Footie Easel Card

Happy Tuesday Everyone.

The card I want to show you is my first ever easel card.  I had visions of getting in a twist with it but it was pretty straightforward.  I cheated slightly and used 1 1/2 card blanks.  

A friend at work asked me to make a card for her grandson, who is 10 on Christmas Day.  He plays for East Kilbride Thistle Juniors so I designed my own digi-stamp and coloured him in the teams colours.  I snagged the backgrounds and the football from the net.  The sentiment was made on Photoshop.

My favourite bit (apart from my image – which I’m chuffed with) is the football.  I stuck it onto some acetate and attached it to the card with a glue dot so it looks as if it’s floating.  You can sort of see what I mean in the bottom picture.

Recipe

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Card blanks from stock

Background stadium and grass from the net

Digi-stamp – my own

Football from the net

Sentiment – my own designed on Photoshop Elements

Promarkers and Copics (thank you Jennie)

Acetate from stash

Thanks again for stopping by and taking the time to comment. 

Hugs

Jaqui x

My Sister’s Birthday Card

I hope you’re all having a great Monday - or as great a Monday as you can have

Tonight I’d like to show you a card I made for my big sister.  She made me promise that I wouldn’t put her age on it especially as she knew I’d put it on my blog – under penalty of death I hasten to add .  So there was no way I was putting her age on it and Rosalyn, if you’re reading this, I’m gonna do it next year

I’ve had this image for ages and I’ve been waiting to use it, it’s just so cute.  It was a freebie and I can’t remember where from, sorry.  If anyone recognises it can you let me know so I can give credit where it’s due. 

Recipe

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Card blank from stock

Backing Papers – Raspberry Road Designs, Papermania Blueberry Hill pack, scrap

Image – sorry can’t remember

Flower – Shapabilities flower die (this isn’t where I bought, just a picture of it)

Martha Stewart ATP Vintage Lace

Pearls and Gemstone from stock

Sentiment – My own

Challenges
One Stitch At A Time - Challenge #40 Choose a Season or Event (Birthday)
Pear Tree Designs -  Challenge 27 Colourful
Crazy 4 Challenges - C4C64 Add Circles
Mark's Finest Papers - Challenge #30 Have a Circle on your Card
Crafty Emma's Store Challenges - Challenge #13 Lovely Lace
Rainbow Lady's Challenge Blog - Challenge 127 Edge It
Stampotique Designers Challenge - SDC19 Girly Girl
Fab 'n' Funky Challenges - Challenge #49 Forget Me Not
Stamps R Us - Challenge #9 Sparkles and Scallops
Karber Weekly Challenge - Challenge 15 Use 2 or more DP and a Digi

Goodnight all

Jaqui x

White Flower Card

Good evening bloggers. I hope you're all having a great Friday night.

 

Tonight I want to show you a card I made for my MIL, I wanted to make it a bit special for her.

 

I remember seeing a card awhile ago that had a huge flower on it and thought I would try to make something similar. I scoured the Internet to try to find out how to make one but couldn't really find what I was looking for. I had some white tissue paper I wanted to use so I decided to make a carnation type . I didn't fluff it up too much in the centre because I wanted to put something in it – cos I'd found the perfect button. I tied the flower with dental floss and had left long ends so I threaded these through the button to keep it tight and used a glue dot to keep it in place.

 

I used one of my new embossing folders on some plain white card, pierced a hole in the centre, threaded the dental floss through this and stuck it at the back. On all the raised dots I stuck some gold peeloffs and some flat-backed pearls (to match the button).

 

The Happy Birthday sentiment was stamped with gold ink and heat embossed.

 

So here it is – I hope you like it. I have to admit I'm quite proud of this one.

 

 

I made a box for it out of gold card but the pictures didn't turn out very well so you'll just have to imagine that part.

Recipe

White card stock
White tissue paper
Dental floss
Button – from my sewing box
Gold peeloffs
Flat backed pearls
Sizzix Ornate Flowers Embossing folder
Happy Birthday stamp – Anita's Crafts sentiment set


Challenges


Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge Week #23 – A Sketch By Mindy
Creatalicious Challenges #15 – All White
Cute Card Thursday Challenge 138 – Anything Goes
For Fun Challenges – Dry Embossing
The Sisterhood of Crafters – Birthday Card
Crafty Creations Challenge 93 – Use a Button
Anything Goes Challenge Week 24 – Emboss It
A Pocket Full Of Posies Challenge #10 – Winter Bouquet
Crafty Cardmakers – Spotlight Dry Embossing
 
Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend



Jaqui x

Born in the USA

Good evening bloggers.

1^st of all I need to make an apology – I've just realised it's been two weeks since I posted. Where has time gone???

Some of you will already know I got my first card commission the other day WHOO HOO! 

