Trifold Shutter Card

Every year I make some cards for OH to give to various colleagues on their birthdays. I try to make them all the same in style but with differnet colours , stamps etc. This year I have gone for a trifold shutter card which I cut out on my Silhouette. I had downloaded the file some time ago but not sure where from now.

I went for pink and grey on this one (actually I made two exactly the same) and used a NBUS Spellbinders die for the flowers. They were cut from snippets of white card - of which I seem to have a lot!

Challenges entered:

Pixies Snippets Playground
 

The Male Room - Metal

It's time for a new challenge at The Male Room and this time it is to use metal. I hope mirri card counts!

 

 I embossed a piece of grey mirri card with a Spellbinders embossabilitie folder. I thought it looked a bit like tyre treads. The stam was a freebie from a magazine which I stamped in black and clear embossed. Then I added a few die cut cogs in black,silver and grey mirri.

Snippets card

Having just got back from a lovely few days in Jersey in glorious sunshine there is some house stuff and a mound of washing to catch up with! That's the downside of a holiday! So as not much NO crafting has been down I had a search and found this card that I made some time ago.

 

 I had just received some Spellbinders de-lites dies and was cutting them out to see what they were like. This flower die is gorgeous but oh so fiddly to get out!!  As it tested my patience I couldn't just bin it so cut out a frame - added some washi tape and card made. As everything except the tape came from the overflowing snippets box I'm going to head over to Pixies Playground to see what mischief they have been getting up to while I've been away!

The Trials and Tribulations of a Golden Wedding Card!

Last week my OH rang me from work to ask me to make a Golden Wedding card for a former colleague to give her parents. After some thinking time I decided what to do and produced a card and matching box. When I showed him he seemed less than impressed and kept on about putting a butterfly on it! I was due to mail it Monday morning and against my better judgement, just before boxing it up, I decided to see what a butterfly would look like on it. Not nice, much too big. So then I decided to add two more roses (the original only had one). Squeezed the bottle of glue and nothing hppened as the nozzle was blocked, cleared it - or so I thought- gave another squeeze and the nozzle flew off dispensing Cosmic Shimmer glue everywhere! Fortunately most of it went down me and only a small amount on the edge of the card. Hastily wiped it off before changing trousers. Put them in the wasbasin with some water while I checked the card was OK. Went back to them a few minutes later to find they were sticking to themselves! A very hurried trip downstairs to the washing machine. Thankfully when they came out it had all washed off!! Back to the card. I don't think anyone would have noticed where the glue had been but I could see it. What to do-  should I start again?  No chance I quickly cut two more borders in cream and added them down the side.

 

Here is a close up of the roses

and the embossed detail

I used Spellbinders Vintage Lace motifs and accents, Creative Expressions floral embossing folder, Stampin' Up! framelits die for the centre which I stamped and heat embossed in gold with their Memorable Moments stamp set. The inside of the card was created in Craft Artist and mounted onto the gold shimmer card as well but I forgot to take a photo of that. 

The box lid was also made from the gold shimmer card, the initials were made in Craft Artist.

I had an email yesterday to say she loved it - thank goodness for that. She also said it was perfumed which it took me a while to work out, then realised it must have been the lemony smell from the Grime Boss I had used to wipe the glue away with!

Hope I haven't sent you all to sleep with this long  post!

First challenge card this year

 My first challenge card of this year but only just in time for the challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.  

Of course by the time I had made it I had to have the lights on to take the photo, then it disappeared against my ceam walls -so had to find something black to put behind it! It was made with a mixture of things, spellbinders dies, SU dies and some card oddments. 

Get Well Card

I was asked by a friend to make a Get Well card and to make it " 3D"! What he really meant was "a bit of dimension and diecuts!!" So after a lot of trial and error and wasted card this is what I came up with. I have used  an embossability on the taupe card which left a plain panel at the bottom where I stamped the sentiment which is from Hot off The Press.

