Category Archives: card

Picking apples card

card, picking apples, Ruth
Ruth70th
Happy Birthday Ruth

I loved Kim Costello’s card in the Craft Stamper magazine June 09 issue so I have used the same overall design for Ruth’s card, but incorporated different colours, stamps and papers.

Inks: black document inks, Distress inks; antique linen, frayed burlap and worn lipstick. To colour image; copics and water colour pencils.
Card: hammered cream card, watercolour paper, Cosmo cricket, Bo-bunny.
Stamps: Sugar Nellie picking apples, The Artistic stamper stitchels dashy dots (flowers), Dovecraft Fantasy emblems (flourishes)
Other: buttons, pearls, charm, paper lace, glitter pen

Samurai warrior card

card, non sequitur, Samurai warrior

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Happy Birthday Chris!

This warrior card is for Chris (my wee brover) and the colours are quite dark and gloomy to co-ordinate with his new DVDs (Ran and Kagemusha).

Inks: Archival coffee, Distress ink black soot and weathered wood, Adirondack denim, Stazon pine, Brilliance rocket red
Card: glossy white, black, red
Stamps: Non sequitur samurai sheet and Oriental love letters sheet
Other: Acrylic paint; back and red, coin, tassel, calligraphy sticker, gold pilot pen, black detail pen, lollipop stick to apply paint streaks, brayer

Green mini card

card, mini

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Happy birthday Rebecca!
I made this card for Rebecca (Harry’s god-daughter) who is 17 today and she is looking forward to having driving lessons.

Inks: black document ink
Card: white, green and Cosmo cricket card
Stamps: Dimensional Fourth Ltd. mini
Other: dark pink brads, glossy accents, green Sakura glaze pen, map, computer generated ‘L’ plate and greeting

Hoppy Anniversary Card

anniversary card, card, frogs, toads

MarkKim09Hoppy

It is Mark and Kim’s wedding anniversary next week and I know they have been working on their garden pond lately so I made this card for them – I just love the frogs/toads expressions!

Inks: Brilliance pearlescent orange, black document ink, watercolour pencils to colour
Card: white, DCWV pocket full of posies matstack
Stamps: Penny black toadily transparent
Other: frog charm, linen thread coloured with ink, heart gem, printed greeting

Black birthday ticket card

card, ticket

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This card is similar to one I made before for Stuart, this one is for Cameron, his big brother who will be 14 soon. I stamped the background and grunged it up a little using the same colours found in the other paper. The metal corners are coloured with alcohol inks.

Inks: Distress inks weathered wood, black soot, mustard seed and a touch of dried marigold
Card: Black, white, Lazy daisy paper
Stamps: Stampin up canvas back ground
Other: brads, metal corners, alcohol inks, printed ticket (CBC downloads)

A pair of pears

card, CBC challenge, pears

pairOfPears

Here is my entry for Joanne’s challenge at CBC – Five-a-day. I don’t use my pear stamp all that often so it was fun thinking of a way to use it for the challenge.

Inks: black document ink, water colour pencils to colour pears
Card: watercolour paper, black card, ivory card, Bo-Bunny ‘my darling motion’
Stamps: Non-sequitur – oriental collage elements (52C) pear
Other: black magic mess, pink zoom, (Glitz spritz desert moon, forest stampzia colour and Ecoline chartreuse sprays to make the back ground of pears)

Out and about card

artistic stamper, card, out and about, papertreyink, stampin up

bluePickUpCallum09

Happy Birthday Callum
17 today – Callum can now get out and about in his car and take some driving lessons.

Inks: black document ink, copics to colour
Card: white, blue, DCWV Pocket full of posies matstack
Stamps: Stampin up loads of love and accessories, Basic grey flourish corners, The artistic stamper the open road, Papertreyink out on a limb (original set) birthday wishes
Other: stampin up tag and scallop punch, stripy ribbon

 

I LOVE my jeans card

artistic stamper, card, CBC challenge, craftsbycarolyn, denim, jean therapy, stitchels

loveMyJeans

I made this card for Joannes Jean therapy challenge at CBC. The real denim is the background strip and the tiny bit on the tag.

Inks: Adirondack earthtones stonewashed and denim, distress ink weathered wood, colorbox fluid chalk ink tangerine
Card: white
Stamps: denim background (unknown), stitchels dashy dot flower, free tag stamp from craft stamper mag.
Other: red stickles, brad, computer generated greeting (smashedSF by fontographer)

Happy geocaching Harry

card, geocaching

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And here is Harry’s card. His new hobby is geocaching so guess what he received for his birthday!

Ink: black document ink and copics to colour
Card: white
Stamp: Stampin up round happy birthday
Other: image from web, map paper, squashed bottle cap, glaze, writing printed on acetate, letter h