Unexpected birthday Card

Hi there crafters and readers/followers of my blog.

I hope you are all well and creating up a storm these days. Seem to have an excess of creating energy right now, which is tough when I have an exam in little over a weeks time. 

Todays show and tell is a card I made out of the blue a while ago now. Love it when inspiration hits and I get to make someones day.

I made this impromptu card for a friends birthday. I had been a bit involved in my studies and had not realised the birthday had come up. One afternoon I created this and popped it in the post. Few days later received an elated message via Facebook with a thank you for the card. 

In my hast to make and post the card however I forgot to photograph the card! Luckily I was able to get some photos to show you the card.

Birthday card all flowery and bright

Greetings crafter

I am finding some time for crafting these day as a breather from my studies. This particular card I made the day after I completed an arduous assignment for my university course. It was so lovely to get stuck in to some paper craft.

A dear friend had her birthday the day after I made the card and we had every intention to catch up however life happened. I was able to catch up with her a couple weeks later for a yarn day and gave it to her then.

I haven't worked with flowers and leaves for a while, so there were a few brief moments of abject terror that I was making a total mess. However, I rather liked the end product. 

I seem to be drawn to the aqua and teal tones these days as I feel they work well with for white and creams in the papers. Of course I edged elements with Tim Holtz Vintage photo because it is my go to.  

Stay tuned for some more posts coming your way. 

Just a reminder that I have a deal on at the moment on my Etsy store for free shipping world wide on any physical products. Be sure to use the coupon at check out.

Birthday Cards for WA

Hello create types! Welcome, welcome. Time for a cuppa of tea or coffee, whatever your poison, and to sit and see what I can inspire you with today.

I have some dear friends down in Manjimup, Western Australia, who apart from having the birth of their son only a week and a half ago they both celebrate their own birthday a day after one another this weekend. More cards were in order. This is what they got.

Happy Birthday to you both.

Birth of Spawn

Hey crafters, I hope you are all well and have some exciting projects on your craft desk. Today I will be sharing with you some more inspiration, although the theme is slightly different.

A good friend of mine asked me to create some cards for him to send to family to announce the birthday of his son. There was a bit of back and forth on theme ideas and we settled on vintage with some steampunk, however some thing in one of the emails stuck with me. My friend has a different sense of humour, as do I and in the end found a middle ground with what we planned.







So yes these two cards say birth of spawn (his words not mine) I just thought it was very apt for who my friend is. These two cards went to sisters, naturally, who would get the joke in it all.







These two cards were the more...tame should we say. These were for the older generation of matriarchs.

The cards for created using card stock as the base and Ephemera and papers were from my 1920 collection which you can find HERE on my webstore as printables, which these were. The gear were a collection of what was in my embellishments box.

Welcome little Lucien and congrats to my friends on his arrival and addition to the family.

Custom card: Mothers Birthday

Welcome crafters, I hope you have a lovely cup of tea if you are in the colder end of the world or a nice refreshing cool drink in the more warmer areas of the planet. Where ever you are I hope you have many projects waiting for your attention on your craft desk today, or you are looking for some inspiration.

One of the amazing things I have found since being in a wheelchair is the support community out there. An acquaintance sent me a care package a while ago of some heavenly wax melts, with the best smells ever! She was a recipient of a hand made card from May. I ended up running very low on a fav wax melt sent and offered to do a barter with her that if she did another batch of wax melts and made a few for me i would make her a card or two in exchange.

Here are the cards I made for her.

Happy with the arrangement at the end of the day. 

Do you have similar types of arrangements with people when it comes to your craft?

A Cricket fan at 13.

Hi crafters 

I was asked to make a card for a young man who was turning 13. I was told he was into basket ball and cricket which made my mind spring to creative mode. 

I ended up making an easel card with the theme of cricket. 

Hoping the young man like the card and best of wishes to him.

Cafe au Lait: Another one for the boys

Hi there crafters, 

So another day, another birthday. Is it just me or is this year flying by really fast. 

I have created a very elegant masculine (yes those two words go together, at least they do in my head).

I have used my Cafe Au Lait collection again for this one but I added a few gears and wood ephemera.  The hot air balloon in from one of the older Kaisercraft collection which I cannot recall right now. So what do you think?

I even gave doing some typography a try, which came out rather well. 

Remember I do make custom made cards. You can email me or head over to my Etsy and "convo" me there.

I hope you like. Leave a comment or question and Happy Crafting!

Cafe au Lait: A steampunk card

Hello crafters and passer-bys, I hope you are all well and looking for some inspiration.

I have another card in the Cafe au Lait collection which I made in a bit of a steampunk theme. Rather than doing is traditionally for a guy, I made this one for a girl.

