Category Archives: card

Three flowers card

anniversary card, card

PatRobin09

I made the paper for the flowers using Glitz Spritz and lime green spray paint, then I stamped and cut out the flowers. Tiny micro beads add a little texture and glaze really makes the flowers stand out. The leaves are just punched from black card. The background paper is a very silky soft Chinese paper that I have wrapped around white card then layered it with some black card. The edge is stamped and coloured with H2Os.

Inks: Versafine onyx black, Glitz Spritz Desert moon antique rose, lime green spray, H2Os to colour
Card: white card, black card, Chinese silk paper (?),
Stamps: Hero arts four dolls (border), Free flower stamp from Craft stamper magazine
Other: micro beads, glaze, small leaf punch

Summer on the open road card

card, open road, summer

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Over on CBC forum Carolineanne has set a challenge to make a greetings card depicting summer. Here is my entry for the challenge. I was going to do a seaside theme but I thought about doing something different – day trippers out for a drive on a nice summer day. Now I know it is at a jaunty and I thought it would look nice sitting on pink tissue paper but I couldn’t get that to lay flat. I stamped the image twice and decoupaged the car.

Inks: Black document, Stampin up Taken with teal, Brilliance graphite black, Memento London fog, copic pens to colour and black gelly glaze pen for tyres
Card: white card, teal card
Stamps: Paper nation vintage chic, The artistic stamper The open road set, Basic Grey flourish corners
Other: blooms, gems, ribbon, rub-on letters (summer), Making memories page pebbles (head lights)

Have a beer card.

beer, card, Mark
mark50
Happy Birthday Mark

I made this to go with his present of a case of British beers so all the makes of beer he will get in the case are printed on the card. The greeting is stamped then punched out and stuck to the inside of a squashed bottle cap. The tag was made using a stamped image from DewDrop Craftz and coloured with copic pens.

Inks: black, Distress ink walnut stain, Adirondack woodlands
Card: white card, brown card
Stamps: DewDrop craftz Jim – just chillin, Stampin up circle greeting
Other: Bottle cap, grosgrain ribbon, Distress stickles vintage photo (stuck the greeting into the bottle cap with this so you just see it behind the greeting)

Ready Steady Stamp

card, Ready Steady Stamp

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Today I have tried this Ready Steady Stamp challenge and after a few problems with my faux-batik (I used tissue paper to iron with and it stuck!) I have finally made a card.
The faux-batik is on an Edinburgh Evening News article about this weekend’s highland gathering so I used a Scottish theme throughout.

After making the faux-batik background I then sprinkled it with embossing powder and heated from beneath, then edged with the same powder.
The Celtic cat is stamped onto acetate and glittered on the underside then stuck onto the same coloured card as the card base.

celticCat

Oops… I have taken the photo before the glue has dried so you can still see some glue on the rim of the circle.
Inks: black stazon, black versafine, versamark (with gold embossing powder)
Card: grey and acetate, tartan paper
Stamps: Elusive Images Celtic cat, thistle (unknown)
Other: 3 gold brads different sizes, glitter

Donna and Jackie’s Oh happy day card

card, versamark
ohHappyDay
Congratulations Donna and Jackie!
I hope it stayed fair for your ceremony in Callander.

Their card uses a resist technique using versamark ink on glossy card.
Plain white glossy card was stamped using the dotty background stamp, dried with a heat gun then inked using the direct to paper technique. I wiped it with kitchen roll to reveal the dots that resisted the colour. The hearts were stamped onto this card using black ink and cut out.
A piece of paper was scrunched up and then flattened again. Using the direct to paper technique the colour was added to the high points of the crumpled paper. This was cut to size and edged with colour. On a piece of plain white card the dotty background was stamped in the same colour, trimmed to size, edged and distressed. The greeting was stamped onto plain card, this was then trimmed to size and edged. These layers were matted together with a plain piece of white paper then the hearts and embellishments were added.Inks: Versamark, black Stazon, Memento Rhubarb stalk
Card: glossy white, plain white
Stamps: greeting (unknown), stampin up polka dot background, The artistic stamper Stitchels dashy dot
Other: dotty brads, ribbon and pearl

