Morehead 1st Birthday Card

Good Evening

 

Finally had a wee couple of days to craft which has chilled me out and helped me relax a little.  I have managed to create a lovely 1st birthday card and all the swaps for my swap group.  This means that I am left with a card for a lovely little boy and that dreaded wedding card.  That sounds terrible, the wedding thing is cool its just I am not finding the inspiration for the wedding card jumping out at me!  Seems I am seriously lacking in wedding themed things within my crafty stash, refusing to buy more though, I have crafty things coming out my ears and am hoping to use alot of this before purchasing further.

 

The items I have used for today's card are 8x8 Hunkydory Card Blank, A4 piece of Silver Mirri Card, Some lovely designer floral papers, 12x12 piece of Pink Core'dinations Card, Crafters Companion Quilling Die, "Me to You" sentiments, Morehead Topper from Crafters Companion New Inspirations Magazine, buttons, peel-offs, butterfly embellishment, Sand-it Kit, self adhesive gems & pearls, pink ink pad, 3D glue gel, double sided tape & foam pads.

I cut to size the Silver Mirri Card and gutted the centre to use as a matt for the topper.  The Core'dinations was cut down to size and I sanded around the edges, then used the Tim Holtz Distressing Tool to rough them up a little and also curled the corners.  After I inked the edges with the pink ink pad.  Doing this with all the papers gives the one colour theme running throughout and further helps to tie the card together.

I then added a strip of Mirri Card and a piece of patterned paper, this was just to add more layers of interest.  As with all the layers I distressed, inked and curled the layers.

I then added the topper which had been matt & layered onto the same papers in the same way.  So far everything was attached to the card using double sided tape.

I added the "Happy Birthday" sentiment with foam tape, the number one was cut out of Silver Mirri Card and attached using 3D glue gel, the "today" was made up using peel-offs.

The butterfly is a beautiful embellishment which I purchased from Remnant Kings a few years ago.  This was shaped and attached to the card using 3D glue gel and the trail made up with gems & pearls.

The lovely flowers were made using the Crafters Companion Stamen plus the Large & Small Camelia Quilling Dies.  I added buttons to the centres and attached to the card using 3D glue gel which has the best hold.

Just a photo popped in to show the dimension created by curling the edges and adding the wonderful flowers made with the quilling dies.

For the insert I used a plain piece of white 160GSM paper cut down to size and inked around the edges using the pink ink pad.  I then just used a piece of the Core'dinations, Silver Mirri Card and patterned paper, inking, sanding and curling as with the larger pieces on the front of the card.  These were attached using double sided tape. 

I inked the sentiment and attached using 3D glue gel and added gems to the corners to finish.

Well that's me, hope you all like it.

Happy Crafting,

Amanda xx

"Thinking of you" cards using Darice Embossing Folders

Afternoon All

 

I have been playing again with all the bits & pieces of card that I embossed over the weekend.  I also finally tried using the gilding flakes which are fab and so so easy to use, I want to put them on everything now.  Finally, I also stamped on some shrink plastic just for a wee change and a different little embellishment.

 

I embossed the reed folder on three different pieces of Core'dinations Card stock which came with the folders, instead of using my trimmer I tore around the edges and sanded back.  The piece of Kraft card I attached them to was also torn and I then flitter glued the edges and added gilding flakes. 

To put the card together I attached the orange & green reeds to the piece of craft card with double sided tape and the pink one with foam tape.  I then attached the bakers twine to the reverse using red line tape, and the "thinking of you" sentiment which was also stamped with flitter glue and gilded, was attached using 3D glue gel to add dimension.

The finished topper was attached to the card blank using foam tape.

This was quite simple to put together but I was pleased with how it worked out, will be a good "just because" card, something to keep on hand for those moments when you just need a card.

For this I started with a plain piece of white card, stamped & used gilding flakes as a background.  As I used a bumble bee background it fitted perfect with the bumble bee embossing folder and grassy shrubs.  These were just embossed trimmed and sanded back.

To put the card together I inked around the edge of the white card, attached using double sided tape, attached the green piece of Core'dinations in the same way and the yellow piece with foam tape.

In the inside of the card I added the embossed "Smile" sentiment.

This is just simply two of the embossing folders on Core'dinations Card stock sanded back to show the detail.

The pink piece was attached to a piece of Kraft card with double sided tape, the green with foam tape.  The topper was then attached to the card blank with foam tape and a couple of gems to finish.

A stamped and gilded "Thinking of you" sentiment was added to the inside of the card. 

My fav out of the quick cards was this one.  I never tire of seeing shrink plastic do its thing under the heat gun.

I used a beehive stamp on the card blank and then stamped this same stamp on shrink plastic to make matching embellishments. 

I used the other two bee themed embossing folders, simply trimmed and sanded back.

Well that will be me for the week I think as I am booked in for some big shifts at work.  Its a bit of an inconvenience as there are still Mother's Day cards to be done, looks like I will be last minute again this year!!

 

I also have the themes for this months group swaps and they are fab, been keeping me up at night with all the ideas, again just need the time but don't we all?

 

Hope your week has started well, happy crafting,

 

Amanda xx