Category Archives: card

Anniversary card

anniversary card, card

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I love this stamp from Julia Hawkins – Stamps Happen.  It is one of my oldest stamps but I have used it a lot.  This time I decided to use colouring pencil to add the colour only I managed to mix up my watercolour pencils with my Prisma pencils – DOH!  So when I tried to use my aqua brush on some segments I wondered why nothing was happening and on other segments I used both types expecting them to blend when I went over with the water.  Needless to say my colours didn’t come out quite how I imagined them to.  There is some sparkle in the flower heads but that doesn’t show in the photo.  I wiped the ink from 3 of the lines so that I could get the greeting in at the bottom of the image and just added black flat backed mini pearls to cover the tiny bits that still showed up.

Inks:  Memento Tuxedo black
Card:  white, black, dusky pink pearlised card
Stamps:  Stamps Happen Magnolia floral by Julia Hawkins, Stampin up Cheers and wishes
Other:  Black flat backed mini pearls, glitter pen, black pen, watercolour pencils, Prisma pencils with Sansador

Faux cross-stitch card

card, faux cross-stitch

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Have you seen the June 2011 issue of Craft stamper magazine?  As always there are some great ideas and projects but the cross-stitch sampler by Gail Milburn caught my eye and I thought Harry’s mum would love something like that and it is her birthday quite soon.  I have used a lot of Gail’s ideas but added a few of my own too.  We couldn’t find a photo of his mum as a young girl to use so I used the same image as Gail had from Vintage images Art-E-Zine.
The greeting and two small hearts are printer generated using a font ‘Home Sweet Home’ by Larabie (who also does a similar one called ‘Heart Sweet Heart’).

Inks:  Distress inks Antique Linen and Spun sugar, Versafine Vintage sepia, Big and juicy Waterfall (Teal area). Memento Rhubarb stalk
Card:  white card
Stamps:  Marianne design Eline’s Huis Cross-stitch,
Other:  Sepia pen, calico frayed and edged in spun sugar, Teal nailheads, Aqua stickles, red wire for antenae, buttons, pink lace darkened with spun sugar, ribbon

Birthday card

birthday card, card, cyclist

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I do struggle to keep coming up with cycle racing card ideas (for both Stuart and Cameron) so I have used another of Anita’s die cuts but gave it a slightly different look to the card I made for Stuart.  Cameron loves all kinds of cycle racing and he has recently joined the CNP Orbea MTB team – GO Cameron!

Inks:  Versamark with gold embossing powder
Card:  white, black, and white sprayed with Aqua lagoon mist
Stamp:  Bring out the star in you (unknown)
Other:  yellow star brad, black brads, piece of mica,  Anita’s die cuts Cyclist

Cyclist card

card, cyclist

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It will soon be Stuart’s birthday so I have gone for the cycling theme again as he lives and breathes racing although it does get rather difficult to keep coming up with ideas for cards with the same theme.

Inks:  Stampin up Taken with teal, Distress inks Black soot, Pine needles and Crushed olive
Card:  white card, teal pearlised card
Stamps:  Tim Holtz (Stampers anonymous) Urban tapestry and Mini muse
Other: black linen thread, Anita’s Do craft cyclist topper

Faith’s 50’s inspired card

50's, card, guitar
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Faith’s party is going to be 50’s inspired so I have used a font that was inspired from 50’s cartoons along with a guitar with cartoony style strings. I know she loves black and red so I hope this fits the bill. Have a fab party Faith!

Inks:  Memento tuxedo black, Stazob black, Distress ink Fired brick, Adirondack Red pepper
Card:  White, black card
Stamps:  Inkadinkado Rock star
Other:  White pen, Silver pilot pen, acetate for guitar body overlay

A Scottish selection

card, Celtic, Scottish
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Here is a selection of some of the Scottish cards and bookmarks I have made for Pauline for her daughters school fair.

Inks: Memento tuxedo black, various Distress inks
Card:  white card, red and black paper, tartan paper (Paper Time bits’n’pieces and the crafthouse), black and white fluffy paper for the Scottie dogs
Stamps:  Just a note Clarity stamps, Celtic border and Mackintosh stamps from Heritage rubber stamp Company,
Other: gold krylon pen and peel-offs, eyelets, ribbon, laminator for the bookmarks, gems

Floral thank you card

card, fabric, thank you card
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I really like the fabric I used for this thank you card (Tea time C cakes large floral) and it goes so well with the stamps.

Inks:  Pens were used here straight onto the stamps: Tombo 703 and 098, Whispers sugarloaf Basic blue
Card:  white, Old olive textured
Stamps:  Stampin up Just believe, Technique Tuesday Borderline Bijou borders
Other:  fabric: Tea time C cakes large floral

Cars birthday card

card, cars, Larabie

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I found a fabby font called Oil crisis from Larabie which is actually a dingbat font of 1970’s cars that I thought would look good on a card.  I flipped the bottom rows to look like they are going in the opposite direction.

Inks:  Black (computer)
Card:  white card and black paper
Other:  rub-on arrows (unknown), Larabie Oil crisis font

Golf card

card, golf
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Hope you had a great ‘special’ birthday Robin!
I managed to find a fab pattern for photoshop here for the Argyle backing paper on this card (I must make some time to have a good browse through arsgrafik as they have some really nice patterns).
Inks:  Memento tuxedo black (I think?), watercolour pencils to colour
Card:  blue, white, dark brown card, printed paper
Stamps:  Creative expressions Golfer guy (I only had this one image as it was one of the stamped image swaps on craftsbycarolyn ages ago)
Other:  Cosmo cricket photo corners, gold golf tee, silver glitter pen

Steampunk card

card, Oxford impressions, steampunk card

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A bit of a wee joke for Harry.  He managed to still get lost the other day while we were on holiday the other day even though he had an android phone, a Garmin (sat nav type thingy), and maps in the car!  Maybe just a map and a compass would have been all he needed so there is a compass inside the big brad and the pin has the word ideas on it.

Inks:  Memeneto Tuxedo black, Distress inks Frayed burlap and Victorian velvet, Adirodack espresso, embossing ink with clear embossing powder and brass detail powder
Card:  antique gold card, pale greeny beige card, Cosmo Cricket card, 7 Gypsies patterned paper
Stamps:  Oxford impressions Steampunk and Steampunk works
Other:  Tim Holtz brads and pin, Papermania brad making refill kit, Moonshadow ink Burnished brass (to colour the cogs)
The  clear embossing power is used here in a faux batik style and the brass powder is on the compass.