Final Kanban Cards

Morning,

Sunday the day of rest and my first day back at work, wish me luck!!

Before I head off though, these are the last of the Christmas card that I made with the "Merry Christmas from Kanban Kit".  I managed to make 27 cards out of the actual toppers and 5 more out of the waste and I still have 2 full sheets of card stock and many cut-off pieces left for the other cards that still need to be done.  Great value and fantastic quality!!

Well that's me, I will let you know how my days goes :o)

Much love,

Amanda x

Last of the Kanban Nativity Toppers

Morning All,

 

Today is my last day of freedom, work starts again tomorrow.  I am going to miss having the time to craft and doing business type stuff, missing all the Christmas fairs which were so much fun last year.

 

I will still be making up orders on request and the website will still be up and running so if you fancy a lovely bath-time goody basket for that someone special just drop me a wee email and we can sort it out.

 

These cards were put together the same way as the ones posted on Thursday, very simple but really effective and they look great.

Just a couple last cards to come and that is the Kanban kit completely used up apart from some additional card stock.  I cannot believe how far I have managed to stretch it out and still keep the quality.

 

Happy Crafting,

 

Amanda x

Last two Lanscape style Kanban toppers - Santa & Three Wise Men

Happy Friday,

 

Ah literally counting down the hours until I start my new job, to say I am nervous is an understatement, really hope it all goes well.

 

For these cards I used two sheets of the Kanban card stock to create the actual card blanks, red adhesive faux pearls, read chalk pad, green adhesive gems, jet black ink pad, Sakura coloured glitter gel pens, double sided tape and foam pads.

I scored and folded a piece of the Kanban co-ordinating card to make the card blank, I then attached a piece of the Kanban red snow card with double sided tape and added the topper with foam pads.  To finish I added adhesive pearls as the tree ornaments and as corner embellishments.

For the centre I cut a piece of the Kanban paper, stamped a sentiment using the red chalk pad, attached to a piece of red snow card and then to the card with double sided tape.

Again I used a piece of the Kanban card stock to make the card blank, used green snow card and green adhesive gems.  The highlights on the stars and the wise men were done using Sakura glitter gel pens to add some sparkle.

Same as above except used black ink instead of red.

Thanks for popping by and have a fantastic weekend.

 

Much love

 

Amanda x

Last of the silver foiled Kanban toppers - Santa & Reindeer

Good Morning,

Just a quick post of a couple more Christmas cards, these are the last two silver edged Kanban toppers that I had left out of the kit.

 

I used two A5 card blanks, clear adhesive gems, Sliver Mirri Card, pale blue/ red chalk pad, double sided tape & foam pads.

Firstly I folded the front of the card blank in half back on itself.  I cut a piece of Mirri Card to fit the inside of the card and a thin strip for the front, popped this on the card with double sided tape.  I then cut a piece of the lovely co-ordination Kanban card for the same areas, just slightly smaller, I inked around the edges and attached to the Mirri Card with double sided tape.  A strip of Mirri and the Kanban card added to the outside leaf again with double sided tape.  The topper was added with foam pads but only down one half so that the card still opens.  Finally added some clear gems for a bit of bling.

Inside sentiment stamped using the red chalk pad to pick out the red from Santa's hat.

This card was done in much the same as the other except instead of using Mirri Card I used the embossed snowflake paper, inking over this in the blue chalk pad to pick out the raised snowflakes.

Again stamped in red but this time picking out the reindeer's nose.

This is a clear image of the way that the card is folded.

Happy Crafting Everyone,

Amanda x

Last of the Kanban Mini Christmas Card Toppers

Its Hump Day, all downhill now till the weekend!!

 

These are the last of the mini toppers from the Kanban kit that I have. I think that I have managed to make quite a bit out of them which is fab and my photo's really do not do them justice.  The printing, colours and weight of the card stock used is fantastic and the quality really does shine through.

