"Dad" Birthday Card

Two weeks ago it was my Dads birthday and I hadn't made the card in advance so I had to make it on the day. There was a bit of pressure as I had to make it by a certain time but I soon decided on the Chef and Cake stamps and they were luckily easy to colour quickly so it wasn't too bad in the end. When I look at the card, I feel as if it's missing something, but then again, my Dad isn't really into pretty things so I couldn't add flowers or too many gems!

The stamps are Magnolia Chef Edwin and Cake. I stamped them and coloured them with Promarkers before cutting them out. I mounted them with foam tape to a background cut with a Nestabilities die, which I coloured with a blue distress ink pad. The harlequin background is a piece of blue Core'dinations Whitewash cardstock which I embossed with a Sizzix Texturz Plate then sanded to reveal the colour. The mat of blue cardstock under it is Core'dinations. The letters that spell "dad" were cut with a Sizzix Embosslits Pink Lemonade Alphabet die and the sentiment is a Craftwork Cards message. Finally, the glitter dots are from a Papermania pack.

Boys Football Card

Finally for the cards I made in March is one for my nephew who loves football:

I used a 6x6" square card and used an Elzybells rubber stamp for the footballer, which I coloured in with Copics. I matted the image onto red and black pearlised paper which I embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder. I used a Martha Stewart rings border punch to cut a decorative strip for the middle of the card, which I wrapped striped ribbon around. I used a football sheet of 12x12" paper (cut to size!) for the background but this is quite old so I don't know who made it! I then finished the card with an "8" candle cut with a Quickutz Die, corners cut with an EK Success punch and a Craftwork Cards "Oh my Words" Sentiment.

I'm back with a catch-up for March!

I have been a bad blogger, sorry! March flew by quickly, the I had an operation last week so have been recovering. Anyway, I thought I would post the cards that I made in March first to catch up...

It's not a great photo I'm afraid but it's the only one I took. I made some cards for the Do-Crafts cards for Cancer Research UK. I tried to make fairly quick and simple cards as they are being sold for £1 so I didn't want to use very expensive embellishments. On the pink card I used a Penny Black rubber stamp and a Craftwork Cards sentiment. On the lilac card I used an Anya stamp from The Greeting Farm and a Craftwork Cards sentiment for speed.

These two cards were also put into the Do-Crafts charity bags and taken to my local Cancer Research shop. The brown squares card was from a Papermania boxed set of cards. I used a Funstamps rubber stamp for the bear and coloured it in with Copics and the sentiment was a rubber stamp too. On the blue card, the image is from an Elzybells rubber stamp, coloured with Koh-i-noor pencils, and the border is cut with a Martha Stewart Deep Edger Punch.

Mothers Day Card

For the second part of the March catch-up, here is the Mothers Day card I made for my Mum:

I started off with a large 8" x 8" square card from Craftwork Cards. The image is a Lili of the Valley rubber stamp, it was coloured with Lyra Polycolour Pencils and was cut with an Oval Nestabilities Die. I then cut a mat for it with a Scalloped Oval Nestabilities Die. The pattered paper is from the Forever Friends Pink Parfait pad and the card is Bazzill Dotted Swiss and textured. The pearls are Prima e.line and the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts (they were white and I coloured them to match the card).