My Daughters Birthday Card

This card I made last weekend for my beautiful daughters 7th birthday which is today! My daughter loves cats so I bought the new Magnolia stamp called "Tilda with Cat". As always with my Magnolia stamps, I just have to give them smiles! I coloured the image with Koh-i-noor pencils from Elzybells and the sentiment is from an Elzybells clear set. The background paper is a download from Pink Petticoat and the flowers are punched with a woodware paper punch from Crafts U Love. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESSICA! xxxxxxx

Fathers Day rushed card!

I was so busy this weekend that the Fathers Day card for my Dad was made in a bit of a rush! I went through my box of stamped images already coloured and went for the footballer.

The image and football are from Elzybells and the wording is from an Elzybells clear set. Inside it is stamped with Happy Fathers Day. The image was coloured with Koh-i-Noor pencils (also from Elzybells) and the boots were accented with Glossy Accents. The glittery paper was bought a long time ago from Craftwork Cards.

Another male birthday card!

This card I made for my husbands birthday last week. I didn't know what stamps to use, so I used some new ones I'd bought from Elzybells. I wanted to use the car as I had booked a Rally Driving lesson for my husband the next day, but then I thought it was a bit small for the large card so I also used the snoozing bear. I had intended to use a "rest, relax, enjoy" stamp, but then I couldn't work out how to place everything on the card and it turned out like this. I'm not 100% happy with it because it ended up being a bit rushed in the end and I was so tired after wrapping the presents and making the cake!

All of the stamps are from Elzybells, the car and snoozing bear are unmounted ones and the others are from clear sets. The images have been coloured with Copic markers and the car has been covered in Glossy Accents (and stuck down with lots of foam pads as the card went a bit warped). The cardstock is Bazzill; blue Bazzill Bling and black (pepper) swiss dotted.

ATC of the week!

As I colour so many stamped images, I thought it would be a good idea to try ATC's (Artist Trading Cards) about a month ago. I was a bit daunted at first but found they were really enjoyable. I subscribe to the do-crafts newsletter and discovered that they have a weekly ATC competition for ATC's using their products, so I made a couple of ATC's using Papermania/Anitas/Dovecraft products from Do-Crafts. I was delighted to read the newsletter last week to find my ATC was ATC of the week! I am now inspired to make some more.

Teenage boy card!

Every card maker knows that mens cards are hard to make, but I had a real dilemma last week when trying to work out what to do for our step-nephew's 15th birthday. Luckily he does karate and I managed to find an old Elzybells stamp that I owned of a bear doing karate (this has now been re-released so is available from Elzybells). Otherwise I wouldn't have had a clue what to do for his card. I tried to keep it quite simple so it wasn't too cute, it was horrible not being able to use adhesive gems or ribbon! The stamped image is Elzybells, coloured in with Copic Ciao markers. The red card is core'dinations. The Happy Birthday message is from Elzybells and the background stamped image was from Elzybells some time ago so may not be available. The brads are Dovecraft.

Wedding Card

I had to make a wedding card for my Brother-In-Law this week. They went to the US to get married so I made it a "Just Married" card as they will be getting the card afterwards. I bought three new wedding stamps and in the end decided my favourite was the Elzybells bride and groom. After I coloured the image, I chose a pink theme to go with the colours and then the whole thing just turned out to be VERY PINK!! I usually add the inside message onto an insert inside the card, but I decided to make it a bit more interesting (and colourful) this time. I stamped the message onto white cardstock then added it to the Bazzill dotted cardstock. I then added the punched out flowers and hearts to keep it all flat inside. All of the rubber stamps I used were from Elzybells, the pink cardstock is Bazzill, the ribbon is Dovecraft, the brads are Papermania, and the flowers are Prima. The image was coloured with Coloursoft pencils.

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