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A badger and an owl card

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A few weeks ago I was asked to make a badger and an owl card for a good friend of mine. I used a photo for the front of the badger card and a stamped image (kindly sent by Rachel) for the back of the card and as it was a man’s card I didn’t add blooms and swirls but just a tiny bit of bling on the corners.

Inks: versamark with silver embossing powder
Card: black, silver and blue card, photo
Stamp: Michael Strong’s Mosaic frame
Other: pearls

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For the owl card I kept to natural colours, used a photo of some bark (taken at Aviemore a few weeks ago) and a real feather which I hope is an owls. The background paper is hand made from recycled cotton T-shirts and the ribbon has leaves printed on it.

Inks: Moonshadow ink Burnt umber, Archival ink Coffee
Card: White card, hand made paper, brown card, photo
Stamps: owl stamp free from craft stamper mag
Other: peel-off leaves coloured and stuck to hand made paper, ribbon, hand made re-cycled paper, clear domes on eyes, copper brads, feather

Easter card

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I don’t make Easter cards every year  but I made a few this year.  Nice bright spring colours and not an Easter egg in sight.

Inks: black document ink, stampin up Certainly celery, Brilliance pearlescent Orchid and Sunflower yellow
Card: Green card, white card, Bo-Bunny patterned paper
Stamps: Elusive images Spring, Rubber Stamp Tapestry Yummy’s Garden
Other: Maya Road ribbon, stickles, copics to colour butterfly, flower embellishments

A bit of Manga for Ceara

card, digital stamp, Manga, Oriental
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It is Ceara’s 18th birthday soon and I know she likes Manga style art and I have tried to emulate Ceara’s hair colour (although it changes every time I see her) hence the kind of red/purple mix – and would you believe it – she has gone brown again!
The digital stamp image is called FuwaFuwa created by CupuDOTexe: printed then coloured using copic pens. I heat set the ink just in case is smudged while colouring with the copics.Inks: black document, Memento rhubarb stalk (for edges)
Card: white card, Yuzen paper, origami paper, purple pearlescent card
Stamps: Elusive images Bookmark plate (greeting), digit stamp FuwaFuwa
Other: gem, stickles, copic pens, ribbon, mizuhiki cord, lucky kitty and blossom stickers, origami crane (for longevity)

Connell’s penny slider card

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This card has a gap to enable the football to slide from side to side. The slider is just made up of two pennies held together via a magnet (hence the name of a penny slider card).

Inks: Black document ink
Card: white card, black card, football paper
Stamps: Snoopy footballer image was from a previous swap, football from Dimension Fourth Ltd
Other: Rock candy distress stickles, two pennies, tiny magnet, black peel-off stars, 3D foam strips

CBC Spring and Birthday challenge 2010 – Another sketch

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This challenge is to make a card based on a sketch and for bonus points add a rub-on and something with wings. I have flipped the sketch over (mirror image) and turned it to portrait position. The rub- on is the coppery coloured circle on the folded over corner (it is actually concentric circles but the large brad cover a couple of them). Ladybirds fly (wings are under their elytra) but their wings are not shown here so I am not sure if this counts.

CBC Spring and Birthday challenge 2010 – 10 from 1 (cards)

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Wow I have spent almost all day making cards but have only come up with 5 for this challenge so far. The challenge is to use 1 item (I have used a Michael Strong’s Mozaic frame stamp) to make 10 different cards. I was going to photograph them in a group but some have very shiny mirror card and I had to many reflections going on everywhere.
The 3rd one down has silver mirror card as a matt and the bottom 2 have gold mirror card but they haven’t photographed well.
I will add the next 5 tomorrow once they are made.

CBC Spring and Birthday challenge 2010 – Clothes that crease

card, CBC spring and birthday challenge, clothes that crease

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This challenge is to make two card with a fashion/clothes theme but to have more than one crease (fold). I have made a ladies gate fold and a gent’s tri-shutter card.
The colour doesn’t show up too well in my photos but they are nice and bright in real life.
For the shoes card I used white and blue card, bashful blue and black ink, copics to colour. The stamps are Stampin up dotty background and See D’s Domestic Goddess.
For the tri-shutter card I used stampin up paper and card, creamy caramel and chocolate chip ink. The top and bottom stamps are from The Artistic Stamper Ephemera and the clothes and watch are from a stamped image swap over on CBC. The images are coloured using watercolour pencils.

Valentine card

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Well now I am not really a Valentine-kinda-gal but I always make a card for Harry. He bought me the stamp set so I had no excuses really. The card says it all!
He hasn’t realised it is a fridge magnet yet!!!

Inks: black document ink, Memento Rhubarb stalk
Card: white card, 7 gypsies Karma paper
Stamps: O-check design graphics Love set ver.2
Other: heart shaped fridge magnet, organza ribbon

A few cards for men.

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This month I have half a dozen birthday cards to make and four of them are for men – why is is that I find designing cards for men is so much more difficult than for women?

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Inks: Black document ink, Distress inks Antique linen and black soot
Card: Black, white
Stamps: Stampin up Sense of time, Seeing spots and Curvy verses, Autumn leaves On the edge (Katie Pertiet), Clarity stamps clever corner Delicate
Other: circle domed bubble, Stampin up hardware

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Inks: Stampin up Old olive and Pumpkin pie
Card: Stampin up paper Summer picnic, white card
Stamps: Design house Deco A glimpse & a rose in the hand (greeting), Llewelyn-Bowen Vernaissance
Other: memory chips (metal parts coloured with Sunset orange alcohol ink)

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Inks: Black document ink to go around the edges
Card: Black, white, silver and red mirror card, acetate, gingham paper
Other: red and silver brads
The greeting was printed out and the compass was an image from the internet printed onto acetate. All the parts move so you can turn the compass dial around the silver brad and you can turn the whole compass to reveal the greeting. Photo doesn’t show up the shiny dial very well.

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Inks: Archival Coffee, Distress ink Walnut stain
Card: Natural brown card, beige card
Stamps: Stampin up Sense of time, Stampers anonymous Urban tapestry, Autumn leaves On the edge (Katie Pertiet)
Other: Tim Holtz mask Timeworks, brad and cog