Girly Stepper

Hi

Yet again I am skipping days – I am struggling to get cards made and also where does the time go?

This card is one I put together a few days ago and I think it’s really sweet

The kit is by Janet Roberts and is called Chloe in a knitted hat, where it was bought I really don’t know – sorry

I started by trimming away the excess to the main stepper sheet, sprayed the back with Crafters Companion Stick & Stay then smoothed on to a sheet of white 350gsm card, cut it out and scored along the score lines, and that was the perfect stepper card base sorted. 

The main sheet had the topper and then 4 or 5 sections of decoupage – I used tiny sticky pads for the decoupage and shaped the top pieces. 

I cut out the 4 pretty pink butterflies which had tiny hearts over them so using the quickie glue pen I covered the hearts then sprinkled with glitter; I used a little cosmic shimmer pva along the body of the butterflies and stuck 2 on each of the side panels. 

I couldn’t decide which sentiment I liked the most so used 2, With Love and Birthday Wishes. I added these to the bottom panel, one at each side of the topper, I just used cosmic shimmer pva to hold the heart sentiments in place.

This card really didn’t need much in the way of decoration so I used the quickie glue pen to highlight the butterflies on the boots and the one on the knitted hat.

Last thing I did was add glossy accents to the collar and pocket of her dress and the hair bobble.

Oh and there is a matching gift card to go with this kit.

I think I might have to keep an eye out for this designer as this kit is really pretty and can be used for girls of all ages, I would be happy to receive it myself.

Not sure if I will get to share anything this weekend as it’s my lovely grandson Laytons birthday tomorrow so I am going to join them for a little shopping trip for Layton to chose his pressie, then off to lunch... after that Layton is going to cinema with his mum and auntie so I will have a wonder around the shops then head off to my daughters as I am spending the weekend with them, more because its Mother’s Day on Sunday

So all I can now say is have a lovely weekend – and all the mums out there – I hope you have a wonderful day and get spoilt, as mums should!

Hugs

Angie

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Doggy Plate

Good evening

Again I have slipped and missed a day – but yesterday I really wasn’t well and in fact was in bed around 7pm....thank goodness I feel better today, it could be because I have had a visit from 2 friend, Katie & Karen were members of the class I ran before I moved over to New Holland and I’ve not seen them to have a good natter with since so I have a few projects we will get to make.

Anyway on to the card – I made this for my lovely friend Ann, she has a collection of dogs just now – and she loves any breed

When I saw this set on the new cd by Creative Crafting Pollyanna Pickering Best Of Breeds, I printed it out and sent it off to her – as it happened she opened it with her birthday cards and now has it sat on her desk

Again this design is a plate and stand, so I printed the sheet which had the plate, the stand and 2 small circular toppers. I stuck this sheet to a sheet of white 350gsm white card then printed off a backing sheet which I used on the back of the stand. The plate had an interactive back so I added my personal message and printed.

As you can imagine there really wasn’t a lot to make up, I cut out the plate then stuck the back panel in place with pva glue. The stand was scored down the centre, I scored it on the front and the back so the papers didn’t tear.

The 2 circles I made into badges as I have a bag of pins with a self adhesive strip, at least then the badges were more use than 2 small circles!

As I said the card arrived without Ann knowing I was sending her it so as it was near her birthday she just added it to the cards she had received ready for the big day.

As I haven’t been very good at the blogging of late – watch this space, you never know what might appear in it lol

Hugs

Angie

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Stepper Card

Evening everyone and thank you for the reminder I hadn’t yet blogged today...I had it all worked out so I could watch tv from 6pm to 9pm then get down to sharing a card

This card was made up for one of the class lady’s who celebrated her birthday mid week so I am safe to share with you

I have used the stepper die by Presscut to create the card, this was cut from 350gsm white card, I then cut the 2 side panels, lower front panel and centre panel from purple pearl card, and these were then put through the big shot using a Cuttlebug folder, Swiss Dots

The purple panels were then stuck in place using double sided tape and then it was put to one side while I did the die cutting.

I used the same white as the card base and the same purple card; I cut out 2 of everything – 1 in white and the other in purple. 2 large scrolls, I think they are Cheery Lynn dies, 2 Happy and 2 Birthday then a selection of Tattered lace flowers and some leaves.

To start with I used dots of pva glue on the back of the purple scroll, and then laid this slightly off centre onto the white scroll. This was then stuck across the main front panel with some of the scroll over hanging the card at the left side as well as the top.

The Happy and the Birthday were stuck in the same way, so the white acts as a shadow. The sentiment was stuck off centre on the panel.

The flowers were built up using a mix of white and purple flowers – loopy daisies and filigree looking daisies. I slipped in the odd leaf here and there and glued the biggest cluster to the top left of the main panel, the smaller cluster was built and glued to the bottom of the panel.

To finish I kept it simple, I simply added a contrasting Card Candy to the centre of each flower cluster using a small sticky pad to hold them in place.

And that my friend, is another card shared...

If you like the look of the stepper card, I will happily cut you a couplke and mail them to you, just send me a message with colour card and colour for the mats and also your address and I will get them off to you asap.

And now its coffee time and got a program all about owls that I want to watch – if I can stay awake that is!

Bye for now

Hugs

Angie

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I'm finally back....

