Wishing You a Green Christmas!

Today's card is one I've made many times before in various colours - the thing that makes them all slightly different is how I decorate the baubles which are cut from nesties. I really need to invest in some shaped bauble dies if I'm going to make this card next year as most people have received a version of this one!


One bauble is embossed with a Tim Holtz folder then highlighted in silver, the second has an Anita's Glitteration snowflake and a green diamante and the third has glittery star peel-offs. So easy! I've entered this card into the following challenges:

LESS IS MORE - use the colour green
CRAFTY HAZELNUT - mainly monochromatic
ALLSORTS CHALLENGES - going round in circles
CREATIVE CARD CREW - monochromatic

Happy Crafting!

Sharon

Big Five O!

I get lots of requests to make cards for special age birthdays and my favourite way of doing this is by focussing on the number itself. I make the numbers using Word Art, reverse the image then print them onto the back of the paper. It's easy to carefully cut round the printed lines - I tend to use a pair of fine embroidery scissors for this task.



The backing paper is by Nancy Watt for making Cards Magazine and the stars are made using Sissix die-cuts. I've entered this card into the 'Milestone Birthdays' challenge at Crafty Emma's Store CES Challenge

Saturday Challenge

The Saturday Challenge theme over at Secret Crafter this week is Flowers and Borders - two things that are perfect for a birthday card for a 60 year old lady.


The rose image and paper came from an old issue of Making Cards. I'm going through piles and piles of card magazines at the moment and trying to use up some of the gorgeous papers that come with them. The die-cut border is from X-cut and I've added a silky burgundy ribbon and some diamantes to bling it up. The layout is my 'lazy layout' that I use when I'm in a rush and can't think of any other!

Teenage boys...

A difficult category at the best of times - you even have to be careful with the embellishments you use so it doesn't look 'lame'!



I focused on the age and used a bold, masculine paper and greeting that came with a Making Cards magazine a couple of years ago. The numbers were created with WordArt in Microsoft Publisher and highlighted with faux stitching.

Another Sketch...

I enjoyed the challenge of designing a card around a sketch so searching through The Daily Dare blog I found another that looked quite easy to follow...



This one is the current challenge over at The Digi Doodle Shop. I have loads of Christmas cards to make for various people so using this as the template (and turning the drawing upside down) I came up with the following:


The patterned paper is old Dovecraft and the image is saved on my computer with the tag Dove Art Snowman... I am unable to find the artist to give full credit so many apologies there. It took no time to make so I think I'll spend the afternoon making a batch of these.

Cute Baby Boy

Another request for a baby card - this time just for a singleton! In an attempt to use up some of my old stash, I've used an image from a sheet of cute baby images by Ruth Watkins for Craft Creations. I've seen her designs in a number of publications over the years and bought these some time ago but as we all do, put them in a file and forgot about them! The paper is very old Papermania.


The layout is based on a sketch challenge over at Sketch and Stash Challenge Blog.



I don't usually try sketch challenges so this is a bit out of my comfort zone but I found it quite easy to follow.

The same customer also wanted another baby boy card for her mum so as they were going to the same baby I tried to make it as different as possible:



The image is an old fave from The Digistamp Boutique and the paper came from a baby boy scrapbook kit.

I've also entered this into the following challenges:

One Stitch at a Time - Use a Digi

Triple Trouble!

It's not very often you get asked to make a card for triplets! This gave me a great excuse to use a cute digi image I recently bought from the Digistamp Boutique. I kept the card simple - printed the image 3 times and the ribbon part 3 times aswell to add a touch of decoupage. The greeting printed in Candy Round BTN font and then I added some peel-off stars.



This card fits perfectly this week's challenge at One Stop Craft Challenge. The challenge this week is on the theme of 'Three' to celebrate their third anniversary.

A Touch of Magic

Not having kids of my own, I'm not really up on what kids are into at various ages but I thought that this was definitely cute enough for a nine year old. I didn't have any fairy digi stamps so I used a sticker from a children's sticker pack and the spotty paper from a bargain basket in my local craft shop. I'm so busy making Christmas cards at the moment that I used my fave layout for easiness.


I've entered this into the following challenges:

Polka Doodles - Week 43 Challenge - Mystical and Magical

Wheels of Steel

It's such a long time since I posted anything - life and holidays and work have just taken over a bit recently. I've still been making loads of cards though and I made one this morning that fits with the challenge over at Here Come The Boys perfectly. The Wheely Nice theme is ideal for this card I made for a colleague at work who wanted a blue motorbike card for her son-in-law.





The image was found thanks to Google - how did people make cards before the internet??