 

So for these I again used Hunkydory white card blanks, red/ blue chalk pads, Silver Mirri Card, Sakura Clear Star Glitter Gel Pen, Sakura Clear Glaze Gel Pen, silver sparkly string, double sided tape and foam pads.

I made two of these cards exactly the same.  These were very simple, I just cut a piece of the lovely Kanban red snow card to fit the front of the card blank, inked the edges with a red chalk pad and attached to the card blank with double sided tape.  I then attached the topper with foam pads.  I stamped a sentiment again using the red chalk, inked the edges of it, layered onto Mirri card and attached to the card using foam pads, simple but lovely.  I did think it needed some sparkle though so have since added three red gems to the top left hand corner and three to the bottom right hand corner.

I cut down a piece of the blue snowflake Kanban card to fit the front of the card blank, inked the edges with a red chalk pad to pick out the reindeer's nose and attached to the card using double sided tape.  I inked the edge of the Santa envelope and attached using foam pads, before doing this is threaded up the reindeer tag and attached the top of the thread to the underside of the envelope with tape and attached the tag part with a foam pad to the card.  The round topper was layered onto the aperture from one of the last cards and attached to the card with double sided tape.  I used a Sakura Clear Glaze Pen to give a little shine the reindeer's noses and Santa's nose on the envelope.  The Clear Star pen was used to add some glitter to the falling snow just on the toppers.

The bottom of this card does not look straight but it is, it is the Mirri reflection that is making it look a bit out of line I think, this card was put together to use up some of the card remnants.  I cut a piece of Mirri to cover the front of the card.  I then used two of the leftover piece of the blue snowflake card to make two panels on the card, before attaching these to the Mirri with double sided tape, I inked around the edges with a pale blue chalk pad.  I then added the topper to the centre of the top panel with foam pads.  The sentiment was stamped in jet black and inked with the blue chalk pad before layering on Mirri and being attached with foam pads.

So that's me for just now.  I will be starting on some larger cards today and an order for a friend which is very different for a Christmas card and should be lovely, if i manage to do it well enough that is!!

 

Happy Crafting,

 

Amanda x

Mini Kanban Topper Aperture Cards

Morning Crafty People

 

These are some of the last mini toppers that are left from the Kanban Kit, I think that I probably could have done so much more with them but really just wanted to use up some of the older card stock and bits that I had left from Christmas last year and clear the decks a little.  I have made no headway at all, my crafty stash is just too out of control!! 

 

I am aiming to use all of the paper packs that I have and just look into buying Cd's for the future and good quality paper for the printer.  How good would that be walking into my craft room with just the laptop, printer, pile of paper/ card, shelf of fantastic Cd's and my Cricut, the other half would be a happy man.

 

So onto today's Christmas cards, for these cards I have used plain white Hunkydory card blanks, 6x6 Christmas backing paper pad, mini Kanban tag toppers, silver coloured sparkly string, red/ blue chalk pads, silver Mirri Card, peel-offs, double sided tape and foam pads.

For this card I cut a piece of blue snowflake Kanban Card to line the inside, a piece of red 6x6 for the outside, attached both to the card with double sided tape.  Used double sided tape to stick two different mini tags together and strung this with silver string attaching to the card with a piece of double sided tape allowing it to sit in the aperture that I cut using a circle cutter.  I stamped a sentiment with a red chalk pad, inked around the edges, attached to Mirri Card using double sided tape and then to the card using foam pads.  I attached a sparkly strip peel-off down the right side to finish.

For the inside I just trimmed a small piece of the backing paper and added a strip peel-off down each side to match in with the front.



Another card done in much the same way.

The inside, I have since inked around the inside of the aperture.

I will definitely cut my apertures with the Cricut if I ever venture down this route again.  I have tried it the hard way, results are OK a bit around about the garden but I need perfect!!

 

Well I'm off to the gym, then a few more cards.  I am really getting nervous about starting my new job at the end of the week.

 

Happy Crafting Everyone,

 

Amanda xx

Stamped Snowman Christmas Card

Happy Monday,

Hope everyone has had a lovely weekend?

