Super-Dad

Super-Dad

I found a 'Happy Father's Day' ready-made card in my craft stash with a square aperture (3 x 3"), so I looked in my files containing my cross-stitch patterns (Male theme file) and found a superhero image and on another pattern found the word 'Dad'; both of which would fit inside the aperture.

Next I cut some Aida slightly bigger than the square aperture on the card and got out my spare embroidery threads to use on this design.  Below is the finished cross-stitched card.

To continue the theme of 'Super Hero' inside the card I stamped the male superhero from Stampin' Up "Everyday Hero" stamp set.

I stamped a 'WOW' and a large spark in the bottom left-hand corner of the envelope, these were part of the Stampin' Up "Everyday Hero" stamp set too and it continued the theme onto the envelope.  

Also, I stamped my familiar 'Happy Mail' sentiment and duck delivering an envelope in the top left-hand corner of the envelope too.  This lets the recipient know that this is not a Bill!  This completed this project.

I would love to know what you think about my project, so please leave a comment.  Thank you.

Till next time, keep crafting!

Lorraine

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Lots of Pretty Kitties

Lots of Pretty Kitties

Stamping for Joy Sketch challenge Week 13 is shown below:

My take on this sketch is below here:

To create my card design initially I found a purple ready-made card (5 3/4 x 4") in my craft stash.  I trimmed a piece of patterned paper from Stampin' Up 'Wood Textures' (5 1 /2 x 3 3/4") and adhered this to the card base using foam pads.  I then cut 3 pieces of patterned paper from my purple scraps folder (3 1/2 x 1") and adhered these straight onto to the other patterned paper using snail adhesive making sure that they were evenly spread out.  

I then got out my Big Shot and die cut a cream card stock oval (4 x 2 3/4") and a green glitter card stock star was die cut too. (This was the smallest star shaped die I had in my stash)  This completed the die cutting.

Next came the stamping, I used Stampin' Up 'Pretty Kitty' stamp set and with all the different images I stamped these onto the oval (some of which were stamped off the edge). I stamped the sentiment "Hope your birthday is just like you..." in the centre of the oval.  Then I coloured the images in with my Prismocolor Pencils and after brightened up the kittens eyes with black and green gel pens. 

Inside the card I stamped the end of the sentiment from the front of the card which said "Hope your birthday is just like you..." and it said "WONDERFUL in every way."  I also stamped another of the images of Pretty Kitty to continue the theme of the card.

 On the envelope, I stamped one of the images of Pretty Kitty in the bottom right-hand corner.  This continued the theme of the card on the envelope too.

I also stamped my "Happy Mail" sentiment and the duck holding an envelope image too.  This lets the recipient know that this is not a Bill!  This completed my project.

I would love to know what you think about my project, so please leave a comment.  Thank you.

Till next time, keep crafting!

Lorraine

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Masculine Cards

Masculine Cards

In the kit for card making I got from Create & Craft along with quite a lot of Decoupage cards there was also card toppers and backing card stock to create Masculine cards.  On this blog page are two of the Masculine cards I created using the toppers and other card stock available.

For the card above I selected a scalloped ready-made white card base (6 x 6").  I then trimmed a blue spotted piece of card stock to (5 1/2 x 1 3/4') and also cut 2 x (1 1/4") circles out on the Big Shot using the same card stock.  The other card stock used measured (5 1/2 x 3 1/3"), on this piece I rounded the corners on the top and bottom on the right-hand side.  The two pieces of card stock were adhered butt up together directly onto the card base.  The two circles were adhered straight on top at the right-hand corner directly under each other.  Then the card topper was put on top using foam pads slightly off centre.  Inside I stamped a row of stars continuing the stars from the sentiment on the card topper.  This completed this project.

This card was put onto a White ready-made card base (5 1/2 x 5 1/2").  I then trimmed a piece of blue plaid card stock to (5 1/4 x 5 1/4") and adhered this straight to the card base.  The card topper was then added using foam pads.  I stamped a row of stars inside the card to continue the theme from the front of the card.  This completed this project.

The row of stars were also stamped on both envelopes as was 'Happy Mail' sentiment and the duck and the envelope image which tells the recipients that their mail is not a Bill!  

I would love to know what you think about my projecta, so please leave a comment.  Thank you.

Till next time, keep crafting!

Lorraine

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Decoupage Cards (set 3)

Decoupage Cards (set 3)

So following on from the last set of Decoupage Cards I had designs which were more feminine on each of these I added extra ribbon and bows were appropriate.  Inside two I had printed birthday verses which I adhered inside using double sided tape.  On the other two I printed the sentiments one stamp was "a little note to say Thank You" and the other stamp was "Happy Birthday".  

This last decoupage card is slight different as it is a 'telescope technique' because the pieces are going from large to small images.  

Finally on all the envelopes I stamped a set of 4 flowers to continue the theme of the material of the dresses and also the duck delivering an envelope and the sentiment 'Happy Mail' so my recipients would know that their mail was not a bill!  This completed all my projects.

