Big Birthday Wishes

I've got two male birthdays in April so I made two cards using the same die. The first one used the letters cut from a snippet of red cardstock. Sorry - I forgot to photo the snippets as I wasn't sure what I was going to make. The cards sort of evolved as I went along! I mounted them onto a piece of 6 x 6 paper, the dots were very usful for lining up the letters! It looked a bit plain so I printed off some embellishments from Craft Artist and cut them out.

 

The second card used the negative of the die cut. Again mounted onto some 6x6 paper. I had to cut the A out twice as I lost the tiny middle.

 

Challenges:

Snippets Playground- 2 red card snippets, onr for the die and one for the mat.

Seize the Birthday

Rudolph Day - June 2024

I'm a bit late with my card for this month's Rudolph Day.We've been a bit busy with various medical appointments and the week just seemed to disappear.

Fortunately I had the set of dies sitting on my desk waiting to be used so I didn't have to go rummaging for anything! The dies are from Lawn Fawn and were part of my NBUS stash. The sentiment is one I've had for ages, but the packaging is long gone and I can't remember the make. The lights were all made from snippets.

 

Challenges:

Rudolph Day

NBUS

Snippets Playground

Roy's birthday

The beginning of April brings a number of family birthdays, all fairly close together. The first one is Roy's. As many of you will know he is a keen collector of model soldiers, so when I came across this stamp from Picture This last year I had to buy it, and had been waiting to ink it ever since.

I coloured him with a mix of Copics and Promarkers then fussy cut him out. The background is made up of snippets of scrapbooking paper. I thought the stripy one looked a bit regimental! The sentiment strip is computer generated as I added his old Regimental cap badge to either side. I'm pleases to say it was very well received.

Challenges:

NBUS 

Snippets Playgound

Happy Little Stampers Birthday Challenge

Four Panel Card

I decided to have a go at making a four panel card for Mrs A's Butterfly Challenge, as I need to build up my stock of birthday cards.The hardest part of making this was deciding what papers, card etc to use.

Eventually I went with just one paper rather than coordinating ones.

The flowers were die cut from a piece of brusho paper that was lurking in my scraps drawer using a Tim Holtz die set. The sentiment was cut from the same card as the card base and is a Concord and Ninth die set.

These are the snippets I used. The butterflies on the front are a Stampin Up punch. A few rhinestones finished it off.  So for the Butterfly challenge I have followed the card shape, theme and used three of the colours, Forest green, Fuschia (purple) and French Rose (pink)

 

Challenges:

The Butterfly Challenge

Snippets Playground.