 

These are the cards that put together using the left over circles that I cut out from the cards I was making yesterday.  The card stock being used is Hunkydory which is 350gsm and far too go a quality to be throwing bits out so I make sure that every last piece is used up, bit of a frugal crafter and probably why I still have all my paper-crafting kits in their packaging as I just cannot bear to use them!!

 

Anyway, for these wee cards I have used white Hunkydory card blanks, Christmas paper from a 6x6 pad, green or red chalk pads, cotton snowball embellishment, Rainbow Mirri Card, Sakura coloured glitter gel pens, Sakura Clear Star Glitter Gel Pen, double sided tape & foam pads.

For all the cards I inked around the edges of the card, topper and sentiment in green or red chalk pads depending on the colour of backing paper that I used.  I stamped the image of the snowman with a Jet Black Staz-on ink pad and coloured using the Sakura pens using the clear star to highlight the snowman's white bits and give him a snowy sparkle.  Instead of colouring the snowball that he was throwing i used a cotton ball embellishment which adds a little texture.  The backing paper is added with double sided tape, the topper and sentiment attached using foam pads.

 

The sentiment for this card and the one below were stamped using the chalk pad instead of the Staz-on.

The only difference with this card is that I layered the sentiment and topper onto Rainbow Mirri Card with double sided tape before attaching with foam pads.

These were pretty simple to produce but look fab in actual real life, my photography skills are rubbish and really don't show the lovely colours, glitter etc.

 

Well foe the rest of the day I will be working with Craft Artist Professional to do the inserts for all the Christmas cards have been made so far.

 

Happy Crafting,

Amanda x

Santa Christmas Card

Morning!!

 

I tried to make my own aperture cards which are not as good as I thought it would be.  It was one of those circle cutters that I used which is fab but takes a bit of practise, it wasn't till afterwards that I thought about using the Cricut!! 

 

If you have things to make life easier use them is my thought for today.

 

For this card I used a plain white Hunkydory Card Blank, Kanban mini topper, peel-offs, green chalk pad, clear adhesive gems, Rainbow Mirri Card, double sided tape & foam pads.

For the front of the card I cut out the aperture and edged with peel-offs inside and out, popped a strip of snowflakes down the right hand side of the card and added adhesive gems to the top left corner.  I stamped the sentiment on the left over piece of backing paper from the inside of the card using the green chalk pad, layered on a piece of Rainbow Mirri Card and attached using foam pads.

For the inside of the card I cut a piece if backing paper, layered it onto the card using double sided tape, added a silver stripe peel-off in roughly the same place as the one on the front, also popped on a large snowflake peel-off and added a gem to the centre.   The Kanban topper was attached using foam pads.

Tomorrow I have a few cards showing what I did with the bits that I cut out.  Made a few of my own toppers so no waste.

 

Anyway have a great day everyone,

Happy Crafting!!

Amanda x

Kanban Mini Topper Christmas Cards

Hello People,

 

These are the final two small cards from the fancy card blanks, I think that these have made thisng so much quicker as I haven't had to decorate or create a background.  They do cost a little bit more than plain card blanks but what you pay in money you save in time.

 

For these two cards I have used A6 fancy card blanks, Kanban mini toppers, silver string, peel-offs, double sided tape and foam pads.

Very simply a snowman topper attached to the card with double sided tape.  The sentiment and tag added with foam pads and a few snowflake peel-offs.

The top and bottom mini topper were added with faom pads, the middle one with double sided tape.  I added a "Happy Christmas" peel-off and attached a tag using a foam pad, these add a little dimension.

So thats it for today, the cards coming up in future blogs have taken a little more time, some different techniques and have been a lot of fun.

 

Hope everyone is well and you are getting your Christmas Crafting started.  Getting it all done in advance means you can spend the days onh the lead up to Christmas panic shopping like I do :o)

 

Amanda x

Kanban Santa & Mini Toppers Christmas Cards

Morning Crafters,

 

More of the stock Christmas cards that I popped together.

