James' birthday card

A bright and fun card for a lovely little boy called James. We're off to his party this afternoon so needed to be something fairly quick.
I used a non Su stamp set I have in my personal collection (which non Su totals about 4!) , I stamped it with staz on onto whisper white and then coloured with markers - garden green, pumpkin pie, daffodil delight, pacific point and real red.
This was then mounted on matching paper layers and the name was stamped using the just perfect alphabet (again coloured with those fantastic versatile markers!) And punched out using the 3/8" punch and layered on 1" circles. Quick and bright!
Hope you like!

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A birthday card for Karen

Now a card for my sister in law is a big deal! She is an extremely talented card maker who has an innate sense of artistry and style meaning she rarely stamps. She is also known as a perfectionist - something I am most certainly not!
So...
When I saw this card on Monica Gale's blog, I knew I wanted to CASE it. Elegant, stylish and feminine plus the added benefit for me of being a style I had not tried before - the twisted easel card.
I used paper from the now retired sweet pea stack, and the flourish is taken from this years SAB. The butterfly is from my latest new plaything - big shot and dies. I used my nestabilities to cut the two circles. The monogram K is using the broadsheet letters.
If I was doing this again I would play around more with how to make the card stand up and the sentiment to face the correct direction.
Hope you like!

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Butterflies and elegance!

These were made for my lovely friend Kirsty to celebrate the opening of her beauty salon! So if anyone fancies a pampering west chiltington way.... pop on in!

Anyway... I took my inspiration from ustamp4fun and Amy's beautiful cards and copied idea but changed the color scheme to crumb cake and baha breeze.
I used the beautiful new die with the butterflies and some of our coordinating dsp. The stamped butterfly is from a retired hostess set.
The coordinating gift box is made using the fab pillow box die - i'll show you the contents another day!
Hope you like!

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A rich razzleberry gift for Sally

An a5 card base made very quickly and simply by the addition of a very vanilla top note and a crystal effects chipboard letter daubed with ink to match the colour scheme. The Leaves are taken from the bird punch.
The 3d flower makes the statement on the card, made from 6 punched scalloped circles, daubed the edges with ink and then misted with water, and screwed up. A brad is used to hold to all together and then it dries to a finished flower.
The accompanying pillow box uses the same elements.

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Oh my goodness!

I wish I was one of those people who was neat, tidy and organised... who had a plan for a card and stuck to it, who didn't need to see all three options of ribbon before making a choice and have the table absolutely covered as she works! I admire people who work on a tray on their laps or on a small corner of a room! Me - my entire dining room gets taken over when project card is underway!

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Hmm...

For some reason the picture for Tom's card didn't insert...

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A natural birthday card for Tom

My friend regularly commissions me to make her families birthday cards (she has 5 children!)
Anyway her eldest son, Tom is a fab lad! 17 and has a very mature and wise head on his shoulders. He loves the outdoors and is currently at college learning all about game management and conservation. So, when asked to do a card, I knew it had to be masculine and natural.

I used a retired dsp which has trees on, cut two ovals from whisper white and olive and then was able to use a fantastic technique we covered at our inspirin inkin training recently called thumping! - basically you use a light ink to mark up the tree image and then using a variety of green markers as if they were drumsticks - you thump the stamp with the wide edge randomly. Color in the trunk and press and.you have a very realistic multicoloured tree image.
Tiny tags T and hello provide some personalisation tied on with twine and the happy birthday (retired) added to the ovals adds to the occasion.
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Friendship card - inspired by a handbag!

This card came about because one evening I had lost my mojo! So I did what any sensible girl would do and asked my friend and Su mummy Claire for help. She suggested I used a stamp set I didn't use (ornate flowers) and when I told her this she sent me a picture of her bag which was in this colour way and a v similar pattern (i should get her to resend it so I can add it on here!

So here is my card...

Night of navy and early espresso with not quite navy too. Sentiment (retired) is stamped on vellum and taped into the back of the early espresso panel.

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Birthday card in blues and greens and an oops!

This birthday card was made in a little bit of a rush.... can you spot the oops?
I knew it was my friends son's birthday... what I had forgotten was that they were going away on holiday suddenly losing me the few days I thought I had! Hence quick card!

Made using old olive dsp and ribbon and pacific point cardstock, star punch and broadsheet letters. The button is available from the mini and actually is pear pizazz but it was a case of that'll do quick!
It wasn't til I had given the card and looking at the picture that I had put the L on the wrong way around!!

The clear mount stamps do make letters easy to line up though! I place them all down on my grid paper straight and then press the block down firmly and hold for 5 seconds.

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A card for Anne

I was given the brief - she likes bright subtles, flowers but not girly and something eye catching! Erm... ok then!
Think this was well received so must have done ok!
Used the totally clever 2 step Stampin set greenhouse garden and stamped the flowers in daffodil delight and then stamped the details in chocolate chip with some of them stamped off to create a softer tone. The little leaves image in old olive is from a retired hostess stamp set.
The letters were stamped using the broadsheet letters, normally as I have mentioned in previous posts, I line the letters up on grid paper then press down my block - I couldn't do this with 2 n's but the grid part helped yet again as I could measure the space I needed to leave for the second n and then add it in after!
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Lightening McQueen birthday invites

My little boy Jonah is rather in love with the film Cars at the moment so what better choice for a birthday party theme when he turns 3 at the end of August and of course the invites have to match :)

Ellen Kemper of Blinkin thinkin inkin is a punch art goddess! This card is adapted from her lightening McQueen and took a little bit of head scratching to work it out (thanks to my Su mummy and friend Claire... took us a while!) Mainly we think because we don't have the extra wide oval the Americans do... but think these are passable... certainly Jonah recognised them so good enough for me! If anyone wants the recipe then leave me a comment.

The background was made using the square punch so quick work! And the initial from broadsheet letters. I printed stickers with all the important info to go on the back and et voila done!

Hope you liked it!

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