Last Minute Rush

As per usual a last minute rush to make Mother's Day cards for my Mum who lives in England so I need to get them posted!!!!

The first card is made using a Tilda Stamp and just coloured in with pencils. I've added Diamond Glaze to the raindrops and the rain splash on her hand and it doesn't show on the photo but it gives a great raised effect. The shapes have been cut using nestabilities and the background embossed on the cuttlebug. "mum" has been printed on the computer.

For the second card I used the nestabilities to cut an aperture into some card, framed it with some mirri card and then stamped Tinkerbell on the bit that I cut out but put it inside the card. Some patterned paper and a few bits of ribbon with "granny" printed onto a tag cut by the cuttlebug and that was it.

The reveal.....

Seeing as all the recipients have got their cards I can reveal the card I made earlier. I think the mail must have had a tail wind because I only sent the cards on Tuesday or Wednesday and my friend in the good old US of A got hers today.....gosh!

So, this card was made using the dreaded orange corrugated card stock. the floral paper was sent to me by a good friend and comes from the DCWV Teen stack. The image is a stamp from the sugar nelly collection coloured in with pencils and clear glaze added with a sakura pen to her wellies.

Hearts cut out with my cuttlebug and sentiment done on the computer. Button and fibres from my stash. It doesn't show too well in the picture but the card is light brown to coordinate with the brown and orange in the patterned paper.

Themed cards

Yesterday I had to make two cards, one of which I posted yesterday. I'm posting the other one now. I had to make a Celtic themed card. Now I try and steer clear of doing these as it can work out costly if you have to buy specific items to decorate the card, but as luck would have it, I had a pack of Celtic playing cards which I bought a couple of years ago when I thought I might dabble in ATCs.

Well I dabbled, and it didn't work so the playing cards were consigned to the bottom of my storage table....until yesterday :-))

Some celtic images, plenty of green and white and hey presto!

The lettering was cut out with Cuttlebug 'you're not the boss of me' alphabet dies.

psychic friends?

I have a lovely friend who sent me a quickutz die for no apparent reason other than she's just lovely. Anyway, the next day, I had a call from someone who wanted 2 cards made for a young man's 21st birthday. The only information was his name, the fact he liked Celtic football club and that one of the cards was from the staff at a pub!

As it so happened the die that my friend sent to me was of a beer mug!!!!

Now how did she know!!!!!!

The card is make using mostly quickutz dies...and bazzil card stock with a bottle top (for pubbyness you understand) - LOL.

Right Back At Ya Petal.....LOL!

A very good friend of mine has taken to doing this so we can't see what she's sending us till we get it......well right back at ya Petal....Hee Hee!!!!

All I will say about this card is that my Mum got me a box of card recently and there was some orange corrugated card in it. Well I have always steered clear of this as I don't really know how to use it. So, I decided that the cards I make this month for my friends would use this and apart from that, I would just wing it!

You will need to wait until they get their cards before I show the full picture ;-)

Friends

My daughter has lots of friends and she constantly needs cards as their birthdays are spread quite evenly throughout the year. The only problem is, I'm constantly having to come up with new ideas for cards to make them as I've been doing them for the same group of girls for a number of years now.

This one is a bit like a mini book and I've used Liquorice Lane papers to decorate it, ribbon from my stash and the letters have been cut from silver card using my cuttlebug and Hippy Chick alphabet. the tag is a plain metal rimmed tag stamped with a sentiment from a set of HOTP stamps.

clever girl

My friends know that I am doing an Open University course on Data, Computing and information. Sounds a bit geeky I know, but I decided that while I was still at home with my youngest daughter I may as well try and do something useful.

I had a 3 and a half hour lesson this morning on javascript programming. I came out the other end feeling a little dazed to say the least.

The card I made a while ago for my other lovely daughter who is going to uni in the summer to study biomedical sciences with psychology. I made the card when she got great grades in her highers.

It's using some gingham cardstock (don't know the make) ribbons and gems from my stash. Cuttlebug letters and the stars are using a template from papercraft Inspirations magazine.

Who knows. maybe at the end of my course my daughter might make one like this for me...LOL!

Anniversary

An anniversary card that I made this week for a couple celbrating their Diamond Wedding......wow!

The card has been made using K & co Addison papers and a lovely penny black sticker. Some ribbon from my ever growing stash and words printed out on the computer.

First Post

I have decided to keep a blog.

A few of my good friends have one and I love looking at theirs to see what they have been doing and what they have been creating.

Not that I'm suggesting mine will be as interesting as theirs in any way, shape or form, but I'll give it a bash.

Image is of a card I made recently and a few people will recognise it. It is using a magnolia stamp that I got a while ago.

I have promised myself that I will spend more time on craft this year so that it doesn't become a chore when I'm asked to make cards for family and friends......we'll see!