 

For these cards I used A6 Christmas card blanks, Kanban toppers,  Peel-offs, Rainbow Mirri Card, double sided tape & foam pads.

Really simply popped the reindeer and Santa toppers onto the card with double sided tape, The merry Christmas had gold foiling around it so like I had done with previous cards I simply cut that off and layered with double sided tape onto Rainbow Mirri Card, I attached the snowman and the sentiment on with Foam pads and finally added a few snowflake peel-offs.

Only a card blank with a topper added using foam pads and a gold "Happy Christmas" peel-off.

Two very simple cards again they need very little as the card blanks are so so fancy.

Happy Crafting!!

Amanda x

Kanban Nativity Topper Christmas Cards

Hello All,

I am getting right into the festive spirit, probably a little to early but its hard not to when you are making Christmas Cards.  The shops will not be far behind though, I am sure the decorations etc start to go out at the start of October so you will all be feeling it aswell soon.  We didnt get much of a summer so it seems to have come around so so quickly this year, or is it that I am getting old?

 

Here are a few more cards, still using the Kanban kit and some stock card blanks from a random box that I came across in the craft jungle that is my dining room, no food has been consumed in there now in well over a year, cannot even see the tabel for papercraft kits and the Bath Bomb machine!!

Anyway for these cards I have used some A6 festive card blanks, Kanban toppers, Rainbow Mirri Card, Versamark Pad, clear sparkle embossing powder, peel-offs, double sided tape and foam pads.

Really simple, I just cut off the gold foiling from the outside of the lage topper, layered this with double sided tape onto a piece of Rainbow Mirri Card and attached to the card blank with foam pads, added the mini topper with double sided tape.

For this card I again removed the gold foiling from aroung the large topper as the small one has silver foiling and this would have clashed.  I covered the large topper with Versamark and clear glitter embossing powder to give it a really glazed and sparkly look, this had two layers of embossing and was attached with foam pads to teh card, the mini topper was added with double sided tape.

Simply stuck one topper on with foam pads, one with double sided tape and added a happy Christmas peel-off.  The card blank is so fancy with the patterns, embossing and glitter that the card would be far too busy if anything else was added.  All the inserts for the cards I have put together will be created on Craft Artist Professional

Thats all for today, more of the same tomorrow, remember these are just quick cards that can be ready and on hand for if you have forgotten someone or if you need a big batch for work or for the kids for school!!

 

Happy Crafting,

 

Amanda x

Kanban Snowman/ Penguin Topper Cards

Hello Friends

 

A couple more simple cards for you.  These would be great if you are batch making to sell or if you are a business and send out cards to all your customers at Christmas or even if you sell a lot online and want to include a small thank you, Merry Christmas, remembering that we will all be starting to hunt for our Christmas gifts. 

 

I will be buying all handmade where possible and supporting small businesses in this difficult climate.  Buying handmade means good quality, non mass produced and very unlikely to be found on the high street so unique and quirky.

 

For these cards I used A6 card blanks, lovely Christmas backing papers from a designer paper pad, frosty blue satin ribbon, blue adhesive gems, Christmas red chalk pad, Rainbow Mirri Card, Quickie Glue Pen, ultra-fine red glitter, glitter white embossing powder, Versamark Pen, Sakura Clear Glaze Pen/ Red Glitter Pen/ Clear Star Pen, double sided tape and foam pads.

I used a Versamark Pen to highlight the swirls & star design on the card blank then covered with embossing powder to pick these out.  I inked around the card and the backing paper with the chalk pad to pick out the red from the penguins hat.  I used a Quickie glue pen to pick out the snowflake centres on the backing paper and then covered with red ultra fine glitter to add some sparkle and attached to the card with double sided tape.  I then attached the main topper with foam pads, added a satin bow with red line tape and another mini topper.  To finish I added blue adhesive gems.