Suzanne’s birthday card

card, versamark
versamarkBirthday
Happy Birthday Suzanne

Suzanne’s card was made using 3 different techniques with versamark ink.
The background was simply stamped (dots) in versamark on green card then edged all around with versamark.
The greeting involves the drop shadow technique where you stamp once with a dark colour then stamp again slightly off to one side using a lighter tone. I used a green colour for the first stamped image then versamark for the second to create the shadow.
The third technique is used on the butterfly. I stamped the butterfly in versamark ink then gently wiped chalks over the top using a cotton bud. The versamark is sticky so the chalk sticks to it creating a soft coloured effect. The branch and flowers were stamped using colourd inks and highlighted with stickles.

Inks: versamark, stampin up mellow moss, caramel and pale plum
Card: white, green
Stamps: greeting (unknown), Papertrey Ink Out on a limb, RS tapestry Nature plate 5 (butterfly)
Other: Stickles fruit punch, green brads, pink lace

Gone training Father’s day card

card, dewdrop craftz, father's day

goneTraining

This is for Harry from Chiquo (dog!). I used one of the image swaps from Dewdrop craftz. (The man with the beer).
Inks: Black memento and black document inks, copics to colour
Card: white card, Stampin up Summer picnic paper
Stamps: Dewdrop Craftz Jim just chillin, Dog’s life (unknown make)
Other: computer generated greeting and sign writing, big brad, cord, liquid appliqué for head on beer

Father’s Day Card

card, embossed foil, father's day

dad2009

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Happy Father’s Day DAD!

Another card inspired by the craft stamper magazine, this time by Isabelle Norris. Isabelle made a mini album but I took a few of her ideas and incorporated them into this card.

Inks/paints: crackle paint broken china, acrylic paint; black and Prussian blue, silver, black document ink, Distress inks antique linen and frayed burlap
Card: black card, images and mini envelope from Heritage paper, silver foil,
Stamps: free Father’s day stamp from craft stamper mag.
Other: grunge board letters, silver foil covered lace (corners), silver brads, silver rubbing wax, diamond embossing folder

Whit a scunner tae be a hunner card

Bo-Bunny, card, CBC challenge, craft stamper, owl
scunnerOwl-1
I WON!

Here is my entry into the CBC crew challenge CBC00100. The them is one hundred as this will be the hundredth challenge. The lorgnettes are made to look like the number 100 and ‘a hunner’ is Scots for ‘one hundred’. The prize is a couple of templates kindly donated by WS Designs. (the telephone box and DL envelope templates). Thank you everyone who voted for my card.

Inks: Archival coffee, watercolour pencils to colour image
Card: White, green textured, orange vellum, Bo-Bunny Beau jardin poppy
Stamps: free Sugar Nellie owl stamp with Craft stamper magazine
Other: googly eyes, hand made lorgnettes, sketched on branch and walking stick, flowers, white highlighting pen, computer generated text

Lizzie’s cards

Anna Griffin, card, Elusive images, inkadinkado, Lizzie, stampin up
Lizzie2009
Happy Birthday Lizzie

I knew Lizzie had been wanting to try Willie’s delectable chocolate so I bought a little gift bag to present Willie’s chocolate and made the card and label using the same colours as the bag.

Inks: Versamark clear ink with silver embossing powder and copics to colour
Card: white card, black card, silver patterned vellum
Stamps: Stampin up Curvy verses and Yummy, Elusive images Oriental theme plate-A better place (flower), Inkadinkado Morphic bugs, Anna Griffin flourish
Other: Ribbon, dragonfly charm, gems

LizzieAnarchy

After seeing a card in the Simply cards and papercraft magazine by Su Pennick, I just had to do one similar for Lizzie from Chiquo. Lizzie used to be a punk (years ago…) so the anarchy card was a must. I used some of Su’s design ideas but changed a few things just to be different.

Inks: Distress ink Black soot, Brilliance Rocket red
Card: Black card, white crumpled paper, tartan paper
Other: chain, square brads, safety pins, black plastic (from bin linner as punks used to wear bin liners!), lolipop sticks and bottom of a bottle to stamp the symbol, computer generated greeting