Ger's birthday

Today is my Brother-in-law Ger's birthday and I have made him this card.

I am really pleased with it.

I was inspired by something similar on Pinterest (what would we do without it!!)

The colour combo is basically Crumb Cake and Soft Suede on a White base card -

in retrospect I should have done it on cream or Very Vanilla.

That said - it doesn't look wrong.

The Crumb Cake panel is textured with the Textured Impressions Square Lattice Embossing Folder.

I think this is really suitable for men's cards .

The narrow borders were punched with Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch and cut in half.

The pennants are cut freehand from some Mocha Morning DSP - now retired.

and the old faithful sentiment from Curly Cute stamp set.

Name is die cut with the Timeless Type Junior Alphabet Medium Sizzlits Dies

(also now retired - but it is a useful size!)

Happy Birthday Ger!!  Have a great day!

Patrick's Birthday

Yesterday was our friend Patrick's birthday.

Since Patrick's illness in May last year (meningitis) he is now blind.

I made this card using the Timeless Type Junior Alphabet Medium Sizzlits dies

(now retired) with the Champagne Glimmer paper, in the hope that he would 

be able to feel the greeting, even though he cannot see it.

The colour combo is Early Espresso, Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla

with of course the Champagne Glimmer.

It was really difficult lining up these letters

(and I can see that the "d" in birthday is wonky!!)

Don't think that Patrick noticed it though.

Happy Birthday Lucas

Tomorrow is our Grandson Lucas's birthday and he will be 9 years old.  

OMG - where has all the time gone!!It doesn't seem two minutes since he was a tiny baby.

I wanted to do a non fussy card - very clean and simple,

so I chose this fancy fold out card.

Card closed with belly band fastened.

Belly band unfastened and removed

Card open

The colour combo is Bashful Blue and Whisper White with a touch of Night of Navy (ink).

Front sentiment from Happiest Birthday Wishes, stamped on a large Oval glued onto 

a Textured Impressions Designer Frame Embossing Folder.

Inside  sentiment - Happy Birthday - from Curly Cute

"Lucas" was cut using the Timeless Type Junior Alphabet Medium Sizzlets Dies.

Have a great day tomorrow Lucas!

A different Wedding card

A new lady, Lesley, joined the Tuesday class this week

 and asked if she could make a wedding card for her daughter 

- and that her favourite colours were blue and orange. 

 I wasn't too sure about this colour combo. so suggested that she might 

want to introduce a little Ivory/Cream into the equation.

This is the card that we came up with between us.

Lesley was thrilled to bits with it and is certain that her daughter will love it!

The heart (from the You are Loved set) was stamped in Versamark

then embossed in gold embossing powder.

The couples initials were cut out of Gold Mirri card

 using the Timeless Type Junior Alphabet.

Medium Sizzlits dies
Ta da!!

Utah 2013

Afternoon everyone.
Had some terrific news earlier today - my Stampin' Up mummy, Julie, has achieved the 2013 Utah incentive trip. I am so pleased for her - she really deserves this.
In honour of the occasion, I have made her this card.
I used the Timeless Type Junior Alphabet dies to cut out "Utah" with the Red Glitter card. The DSP is Berry Blossoms and the Cardstock is Cherry Cobbler. Sentiment from Curly Cute. No added bling today - the glitter card is bling enough!

Katie's 21st

Tomorrow it is my God-daughter (who is also my niece) Katie's 21st birthday.
It makes me feel old - I remember going to the hospital when she was born!
Anyway - forget the remeniscing - over to the card that I have made for her.
I am getting my money's worth out of these Sale-a-bration stampsets - this time it's the Outlined Occasions set that I have featured. (This was the set we used yesterday at Julie's).
The colour combo is the In Colours Assortment 2011-2012 - i.e. Pool Party, Calypso Coral, Lucky Limeade, Wisteria Wonder and Island Indigo.
I have used the Timeless Type Junior Alphabet Medium Sizzlits Dies to cut out "Katie" and 21.
The flowers are punched with the Itty Bitty flower punch and the wording is coloured in using In Colour Stampin' Write Markers.
Linen thread is used for the tiny bows, and the usual Basic Rhinestones for flower centres and detail on numbers.
I am safe posting this now as Katie won't read my blog today, but she'll see this tomorrow on Facebook, as well as receiving her card and gift then.
Happy Birthday!!

Richards Birthday

Not sure whether or not you know this, Chris (sis-in-law)is in Australia at the moment, visiting her son Richard.
This is the card that I have sent to my favourite nephew for his birthday today.
I used the Timeless Type Junior Alphabet Medium Sizzlits Die to spell his name, the beautiful Mocha Morning Speciality DSP and the sentiment is from the Curly Cute Stampset. (How did I ever manage without this ever so useful set?) The stars I punched in Crumb cake and Very Vanilla CS - but the Star Punch is now sadly retired (but still very useful for men's cards).



Happy Birthday Richard!!