 

The main image is Just believe from Stampin'Up! I used Spiced Marmalade distress ink and heat embossed it with clear powder,and inked lightly round the edges of the embossed panel. The stamped panel was cut with Spellbinders long scalloped rectangles and inked while still in the die. Borders are from Venetian Accents and the butterflies are from Les Papillons

Beautiful Season

This was one of the first cards I made for this Christmas. I love this stamp from Stampin' Up and it is lovely to colour in.

I am posting on this blog rather than my SU one as I have used a number of other products. The frame is from Spellbinders and I inked it with peeled paint distress ink while it was till in the die. I coloured the image with SU markers. The sentiment tag was from Spellbinders holly accents which I cut in half and then inserted an oval tag into it.

 

Holiday tree again!

Here are two more cards using the holiday tree die. The first one I made some time ago and was the frst time I had used the die. Silver glitter paper was a bit fiddly and I had put it onto an adhesive sheet as I thought that would be easier. But actually was harder as it stuck down too quickly which is why it is not quite straight!

The second silver tree I have made the same way as the gold one in a previous post, butit  has clear rhinestones added for a bit more sparkle. The sentiment tag I found whenI was rummaging through my odds and ends box.

After yesterdays card I thought the tree would like nice done in white on a red ground. So here are two I made the only difference being the red card as I used some pieces from my scraps box and the ribbons!

I have been playing with the Holiday Tree die which is very intricate! I found it quite difficult to cut as well and had to put it through the Grand Calibur quite a few times before it completely cut.

However once cut and gently teased out I was pleased with it. Here I used some SU gold shimmer card which I love as it is not too glitzy! I also cut some corner embellishments from the holly accents set. The final touch was a double bow in Very Vanilla seam binding. A few red rhinestones completed it.

Paper Version

Well I said ! might have a go at doing a paper version of digital scrap page in the previous post - and I have.It took ages to find the right colour paper and card in my stash, I knew I had the flowers and ribbons. After a lot of searching found some I liked. The frame was cut out with Spellbinders and the swirls I did on my Cricut.I even had problems printing the photo as my photo printer had not been used for some time, and even after cleaning the printhead the colour was definitely not right. We looked very pink! New ink cartridge installed - and success - we looked the right colour!

Which do you prefer the paper version or the digital one? I can't decide!

Less is More - Sewing!

Well I've finally managed to find time to enter some challenges again! This is my entry for the Less is More challenge which this week is - SEWING! I got this set of Spellbinder dies in a bundle from C & C but was doubtful whether I would ever use them. Perfect for this challenge! The "stitches" are a Hot off the Press stamp set which I have had for ages (and which C & C had on this morning would you believe!!) . Thread is some white Bakers twine which I coloured with an ink pad (a little bit messy to do) and the reel and scissors are from theSpellbinders set. I have to confess though that the scissors are covering a smudge as the twine was not quite dry enough when I added it.  I am quite pleased with the result and now I've used this set I can see me using it again. Ideas are beginning to take shape!!

50th Birthday card

A friend of my OH is celebrating her 50th birthday big style next month, so had to make a card tomark the occasion!! This is what I came up with. I used gold as it was for "50". The stripey paper and brad on the ribbon is from Stampin' Up available from me HERE. All the elements are cut with Spellbinders and inked with Distress Ink - Antique linen. The cardstock is the neutrals pack from Creative Expressions and the ribbon  is out of my stash and I think was originally on a box of chocs!

Obviously it needed a box. This one is made from SU's Brushed Gold card which has a lovely subtle shimmer for the lid and the base was plain white card. The decoration is again cut from Spellbinders dies.

80th Birthday Card

A friend living in France is going to be eighty next week. This is the card I have made her.

 I embossed the middle white piece of card with a Creative Expressions embossing folder. The two pink edge pieces were made with a Martha Stewart punch, the flowers, pink frame and number panel used spellbinders dies and the ribbon is Stampin' Up.