 

I inked around the edge of the card and backing paper with the chalk pad, layered the backing paper on a piece of Rainbow Mirri Card and attached to the card using double sided tape.  I used a Sakura Clear Glaze Pen to give the snowman's nose a glossy look, picked out the scarf and hat detail with the Red Sakura Glitter Gel Pen and used the Sakura Clear Star Glitter Gel Pen to highlight some of the white on the snowman himself giving a lovely sparkle.  I added some blue adhesive gems and attached the Kanban topper and the sentiment with foam pads.

 

Happy Crafting!!

 

Amanda x

Old School Embossing

Morning All!!

So to find out how long till Christmas visit http://www.xmasclock.com/  There are only something like 3 paydays to go so it is completely acceptable to have started your Christmas Shopping.  I am feeling that it may be another unorganised year for me this year!!

 

So for this card I used an A6 card blank, Rainbow Mirri Card, Kanban Mini Toppers, Velum, embossing plate/ ball tool, Christmas red chalk pad, double sided tape and foam pads.

Although this card looks really simple, it took me ages!! I do not have an embossing machine so had to emboss the background velum the old fashioned way.  I used a very small snowflake border stencil and moved this around the velum to create the full sheet of snowflakes adding in the occasional dove.  I then inked over this with the chalk pad to pick out the raised pattern, wrapped around a piece of Rainbow Mirri Card and I attached the vellum at the back with double sided tape before mounting on the card also with double sided tape.  The topper were simply attached with foam pads.

Happy Christmas Crafting (although I know I am a bit late as a lot of Crafters have completely finished their Christmas stocks!!!)

Amanda xx

Baby Girl Card using Nigel May's All Kinds of Everything CD

Afternoon Everyone

I have had a morning away from Christmas crafting to make a last minute baby card for a lady at my other half's work who has had her little girl 8 weeks early!! I have heard they are both doing well though which is fantastic. 

 

This is going to be from the whole team so it is just a little bit bigger than A4 and was such a great project to do.

 

I used a large sheet of card, it was double the size of A3, which I managed to get half the envelope out of as well and used another sheet of A3 card for the other half on the envelope, I also needed two sheets of A4 silver embossed Mirri Card, lemon & pink satin ribbon, two hand-knitted booties, a brooch back, needle & thread, strong jewellery glue, hole pinch & eyelets, twine, Sakura Clear Glaze Pen, Sakura coloured glitter pen & Clear Star Glitter Pen, Versamark Pad, Craft Artist Professional, Clear sparkle embossing powder, double sided tape, red line tape & foam pads.

Just going to get the envelope out the way first.  I have the Crafter's Companion envelope & box maker but not the enveloplus which would do the A4+ size cards so I have had to improvise, I simply cut two pieces of card making sure that one fit inside the other and scored all the lines and tabs using the Ultimate Pro, it worked out perfect except that the top closing tap is on the wrong side, I have added a strip of decorative paper to this though to match the card so it has all worked out OK and looks fab.  The card is not A4 its just a few centimetres bigger so I could not get a shop bought envelope to fit, that will teach me to measure my card properly first :o)

So the first thing that I did was print off the backing paper and borders from the CD, the 3D toppers on the CD  are all in blue though so the only way I could get around this was to print the A5 topper 4 times and cut the decoupage out to suit myself. 

I then used Craft Artist Professional to print off a bottle, bear and the "GIRL" letters along the bottom, again I printed these three times so that I could decoupage certain letters. 

To save using too much silver Mirri card, cut out the centre part that will be behind the backing paper, this game me enough to layer behind the border and the topper. 

So I attached the backing paper to the Mirri card with double sided tape and attached to the card in the same way.  I layered the decoupage up on the topper with mini foam pads, attached the topper to the Mirri with double sided tape and then to the card also with foam pads.  I used the Sakura Clear Glaze pen and Sakura coloured glitter pens to highlight areas of the topper giving it some sparkle. 

Using a Versamark pad to cover the print out of the bottle, word "girl" and the bear embellishment and sprinkled over some clear sparkle embossing powder and heat from the back to give a love glass like finish.  The bottle was attached with foam pads to the card and "GIRL" was layered up with foam pads and attached in the same way. 

