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.

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.