 I used the cardmakers set for this card which, I feel, gives a good size to work with. The Kaisercraft bodice was coated in some antique bronze crackle paint and the gears in the background where given the old rust treatment. The one thing that I could not get to show up well on the photo was a layer of clear crackle I put down on the background before adding all the delicious elements. 

Please leave a comment or question below and HAPPY CRAFTING!

Here is a reveal of the collection Cafe au Lait

 

Cafe au Lait: Vintage flowers Card

Welcome all you creative geniuses and those who are curious.

Today I want to show you a new card I made with my new collection Cafe au Lait. It may look like a bit of a masculine collection however it is quite variable in what you can do with it. 

Here is a distinctly feminine card I made using the new collection.

I have used some of Prima's Art basic Copper Crackle Medium, which I just LOVE using. The three flowers are some of Kaisercrafts Large white flowers which I sprayed with water and then applied some small bits of color. I added some gold shimmer spray over the top and then left them to dry. 

I also had a few Silhouette die cuts in my stash that I added in the background and a couple vintage brads.

After putting everything together I then added some gesso over the top of the die cuts and flowers just to soften everything.

Here is a flip through of the entire collection

Cafe au Lait: A Man's Cards

Hello crafts and welcome to my blog again.

I want to share some cards I made with the new Cafe au Lait collection. I made this collections JUST in time for my brothers birthday which was last week. Here is the card I made him. 

This collection while not steampunk in its own right can be used to create a great steampunk genre card or layout. Add some airships, some gears and clocks along with some distressed edges and tada there you have it. I really like this card. 

Here is a flip through of the entire collection

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Forgotten Meadows: Lilac and Blue

Hello Crafters. Welcome!

I have some more cards for you today from the Meg's Garden Forgotten Meadows Collection.

I have used some of the cut and create ephemera from the 12 inch papers and then layers them over the Forgotten Meadows papers.

Both the cards are very simple and elegant. 

I have used some of the lovely fibers and fiber ribbons for both of these cards.

Product list

Paper flowers

Paper Leaves

Mesh Ribbon

Burlap Ribbon

Gauze

Vintage Brads

Tim Holtz Word Bands

I hope you like my cards. Please feel free to leave a comment or questions.

Meg's Garden: Cards of Forgotten Meadows

Hello crafters and thank you for visiting my blog today. 

I have some step cards I have made with the new collection from Meg's Garden Forgotten Meadows that was released in February .

I really love the ephemera in this collection, which I really wanted to use for the cards. I am not big on the whole having "happy birthday" or " happy anniversary" on the front of the card, I like making generic cards where that information is written in on the inside to the recipient of the card. This gives me free reign to do whatever I want on the outside of the card.

For the first step card I used the Mini/card maker pack of Forgotten Meadows. I used the ephemera from the 12 inch Cut and Create page which has some wonderful ephemera.  I also used some of the Mini Rose Braid at the base of the card and the lovely paper flowers and rose buds.  The small bottles are also available as Meg's Garden and I love adding them to small cards as a bit of a feature. These two I filled with some of the ephemera rolled up. The inking around the edge of the paper is done with Tim Holtz Tea Dye distress ink.

For this second card I have use those wonderful paper leaves and paper flowers again, there is however this time a small white fabric Heirloom flower.  I found a Filigree Oval metal embellishment, a Tim Holtz pen nib and Word Band in my stash which works well. The edges are inked with Pumice Stone to add some contrast but not drown out that lilac in the wisteria on the paper.

I hope you like these two cards and please leave a comment or questions. Thanks for visiting my blog today.

The Coming of Age of a Young Man.

Hello there crafters. Welcome to my blog again. 

Today I have a treat for you. My nephew turned 18 this weekend. I have been very busy the last couple weeks, but I whipped this card up last week for the birthday celebration.

As you may have worked out by now, I love easel cards. They are so much fun to make, I find as you get to adorn the inside of the card as well. 

The card is 6x4 inches and I made the envelope for it specifically as the card had a bit of depth to it that I didn't want to try and jam into a standard envelope.

For the gears I used this technique to emulate rust. 

 I hope you like this card, please feel free to leave a comment or question.

I also entered this card in a GEAR it UP challenge over at http://sandee-and-amelie.blogspot.co.at. The challenge can be see over here: http://sandee-and-amelie.blogspot.co.at/2015/03/gear-it-up-march-steampunk-challenge.html

Customer 21st Card

Hi there card makers.

I got a call from a family member while in the middle moving. luckily enough it didn't take me long to unpack the craft kit and create this for their friends upcoming 21st in January. 

A birthday card from the archives

Crafters and readers, look what I found in my photo collection!

I made this back in August I think of 2014 as a custom card for a friend and forgot all about it thanks to being ill. 

I still love making easel cards. You can just do so much with them.

Thank you for visiting. Please remember to leave a comment or a question