The border along the top is going to hold the bootie brooch and so after layering this on Mirri card I punched out two holes added eyelets and then wrapped twine between these to give a good strong base for the brooch to sit.  I then used red line tape and stuck the ribbon down buy pinching, giving some texture and attached the whole thing to the card with foam pads.

The insert was simply a piece of notepaper and an DL insert from the CD, I layered the notepaper on the mirri card from which I cut out the centre again.  I layered the poem onto the mirri card and attached using foam pads.  The little embossed bear from Craft Artist Professional was also attached with foam pads.

The brooch was made by sewing together multiple layers of lemon and pink ribbon, then sew on the buttons to the front.  I knitted booties, added lemon bows to these and attached a length of lemon ribbon to the booties which meant these could then be sewn onto the layers of ribbon.  I added the brooch back using jewellery glue E600 and this has held well, I may however add a couple of stitches just to be sure.

Well off now to go to the gym and then will be back to Christmas Cards.

Happy Crafting Everyone!!

Amanda x

Kanban Santa Topper Christmas Cards

Happy Monday!!

 

Another wee batch of cards created, again just generic ones.  I will be starting the family ones in a few days which will be stepper cards and gatefold cards from designs from the Crafters Companion Ultimate Pro.

 

For these cards I used a couple of blue background A6 cards, Kanban mini toppers, Sakura Clear Star Glitter Gel Pen, clear adhesive gems, Rainbow Mirri Card, Gift Tags, Christmas red chalk pad, double sided tape and foam pads.

I used Three "letter to Santa" gift tags, cut of the tag bit, inked around the edges with the chalk pad and layered one on Rainbow Mirri Card.  I then attached two to the card with double sided tape and the one with the Mirri card I attached with Foam pads.  I cut off the gold foiling from the Kanban sentiment and layered on the Rainbow Mirri Card instead to help tie it into the card colours alittle better, I attached this and the Kanban Topper with foam pads adding some dimension.

I inked around the edges of the card blank with the chalk pad, picked out the star and swirl details with the Sakura Clear Star Pen, stamped "Merry Christmas" in the same chalk pad colour and used a quickie glue pen to add glitter highlights to this.  The topper was edges in gold foiling so to match in with the Sakura glitter background I cut the topper out and layered onto Rainbow Mirri Card, attached to the card using foam pads and added some clear adhesive gems.

More tomorrow :o)

Amanda x

3D Peel-off Cards

Hello Crafters,

This is the first of the Christmas Cards that I have been working on, just simple generic ones to use up some older card stock and some of the Kanban Toppers that I received from Create & Craft last month as their Members Gift.  These will be kept in stock in case I do manage to do any Christmas fairs this year.

 

For these cards I used a plain A5 Ivory Card Blanks, 3D peel offs, sliver pearl embossing powder, green glitter embossing powder, emerald chalk pad, Quickie Glue Pen, ultra fine emerald glitter, emerald coloured adhesive gems, double sided tape and foam pads.  The inserts will be created later using Craft Artist Professional.

I layered the peel offs on co-ordinating green card, cut these out and layered with mini foam pads.  I picked out a lovely backing paper and inked the edges of the card, peel-off topper and backing paper with the emerald green chalk pad.  I picked out the swirls in the background paper with embossing powder and added gems to the centre of the snowflakes just to tie it all in together.  I stamped the sentiment in a piece of he left over background and covered with silver pearl embossing powder to give a lighter and reflective effect to the sentiment and as this covered the sentiment i used a quickie glue pen to pick this out and covered with ultra fine glitter to add sparkle. finally layered this onto a piece of Rainbow Mirri Card and attached with Foam pads.

Completed in the same way as the above card but using a different backing sheet without the swirls.

 

That's today's cards, very simple but they look lovely and different.

