First Quarter

I know so far this year I have not wrote much about what I have been upto, with making cards and that...  Its mainly due to work and family life!

So I am planning to update every three months of the year. To show what I have been doing!

Januray

First month of the year Januray is time for most people to wind down after Christmas.. For me it's time to pack away my Christmas crafts, and its time to think about the year ahead! 

January, is also a month of Birthday's. 

I made this cute little cat theme card for a friends little girl... She loves all things to do with animals.. So I knew this was purrfect!

Also in January is my brothers birthday and a friend of his.. So I made two of the card above!

February

In February is my two aunts Birthdays... Odd thing about them two is that they share the same day. But as a few years difference between them. Plus they both love the Art Deco style cards I do...I know these to look alike.  But........ I kind of get away with it (okay now I won't as my aunts read this damn!) as one live in Canada and the other one in England!

March

At the start of March I always some how think its a month of no birthday or anniversarys... Then the second week it hits me, its one of my aunts birthday and a friend of mine...

Has you can tell I made some more of the card above.. This one I sent to one of my others aunts that lives up north!

This cute one above with the teddy bear on was the one I sent to my friend down in Devon!

I hope you all enjoyed reading my First Quarter of the year! Please let me know what you think via comment or either a TWEET or Facebook...

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..
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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!

Aunt's Birthday Card

At the end of February I started to plan and work out my Aunty's Birthday card.  I wanted to do a art deco style card, but at the time I could not find what I was looking for.  Until I went to Readicut, I found what I was looking for!  I made my order every think was going to plan til I had an email to say sorry we are having trouble with your order.  Later I found out they had trouble with getting stock, I ended up cancelling my order.  So back to square one I was - until I bought my fave magazine Lets Make cards . After reading the magazine cover to cover and writing down some webby sites to check out.

Working my down the list of webby site I made I came across one, that saved the day for me.  I joined and made an order up, about two days later the parcel came.... I was and still are thrilled to bits with the items I bought...  After making a cuppa tea I sat down and set to work on my Aunty's Birthday card..

I should say at this point that I could not find any art deco stuff.  I just hope she loves it still!

Anyway I got out my pastel cards plus envelopes and picked out pink. Has this is my aunts fave colour, then I pushed out the layers of the topper and the pink and black pieces to the boarded.  I then got out my double sided sticky pads, to help layer up the piece's of the topper...  Once I had finished that I then cut the pink strip along the bottom to size.  Then I stuck the topper on and the pink strip with the black one on top.  I knew I had some paper flowers so I got out a pink plus purple one and stuck them on with a pink gem stone that my aunty had bought me a while back. The last item I popped on the card was 'Happy Birthday' Not sure if you can see it very well as it is on the black strip!

Please find below picture!

I have to say I love this card, just got to work on my unlce's birthday card now! I will keep you all posted...

P.s: Please let me know what you think?