Name that tuna...

The challenge at http://caardvarks.blogspot.com/ this time is 'music' and as Laura had asked me to make a special card for her boyfriend who is into rock music it fitted perfectly.

My card is huge (A3 folded in half) as the main image of the guitar is taken from the DCWV Rockstar book. I love the papers in this book although most of the designs are more suited to scrapbooking as they are so large.

Laura is really pleased with the card and I am sure James will be when he opens it on Wednesday.

Materials used...

• basic white A3 card for base


• black card


• silver corrugated card


• red holographic card


• DCWV paper


• red brads


• wool (guitar strings)


• silver 'Happy Birthday' peel offs

A Card for a girl...

At http://www.dutchdare-cardchallenges.blogspot.com/ the theme is making a card for a girl. For me that means pink with a touch of bling, maybe flowers and most definitely a Magnolia image.

Materials used:

• Magnolia rubber stamp
• pink base card
• cuttlebug floral border bar
• white card
• pink embroidered sticky ribbon
• pink gem stones
• silver wording peel offs

Birthday Somethings...

Don't you just love it when daughters tell you how talented you are and how much their friends love your cards? Hmmmmm anyone with any sense knows that all that buttering up is leading somewhere!

Sure enough Laura (my eldest daughter) wanted a card making. A card for a man (never a good request) and one who has just left University -loves the city of Liverpool and would probably be really happy with a card on a Liverpool theme. This was further complicated by the addition that the card would be even better if it had the Super Lamb Banana on it!!! No she wasn't asking for much. Have you seen the Super Lamb Banana???

If you're wondering what it is check out this website...

http://www.superlambbanana.com/home.php?/home .

Anyway I decided, remembering how much Shelley's boyfriend enjoyed playing with the Christmas spinner cards, that perhaps a spinning super lamb banana might be the best option. Laura thought it was great and I'm hoping Anthony does too when he receives it.

As it is a 'birthday something' it also fits with the challenge at http://stampchallenges.blogspot.com/.

Materials used:

• map of Liverpool and small picture of the Super Lamb Banana
• navy blue corrugated card
• yellow card
• heavy weight white card as base card
• 2 pennies and pop dots to create spinning mechanism
• computer generated birthday message

No Cards Allowed...

'You can make anything you like Bag, Note Book, Box, Candle, Tag, Tin etc but NO CARD please, and your creations MUST feature at least one Penny Black Image.'

These were the instructions at http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/ last Saturday and strangely enough for an addicted 'card maker' I've had all kinds of ideas for this. In the end I used a small container (Poundland) and buttons from my stash to make a little xmas gift/RAK for one of my crafting friends. Haven't decided which one yet so everyone be nice to me till Christmas!!!

Materials used:

• plastic container


• buttons from stash


• Penny Black clear stamp


• Versafine ink pad


• Derwent Inktense pencils


• corrugated red and black card


• red button and pre-printed label from stash


• punched snowflake

Iris Folding...

Today I'm adding a card I've made for a close friend's birthday. The challenge of the week at http://lotstodocallenges.blogspot.com/ is to create a card using iris folding. This is a technique that I particularly like and as I have an unused rubber stamp of a perfume bottle by Personal Impressions that includes the pattern for the iris folding I decided to use that.

I do hope she likes the finished card.

Materials used:

* gold mirror card

* vellum with white ivy pattern

* vellum with gold ivy pattern

* different kinds of gold paper for iris folding at neck of bottle

* perfume bottle stamp by Personal Impressions

* Stazon black

* cream organza ribbon

* tag die cut

Hot tip: Test stamp Stazon on scrap of mirror card before stamping real image.

I discovered while making this card that not all mirror card reacts well to Stazon ink. My first attemps went really badly as the ink seemed to bring off some of the gold coating. After moving to a different type of mirror card everything was fine.

Babies...

Our challenge this week at http://ooh-la-la-creationschallenges.blogspot.com/ is 'Babies'. I do hope lots of people will join in.

Materials used for baby girl card...

* pink card

* pink gingham paper and gold paper for matting and layering
* cabbage patch decoupage sheet
* pink satin ribbon