 

Take care,

 

Amanda xx

Baby Boy Card using Nigel May's All Kinds of Everything CD

Afternoon Everyone

As promised, although a little late as it didn't load up as planned, here is the lovely card I made for my other half's Niece.  She is a new Big Sister and that is such a lovely thing to be, a bit of a hard job though, means you have to make all the mistakes so that the youngster learns from them (that's my excuse and I am sticking to it).

 

So for this card I used an A5 White Hunkydory Card Blank, Nigel May's All Kinds of Everything CD, some lemon satin ribbon, Sakura Coloured Glitter Gel Pens, Sakura Clear Glaze Pen, an A4 sheet of Gold Mirri Card, A tag topper, gold peel-offs, double sided tape, foam pads and red line tape.

I printed out the topper and backing papers as well as a matching insert from Nigel May's CD.  I cut the backing paper to size and before this was layered onto card using double sided tape, I popped a strip of red line tape down the right side and pinched and stuck the lemon ribbon on to give a little texture.  I layered the topper onto a piece of Gold Mirri Card and attached to the card using foam pads to add dimension.  The tag topper was already built up using card, a button and a brad.  I personalised with some gold peel-offs and attached to card again using foam pads.  The insert was simply printed from CD and attached into the card using double sided tape.

The topper was printed from the CD and I cut and layered this up which took some time but was well worth it.  I layered this up using tiny foam pads, used the Sakura Clear Glaze pen to glaze the hearts and the string that the blocks and other bits are hanging from.  I used all the other coloured Sakura Glitter Gel pens in co-ordinating colours to pick out some of the details such as the musical notes, some highlights on the rabbit, moon, stars etc this just added a lovely sparkle.

Well that's all for now, Christmas cards to follow!!

Happy Crafting!

Amanda x

Baby Boy Card using Debbie Moore's Cracker Box Mice CD

Hello Peeps!!

Well Autumn is well and truly here, very blustery and wet out and there is a definite change in temperature.  I was driving the other day down to my mums and the wind was blowing the leafs of the trees and it just looked a picture.  I love this time of year although I have a cold already!!

So the wee hats are away in the post and this has let me get back to making some cards.  I have today made two new baby cards, and three birthday cards, that gets me all up to date from now till Christmas meaning that from tomorrow the Christmas cards are getting done, I have only two weeks before I start my new job so I want to have them all done for then just in case David does any fairs over the festive period.

My other half's sister had her baby on Tuesday so this is the baby card that I made for her from us both.  We wont be able to see the wee man till we are both clear of the cold which is a complete bummer, but isn't it always the way!

For this card I used an 8x8 white Hunkydory Card Blank, the new Debbie Moore Cracker Box Mice CD, an A4 sheet of Rainbow Mirri Card, Some teal satin ribbon, peel-offs, a chipboard sentiment, Sakura Clear Glaze Pen, Epoxy embellishments, double sided tape, red line tape, foam pads and Microsoft Word for my insert poem.

Firstly printed topper, background paper & insert paper from the CD, cut out the decoupage and stacked this up using foam pads to give a little dimension to the card.  I cut the background paper down to 7 3/4 x7 3/4 so that it fit perfectly on the card blank.  Before attaching this I added a strip of red line tape and ruffled a ribbon down the side to add another texture.  I backed the topper on Rainbow Mirri Card and attached to card using Foam pads, also attached the chipboard sentiment in the same way.

For the topper I cut out all the pieces, and layered up using foam pads.  I outlined the balloons in the background with the Sakura Clear Glaze Pen, glaze the mouses ears & nose and also uses this pen to "colour" in the balloon to give a lovely shine.  I added an "its a boy" peel-off sentiment and that was it all done!

The insert was simply co-ordinating backing papers, a poem printed from Word using blue ink, stuck all this down with double sided tape and added a couple of epoxy embellishments just to finish.

Tomorrows post will be of a lovely card for a new big sister, something that we just would not be able to find in a shop.

 

Thanks for stopping by ;o)

 

Happy Crafting!!

 

Amanda x