Alternate Designs for the Perennial Birthday Card Kit

Alternate Designs for the Perennial Birthday Card Kit

I have since my post on the 23rd of this month where I showed all 4 designs of the cards made up.  Today I have 3 designs which use the resources available in the kit but the original designs have been changed a little.  It wasn't easy I can tell you, I kept wanting to go back to the original designs.

 Card (A)

 Card (B)

Card (C)

I have decided to make up the rest of the cards in the original designs unless any other creative designs come to fruition whilst I am crafting.   Let me know if you like any of these new designs. 

Thank you. 

Please leave a comment because I would love to know what you think about my project.  Thank you.

Till next time, keeping crafting!

Lorraine

:o)

Fit For the Boys

Male Cards

My daughter (Beckii) bought me a pair of eyelet pliers for my birthday and I had wanted to try these out.  I have always felt that eyelets on a card help to make it more manly.  So here is the first completed project.

I had a pre-formed white card base and I cut a second piece of white card stock at 5 3/4" x 3 3/4".  Then I cut a piece of DSP from my stash (5 1/2" x 3 1/2") and adhered this onto the the white card stock with snail adhesive.  I punched four holes, one in each corner and then pressed in four gold eyelets with the pliers.  I then put this onto the main card stock with foam pads.  I stamped the truck from Stampin' Up Country Livin' Stamp Set onto a white card stock oval and I coloured this with my new Prismacolour Pencils.  The oval was adhered with foam pads to the DSP and finally I heat embossed a sentiment  with white embossing powder.  (The stamp was part of the selection of sentiment dies I received with my Papercrafter Magazine Issue 117)

This one started out exactly the same as the one above apart from I used Copper coloured eyelets on  this project.  I then thought I would experiment with my Stampin' Up Waterfront Stamp Set to create a scene.  I stamped the 'Happy Birthday' sentiment afterwards with stamps from my stash.

I have recipients for both of these cards already, so they will not be in my card box for long.  I enjoyed using my new eyelet pliers, so thank you Beckii.

Till next time, keep crafting!

Lorraine

:o)

Birthday Owl Experience

Birthday Owl Experience

My best friend Deana has been keeping a big secret from me.  She has been planning this birthday experience with my husband Simon too.  I had to cancel going to a Card Crafting afternoon due to today but I was not told why.  All I knew was that I had to keep today free from any other events.  I had no idea what to expect.  I asked my husband what I should wear and he said that what I was wearing yesterday would be fine (jeans and my owl shirt) not realising why.  I actually changed my shirt until I found out what my surprise was and then I changed back of course!

Here is a selection of the photographs that were taken by my husband during the 2 hours Steve from the Yorkshire Owl Experience and his beautiful 5 owls were with us in our conservatory.

This is Charlie (Little Owl)

This is Jack (Barn Owl)

This is Amber (African - Southern White Faced Scops Owl)

This is Dusty (Tawny Owl)

This is Casper (Eagle Owl)

I held all the owls and my husband (Simon) and friends (Deana and Frankie) were also able to hold the owls too.  My cheeks were aching after the experience from so much smiling.  The owls were so well behaved, they are reared from chicks by hand by Steve.  They allowed us to hold them, stroke them and Amber was so happy on me she started purring and eventually laid her head down on my shirt and closed her eyes.  It was AMAZING!

I can't thank my pal Deana enough, I love her loads.  

Stamp with Joy - Week 4 Colour Challenge

New Card Project

For the past few weeks I have been taking part in Stamp for Joy Group's Face Book Card Challenge.  This is week 4 and it is a colour challenge - to use the colours Crushed Curry, Emerald Envy and Berry Burst.  These are Stampin' Up ink colours and not everyone has these, so you could use yellow, green and a burgundy/red.  

I am lucky enough to have in my stash Crushed Curry ink (which I have never used until today) and a Stampin' Spot of Berry Burst (which I purchased from the new Spring/Summer Catalogue) because I love smaller ink pads.  

When I attend my Shared Craft Group on a Tuesday afternoon I find these smaller ink pads easier to transport and you certainly easily store more of them.  I double mine up in one of these plastic containers (cheap to purchase and light to carry).

So back to the Colour Challenge.  I used a 8" x 6" piece of green card and scored this at 4".  Then I cut a piece of yellow 5 3/4" x 3 3/4".  (Not Crushed Curry but as near as I could find in my stash)  I then used the stamp from Stampin' Up Fruit Basket which outlines the pear to stamp all over this card stock in Crushed Curry.  

I then cut a strip of burgundy card stock 3 3/4" x 1 1/4" and adhered a green organza ribbon around this and slightly below this I adhered a strip of the beautiful Berry Burst ribbon.  The ends were neatly folded behind the card stock.  I used my bow maker (thanks to  Gaynor Boyce for showing me how to use this piece of equipment) to create a double bow using both the coloured ribbons and adhered this to the card stock.  A large stamping block was put on top of this until the wet glue had dried.  

