Happy 21st Birthday Andrew

Andrew's birthday card in on it's way to America, as he will be spending his 21st in Ohio where he is at university this year.

The gate fold card was made with Basic Grey Basics papers, and some gold Miri card. I resisted the temptation to add anything too lumpy as it has to go buy air mail.

This is the front, and decorated with gold stickles glitter glue and two keys from the element sticker sheet in the Basic Grey Serenade collection. The stamps are from Docrafts Papermania Typography range.

 Inside I used a stamp called 'Huge Happy Birthday' by Woodware. Each of the letters was stamped a second time onto different patterned papers, cut out and placed over the original. I added lots of chestnut brown chalk ink to all the edges and stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa ink pad.

Happy Birthday Andrew - looking forward to seeing you on Skype later.
Mum x

Happy Birthday Zak - Shore Thing

It was Zak's birthday a few weeks ago and so I chose this Docraft's Square Urban, Michael Powell stamp called 'Shore Thing' to create him a card.

I stamped the image in brown ink onto Kraft Bazzill, and coloured it with oil colour pencils. The patterned papers are Scenic Route, the edges were distressed and inked. I have used Lili of the Valley greeting stamp, and various punches (SU and Woodware).

This is the stamp and I'm looking forward to colouring this in many different ways. I also have a few others in this range, including a couple I had for my birthday (thanks Linda).


Hope you had a great birthday Zak and I look forward to catching up with you at the weekend.
Lynn x

Tulip Decoupage Pack

Linda and I called in at The Kraft Shop on Friday at the Gorse Hill Nursery. We treated ourselves to a Do Craft Tulip Decoupage Pack each. This pack is called 'Birthday Wishes'.

There are two copies of each of four designs in a pack, plus two each of  four different patterns background papers.  Here is what I made with one of each design.

Generally I prefer to cut my own images for decoupage and don't like the die cut ones as you get all the little tabs attached which in my opinion need cutting off and there is often a bit of a white 'halo' around the images in some places, which I also end up cutting off, making it a bit of a waste of time buying them pre-cut. However there is no option but to by them like this sometimes. Although I still had to do the trimming with this pack it wasn't too bad, the die cutting was more accurate than usual. Tidying the images with my scissors was a job to do while watching TV!

Here are the four cards I made on Friday evening, lots of 3D foam pads and double sided tape later:

Additional materials:

Card blank - Craftwork Cards

Rub-on greeting - Making Memories

Stickles glitter glue on icing.

Chalk ink - Colorbox

Other from my sash - gems and ribbon

Additional materials:

Shaped Card Blank - ? Craftwork Cards

Ribbon and beads from a child's hair decoration - Claire's Accessories

Punches - Stampin' Up

Chalk ink - Colorbox

Additional materials:

Card Blank - CraftCreations

Seam Binding Ribbon - Stampin' Up

Papers - Basic Grey Lily Kate

Chalk ink - Colorbox

Other - Gems

Additional materials:

Card Blank - Craft Creations

Chalk ink - Colorbox

Punches - Stamin' Up

Other - gems

 Thanks for looking.

Special Blend!

It's our 26th Wedding Anniversary today and so I made Alan a card.  The Stamps are Kraftin' Kimmies, from the Tea Time collection, I used a mask to overlap the two characters slightly. (I buy my Kimmies from Elaine in the UK from Quixotic Paperie.) They were coloured with my Pro markers. The papers and the bow are from Docrafts - Papermania's Persimmon Collection. I added a few pale blue and brown pearls too. I hope he likes it - HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US!