For the Beautician

Not an instructor this time but the beautician, and she wasn't 21! The dark purple paper is by craft creations and the paler floral one is LOTV all have been cut using Spellbinder dies then mounted on each other graduating from large to small in the alternating papers. The topper is Scruffy Little Cat by Crafters Companion - Niamh. Her onesie has been coloured using copics in pale purple with yellow hearts. The young lady in question has blond hair so it's as near as I can get. The stamp pamper yourself also comes with the stamp. Birthday stamp is from LOTV and flowers and leaves from stash.

Final one!

This is the last of the 21st cards and is for another instructor at the gym, can't believe they were all born same month, same year. Anyway this is another young girl who loves dancing and not wanting to do another Betty Boots I chose this lovely LOTV stamp and coloured with copics as usual. I cut card and backing paper from stash and cut a large scalloped shape using spellbinder die. I already had the paper pieced large 21using the paper left over from one of the others that I made. So took the colours from that. I cut two smaller scallops in corresponding colours for the topper and 21 then fixed to the card. Next, using the same colours I cut the happy birthdays using All Occassion Dies and attached at the top and bottom.

First of three

This for one of the instructors who is on maternity leave at the moment. She is a very quiet, genteel girl so I thought this stamp by Kanban fit the bill nicely. I cut a large die from a set by Go Create plus the slightly small one for the paper by LOTV. I gently distressed the edge using tea dye. The large 21 is by Woodware 21st Birthday which I paper pieced with scraps from my stash. The stamp and greeting I have embossed and coloured with copics and just added a thin line of silver Stickles glitter glue. The flourish dies are by Cheery Lynn and I think the flower die is too.

Black hair, black eye beauty

The black hair, black eye beauty in question is my gorgeous gt.granddaughter whose birthday is next Tuesday. I have been so busy lately, crafters will know what it's like, birthday are like buses there aren't any for a while then they all come at once. Plus it's half term, it's my sons turn to have his daughters and they have spent nearly every day here. I have also painted the down pipes on the outside of the house. Then I suddenly remembered Francesca's birthday, thank goodness once again for LOTV toppers. I do stamp and colour myself - honest! Anyway she loves the family cat so I thought this one was ideal. The background papers are also LOTV which I have mounted onto dark blue card, the topper is mounted in the same way. I have attached these to a ready decorated card by Woodware. The sentiment is also LOTV. The 4 Today are All Occassion Dies. A few faux pearls to finish. All ready to dash to the post office with it only to discover she flew to Portugal today along with Mum and Dad to spend her birthday there, last year it was Brazil! Oh well! There's always next year!

Wedding Day

My son asked me to make a wedding card for his friend who is getting married in June and this is what I came up with. I embossed some white card with a rose folder by Embossalicious and distressed the edges. This was mounted onto an eight by eight card. The very fancy die is Anjas Vintage Decoration by Marianne. I cut two of these and positioned them in the centre of the card leaving a gap in the middle which is where I placed the other two die cuts. This set is by spellbinders and again I distressed the edges. I have used All Occassions Dies for the names. The swirls are by Cheery Lynn and all the flowers are from my stash. The sentiment on the ribbon bow is by LOTV.

Thank goodness for toppers

What a saviour LOTV toppers have been while my home has been all upside down. They came to the rescue once more on this card for my youngest gt.granddaughter who, as you can see, will be one on Wednesday. I have used a spellbinder nestie to cut it out and sponged it with distress ink Spun Sugar while still in the die. This I have then mounted onto pink card cut out using a decorative die again by Spellbinder. I have used a ready decorated card by Woodware to mount the panels on. Added the sentiment and her name also the number one onto the balloon to which I then added Glossy Accents. These were all cut using All Occasion dies. A couple of pink faux pearls top and bottom to finish

Back in business

At the end of January it was my eldest gt.grandson's birthday and thank goodness for LOTV toppers! I grabbed some bits and pieces and assembled this on the coffee table while squatting on the floor in my living room with the builders coming and going. The background papers are also LOTV and the sentiment is Woodware.

The number 9 and his name are All Occasion dies 

A few faux pearls to finish.

Finger on the button

This is for my granddaughter's birthday which is the end of this month when she will become a teenager. Lovely!

As the young people of today are forever texting or whatever on their phones I thought this LOTV stamp fit the bill perfectly. I stamped and embossed the image then coloured with copics and cut out using a spellbinders die.

I took a selection of LOTV papers which I cut to various sizes and mounted each one onto brown card. I used the same card and a larger die to cut the mount for the image. Using my Robert Addams alphabet and numeric dies I cut the words and the thirteen in the same brown card. A brown faux pearl in three corners just adds a bit of decoration. A grown up card for a grown up girl.

Christmas Angels

I decided to do an easel card for my best friend. I used this cute LOTV stamp of angels paying homage to the Holy child. I embossed the image then coloured with copics, adding a little glitter to the Angels wings and the stars. I had the blue Craft Creations Christmas paper in my stash which I used for the whole card. I cut the image and the darker blue mount using spellbinders nestie. Out of the same dark blue card I cut the snowflake border and the large snowflake using Joy dies. I also cut a holly swirl from the same card using a Cheery Lynn die. The snowflake border acted as the raised edge for the easel to rest against. I then cut another large snowflake, the holly swirl and the Merry Christmas, also by Cheery Lynn, from white glitter card. One I placed at the top left corner of the image and the other, plus the swirls, I overlaid with the blue ones and mounted on the front of the card. Merry Christmas mounted on the blue placed at the bottom. I added Christmas sentiments inside.

