Chris's birthday

Today it is my brother Chris's birthday.

Here is the card that I have made for him.

This is one of the male cards that we made at quarterly training in April.
The stamp set used is Dapper Dad

Colour combo is Night of Navy, Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla

The Brother sentiment is from For My Family.

Natural Trim ribbon and Bakers twine.

The watch face was built up using one of the Basics Designer Buttons.
This really made the watch face look realistic!

Close up of watch face

Happy Birthday Bruv!!

Fashionable Hearts

Michelle and I recently bought the Fashionable Hearts embosslits, 

so last night we had a play with these - here's what I made.

A bright cheerful coloured card!

I chopped the small hearts in half to make flower petals, 

then two tiny hearts on top of each other for the flower centre.

By the tide

here's a card that I made at Michelle's the other night - I used her "By the tide" stamp set-

this is a set that I don't own - it might have to go on the never-ending wish list!

Michelle had some die cut shells already cut, so I added a couple of these

just to finish the card off - think they are really sweet.

Secret Garden

Here's a card that I had forgotten about - it was one of a couple that we made at one of the Monthly training sessions at Julie's.

Colour Combo is melon Mambo, Gumball Green and Whisper White.
Stamp set and Matching Framelets - secret Garden
3/8" Striped Organdy Ribbon

Dapper dad Birthday

You may recall that last month's training theme was "Male"  and in the morning,

we made a set of three cards using the stamp set Dapper Dad.

Here's the first one we made.

My card was different to everyone else's as I stuck my shoe on before I had
put the Bakers Twine on to the card - and it should have gone on vertically.
So mine ended up with the sentiment at the bottom of the card.
If you look HERE you will see the card that Julie had made and how mine would have
 looked had I followed the instructions properly!!

Julie W's birthday

As I mentioned yesterday, it was also Julie W's birthday and here is the card that I made for her.

Card stock and ink River Rock.

Stamp set Flowering Flourishes - what else?

10.2 cm dia Paper Doily.

Papers -Tea for Two DSP

Beautiful Wings Embosslit

Basic Rhinestones. 

Lynda's birthday

As well as it being Ethan's birthday today, it is also the birthdays of two of my

Stampin Up sisters' birthdays - Lynda and Julie.

I will show you Lynda's card today and Julie's tomorrow.

Colour combo, Primrose Petals, Raspberrry Ripple and White.
Stamp set of the moment - Flowering Flourishes.
Aperture cut with 2.1/2" circle
The layered flower in the circle aperture is stamped with the Quint-Essential Flower stamp.
Sentiment from Curly Cute
Primrose Petals 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon bow
Basic Rhinestone embellishments
Inspiration from Pinterest!
Happy Birthfday Lynda!!

Ethan's Birthday

Tomorrow is my Great-Nephew Ethan's birthday and he will be 9

Here's the card that I have made for him.

Colour combo Midnight Muse and Bashful Blue
Parkers Patterns DSP paper.
sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes

Telford Swaps version 3

And here is the last batch of swaps that I made.

Once again the colour combo is Midnight Muse and Daffodil Delight
cut with the Floral Frames Framelits.
I have used the Elegant Butterfly punch to cut two butterflies and then embossed
the second one with the Textured Impressions Square Lattice Embossing Folder

Telford Swaps version 2

Here is the second batch of swaps that I have made

First I stamped with Versamark on Brushed Gold card stock, 

using the Secret Garden Stamp set,

then heat embossed with Silver Embossing Powder.

I then took it a stage further and bleached out the colour from parts of the petals

Et voila - I love this!!