Happy Birthday Computer Wiz

This is the card I made for my hubby for his birthday.

He is bonkers about computers and is my tech guru so I thought it would be fitting to make a computer based card for him.

The image is Computer Wiz from Robyn’s Fetish and is coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers.

I made my own backing paper using 1’s and 0’s to emulate binary code. The geek in him was very impressed I can tell you J

I used a font I had found on the tinterweb which is made out of computer keys for the sentiment. Black and silver have been used throughout for matting and layering. I recycled a small cd which was a driver disc that Paul was throwing out and found some silver peel offs with and @ sign and more 1’s and 0’s.

If anyone would like my binary code paper please leave me a comment and your email address and I will send it on to you.

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – A5

Image – Computer Wiz by Robyn’s Fetish

Paper – Binary Code Paper Made by Mandy J

Embellishments – peel off  stickers, recycled CD

Tools – Promarkers & Flexmarkers

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• Artistic Inspirations #20 – Anything Goes
• ATC’s & Cards With Attitude #29 – Anything Goes
• Bunny Zoe  – Celebration
• Desert Island Crafters #44 – 2, 4, 10
• Digital Tuesday #191 – Layers
• Everybody Art #217 – Anything Goes
• Fat Pages & Cards With Attitude #29 – Anything Goes
• Here Come The Boys #42 – Anything Goes
• Inspire Me Fridays #89 – Anything Goes
• Make It Monday #120 –  Anything Goes
• Nana Vic’s – Anything Goes
• Oldie But Goodie – Use a Sponsors Image (Robyns Fetish, old is stickers and CD)
• Ooh La La Creations #120 – Reflections (my reflection in the CD !)
• Papelitos Challenges #24 – Anything Goes
• Passion For Promarkers - #178 Happy in Sentiment
• Simply Create #14 – Anything Goes
• Stempelsonne Challenge #78 – Anything Goes with a Stamp
• Wags n Whiskers #94 – Anything Goes

IDIC Card of The Week

Today I have the honour to be the very 1st person to be showcased on a new feature at I Did It Creations for this is the Card of the Week.... Woohoo :)


I was very fortunate to have won a challenge with this card at Robyn's Nest and was given a guest spot as my prize. Jeanette particularly liked my tent card I had made previously and I was given my pick of the fabulous digi's over at Robyn's Fetish to make my card with.

I combined 3 separate images to make up this card. The most fun bit for me working with digital stamps is looking at what I can add together to make a scene. I'm not clever enough to do that with traditional rubber stamping but love to play with them on the computer. In this particular case for the middle section I used the Basket of Apples digi and resized it, used Apple Cider and was able to digitally create layers so the whole section is decoupaged.

The image on the outside Apple Harvest was enlarged to fit the card and then I printed a second layer of the basket and raised with 3d foam. All images are coloured with Promarkers/Flexmarkers and I have added glossy accents to make leaves shiny, apples on the tree and the tops of the bottles, I added glitter to the hearts and used a Promarker Fine Nib to draw the detail of the bark on the tree.

I didn't work to a template on the construction of the card but had seen some on other people's blogs and experimented to get the shape as I wanted. In this example I used a sheet of A4 card, scored a line at 2.5cm at one short end, at the other end 2cm and 2.5cm. This provides the folds at the bottom so it can stand up. I then divided the rest of the card in half and this provides the fold at the very top of the card. At this point it is easier to cut your window out. I used a Nestabilities labels die to draw round and cut the window out. I covered the front of the card with a red checked paper from a Dovecraft Christmas stack (love that it looks like a checked table cloth!) Carefully cut around the window on the inside of the card and you have a mat for another project :)

Use strong tape to join at the bottom and the main frame of the card is then done. All the digi images are mounted on foam to add more dimension and then I used some Papermania glitter glue around the edge of the window to finish it off.

Susan has provided some links to instructions on how to make a tent card on this post if mine seem like gobbledy gook!

I really enjoyed making this card, thanks to I Did It Creations, Robyn's Nest and Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps for giving me this opportunity.

