Aunt's Birthday card (1)

Two weeks ago I started planning and designing my aunt's Birthday card.  I made a list of all the things that she likes, just like my Unlces 70th (which is her hubby).  My aunt is into fish's, westie's (dogs), cats and knitting. The theme I went for was fish, cats and knitting. I'm going to do westie's for Christmas, which I'm going to be making in the next few weeks. 

 I knew I was going to use the same template as
 my mum's 'mother day card'. 

Last week I did an special order for some die-cut cats, fish and knitting needles.  I found the cat and the fish, well fishbowl with fish, but could not find any think to do with knitting.  So I made my order and waited, I only needed to wait a day before my small parcel came.

I got out my craft mat, knife, double-sided sticky tape, embossing tool, ruler and sticky pads.  Then I looked out a peach colour card and envelope.  Then I popped the envelope to one side and opened up the card and layed it down on the mat.   I then took my embossing tool and ruler to mark the line across the top of one side of the card .  Then I took my craft knife and cut along the line I had made.


I used the same wrapping paper as I did for my mum's 'Mothers day card'.   This time I used the striped paper as the backing. Once I had stuck down the backing paper I made two square's from the same coloured card stock as the card and stuck on the wrapping paper.

I took the piece's to the fishbowl and made that up.  Then I got two cocktail sticks out and some pink wool. I then cast on about six stitches and knitted some row, it was hard work. But I got there in the end!  I then got some beads out and cut the end of the cocktail stick off.  I got out my trim-it glue and stuck the beads onto the end of each stick and made a little ball of wool. Then I stuck the knitting down onto the one of the squares I had made, and left that to set.  I got one of the cats out of the little bag (of 10) that the their came in, I had a small bit of card left over from the square's so I used that for the nose and two little gems for the eyes.

After that it was time to stick on the items. So I got my sticky-pads and stuck the square of the knitting on the left hand side in the middle of the card. I then got the fish bowl and again popped sticky-pads on and pop the fish bowl down the bottom on the right hand side of the card, just over lapping the square with the knitting on.  After that I did the same with the cat, but this time I pop the him up the top on the right hand side.

Please find picture's below:

To finish the card off, I cut to size an insert (saying: Wishing You A Very Happy Birthday). I popped a strip of double-sided sticky tape on one side of the insert and popped that in.

Please let me know what you think of the card..
I am now on twitter @Dorsetbotanybee

P.S... My uncle loved his Birthday card! I should find out over the weekend what my aunt thinks of the her card, I have a gut feeling she will love it!

Mother's Day Card

After making sure I got mum her Mothers Day Gift, which you can read about on My Little Garden Heaven.  I knew I had enough time to plan and design my Mothers Day Card.  But bad luck hit me, I caught that flu/cold virus thing that is about at the moment.  So all I did was sleep which was just great as it was my week off work.  Once I got over the worst of the flu/cold, I thought if I did not start now I wont be making mum a card.  So I wrote down my ideas and drawn a template of how I wanted the card to look.  I knew I wanted to put the word 'Mum' in the top corner, then a flower somewhere in the middle and a doggie on the bottom.

Here is my template below.

Once I did my template I made sure I had the papers and materials.  After making sure I had every think I needed to make the card.  It was time to have fun and get creative, this is always the best bit. :-)

I got a piece of my white card stock out and cut a piece in half and then folded that piece in half, to make a small card.  Then I cut a triangle piece off the top of the opening side, then I put it to one side.  I then made the squares and the word 'MUM', I even cut the piece of backing paper out ready. I used my peel off marker pens (which I got for Christmas) to colour the word 'MUM'.  Then it was time to stick the backing paper onto the card and the finished squares onto the card. 

I had a template for a dog standing, so I modified him to be sitting down and covered him with pink paper then stuck him onto the card.  The only thing left to put on was the flower.  I went thorough all the colours I had starting with blue then trying the pinks and yellows, I went back to the blue one I started with.  So I stuck the blue flower on and popped a gem in the middle of it.

Pictures below!

If you have read my 'Mothers Day gift' posted, you would know how I got told I shouldn't have got her any think.  The same again I was told I shouldn't of got her a card.

I have to say mum loves her card! She is still making lovely comments about the card.

Woof!

A little while ago I learnt a 'new' card making technique or sure I
say a 'new' design the Diamond cards

from 'Let's Make Cards' - Magazine issue 45
(one of the christmas issues)

But it is only til tonight that I have properly had a go.
While sat with my cup of tea and watching Countryfile.
I set to work, at first I werent sure if it was going to work out right.
But I got there in the end. I ended up making a template.
So I can re-use it over and over again!




While making the template I decided on my theme.

I went for the doggie theme!

But I do not feel like I have finished the card yet.

Feel like some think might be missing from it.
I wonder what it could be!