I would love to know what you think about my projecta, so please leave a comment.  Thank you.

Till next time, keep crafting!

Lorraine

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Hello Butterflies

Hello Butterflies

Week 14 Sketch Challenge for Stamping for Joy is this:

My take on this sketch is below:

To create my card I first found a ready-made Vanilla card base (5 3/4 x 4").  I dry embossed the front panel of this card base with Stampin' Up 'Lovely Lace' embossing folder.  Next I got out my Big Shot and die cut a Spellbinders large sentiment "Hello" 5 times in purple card stock and the top one in a shiny foil purple card stock.  These I adhered together with wet glue and put an acetate block on top of it and allowed it to dry.  I found a die a similar shape to that on the sketch which was part of my mason jar die set, so I die cut this out in the same purple foil card stock as the sentiment.  I have two banner dies, so whilst the Big Shot was out I chose two purple scraps from my scrap folder and die cut these out.  The largest banner I trimmed on my trimmer and cut the banner end with my snips.

I then adhered all the banners together with wet glue and allowed these to dry.  I wanted then an image for my design, in my craft stash I found some stickers (some which were 3D with gems) that were different shades of purple.   So I adhered a large light purple butterfly onto the die cut shape with strong double sided tape.  

The banner were adhered to the card front with strong double sided tape and the die cut shape the same.  The sentiment though was adhered using wet glue and a heavy object put on top whilst it dried.  There was a small dark blue/purple butterfly which I adhered to between the 'H' and 'l' on the sentiment.  

Now for the inside of the card:

I used two more stickers from the sheet to continue the theme, a large blue/purple butterfly and a purple Pansy.  

Next I decorated the envelope:

I adhered the rest of the Pansies to the bottom left-hand corner as well as a small blue/purple butterfly.  At the top left-hand corner I stamped the duck delivering mail and a 'Happy Mail' sentiment so that my recipient would know that this is not a bill!  This completed my project.

I would love to know what you think about my project, so please leave a comment.  Thank you.

Till next time, keep crafting!

Lorraine

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Waterfront Masculine Card

Waterfront Masculine Card

Inspire.Create #015 is a Theme Challenge to create a Masculine card.  This is my submission for this challenge.

To create my project I used Black Memento Ink and Memento Dewdrop inks (Dandelion, Toffee Crunch, Bamboo Leaves, Tuxedo Black and Daube Blue)

First I cut a piece of White card stock (8 1/4 x 5 7/8") on my trimmer and the folded this in half and burnished the fold with my bone folder.  I then cut a further piece of White card stock which was     (5 3/8 x 3 3/4").  Also a piece of striped patterned paper was cut to (5 1/8 x 3 1/2").  This was adhered with snail adhesive to the White piece of card stock.  A hole was punched in each corner and then copper eyelets put in the holes and squeezed together with the eyelet tool.  

Then on the Big Shot a White oval was die cut from card stock.  Using Stampin' Up 'Waterfront Stamp set' and the Memento Dewdrop Inks an image was printed onto the oval piece of card stock including a sentiment 'Happy Birthday'.  

"Happy Mail" and the Duck with his envelope were stamped onto the front of the envelope and this completed my project.

I would love to know what you think about my project, so please leave a comment.  Thank you.

Till next time, keep crafting!

Lorraine

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Red Shoes

Red Shoes

I want to thank Sandi Maclver again for her video tutorial on her YouTube channel demonstrating how to put together a Rectangle Pop-Up Box Card which will fit into an A2 envelope.  To understand how to put this project together please follow the link to Sandi's video tutorial and for all the measurement follow the link I have set up to Sandi's Blog Page, thank you.  

Ok now I will let you know how I decorated my project.  I also need to thank another crafter, Dannielle Rose (whose YouTube channel video tutorials are fabulous).  I saw this video tutorial and fell in love with the shoe die and I knew that my best friend would love this shoe die too.  Dannielle was so lovely that she die cut me 4 of the shoes in Red card stock for me to use.  So thank you Dannii.

I constructed my rectangle box card using a Silver card stock, that included the two little inserts for the centre.  I left the back panel double the size of the rest of the panels in order that the shoes would show up against the silver panel.  I cut two small pieces of acetate to attached to the base of the shoes and these were adhered to the inserts in the centre.  On the back of the back panel I put a piece of White card stock which gave me somewhere to write my greeting.  In my craft stash I had black stickers which I used for the  'Happy Birthday' sentiment and the '5' and '0' these were adhered to the back panel at the top.  I coloured four lots of  '5' and '0' stickers with red permanent marker pen. I also coloured some silver stickers of shoes and handbags with red permanent marker too.  These dry quite quickly but do leave them a while to dry before adhering them to a project.  These images were put on the box flaps to decorate them in a similar theme to the die cut shoes.  

These stickers are useful to have in your craft stash for when you only have small area for a sentiment or your want a sentiment to stand out a bit on your project.

I would love to know what you think about my projects, so please leave a comment.  Thank you.

Till next time, keep crafting!

Lorraine

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