More 75th Birthday Cards

Today I thought that I would show you the two cards that I made for my friend, for Mother. For both of these cards I used Tattered Lace designs and Charisma dies. The first uses the free die off of the front of the Tattered Lace magazine from last month (Issue 48). This card follows one of the tutorials to a certain extent too. I started with a 8x8 card base and used green card stock for the matting, and printed off one of the pretty papers for the backing paper. I then printed the beautiful Fuchsia several times and cut them all out with the die. I cut a hexagon from green card and then cut in halve and done the same but smaller in white and layered these to make a basket. I drew some lines from my basket to the top of the backing paper to make it look like the basket was hanging. The sentiment that you can see was printed straight onto the backing paper and I added a bow to the top of the card too. Then it was just a case of layering up the fuchsias as though they were hanging from the basket.

The next card uses flowers and backing papers from the Magical Midnight Watercolours from Tattered Lace and My Craft Studio along with the Lotti Dotti Square from Tattered Lace. Again I printed the sentiment onto the backing card before cutting out with the die. Although you can't tell from the photo the flowers has 4-5 layers.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Pixies Snippets Playground

Well Christmas came and went pretty fast and apart from a little online crafty shopping it was craft free for me too. This is my first card since before Christmas and it's for the new challenge over at Pixies Snippets Playground, all you have to do is use a snippet somewhere on your card to enter. This card was made completely for my snippets box including the card base that I found in the box (not sure how that got there as there was nothing wrong with it). The patterned paper was from a piece left over that I had used for another project and was printed from MCS Summer Bliss CD. On Friday of last week I received some new Tattered Lace dies, bought before just before Christmas, so I used this beautiful butterfly and foliage die on this card along with a Thank You die. I always like to keep some thank you cards in my box as you never know when you are going to need one.

Thank you for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Allsorts Challenge - Anything Christmas

Wow, what a shock to my system this cold weather is, I've been sunning myself in 25c or above in Mexico for the last week. We arrived home yesterday morning with the announcement on the plane that "the good news was the sun was shinning the bad news was it was -1c". I have finished the washing and had to post this card now so that I would be in time to take part in the Allsorts Challenge which closes tomorrow. I've used Tattered Lace Charisma Robin Redbreast for this card along with some Christmas Tree tuck ins and Holly dies cut in gold mirri card, also from Tattered lace. The backing papers are from My Craft Studio from one of the Christmas CD's

Just a quick post for now as I have dinner to cook, something I've not had to do for over a week.
Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

A Very Important Date

Well I'm still trying to clear my Craftroom and still getting distracted. This time making a tag for the challenge over on the CD Sunday blog. I've used MCS and A very Important Date for my tag. First I printed off a backing paper, topper, playing cards and three more of the characters. I stuck the backing paper to a card tag, then after cutting out the various pieces I arranged them onto the tag. It's a long time since I've used this CD, but was reminded of recently when a fellow blogger used it for a couple of card. So I'd like to say thank you to Val for jogging my memory.

Thank you for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreiated.

Sue

Only Fools And Horses

Last week I had a lady ask me if I would make a 65th Birthday card for her husband, after saying yes, she says "he loves Only Fools and Horse's and anything to do with Del-boy". So earlier this week I sat at the PC and googled images and found this lovely one (actually I found a couple, but liked this one best). I made a backing paper by cropping a picture of the Trotters van and in my photo editing program made it a seamless tile. Then I took it into MCS and made a backing paper by tiling the workspace. I then faded it, so it didn't over power the card. I re sized the image also in MCS before mounting onto some mirri card. I cut out the name and age on the Cricut using silver mirri and black card. She hasen' seen it yet so I'm hoping that she will like it.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

CD Sunday - 1950's

How Sunday morning's seem to come around so quickly these days, it's time again for a new challenge at the CD Sunday blog. This week the theme is 1950's and was chosen by Carol. For my card this week I've used MCS, Fab Glam Fifties, if only I had a lovely slim figure like this lady. I used a 6x6 white card base to start with, then teamed everything with the topper and used shades of green. The flowers started off as white and I painted them with some pale green pearlidoodles that were in my cupboard, and added some flower brads to them that I've had for some time and the bow was picked to match the coat. I hope to be back on track with my commenting this week, we've just spent the last week in Cornwall with my Mum and Hubby's Dad. We had a lovely week but had no mobile phone signal for most of the time, and no Internet for the whole of the week. It's great to get back to normal this week. This is Anne's last week as GDT, please do pop over to the challenge blog and see what she and the other DT members have made to inspire you this week.

Thanks for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

CD Sunday - Shop Till You Drop

Sunday once again, so time for another Challenge over at the CD Sunday challenge blog. This week the theme is Shop Till You Drop, and was chosen by Jenny. It seems that last weeks challenge left a lot of you stumped for ideas, hopefully this one will be more up your street. We still have Anne with us as Guest Designer this week, and she along with the rest of the design team has made some wonderful inspiration cards for you, do pop over to the blog and take a look.

For my card this week I've used Crafters Companion, Frou Frou CD, but will admit to taking it into MCS and making the images that I wanted to work with a little larger. I've used Silver mirri card for the matting. Added a black organza ribbon to one side then popped the shop topper on with foam pads. I cut out the laden shopper, who is decoupaged, and added her using glue gel. The sentiment was made using the PC and after putting it onto some mirri card was also stuck on with foam pads.

Thanks for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

CD Sunday - On The Beach

I can't believe how fast Sunday comes around these days, it's time again for a new challenge at CD Sunday, and this week it's Caz's turn to choose. What better theme for a bank holiday weekend than On The Beach, however in true bank holiday fashion yesterday was wet, I hope that today is a better day for everyone. I had a lovey couple of hours going through my CDs looking at all the scenes with beaches involved, I had just decided on what I was going to use, when I found this image on MCS, The Artist Collection, Crafty Characters. I instantly thought of my Grandad, I have many happy memories of days spent on the beach, with him sat in a deckchair with a handkerchief tied at the four corners and it perched on top of his head. He was very often guarding a bucket with baby crabs in too, that my sister and I had found in the rock pools.

I found some backing papers on MCS that resembled stripey deckchair material, and another that looked a little like sand, these were matted onto some bright blue card. I wrapped some cord around the stripey paper, added a postcard back and I hope I've made the topper look like a postcard. Finally I had some shells in a box that I knew would come in handy one day, so I've added some of these too. This is Linby's last week as guest designer, and I know that she, and the rest of the design team have some wonderful inspiration for you over on the challenge blog, do pop over and take a look.

Thanks for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Time For Tea

First, to my regular followers. I've had to turn on the approval part of the comments as I've been getting quite a large amount of Anonymous comments, which I've had to delete. I hope this will not put you off commenting, it just means that I will have to OK the comments first.

Now onto today's card, and this one has been made for my Father-in-law to give to Mother-in-law, I am going to enter this into the Allsorts challenge, which this week is Time For Tea. I'm not sure that I would want a cup of tea out of this pot though, after the flowers have been in there. I' ve used Joanna Sheen's, Jane Shasky CD, and an 8x8 card base. I colour matched, using the forget-me-nots, in MCS and printed onto some centura pearl white card for the matting. The topper has been decoupaged using glue gel, and I loved the way the flowers were tumbling out of the pot, so I used some of the very top layers and just the flower heads and made them fall down the card. The ribbon and charm were from my stash, and the swirl from some I had already cut. But as the swirl was white I coloured it with promarkers to match the card. Finally I added the sentiment which was made in MCS.

Thanks for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue