Category Archives: card

Anniversary cards

05/04/2011anniversary card, cardJackie

As you can see by the poor photography I was in rather a rush to take the photos and get these to get these in the post in time.
I was asked to make the 2 silver wedding anniversary cards for a pal (proceeds go to Spinal Injuries Scotland) and the Oriental one is for my wee brother Chris and his wife Grace. I haven’t made an Oriental style card for ages and I had forgotten what fabby Chiyogami papers I still have in my stash.

Silver hearts
Inks: Versamark with silver embossing powder
Card: white, silver miri, silver swirly vellum
Stamps: Hearts (possibly Elusive images), greeting Stamping up Cheers and wishes
Other: gems, white ribbon with silver edging, white flower, gem brad, Cuttlebug embossing folder

Silver anniversary
Inks: versamark with silver embossing powder
Card: white, silver miri, silver angel hair, Silver anniversary vellum,
Stamps: glasses chinking free with Craft stamper mag.
Other: silver heart charm, silver ribbon, silver nail heads, glitter pen to colour

Entwined hummingbirds
Inks: Memento Tuxedo black, Distress ink Barn door, Adirondack Sunshine yellow
Card: silk matt coated white, white, black, embossed gold, Chiyogami patterned paper
Stamps: Clarity stamps Entiwined hummingbirds, Hero arts tiny Chinese wishes (love)

Mother’s day easel card

03/04/2011card, easel card, mothers day cardJackie

I love the colours of the Magenta paper I used on my mum’s card for mothering Sunday. It is pretty and bright without being sickly sweet. In fact I liked it so much that I made H’s mum the same card.

Inks: Distress inks Peeled paint used for some of the edges
Card: White card, Magenta Printemps passion collection Peacock blue (double sided), white flock vellum
Other: Delish mini pearl brads, Stampin up Hardware, Prima flower Calcutta dogwood Bright white, Punched frond leaves, punched butterflies, pearls,

Born to ride birthday card

28/03/2011biker card, born to ride, cardJackie

I really like this image from Karen’s Doodles and it is just right for birthday cards for a few of my male buddies. I also used it for a father’s day card and you can really change the look just by colouring it differently and using different back ground papers.

Inks: Distress ink Black soot
Card: white, textured silvery/grey
Digital stamp: Born to ride Karen’s Doodles
Other: Square silvery/grey brads, copics and Prisma pencils to colour, Diamond glaze

Get well card

25/03/2011card, get well soon cardJackie

Poor Ceara having to get her tonsils out! Hope all goes well and you are back to 100% soon.

Inks: Stampin up Old olive, Tombo pens 856 and 098
Card: white card, Stampin up patterned paper
Stamps: Stampin up Hopeful thoughts
Other: mini red rik rak ribbon

The never ending card

23/03/2011birthday card, card, Connell, never ending cardJackie

So what is a never ending card I hear you ask – well it is a card that once you open it you can keep on opening it because of the way it folds. They are very easy to make and you can find quite a few video tutorials on how to do this on you tube.

Now I know you are not supposed to mix up centimetres and inches when measuring but for this card I found it easier to measure the back ground card in inches and the panels in centimetres.
The whole card is 6″ x 6″
I cut 4 strips of the double sided back ground paper 3″ x 6″
Scored at 1 1/2″ from each narrow end
My square panels to stick on are 7cm x 7cm.
(If you search for never ending card on you tube you will see just how to stick the card together).

Inks: Memento Tuxedo black, Distress ink Peeled paint
Card: White card, BoBunny Beautiful life dots double sided card
Stamps: JudiKins small tennis ball (tiny cube of balls), Happy birthday from a Cute companions set
Other: black magic mesh, white gross grain ribbon, tennis racket embellishments, yellow and lime crayons, clip art tennis player, white pen, rub-on letters

Engagement card

17/02/2011card, engagement cardJackie

Here is a quick engagement card I was asked to make the other day. The engagement congratulations are on the insert rather than on the front of the card so I could put the love quote on the front instead. The delicate leaves and flowers signify the growing and blossoming love.

Inks: Stampin up Old olive, Distress ink Peeled paint, red pen for flower
Card: white card, Magenta Printempspassion Robin’s nest paper
Stamps: Stampin up Hopeful thoughts, sentiment (unknown)
Other: ribbon, tiny piece of gauze, tiny flat backed pearls, pearl heart

Circuit board Birthday card

14/02/2011birthday card, card, circuit boardJackie

I was given a few pieces of circuit board by John ages ago so that I could take the components from it to use in my card making. I have used the odd bit but I thought I would take a photo and use that instead for this card. I will take a few arty photos in future from different angles and maybe close ups to see if I can get a more interesting effect than just overhead. I have matted the photo with coppery coloured card and tape to compliment the copper circuitry.

Card: photo card, black, white, speciality two tone copper/green card

Other: copper spiral paperclips, copper tape, circuit board

Birthday card

14/02/2011birthday card, cardJackie

So Stuart – when are you doing the West Highland Way?
This is not the card I intended to do but I just couldn’t get my other ideas to work but I do like this photo – they both look so happy in it. They do a lot of walking together including hill walking, mountain rescue and geo-caching.

Inks: Memento Tuxedo black
Card: white aperture card, photo card, white card
Stamps: Aspects of Design 25 – Rambling 1
Other: map showing the West highland Way, bottle cap, diamond glaze, watercolour pencils

Valentine card

14/02/2011card, valentine cardJackie

We are not that big on Valentines day in our house but we do always do the card thing. Ukstampers are having a Valentine competition going on so I entered this card in.

[Doh!! I have just realized I haven’t actually used any stamping on this card!]

Inks: Alcohol inks: stream, stonewashed and sailboat blue
Card: white card, blue handmade background paper (see Fishes card a few posts ago for details), silver miri card (through the diamond Cuttlebug embossing folder)
Other: mesh, small square embellishment (middle replaced with a blue heart button), silver bradletz, silver embossing powder, printed greeting

Easel card for Tegan

13/02/2011card, easel cardJackie

I wanted to make a card that would hold a gift certificate and remembered Linda Elbourne’s article in the Craft stamper mag (Feb 2010). I made up a square one and used patterned paper for most of it with a little stamping on the front of the pocket. I wrapped the certificate with ribbon so it is easy to pull out.

Inks: Adirondack Woodlands, Distress inks Tattered rose and Frayed burlap
Card: white, brown, brown corrugated, double sided patterned card Prima Flights of fancy ‘tiptop’
Stamps: fee stamp (from craft stamper mag.)
Other: Prima Camelot rose, tiny gold brad, flower brads, vellum butterfly coloured from the back, diamond glaze (on the clock face), ribbon, Stampin up book-plate

I coloured the certificate with more stamping and edged with the same Distress inks to match the card. Now Tegan, I have it on good authority that you will use the gift to put towards a clock!

Cardesque

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