Our very dear friend Iain has had a pretty hard time over the past 7 months recovering from a stroke and adjusting to his new way of life. He is doing so extremely well – no surprise there given his inner strength, his faith, his wife Ruth and all his family and friends, not to mention his sense of humour. Happy birthday Iain.
Inks: Memento black and copic pens to colour
Card: tartan paper, stampin up old olive card and summer picnic paper
Stamps: Stampin up Golden oldies
Again using the masterboard method I made the background paper but this time using bashful blue and sage green ink. I had a special request for a card with dragonflies and a snowy background so this was the design I came up with. I was so pleased with it that I made a few more with this background and a couple more with fusible fibre and film dragonflies like these ones. You can’t really tell from this photo but this card also has gems, stickles and sprinkles of silver embossing for a nice sparkly effect.
The following card is for Rachel my stampin up supplier. There are many cards with this theme about: Santa and his sleigh flying over the roof tops or over the trees so this is my version.
What a busy time of year for crafters. I have, like many others, been making a few Christmas cards in the last few weeks. Here is a small selection made using the tutorial in Craft Stamper mag (Dec 09 issue) by Jo Firth-young for making your own master board. Christmas cards are not my favourite ones to make as I don’t like making them all the same so I like to come up with different designs, even if there is only a slight variation it allows each person to have a unique card. Now I know if I started making Christmas cards in June then I would have time to make ALL my Christmas cards but I really can’t get my head into Christmas mode in June so I still end up buying charity cards too.
Michelle Zindorf has a fab tutorial which I used for this card. I changed a couple of elements but I got the same overall effect.