I was told it was for a guy, he's turning 40, and he's loves Bruce Springsteen. Now when anyone says Bruce Springsteen to me I instantly think "Born in the USA" and Denim. I came up with the idea of making an American flag but using denim, coloured red, for the stripes – sounds like a great idea but in practice it was awful. It looked really messy and way too dark so after a couple of nights umming and ahhing over it, in the bin it went. 

Plan B KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) there is nothing wrong with red card!! Although in hindsight I would have printed them off with the white stripes as a whole not as individual stripes that I then had to stick onto the card topper – nightmare trying to get the spacing correct and get them straight (What was that about Keep It Simple Stupid!)

Anyhoo here it is.

 

Recipe

Card from card stock
Red stripes and sentiment generated on Photoshop

Blue card and sentiment generated on Photoshop

Bruce Springsteen image snagged from the web, printed onto Photo paper and cut out with Micro tip scissors, mounted on foam pads

Sentiments covered with Sakura clear Glaze and inside sentiment embossed with clear powder

Challenges

The Sisterhood of Crafters – Birthday Cards

Aly's Sunday Challenge – ASC29 All about Music


Thanks for stopping by.


Jaqui x

Vintage Birthday Card

Hi there bloggers, I hope you're all having a great weekend.

This is the birthday card I made for my niece (the younger sister of the one that I made the fairy card for). She works in one of Glasgow's swankiest hair salons and loves all things fashion related. Every time I see her dressed for a night out she's dressed in a vintage dress so it had to be a vintage card, didn't it.

I couldn't find an image I liked so out came my trusty pencils and I drew this myself, scanned it and produced my own digi-stamp. I wanted something similar to the dress she wore last Christmas so this is what I came up with. It's coloured in with Promarkers.

I blended the edges of a bit of white card with some dark copper coloured ink to match the dress and distressed it with a pair of scissors, then used the ink again to get a darker edge and then mounted the image with some foam tabs.

I then used the same ink on the Cuttlebug swirls folder and ran it through the bug with another bit of white card. The brown card is from stock and I distressed the edges of this and the Cuttlebug card too. (Can you tell I was getting into this distressing malarkey?) I stuck some teeny bits of ribbon loops to the back of the image mount and stuck on some little pearls.

The sentiment is a from a freebie set from Caz , that Claire gave me the link for, also inked but not distressed.

The whole thing is mounted onto some cream coloured card stock.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly Sketch Challenge - #49
Stamp Something – October Digi Day Challenge – My own digi-stamp
Charisma Cardz Challenge #40 – Vintage
Hodge Podge Shop Challenge #2 – Monochromatic
Lexi's Creations Challenge #25 – Happy Birthday

Stamping with the Dragon #12 - You Got Ink



Thanks again for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your weekend.


 
Jaqui x

All of the Christmas Cards

Black on White



White on Black

Black on Black



White on White



Red on Black

Hello again,

I decided rather that post all of these separately I would just show you them all. This is my selection of Christmas cards (so far). I've already shown you the black tree on white background one and my own red on white one. These are all the other variations. I've tried to make them all the same with the same size trees and backgrounds, the only differences are the borders. I've glittered them all.

I just have to decide now whether to stick with making more of these or do different coloured versions of the red one... Or do something completely different.

(The black and white versions are made using Jak Heath's freebies)

I would like to enter these cards in the following challenges:


CraftyCardmakers - Challenge #32 Use a Freebie (all of the black and white cards)


Scrap-Creations - Christmas Challenge


Tuesday Throwdown - Challenge #22 Anything Goes

Thanks for popping by and if you've any suggestions they'll be greatly received.

Jaqui x

2nd of a Selection of Christmas Cards

Hi There,

I thought I'd better get started on my Christmas cards. You may remember I posted a black a white card a few weeks ago, so this is a variation on that one.

I bought a snowflake embossing folder and a Christmas tree brass stencil. After much messing about with the stencil trying to get it to emboss, or using some ink pads I basically gave up on it – if anyone knows how to use them properly can you please let me know before I throw it in the bin L.

I resorted to my old faithful Photoshop and decided to make my own snowflake tree similar to the black and white one I'd used before (ala Jak Heath). It's not as good as her's but I wanted to be able to change the background colour and didn't think I should mess about with her one.

I mounted the embossed snowflakes on black card and stuck it to a blank card from my card stock. I printed it off my tree and mounted it on black card, raised it up with foam tabs to give it a bit of 3Dness. I added a touch of glitter for some sparkle. I didn't want to add a sentiment, I thought it was obvious as it was but I stamped the inside.

Hope you like it cos I've got more to show you – I was a little production line making these J

Thanks for stopping by and leaving comments, I really appreciate it.

Jaqui x