Cutie Robin

I just love this stamp Robin by Stampendous
It's one of my all time favourites, he's so cute
This Christmas card is for my friend, the same one who I made the birthday card for. I stamped two of the images and reversed another one. All were coloured with distress inks barn door and weathered wood. Two of them I cut out. The background papers are from LOTV. I cut out icicle, fir branches and poinsettia dies. The icicles and fir branches I embossed with white sparkling embossing powder which gives a beautiful frosty look. The red poinsettia flowers I edged with glitter glue. The fence and log that the extra robins are sitting on come from a Hobby Art set Reindeer. Painted with weathered wood mixed with barn door, the snow was liquid appliqué in White which was heated and sprinkled with glitter. Sentiment typed out on my computer finishes it off. Hope she likes it.

Spotlight

Making spotlight cards was the subject of my friend Kim's class at Davina's two weeks ago. I made a few toppers of different designs of which I was particularly pleased. For this one we used distress inks and sponges which we put down at random onto white card. On this one I stamped this lovely Stampendous Carnation and then stamped the image on white card. I selected a punch and punched out part of the second image. This was then stuck over the relevant section on the main image matching up exactly.
The card was going to be added to my box for future use. It has come in useful sooner than I thought.
My lovely son-in-law is gravely ill and will not last the weekend, the last thing on my daughter's mind is her brother's wedding on Saturday and our good friend's birthday on Tuesday so I told her I would take care of everything down here (they live in Yorkshire) and then I will be with her a.s.a.p. So I mounted the image onto dark red card then onto an embossed card, added some leaves and tiny flowers, LOTV sentiment and finally 70 peel off.

For the Bride

My son asked me to make a card for him to give to his bride on their big day in a few weeks time. It is to go with a beautiful present he has bought for her.. I let him choose from my catalogue of stamps and he chose this lovely Kanban stamp. He wanted it fairly plain but still with a bit of bling so this is what I came up with!

The fan of the dress I havedone in white very fine glitter. 

The body is done in very fine black glitter. The hat is black and white. I have added a diamanté at the top of the fan and at the nape of the hat. It was mounted onto black card to which I have also added a small diamanté heart in alternate corners. A LOTV sentiment 'On your Wedding Day' mounted onto black added underneath. Both were mounted onto cream card which has a pearlised flower swirl pattern on it. He has written his own tribute to her which I have still to type out and insert.     

The other card

This is the second card I've made for the birthday boy who is footie mad although too young to support any team yet! So I thought it called for a LOTV topper which I cut out using a nestie and distressed all round with stormy sky whilst the die was still in place. The background is made up of scraps of paper cut with a Stampin Up hexagon punch. These are then stuck onto double sided adhesive sheet which was then cut with a large nestie.           The lettering is using a X Cut die and just fits nicely into the shapes. The grass die is from Joy Crafts, sentiment from LOTV with rosette from scraps.
This card will be from my son and my granddaughters.

For a lovely 4 year old

In two weeks time it will be my youngest gt.grandson's fourth birthday but as I will be in Yorkshire all next week with the family I thought I would take his cards with me. This first one is from me and my brother. My friend Kim lent me these two wonderful Molly Bloom stamps which I coloured with my ever faithful copic pens. The 'bridge' is fashioned out of paper from my stash which I have distress all round the 'tunnel' with black soot distress ink, very appropriate! I stamped extra puffs of steam which I coloured and cut out and stuck on the front of the tunnel. Some silver peel off cogs in the corner and under the LOTV sentiment. A nice red number 4 to finish.

Another Christening Card

Here is another card for my gt. granddaughter's christening. I have used one of lovely LOTV toppers from their 'Babies' notepad. Highlighted certain areas with Sakura sparkle pens and used a decorated oval nestie to cut out the lovely shape. Mounted this onto various papers from my stash, added sentiment and remainder of pink 'christening' ribbon used on the first christening card, little cut out baby elephants decorate bottom right corner of card and envelope. Pink faux pearls finish the card.

Let's Party!

I have made this card for my best friend's granddaughter whose birthday is just after I return from holiday. The stamp was a freebie which came with one of the craft magazines and, I think, is just perfect for a 15 year old. It barely needs any colouring just a touch here and there which I have done with glitter pens. The background papers are LOTV as is the sentiment. Added numbers from stash and we're ready to party!

First Birthday

I kept myself occupied during the thunderstorm this afternoon by making this card for the gt.granddaughter of my friend in Cornwall. I have used a trusted LOTV topper from the toddlers range, added glossy accents to the balloon and Sakura clear star pen to the cake stand and little girl's shoes. I cut the card using one of my new Spellbinder edging dies then embossed it with a beautiful folder of babies feet. Distressed with Spun Sugar distress ink, mounted onto pink card then added faux pearls around the edge. Added a number 1 to the balloon and a LOTV greeting.

Brazil Bound

It's my gt.granddaughters third birthday at the beginning of  June but she is off to Brazil with her mum the week after next. No! Not to support England, her mums Brazilian! So tonight I finished her birthday card. For the base card I've used a Base it

These are brilliant, they come in packs of 10 cards with envelopes and saves you the trouble of selecting a background paper for your card, it's all done for you!

Using spellbinder dies and from LOTV paper I cut a scalloped circle to which I added pleated ribbon around the edge. The topper is another LOTV from the toddler range mounted onto green card. I then cut flowers from the same paper and added a matching number 3. LOTV greeting to finish.
My grandson and his brothers are following them to Brazil but not until a couple weeks later. And yes! they have got tickets for the World Cup but unfortunately NOT England!