Masculine 30th Birthday

I am back today to share a 30th birthday card I made for my brother-in-law.

The "happy" I die cut and stuck onto the white card, whereas the "birthday" I sunk into the white card, just to add different textures.  The 30 I coated in Glossy Accents to make it a little more interesting.

Jacqui x

Supplies:

Dies - Spellbinders: Nestabilities, Memory Box: happy, birthday, Large Typewriter Number Set, CBS: Honeycomb Die
Cardstock: Core 'dinations "brights
Glossy Accents

CAS(E) This Sketch #48

I haven't played along with CAS(E) this sketch for a while, but I needed to make a card for my husbands Grandma and was severely lacking ideas.  As soon as I saw the sketch I knew exactly what I wanted to do! - sign of a good sketch if you ask me =)

Here's what I came up with:

I have very limited ink colours to choose from so that pretty much dictated what colour the flowers were going to be, so I chose the rest of the colour theme based on the flowers.  I initially made the card without the ribbon and it looked really plain.

This is the sketch that I based my design on:

That's all from me today.  I'm hoping to find some more time for crafting soon so will be back on a more regular basis again.

Thanks!

Jacqui x

Supplies:
Stamps - Clearly Besotted Stamps "You Are", Personal Impressions - Everyday Words Happy Birthday.
Ink - Memento - Black, Lilac Posies, Versa Color - Orchid
Embossing folder - Cuttlebug "Simple Flowers"
Paper, ribbon and rhinestones from stash

Teal 80th

This is the card I made for my Mum and Dad to give to my Grandma on her 80th birthday, no butterflies this time!  The only instruction I was given was that it had to have 80 on it and the wording "Happy Birthday Mum".

I had some shiny pearlescent teal paper in my stash (from Hobbycraft I think) and some coordinating ribbon so I decided to use these.  Its again a very simple design.  The sentiment I printed directly onto card using my printer.  To add some interest I added stick on pearls to one corner and lifted the mounted square up on foam, as well as the cut out "80".  The ribbon I wrapped a piece around the card and then stuck the bow on top afterwards as I think this is the easiest way to do it!

and a close up to show the different layers...

That's all I have to show you today.  Its bank holiday weekend and I'm spending it with my sister and her little family which I'm very much looking forward to, just one more day at work first!

Thanks for stopping by.

Jacqui x

Butterflies

As I'm sure you'll soon notice, I love both butterflies and purple.  This card I have made for a work friend combines both as I know she is also a purple fan.

I have a mini butterfly punch which I used to cut 6 butterflies in purple core'dinations CoreColor cardstock, onto three of these I then embossed the "body" of the butterfly with Tinsel Silver embossing powder from Papermania to add some detail.  I stuck these onto some white cardstock and mounted it using the same purple card I'd used for the butterflies.  I then mounted the rectangle using foam pads onto a white card blank.  To add the sentiment I used the "Happy Birthday" from personal impression clear stamp set and Versa Color ink in black.

I like the simplicity of this card, another thing you'll discover as I develop my blog - I love simple designs!