trying to show the light hitting the copper satin card as it really it lovely - sadly photos like with the mirror card don't do it justice.

Items Used:

Hobbyhouse mermaid topper

Papers from old paper pads from B&M

Spellbinders circle dies

Tattered lace Alpha dies

Sea themed dies

Sizziz birthday die

Rangers stickles glitter glue- diamond, twinkle

Thank you all for stopping by.  I hope you enjoy your bank holiday monday and have a great week. Emmax

Id love to enter my mermaid card in the following:

https://thefairyandtheunicornchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/08/august-2022-challenge.html

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http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/08/mttc-489-theme-of-fantasy-whimsical.html

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https://blog.dare2bartzy.com/august-challenge-shaped-or-fun-fold-cards/

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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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Lever fold card

Good Morning everyone

Today im sharing a lever fold card i made for my mum for her best friends birthday.  First time ive made one and as always i learnt from this first one by the mistakes.  I was given these beautiful papers by a friend, its a polish company called AltairArt, a new company to me but the quality is outstanding so i let them do the work here...

6.5x6.5" card. Using instruction i found on pinterest i made up my lever card from A3 cream cardstock, i went with cream as felt it was softer with the papers i wanted to use.  As im dangerous with a craft knife i used a square die to cut the mechanism aperture, marking where i wanted it with pencil as you only need to cut half way...... I then cut and adhered different papers to the sections and glued the 2 parts together.  

I die cut another square the same size as the aperture and glued into place, a smaller one from paper.  I die cut, inked and shaped a flower, added it to the flower with a die cut floral circle.  Gem to finish

Showing it open

The inside

a close up of the flower.

Items Used:

paper pad by AltairArt 'mysterious garden'

Square dies

floral circle die

Flower dies

A3 CraftUk ltd cream cardstock

Distress inks citron, wilderness, picked raspberry, seedless preserves

Id love to enter the following with this card:

https://creataliciouschallenges.blogspot.com/2021/12/challenge-226-anything-goes-with.html

http://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com/2022/01/january-2022-crafts-galore-encore.html

https://watercoolerchallenges.blogspot.com/2022/01/wwc332-tristans-challenge-all-things.html

http://letscreatechallenges.blogspot.com/2022/01/challenge-179-ag-something-new.html - new papers, new fold 

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I then made a version for my niece Lizzy's 8th birthday, i found this fun ice cream themed paper in my stash and some ice cream dies too so thought it would be the ideal theme as Lizzy does love her food😁

6x5.5" card.  I made up the card using cream pearlised cardstock and a circle die for the lever action & aperture.  I covered the whole front of the card with the ice cream paper after cutting a circle out of the middle, i then used that circle to line up on the middle topper section.  I die cut and layered the ice creams using kraft, gold & pale blue card.  Computer printed sentiments die cut into circles, glued into place.

Showing it opened up, i used a different ice cream paper on the inside panels

To finish i added lots of glitter glues to the ice cream sprinkles and around the toppers

Items Used:

Old Papers from B&M

Spellbinders Circle dies

Itricut ice cream dies

Cream pearl cardstock

Kraft, blue & gold mirror cardstock

Ranger stickles glitter glues

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  I hope you all enjoy the end of the week and weekend.  Hugs Emmax