Christening Card

Today I am sharing a card I made for a friend's baby's Christening.  I wanted to add the personalised details to make it special.  

The images I stamped onto patterned paper and free cut (I need to buy the dies!!).  The writing I printed using my computer and a standard font on Microsoft Word, sorry I can't remember which one.

Jacqui x

Supplies:

Stamps - Clearly Besotted Stamps, Little Onesie

Dotty Birthday

I have another card today that I am going to enter into the CBS Challenge. 

The card panel is popped up on foam adhesive pads, as is the central circle.  

Here's the card I took inspiration from:

Jacqui x

Supplies:

Stamps - Clearly Besotted Stamps, Background Builder, Personal Impressions, Happy Birthday
Dies - Spellbinders Nestabilities, Circles
Punch - Hobbycraft, 1" Butterfly
Ink - Tsukineko Memento Dye, London Fog, Morocco

Orange Good Times

Today I'm sharing a card I made using a stamp set I've wanted for a while and happily got bought for my birthday.  I couldn't wait to use them, and I already had an idea of what I wanted to do.  Thanks to the CBS colour challenge I had some direction of what colour to use.

Thanks for visiting.

Jacqui x

Supplies:
Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Card Shoppe
Ink: Tsukineko Memento Dye Ink Dew Drop Pad - London Fog, Morocco
Stamps: Clearly Besotted Stamps -Good Times, Woodware crafts - Mini Happy Birthday

Diamond Wedding Anniversary

It is was my Grandparents 60th wedding anniversary a couple of weeks ago, such a big occasion couldn't go by with out a card! I think my card will be out shone a little by the one from the Queen...but I'm OK with that :)

I trawled the internet for ideas for a diamond wedding card but couldn't find anything I liked.  In the end I decided to adapt a wedding card that I had made earlier in the year.  Pretty much everything on the card are from things I've been given or saved from various things, I love it when you can find a good use for them!

Supplies:

Embossing folder - D'vine Swirls, Cuttlebug

Number Dies - Memory Box

Sentiment - "Congratulations" found via Google images and printed

Everything else from my stash

I'm hoping to make a start on my Christmas cards soon, so hopefully I'll have lots to share with you in the next few weeks.

Jacqui x

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

Wedding Anniversary

Sorry I haven't posted in a while but we were away on holiday for a couple of weeks, it was so good to get away after having a hectic couple of months.  Anyway the card I have to share with you is an anniversary card.  It was our 3rd wedding anniversary earlier in the month, and this is the card I made to give to my hubby.  I always find anniversary cards for men hard to make - trying to find a balance between getting across the sentiment of love without being really girly.  Here's my card:

I saw the below card on Pinterest and decided to use the elements of it in my card.  I wanted to use a heart as the cut out shape, and due to a lack of a die I printed out a heart shape and cut it out using my craft knife, after assembling them together I stuck it on using foam pads to add some dimension.  The circle shape I free cut from card and coloured paper.  I stuck the strips of coloured paper to a piece of paper and then onto the card base.  The sentiment I printed directly onto the card.  To finish it off I couldn't resist a few rhinestones!

Inspiration:

Jacqui x

Swirly Wedding

This is a card I made last week for a wedding we went to yesterday.  It really was a gorgeous day, perfect couple, fantastic venues and a truly enjoyable day.  As I've said before, I seem to have made lots of wedding cards recently so when I was trying to come up with an idea I trawlled Pinterest (love Pinterest!), and found a card that I wanted to CASE. 

The bridesmaid dresses at the wedding were a dusky pink colour so I dug in my stash and found some pearlescent pink card and pink rhinestones to go with the theme.  I didn't have a ribbon that would work so I used a strip of card instead.  For the sentiment I found the "Congratulations" on Google images and then added the other wording myself.

This is my card:

And this is the card I found on Pinterest, which is from this Blog:

I (think) that's our last wedding of the year, so there may be a lull in the wedding card making at least for a while!

Thanks for visiting!

Jacqui x














I bought the Cuttlebug "d'vine swirls" embossing folder specifically for this card, but I love it so I think I'll make good use of it. 

Baby Boy's Christening

I was asked to make a Christening card a while ago, and the card I made I've never got round to sharing...so here it is!

It is based on a design that was found on the internet, but I'm afraid I've lost the link!

I drew the church shape by hand and cut it out of coordinating Boofle papers, it looked really plain without the black lining so I carefully drew around the edge with a marker.  The sentiment I printed directly onto the card.

All of the other drawing I did freehand using a fine liner, except the stars which I drew myself some stencils.

Hope you're all having a lovely weekend.  I have been busy busy but have managed to sqeeze in making a couple of cards - I'll share them once I've given them to their recipients!

Jacqui x