I Love You

It's that time of year again :)

 

Our 43rd Wedding Anniversary on 13th February and tomorrow is Valentines Day.

 

I designed the card in Word for the layout - Text sentiment & an hourglass image from pngWing - which was printed onto gloss cardstock with a laser printer.

 

I then foiled the 'I love you' in RED, and the hourglass and the remaining text in GOLD.

 

I glued down some 'GORGEOUS' sprinkles I received in my Secret Santa Swap for CraftMad Swappers as the 'sands of time' - the little hearts are just perfect!  As soon as I saw them, I knew I was going to incorporate them into a card.  The white cardfront was then attached to a Kraft cardbase with foam tape.

 

The Cardz 4 Guyz Challenge this time round is 'clean and simple' and the Allsorts Challenge calls for romance or music.

 

 

The challenge over on Inkspiration is in collaboration with Color Hues Challenge using pink & red.  Now, I never thought that I would make a card for Mr Fixit using 'pink & red' ... but I think the subtle pink & red tones work!   The red foil 'I Love You' and the light pink & dark pink hearts in the sprinkles adds just enough colour to an otherwise 'all gold' card.

 

My Time to Craft asks us to use a theme of  'hearts'.

 

Linking with the following challenges:

Cardz 4 Guyz #365 Clean & Simple 

Allsorts Challenge #816 - Romance or Music

Color Hues Challenge #103 - pink & red

Inkspirational Challenge #334 Collaboration with Color Hues 

My time to craft #553 - theme of hearts

 

Now, this is where I get honest, the above card is the second version, you see, I had great plans to turn this into a shaker card.

 

In the first version, I cut the inside of the hourglass away, added 3d foam tabs behind to make a pocket, then added the 'sprinkles', then attached it to the cardbase.   You guessed, it ..... I forgot to add the acetate!  DOH!   I had sprinkles everywhere!

 

So then I peeled off the foam, attached the acetate, then added back the foam and the sprinkles and attached it to a white base ... but it was a bit crooked and there was a misalignment; you could see the hourglass printed underneath .... and I mangled up the edges of the foil when I cut the aperture out... AND I spied a rogue triangle piece in the shaker area..... at that point I decided to do the card again and produced the card you see above.

 

Here is the first version of the card .... complete with crooked placement and the rogue 'triangle' piece in the shaker area.

I showed Mr Fixit the first version .......... he did say he liked the idea of the 'shaker card' and wouldn't have noticed the rough edges, nor the misalignment, nor the rogue triangle .....

 

 

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Happy New Year

Time for another crafting session!  The Cricket is on the TV, air-con on, nibbles and wine is flowing ... what more could a girl want!

 

I am very late with my December swap cards for CraftMad Swappers :)

Card#1 - Merry Christmas

 

Using a Kraft cardbase, ribbon was added across the middle with glue, Scrap Boys 'Christmas Day' DP was die-cut using WaffleFlower A6 Layer dies and added to cardbase.  KaiserCraft Christmas Tree was stamped on green cardstock, heat embossed with VersaMark & clear embossing powder, then die-cut with a slightly smaller Waffle Flower A6 Layer die.

A final touch of bling added at bottom of card.   I couldn't find the right sentiment stamp, so I used my new T-square ruler and wrote it by hand.

 

This card was inspired by a 2016 Sketch from my CraftMad swap group.

 

Card#2 - Happy New Year

 

Using my own handmade stencil cut with Spellbinders circle dies, I ink blended some random 'bubbles', highlighted with white gel pen for the background, which was then trimmed with Waffle Flower A6 layer dies, and added to Navy cardbase.

SugarPea 'Cheers to You' Champagne bottle and glasses stamped in black and clear heat embossed, hand coloured with Copics, then die cut with matching dies, placed strategically on cardfront with foam tabs.  Gold PeelOff stickers '2025' added, and a final touch of Kindy Glitz added for sparkle.

This Card was inspired by the CraftMad Swappers December TicTacToe - Diagonal Down L-R - Numbers, Gold, Sparkle

Linking Card#2 with the following challenges:

My Time To Craft Christmas #102 - Sweet Treats 

Inkspirational Challenge #331 - use stencils

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Hello there

Time for another swap card - my October swap - which was late ..... again :(

1 card using stamps

1 card using the TicTacToe

Card #1 was made using a combination of stamps and patterned paper.  I have been going through my stash in an endeavor to use up what I have.

I had made several 'card topper' elements a while back using some stamps and designer papers, so I decided to utilise these elements.

The 'dancing lady' was stamped onto DP and 'paper pieced' onto square card topper, bordered by Green Pearl cardstock, all cut with Spellbinders Square dies - I love the fact they fit together so nicely.  The left panel was made by layering DP onto pearl cardstock, then attached to the front of the card with double sided tape.

 

Sentiment was stamped then cut out with Spellbinders Ovals, layered onto green pearl cardstock oval - added to front of card with 3D foam dots.

 

The square topper was added to front of card with 3D foam dots and a final touch of 'kindy glitz' added to image, and 3 gems added to bottom.

 

A very simple card which came together fairly quickly..... once I had gathered all the elements.  The colour scheme was influenced by the TicTacToe card.

 

 

Card #2

Using TicTacToe - bottom row across - Yellow/Birds/Embossed Panel

In my stash I found an embossed panel - I do believe it was from a swap I did many years ago where we sent and received a selection of embossed card fronts.

I lightly swiped yellow ink across the raised bits.  I was going to add the embossed panel directly to the front of the cardbase, but it didn't look right.  I then thought about adding it to a yellow layer .... yes!   

So I trimmed the panel slightly smaller, then because of an oopsie where I forgot to put the lid back onto my black ink ........ I had to rescue it by swiping black ink around all of the edges .... 

 

The bird image was a freebie stamp included in an Ultimate Crafts Magazine.  It was stamped in black, heat embossed and then coloured in using Copics. 

 

It is certainly not quite what I had in mind when I started, but it is a finished card and has been now received by my swap partner.

 

Linking Card #2 with:

Inkspirational Challenge #328 - Layer it 

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Just for You

More time playing with the coneflower dies.  I am loving the different effect you get by changing the intensity of the ink blending over the different layers.

 

Once again, the Mood Board for Beautiful Blossoms has inspired my colour choices for the flower!

 

This card started with an ink-blended background that was masked off to create a frame within a frame.  Two different yellows were used, water splotches added, then set aside to dry.

 

 

 

The coneflower petals were cut from offcuts/snippetts, ink-blended using oranges & yellows then arranged/layered accordingly using liquid glue.

 

The leaves were die cut and a stem was cut manually, then ink-blended with two different greens and placed on the cardfront. 

I really like the way the petals fall over the edge of the yellow frame.

'just for you' sentiment was cut from some left over gold reflective cardstock (more snippets) and placed on cardfront which was then added to the front of the white 300 gsm cardbase.

 

I am loving this die set .......

 

Items Used

Dies - Amazon Coneflower Dies, Crafters' Companion Just for You
Inks - Ranger Distress Inks
Cardstock - 200 gsm white (cardfront), 300gsm white (cardbase)
Tools - Cuttlebug, Blending Brush
Extras - Glue, double sided tape, masking tape

Linking with the following Challenges:

Snippets Playground #481

Beautiful Blossoms #17 – Mood Board

Cut it Up #305 – Anything Goes

Shopping Our Stash #522  how does your garden grow

Inkspirational #317 - Frame

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.