Happy birthday card

Here is a birthday card I made using some lovely patterned paper from Kaisercraft. I cut two 5 by 5 cms of contrasting patterned paper and then cut each square into three pieces by cutting from the middle on an angle to the 1cm and 4cm marks. I then swapped the middle triangles to create the pattern.

I attached the patterned pieces to some red card stock and attached the whole panel to a straw coloured card with some ribbon underneath.

To finish, I fixed a yellow flower with an orange gem in the middle.

I think this card could also be used as a get well card or a thank you card as it is nice and bright and cheerful. :)

Baby boy card for my new nephew

This is a card I made for my sister on the birth of her son (and my first nephew!) I used plain white cardstock in landscape mode and attached some baby boy themed patterned paper to the right side of the card. I then covered the join with some blue ribbon.

As the focal point, I cut out two sailboats and a duck from some patterned paper, and adhered them to some navy blue card before attaching this to the card.

I continued the theme of ducks by stamping a blue duck in the bottom left corner with some blue ink, and then finished by rounding the bottom corners of the card.

Owl Birthday Card

This card was easy to make but visually looks quite impressive. To begin, I took a standard white square trifold card and cut off a triangle on the diagonal on the front square. I then stuck a square of lovely striped paper on the front of the second square, leaving a 5 mm border, so that a triangle of this could be seen once the card was folded.  On the front square, I then attached a triangle of contrasting green paper, again leaving a 5 mm border, and some ribbon along the bottom of the paper.

As a feature, I stamped three owls which I then coloured in copics before framing with some contrasting gold card and attaching to the front card. To finish, I attached a brad in the bottom left corner of the front square and in the top right corner of the middle square to bring the whole card together.

The recipient was very happy with the result!

Birthday card

I needed to make a small birthday card to go with a gift for my sister. I decided to use a stamp of a little bird that I got in New York by Laura Campbell from Rubber Soul, and also another stamp from inkainkado by Dawn Houser "A little bird told me it was your birthday."

I stamped both of these in black ink on white card stock and then used my copic markers to colour the bird. I mounted both stamped images onto shiny blue card and then placed these on a small white card. Before attaching, I placed some blue ribbon around the whole card under the bird image and tied this in a bow.

Embossed birthday cards

 Two friends recently had birthdays and so this gave me the opportunity to use my new "Happy Birthday" stamp from "Stamp-it" (2420D 2004) as well as my new clear mini stamps 99011 "Special bird."

I stamped Happy Birthday twice on white card stock using some Royal Blue versa colour ink, then quickly sprinkled some clear embossing powder on top. I also stamped the Bird and a little cat from a Kaisercraft stamp in the same blue ink and embossed these also. Since I don't have a heat gun, I carefully held the paper above the toaster until the image was suitable embossed. This seemed to work very well (and is much cheaper than buying a heat gun!)

I mounted the stamped images and text on some shiny blue card stock. I also mounted some lovely Japanese paper that I purchased from Bellbird Paperarts in Blackburn on the same shiny blue card stock.

Finally, I adhered the pieces to some wheat card.

Thank you cards for baby shower

I have just started making thank you cards for my baby shower which was two weeks ago.

I have quite a few to make so I wanted to make something that looked nice but would be easy to make. I also wanted to use the same colour scheme as the invitations that my sister made. They are gender neutral in a lovely shiny green colour paper that we found at Lincraft.

I used some plain white cards and then stuck some of the darker green paper that I had run through my Sizzex Bigshot with my Quickutz Vines embossing folder. I positioned some ribbon across the center of the card.

The "Thank You" stampe is from Stamp World (B130) that I recently purchased from Bellbird papercrafts in Blackburn. This was stamped in black ink on some plain white cardstock and then positioned on some pale green card before being placed in the center of the card.

This card is very pink! On top of the base white card, I stuck some shiny hot pink card stock, and then placed some white ribbon across the middle of the paper. The ribbon is see through in the middle but has solid edges. I then placed some pale pink card that I ran through my Sizzex Big Shot using the Vines embossing folder. This piece of paper covers a bit less than half of the hot pink card (perhaps a third). I put some Ranger liquid pearls (platinum colour) on the pale pink card before attaching it to the hot pink card.

I then stamped a bird from the Kaisercraft: Flora and Fauna range in Versa Colour Opera Pink (number 24). I attached this to the card using pop dots so that it would standout on the card.

I finished the card with a couple of small punches from the same pale pink card which I stuck in the left corner of the card.

Three very similar cards

For Christmas, I got a Sizzex Bigshot and recently purchased a new embossing folder. The folder is made by Quickutz and is an A2 folder called Vines. I cut one A2 sized piece in a navy blue shiny paper and ran it through the machine. I then cut it into thirds to use in each of the cards to the left.

I also used the Bigshot to cut the bottom left corner shape out of gold shiny paper. (A Sizzex brand small die).

I then stamped three different messages - "Happy Birthday", "Thank you" and "Get well" - on white card which I then stuck on the same gold paper  as the corner die.

To join together, I placed the blue embossed paper and some stripy patterned paper on some standard green cardstock. I then covered the join between the blue and stripy paper with some ribbon before sticking the message in place and positioning the corner die.

These cards could be used for either females or males given the colour combination and the design.

Male birthday card

I needed a couple of quick male cards that weren't overly fancy, so I made this panel card up using some of my Kaisercraft "Prairie Lane" P445 "Pine Arbour" double-sided patterned paper. To make the card, I cut 2  5cm squares from the paper and then cut each square into three pieces by marking at the 1cm and 4cm mark along one edge, and then the 2.5cm mark along the opposite edge. I then lined up the pieces to create the pattern indicated in the card.

I stuck the card onto some "American Crafts" Yellow and some Aqua Blue card stock, and embellished with a few brads.

Red Dragonflies

For Christmas, my husband gave me the Sizzex Big Shot. It came with a few Sizzix Sizzlit. My husband picked the "Architectural Accents Set" (654470), and so with it, I made this card of red dragonflies.

The base of the card is plain white cardstock, while the embellishments and backing card were plain red cardstock. I then placed a piece of patterned card that I got from Bellbird paper arts (in Blackburn, Victoria). It complements the Kaisercraft "Flora and Fauna" stamp set well, so stamped and cut out two dragonflies, which I coloured in the my Copic marker R24. Finally, the dragonflies were "pop-dotted" onto the card so that they wouldn't become lost in the background.