5...4...3...2...1...

Quickutz dies used:

Rocket

Ginger mini alphabet

A terrible photo, sorry. Not much time again this week so you can work it out. I love this for a kids card. It says ‘5...4...3...2...1... blast off ...to a brilliant birthday’.

I double up on the ‘thrusters’ to give it a two tone effect.

push me pull you

Quickutz dies used:

Reindeer

Wreath

A silly. Not gonna explain much because it’s just an idea. I do like their brad noses though.

get well flowers

Dies used:

Flower from QVC set

Get Well cookie cutters

Ingredients:

Making Memories Kate stack

Clear gems

Green grosgrain ribbon

Green patterned card

Black Pen

A 9.5 cm square of green card was attached to the middle of a 12.5 cm white card. A 6 cm square of the pink flower paper was added to the middle of this. 

An interrupted line was drawn in black around the edges of both squares.

Two flowers were cut from the plain pink card and the message from the plain green. The message was attached at the lower right corner of the flowered square with the two pink flowers overlapping. Gems were added to the centre of the flowers.

The card was finished by two lengths of green ribbon being tied together and mounted on the green card centrally below the pink flower card.

bold flower

Dies used:

Revolution Daisy (5 petal)

A yellow 8 cm square was matted onto a tonal orange square 8.5 cm.

The revolution flower was cut in a bold red with the centre cut from the orange and yellow used before.

It was laid over the matted square, off centrally overlapping the edges.

This was attached to the top of an A6 white card using 3d foam.

best wishes

Quickutz dies used:

Katie classic alphabet

Katie skinni mini alphabet

The bottom 10 cm of a cream A6 card was covered in cream spotty paper. The top edge was bounded by purple paper sticky ribbon.

‘Best’ was cut from brown paper using the Katie skinni mini, ‘Wishes’ from the classic size alphabet.

The letters were attached to a cream piece of card 5.5 x 7.5 cm which was layered onto brown card 6 x 8 cm. Three small Prima flowers were adhered to the top right corner in an arc, and small clear gems added as centers.

This was attached to the card overlapping the boundary using 3d foam.

something vintage

Not really my style, but I bought the stuff so should really use it.

K&Co vintage letter paper (8.5 x 12.8 cm) was attached centrally to a cream A6 card and the edge trimmed with gold peel off.

A vintage epoxy sticker was mounted to cream card which was trimmed to just slightly larger than the sticker. Again it was edged in gold peel offs.

A gold ‘thinking of you’ message was adhered to the epoxy sticker, and it was attached to the upper left quadrant of the card using 3d foam.

make a wish

Dies used:

Candle

Birthday shortkutz

I think I stole this idea from the Quickutz website, but it has been reworked slightly.

Three candles were cut in pink card with yellow and orange flames. The wick was removed. 

A 4 cm strip of striped paper was placed near the bottom of an A6 white card. The candles were mounted on 3d foam, splaying from the centre.

Make a wish was also cut in pink and attached so as to form an arc around the candles.

baby blocks

Using the Sizzlits baby block B A Y letters, baby was cut with letters alternately in pale yellow and pale pink. These were backed in darker matching shades.

A white tag was cut using a Quickutz die and a American Crafts Kate sidekick ‘it’s a girl’ rub-on attached.  This was tied to the Y letter using a length of pink organza ribbon.

The letters were mounted onto a white 12.5 cm card using 3d foam.

it's a baby!

Dies used:

Carriage

Baby theme set

The baby carriage was cut from Doodlebug tickled pink bazzill cardstock as was the ‘it’s a girl’ message. Highlights on the pram were cut from silver card.

The baby carriage was assembled on a 4 cm white bazzill square which was matted onto a 4.5 cm silver square and a 5 cm tickled pink square.

This was adhered to a white A6 card using 3d foam and the message placed below in 3 lines. 

baby pram

Dies used:

Frankie skinni mini alphabet

carriage

The lower half of an A6 card was covered in the baby boy text paper from the 2007 DCWV spring stack.

The edge was covered in a length of green doodlebug zig-zag paper ribbon from the pastel box.

A baby pram was cut from Doodlebug bubble blue bazzill card with silver highlights. This was adhered to the centre of a 4 cm white bazzill square, which was matted onto 4.5 cm square honeydew Doodlebug bazzill and 5 cm square bubble blue. This was placed to the right of the card using 3d foam.

The words ‘baby boy’ were cut from honeydew bazzill and adhered to the left of the pram motive.

hello

A 5 cm strip of multi striped card was attached to the lower half of a 12 cm white square card. To the lower part of this panel a 2 cm blue strip was adhered.

The word ‘hello’ was cut from orange card using the Quickutz Frankie skinni mini alphabet. It was arranged to the right of the blue strip.

Finally a length of beige ribbon with orange spots (from American Crafts) had a know tied 1/3 rd of the way along its length. It was attached vertically, 1.5 cm from the left hand edge.

easter chick

Dies used:

Sunshine alphabet

Chick

The chick was cut from yellow card with orange beak and feet. Black eyes were added. The chick was constructed on a 4 x 5 cm white bazzill rectangle. This was layered onto purple and pink card each 0.5 cm than the prior.

A band of broad purple ribbon was adhered to a Papermania pink and purple striped ‘designer card’. The chick was placed on 3d foam over the ribbon band on the left hand side.

‘Easter’ was cut from purple card and applied to the lower right of the finished card.