Dads Birthday

Good Morning everyone.

Today im sharing the 2 cards i made for my dads birthday last month.  The first one is another one of those triple panel cards ive been making and the second one isn't an normal male card but i was given a lovely stamp by stampendous and a Mo Manning lady cycling image and it just reminded me of fun postcards you can get in France which my dad has collected over the years of going to Brittany.  He loved both of them. 

So to make the card blank, take an A4 sheet of card, from the left score 3", 1", 2.5", 1" & 3", cut off the extra on the end.  And then cut as high as you like, i used a 6x6" paper so by the time i added my 2 layers for matting it took the card height to 7".  You can easily change all these figures, but its a starting point for those of you who asked how i made them. 

After picking the tree pattern paper i picked out olive green and Chocolate brown mirror card to mat and layer.  I die cut the MFT leaves from the olive green and chocolate mirror card and layered together.  I die cut an oval from the same cream card i used for the base card and layered up on larger ovals.  Computer printed sentiment die cut into a circle. Copper nail head gems to finish.

Just a close up.

Onto the 2nd card i made dad.

A5 white cardbase. I stamped the image & sentiment onto white hammered cardstock, doodled in some ground and a breton style hat, i then watercoloured with distress inks.  I stamped a second image and cut out and decoupaged onto the first one to add some dimension.  Mounted onto black card and then the cardbase.  All corners rounded. 

A close up.

Items Used:

MFT layered leaves die set

Spellbinders oval dies

Tree pattern paper

Penny Black slapstick Mo Manning 'Enjoy the ride' stamp

Justrite sentiment stamp

CraftUk ltd white card

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you all have a good weekend.  Hugs Emma

Birthday Girls

Good Morning all.

Well today im sharing the birthday cards i made for 2 of my nieces, the sisters birthdays are within 2 days of each other so i always make the same design of card but suited to each girl, i also always make the cards that my mum gives them, so 4 cards to show you today.

The first 2 are penny slider cards.  Last year i bought a die set to make slider cards, but its in a very very safe place! lol  So i went with plan B which is thanks to a birthday card sent to me by blog buddy SomersetSteph, you can find it here my-paper-corner.blogspot.com, actually i think i like plan B better, hardest part was finding which 2 of my circle dies worked the best for the channel that it slides in.  Thank you Steph for the inspiration.

6x6 scalloped white cardbase.  Ive then used a pretty patterned paper and copper satin board.  After working through my circle dies to get the right sized channel for my pennies joined together with a circluar foam pad i die cut circles into the middle of my patterned paper.  I then used 2mm foam tape to attach to the copper satin card, making sure to leave enough room for the pennies to slide easily around. 

I computer printed the sentiment and die cut into a circle and added to the middle of the card.  I then worked out what i wanted to add to my slider and for Sophie i decided on a butterfly to go with the flowers on the paper.  My butterfly die wasn't big enough to completely hide the penny so i die cut a flower from lilac glitter card, glued it to the penny and my butterfly on top. 

Pearls, gems and glitter glue to finish.  I found the weight of the pennies helps the butterfly slide around, so easy for the children to use. 

A close up, this shows the true colours better and the butterfly slide to another position.  

and on to the one for Little Lizzy

This time i used a honeycomb neon paper along with pink satin card and a lovely big bumble bee picking up on the honeycomb in the paper.  Made exactly the same way, i just added a flower from purple mirror card and i added acetate behind my bee's wings to make them stronger for little hands - Lizzy LOVED it.  Their dad who is an engineer was intrigued too! 

This show the pink better and my bumblebee in a different position.

I decided to use the circle frame that was left after die cutting my slider channel for gift tags for them both.  I used left over scraps to build them up. 

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and onto the 2nd cards i made for them, using my new favourite tri panel fold design, i used animals stamps that came free with creative stamping magazine and are actually the twelve days of Christmas, but i thought the pig and calf perfect for the girls living on a farm and winter birthdays.

From white A4 card i scored/ folded it at 3", 1", 2.5", 1" and cut the last bit to 3", it is 7" High. 

I first stamped and coloured my dancing piggy, Sophie took up dancing this year, so an ideal image.  I stamped with archival ink and coloured with alcohol markers. I decoupaged the skirt.  I cut papers and charcoal card to size to matt onto the panels.  I die cut the topper into an oval and matted onto a larger charcoal oval and added to the middle panel. 

I die cut the name and sentiment from white and charcoal card and off set for a drop shadow and added glitter on top.  Stamped age die cut into a circle.  Die cut flower & black pearls to finish. 

Close up on the dancing piggy

And the one i made for Lizzy, exactly the same way, but using this cute calf image, chocolate brown card for matting.  I coloured the calf kind of in Jersey colours as they have several of those on the farm.  I used wink of stella pens so they really glitter in the light. 

A close up, i added white gel pen highlights to the calf. 

Items Used:

12 days of christmas stamps with creative stamping magazine

Spellbinders circle dies

Spellbinders Oval dies

Bumble bee die

Sizzix butterfly die

Flower dies

Alphabet dies

Sentiment dies

Various design papers

Chocolate & Charcoal cardstock - payper box

Scalloped cardblanks - craftUk ltd

Thank you for stopping by, i hope you all have a great weekend. Emmax

Oriental Tri-Panel card

Good Morning everyone, its monday again and time for a new challenge over at Make My Monday

The theme this time is 

ORIENTAL

So digging through my stash found this beautiful stamp which came free a while ago with a magazine and lovely paper pad called cherry blossom by kaisiercraft. 

I didn't want to hide the beautiful papers so decided to make a different shaped card.  Not sure what its called but image below shows it better.  I stamped my image onto white card and various papers so i could paper piece the image.  I then mounted the topper onto black cardstock. 

I picked out a lovely fan paper which i thought went with the image perfectly and layered onto black card and then the card base.  I used more papers and layered up and added across the middle of the card base. 

All the flowers came from the paperpad too, so i cut out lots of them and arranged around the lady and on the base.  Orangey gems to finish. 

Showing the shape of the card from above, i was inspired by a beautiful card i was sent, i took a sheet of A4 white card and scored it 4 times in the middle and folded.  You can easily change the size depending on the size of the topper etc.  I used a corner punch on the outside edges. 

Close up of the image.  I paper pieced her with plain papers from the pad, i added extra colour to the flowers with a alcohol pen.  Touches of glitter glue to the flower centres.

Items Used:

Stamps - Japanese Tea Garden freebie from Cardmaking & papercraft magazine

Kaisercraft paper pad 'cherry blossom'

Double stitched rectangle die set

Stickles diamond glitter glue

Thank you for stopping by and if you fancy seeing what everyone else comes up with for the Oriental theme and to join in please do hop over to mmmchallengeblog

I hope you all have a good week and can keep cool if effected by the on going hot weather.  Hugs Emma