spotty birthday

An 11 cm square of beige card was laid centrally onto a 12 cm white square card.

An 8.5 cm square of spots card was laid centrally onto a 9 cm square of red card. This was mounted onto the beige card using 3d foam,

A 2.5 cm strip of red vellum had the words ‘happy birthday’ printed in white by using Doodlebug simply sweet rub-ons. This was mounted half way down the card using two round silver 5mm brads.

3 brown flowers

A 4cm strip of multicoloured striped paper was adhered to the lower section of a 12 cm square white card.

A brown spot length of (American Crafts) ribbon had a knot tied 1/3rd of the way from the end and attached vertically 1.5 cm from the left hand edge of the card with the knot at the top.

One large and two small brown Prima waffle flowers were attached to the card using bright green brads as shown.

Doodlebug simply sweet rub-ons were used to print a message at the lower right hand corner of the printed paper.

box recipe

Something different this week, did you know you can make a 2” box out of two 6” squares of card.

I have embelished this one with just a piece of ribbon and a tag. Simple folding and four little cuts are all you need. I can’t draw, but you can find the recipe here.

thinking of you dots

All papers are American Crafts simply chic (one of my favorite paper ranges).

A 9 cm square of the small dot grid was cut, and a American Crafts Kate sidekick ‘thinking of you’ rub-on placed so the circle overlapped one of the printed circles.

This was laid onto a 9.5 cm square of matching purple card, and a length of red dotty ribbon (again American Crafts) was tied to have a knot 1/3 rd of the way from the top and attached to the left hand side.

This was matted onto and 11 cm square of blue card using 3d foam. Finally this was mounted onto a 12.5 cm white square card.

celebrrrate

Dies used:

Penguin

Grad cap mini

Three penguins and three grad caps were cut using DCWV sticky backed card.

A pale blue 9 cm square had Doodlebug lily white sugar coated cardstock attached to the bottom and was covered in white glitter glue dots. The penguins were lined in a row and the caps flung into the air.

This was mounted onto a 9.5 cm silver square, mounted centrally onto a 12.5 cm white square card. 

The word ‘celebrrrate’ was appended centrally below the image using Doodlebug simply sweet rub-ons.

funky thinking of you

Dies used:

Primitive star

from Sizzlits window and frame making kit

A blue piece of card 9.5 x 13.8 cm was adhered centrally to a cream A6 card.

A piece of tan card, measuring 8 x 12.3 cm, had it’s edges inked in darker brown. Two lengths of dotty ribbon were doubled over to form tabs and were adhered to the back of the tan card 2.5 cm from the top.

This was mounted onto the blue 5 mm from the top and right edges.

A 4 cm square of blue was cut and placed 1.3 cm from the top and right edges of the tan.

A primitive star was cut from cream card and covered in iridescent glitter glue. When dry it was attached over the square using 3d foam.

A Pebbles inc brown ‘thinking of you’ duplicate rub-on was positioned at the lower right of the tan.

Finally a brown button was placed to the left of the message.

simple baby

Dies used:

Ginger mini alphabet

wand

bottle cap die set

Ingredients:

Doodlebug Bubble Blue Bazzill card

Doodlebug Honeydew Bazzill card

Doodlebug Sugar Cookie Bazzill card

Iridescent Glitter Glue

Corner rounder

Two stars were cut from sugar cookie card and covered in glitter glue. One further star was cut from bubble blue card. Three small circles were cut, using the die from the bottle cap set, from honeydew card.

The word ‘Baby’ was cut from bubble blue card

An A6 card was created out of bubble blue card. A 2” x 5 1/4” piece of honeydew card stock was cut, as well as a 1 1/2” x 5” sugar cookie piece of card, and the corners cut as shown.

The cream and green card was layered with two ends touching, and this was placed on the blue card blank.

The stars were laid onto the circles and were attached along with the word ‘Baby’ to the cream strip.

thank you stalwart

Quickutz dies used:

Party theme set

Katie classic alphabet

A good stalwart this. Quick and easy to make, not much to say. I like writing the instructions usually but this last month or so I’ve been flagging. I’ll be on better form again soon.

vellum card

Not much use of vellum, but I buy it and rarely use the stuff. Not so good as a birthday card I’ve just made and will blog at a later date but at least the stuff got cut. 

I am so guilty of buying stuff because it is reduced, even though I know it is not my style.

something different

I tried something different, but now think it looks messy. Ho hum.

more birthday candles

Dies used:

Candle

Frankie skinni mini alphabet

Maybe it’s the weather but I don’t want to write much at the moment. The quickutz candle die is on of my favourite. Here used again with the edge highlighted by a little drawing.

rudolph at the north pole

Dies used:

Reindeer

Is June too early to start think about Christmas. I like this die and was chuffed with the push me pull you noses, so duplicated the effect here.

I also tore paper (shock horror). The picture says it all... red brad nose on Rudolph, big silver brad at the top of the pole.