Card Size – A5 ish

Images – Apple Harvest, Apple Cider & Basket of Apples- Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps

Paper - Dovecraft

Embellishments - Papermania Glitter glue & glossy Accents 

Tools - 3d foam, scissors, Nestabilities die

Techniques - Decoupage

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• Celebrate The Occasion #36 - Autumn
• Class Act Insider – Autumn, Halloween or Thanksgiving
• Crafty Boots Challenge #4 – Autumn (harvesting)
• Digi Darla – Autumn Fun
• If The Shoe Fits FF94 –  Autumn (harvesting)
• Digi Darla – Autumn Fun
• Digi Doodle Shop’s Best #80 – Anything Goes
• For Your Inspiration #16 – Inspired by photo (Trees & pinky red colour)
• Gingerloft #27 – Autumn (harvesting)
• Going Grey With Scrap Creations – Do It With Digi
• Heartsong Inspirations #21 – No Sentiment and Harvest Time
• Little Darlings #10 – Something that isn’t square
• Make It Monday #60 – Link Up Party
• One Crazy Stamper – Autumn (harvesting)
• Paper Shelter #37 – Anything Goes
• Partytime Tuesday #39 –Anything Goes
• Scrapbook Sisters #58 – Anything Goes
• Shelly’s Images TTT – Tic Tac Toe (digi, free, autumn colours)
• Simon Says Stamp – Anything Goes
• Stamp Scrap & Doodle Saturdays – Bon Appetit
• Sweet N Sassy #25 – Shaped card
• There She Goes #127 – Autumn (harvesting)
• Totally Papercrafts #89 – Layers

Home Sweet Home

There is a challenge over at Robyn's Nest on IDIC and you get a free image to play with too, how cool is that ?

The image is the 3 birdies in the nest called I Tawt I Saw a Pooty Cat by Robyn's Fetish. I already had the pooty cat image from Digistreet coloured in but hadn't got round to using it so this seemed like the perfect card to pair them up.

The base paper is part of a large 12" sheet from My Minds Eye Penny Lane collection. It has a huge tree with owls that is the height of the paper and then a great big area of pale green spots which is what I had used it for. The tree was so big I didn't think I would ever use it but I had the idea to take the lower portion and slice around the branch so I could slot the nest into it. Jules, I have used another snippet !!

The little house from Chi Chi memories was also already coloured in and it seemed that as the card was evolving it made itself in a collage style so I added a chipboard sentiment and some sequin flowers under the tree and job done!!

All images were coloured in using Promarkers and a full list of digis is as below.

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size - A5

Images - I Tawt I saw a Pooty Cat by Robyn's Fetish, Foxy Feline by Digistreet, Sweet Home by Chi Chi Memories

Sentiment - Colorbok chipboard from QVC

Paper - Penny Lane collection by My Minds Eye

Embellishments - Butterfly brad by Papermania & small brads by Queen & Co

Tools - Promarkers and lots of 3d foam

Techniques - Decoupage

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical order) :-

• Allsorts #111 - Free & Easy
• Aud's Sentiments #32 - At least 2 words in sentiment
• Charisma Cardz #27 - All about Flowers
• City Crafty #64 - Birds of a Feather
• Clear it Out Tuesday - Things With Wings
• Craft Garden - Feature a Bird on your project
• Crafty Pad #129 - Texture
• Cupcake Craft Challenge #150 - Old Challenge #18 Create a Scene
• Cupcake Craftroom - Polka Dots
• Deep Ocean Challenge #3 - Cards
• Digi's With Attitude #32 - Anything Goes
• I Did It Creations #63 - Floral
• Jules Crafty Snippets #27 - No new sheets of paper were harmed in the making of this card :)
• Kich N Bleus #4 - Summer or Outdoors
• Lollipop Crafts - Anything Goes
• Outlawz Paper A La Mode - 3 embellishments (chipboard, sequin flowers & brads)
• Paper Shelter #21 - Dots
• Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
• Pile It on #28 - Fave technique (digi's & Promarkers and decoupaging parts of the image)
• Poodles Parlour - Birds Eye View
• Pollycraft #101 - The Great Outdoors
• Robyn's Nest - I Tawt I saw a Pooty Cat
• Scrappy Frogs - Use Flowers
• Squigglefly #106 - Use some Brads
• Stampavie & More #146 - More than 3 layers
• Stamping For the Weekend # 12 - Wings & Things
• Stamp Insanity #66 - Anything Goes
• Stamp Something #8 - Bugs or butterflies
• Stamps R Us - Through the Garden Gate
• Truly Scrumptious #60 - Things With Wings
• Try It On Tuesday - Flower Power