Commission Cards..

Got asked to make a couple of personalised cards when everyone was round on Monday..

Here’s one with a bit of paper piecing.
I’m liking this style card, very simple but deceptively impressive!!






Someone’s dad is having a landmark birthday.

And the final one is a non traditional card for a non traditional couple who’ve been together for years and years and who are getting married very quietly next week with NONE of the trimmings. Or should that be trappings?
Anyhoo the brief was not overly romantic or traditionally weddingy. So I opted for this dressing gown topper from a Kanban kit as the main image. It’s an easel card and there's a bit of embossed detail on the background which my poor photography skills haven’t quite captured.
Hope this suits, as I doubt I’ll have time to make another one!

Birthday cards

Just thought I’d share a couple of cards I snuck in this week….
I bought some fancy edged tent  card blanks from create and craft – I think they are rather neat!!

And here is a a birthday card for a friend. I went digital with this one but decoupaged the flowers and added lots of bling!!

Well, it’s a grey Bank Holiday Monday here at the mo, but just a hint that it might brighten up. Till it does I am going to have a little snoop around to see what peeps have been up to. Have a good day.

Working the Cuttlebug..

The current challenge at Artful Times is to use two or more folders on a project. Like Neet, I was a bit flummoxed by the notion but thought I'd let it simmer.

Quite coincidentally, I was looking for confirmat
ion that I could use a certain die in my cuttlebug before ordering it and I came across this 'Double Cuttle' tutorial which explores using two embossing folders together. Result!! (there are a few other cuttlebug tutorials there if you are interested although the blog itself seems to have lapsed a bit lately).

The idea is to emboss the same piece of paper twice using two different folders, highlighting the first impression with inks or whatever and after running through with the second folder highlighting the second impression. The best advice as to choice of folders was to do the busiest one first, and all I can add to that really is perhaps use a background type folder first and then one that is more an image.

I used a diamond background folder and then the leaf folder (can't remember the names but I'm sure any buggies out there will recognise them). I used some mini ink pads to highlight each time. In a moment of madness I found some chipboard leaves and embossed them as well with 'divine swirls' - so 3 embossing folders for me!!

Here's the finished 8 x 8 card with some pink accents, my new gorjuss stamp, shabby flowers and a sentiment at a jaunty angle. (I remark on that only because it makes me really uncomfortable)


















Here's a tag madewith the same folders plus a dotty one  - yep,  I managed to use three folders again! Another shabby flower (get used to it, I made a lot of them!!)



Then I wondered what it would look like if I stamped first and then embossed. So I tried out another tag, stamping 'LOVE' and the swirl before embossing with my dotty and hearts folders. Kinda like this, I think there are definite possibilities there. I'll gift this one to the first person who asks, I haven't put any embellies on it so it could even be a bookmark but be aware it isn't sealed.

Enjoyed that challenge, really like it when something prompts me to make use of the thin
gs I've already got in a different way - and it is soooo simple, do have a go.

See you soon.

Please note: still jumping through hoops to upload so apols if anything looks weird - never know till I publish quite what is going to happen!!
 

Fairy Cards

I recently succumbed to Debbi Moore's Christmas Fairy CD because I thought the fairies were so very pretty. I really like the idea of CD crafting for making cards to sell, especially when used in conjunction with the Craft Artist programme and I am getting quite a collection. Unfortunately my printer is rather unreliable for getting true colours, especially in the blue range (hubby is already leaning towards putting a new printer on my Christmas list because I keep making a sad face - result!!). Anyhow I managed to print out a few sheets and these are the first cards I have made with them.

 

Although the CD comes with all sorts of matching papers etc I'm not really a great fan of everything co-ordinating ad nauseum (and the chance of it all printing out the same shade is pretty minimal) so I used some lovely polka dot cards and greetings I got from the Anna Marie Designs stall at Ally Pally.

 

 

This one was part of  the same decoupage sheet as the one above - they are supposed to be the same colour! Fortunately it seemed to match with all these other bits that were in my WIP pile.

 

 

This one came out grey as well, not the colour it should be!! However I think she's rather classy. I need to make a few more of these for my MacMillan coffe morning, I think they'll go down a storm.

 

That's all for now!!