Next I cut out a heart in white card stock with my stitched frame-lits and stamped the sentiment in Berry Burst ink inside the heart - 'We make a great pear'.  I also stamped a Berry Burst tiny heart too.  So the last element to do was the pears.  I used my stamp positioner, to stamp out two pear outlines in black ink, fill in the centres with green ink and a little brown for the stalk.  Then I used the fabulous little pear punch to punch out the two pears. 

Now for the best part, putting the whole project together.  The yellow card stock was adhered straight to the green card base with snail adhesive, the burgandy strip of card stock with the ribbon was adhered towards the bottom of the card base using 'Tear and Tape' because it is stronger to hold the card stock and the ribbon.  The heart and pears were put on foam tape pieces to add dimension to my project.  

The project was now finished, I uploaded my photograph to the Stamp with Joy Group page and now was left with a fabulous Wedding Anniversary card to give to my fantastic husband on Sunday.  

What do you think?

Till next time, keep crafting!

Lorraine

:o)

Birthday Thanks

BIRTHDAY THANKS

I would like to thank all my family and friends for the birthday wishes I was sent yesterday.  Some of these were by post in the way of birthday cards, some were sent via Face Book.  No matter how these were sent I was overwhelmed by everyone's words of kindness.  

When I got my diagnosis in October 2014, never did I think I would make it to 51; 3 years laters (neither did the doctors!).  Fighting this disease has made me more thankful for each and every birthday, which is not the normal response when someone reaches a certain age!  Last year, I had the most wonderful 50th birthday bash in a 60s style with friends and family.  It does not seem that a year has passed already but it has.  A friend posted a great photo from the party and I thought it would be great to show it here on my blog.  

I would also like to say thank you to my husband (Simon), daughter (Beckii) and son (Joel) and his partner (Naomi) for the fabulous crafty bundles they gave me for my birthday.  An Amazon Wish List comes in handy when family want to know what you want.  Here are three photographs of my three great crafty bundles.

From my daughter Beckii

From my husband (Simon)

From my son (Joel) and his partner (Naomi)

Thank you again to all my family and friends for all the cards, presents and best wishes, I really appreciate it and love you all!  xx

Stampin' Up - Perennial Birthday Card Kit

Perennial Birthday Project Kit

Today I have been to my Shared Craft Group (who meet every Tuesday 2 pm - 4 pm).  There I helped a fellow crafter with a birthday card for a very special birthday (60th).

I also took along my Stampin' Up Perennial Birthday Project Kit, I did read the instructions (well I browsed LOL!)  As I had my stamping positioning tool I decided to do all the stamping first which consisted of all the sentiments for all 16 cards and stamping of one of the small flowers and some leaves for 4 tags.  I do not have many Stampin' Up inks, so I used inks that were near to the colours of the projects.  

I used: Stampin' Up Stampin' Spot - Peekaboo Peach

            Memento Dewdrop  - Danube Blue

            Memento Dewdrop - Bamboo Leaves

I put together 4 cards, 1 of each design as in the photographs, with 2 exceptions.

On the Peach card I put the gold ribbon underneath the beautiful patterned die-cut accent instead of putting it on the top which was what was in the photograph and I cut the ends straight.

The on the next horizontal card, which has a blue background with gold foil dots, the instructions say to put the Baker's Twine around the middle of the card front and then secure.  Well I didn't want Baker's Twine on the inside of my card so instead I cut a piece of Baker's Twine a little longer than the gold ribbon (which had been notched at each end) and secured the Baker's Twine on the back of the ribbon with glue dots.  The the ribbon was adhered to the card stock with further glue dots.  I then constructed a bow with the Baker's Twine and adhered that to the right hand side of the card front with wet glue.

The 2 vertical cards I don't think I changed at all (if you see anything that is different from the cards illustrated on pages 16 and 17 of the Stampin' Up Spring/Summer 2018 Catalogue then please let me know.  

Now I have 3 more card bases of each design left and all the embellishments, I think now I am going to do some changes and see how these compare to the designs provided for us crafters in the Instruction Booklet.  Keep looking on my blog, because I will post these other designs as I complete them.  Its my birthday tomorrow, so there may not be much crafting going on!  

Till next time - keep crafting!  :o)

A new card to celebrate the birth of twins

Hi everyone, I thought I'd share my latest design, this was a card I created on request from  my daughter Beckii, who's friend has just given birth to twin boys.

I hope you like the design, I will post a more detailed description about the card (stamps etc) but for now please feel free to feedback on the design.

Lorraine :o)

Welcome to my new blog

Hi everyone, my name is Lorraine and I'm just mad about all types of arts and craft.  My main love at the moment is Card making but as you will see I can and often do, turn my hand to anything.

Apart from displaying my projects I hope to be able to share techniques and idea's and hopefully inspire other crafters like yourselves.