Hello

First of all I want to say a huge thank you to my wonderful friends who have emailed, texted and facebook messaged me about my not blogging for 3 days now, it means a lot knowing you really do enjoy what I share with you

I have had a rough few days – I really over did things on Wednesday which resulted in me going off to be around 8pm – totally unknown for me unless I am ill. Thursday and Friday turned into busy days so again I was shattered – add to that restless legs which would not calm down despite taking all my meds on time...but I am feeling much better today

This morning I caught the train to Cleethorpes with Fern and my friend, Fern was great on the train and loved the chance to run free on the beach, shame every man and his dog were on the beach at the same time...people see this big white Lurcher charging towards them and their dog at 100 mile an hour and start squealing...so sadly she had to go back on her lead, but we walked along the prom then headed into town and took it in turn to do a little shopping – sat and had a welcome coffee before catching the train home again....Fern came in, had a bowl of water and then flopped and hasn’t moved since!!!

Anyway you pop by to see my card not hear about me and the dog sorry.

This card is fab – but it had me baffled – 3 attempts before I finally got it right! 

This is a kit by Carol Clarke and was bought from www.craftsuprint.com

It has loads of sheets to the kit, 2 for the envelope, 2 backing papers, 2 to make up the pirate and a sheet to form the stand and some sentiments.

I started but cutting the main pirate and the mechanism out roughly, sprayed the backs with Crafters Companion Stick & Stay then smoothed the pieces onto white 300gsm card and then cut out properly, the decoupage elements were also cut out. The mechanism was sprayed on the back and stuck to the black and white striped backing paper and cut out. The pirate top and bottom were sprayed and then stuck to the red with black spots backing paper and cut out.

The decoupage elements were attached to the pirate using small 1mm thick sticky pads, once that was done I used a black promarker and ran it across all the outer edges of the card, just looks so much nicer than black sections with white edges.

And this is where I went wrong, not once, not twice – but 3 yes 3 times!!!

All I had to do was score the mechanism in 3 places and add double sided tape to 3 sections... I scored all 3 lines check. Added the double sided tape in the 3 sections check...so that was 2 of the 3 parts correct. Now I had to remove the backing tape from the smallest section and attach to the back of pirates lower body, 1^st mistake! I attached it upside down so as I removed it I tore the backing paper so luckily saved the excess, so I recovered and was ready to go again. I added more double sided tape to the smallest section, removed the backing and made sure the pirate was the right way up – 2^nd mistake! I stuck the boots to the panel. Again I tore the backing as I tore away the panel, this time I had to reprint the full sheet of backing paper, recovered the pirates lower half and added yet more double sided tape to the panel but this time I played with the mechanism until I was sure I had it right – and at last it sunk in, I had to stick the panel to the top of the shorts at the back – hooray! How easy was that!!!

All I then had to do was stick the upper body to the other section of the mechanism where I had the double sided tape – I even managed to mess this up because I got the mechanism stuck to the body at the most peculiar angle, but thankfully I had used Pritt stick so it peeled away without damage to the panel or the body – phew!

So there it is – my on the shelf Pirate card...I just need to make up the envelope and add my verse to the back. I know the sheet had a few sentiments and also a diagram on how to display the card but who knows where that went to...

So I hope you liked the card – and got a little chuckle along the way!

Next time I will share my 1^st visit to a tanning centre as well as a card of course

Enjoy the weekend; especially if it’s as nice where you are as it is here, summer is certainly on its way (just like my holiday)

Hugs

Angie

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Bunnys Galore

Hi

I am so angry with myself as I really thought I had posted a card on my blog yesterday, it was only when I opened up my word doc I saw the last entry was for the new baby cards

Normally after I add photos to the blog I slip the folder over to a card folder, I saw the card I thought I’d shared yesterday so dropped it into my card folder, but there isn’t anything I can do about it now so let’s just get on with the card for today.

I have used a Pollyanna Pickering cd for the main image – I had to make up a card with the theme of rabbits, I saw the little rabbits on the sheet so opted for it.

The sheet was for a square card but I wanted to do it as an A5 so simply printed a sheet of contrasting backing paper, punched the corners with a fancy X cut punch then stuck the paper to the front of a grey A5 card

Then the square topper was stuck to the top half of the card and the simple shaped topper and ribbon bow added on sticky pads.

I had printed out some teabag tiles so played around a bit and ended up with a nice square base design but with a diamond centre so I cut out lots of bunnies using scraps of kraft card and they were then stuck across the ribbon and bow and the seated bunny sat happily in the centre of the teabag

I came across a simple banner that said Just to Say and was in a lovely powder blue so used that with a bunny at either side of it.

To finish off the card I sued small peel off dots in all the corners and in the fancy punched corners too then used various different coloured flower soft on the trees and pretty summer flowers in the field

So what was a quick and easy card turned into a lovely busy looking card – hope my partner will like it!!

See you tomorrow I hope

Hugs

Angie

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Bubbles of Love

Afternoon

A little treat of sorts today as I have 2 cards – both very similar and both the kits were designed by Paper Creator and were bought from https://printable-craftshop.com/boutique/ at an amazing price too...I paid just £1 each but when I came to checkout I found it was a bogof so even better. 

 

Rather than show one today and the other tomorrow I decided they should be grouped as one – so we have baby boy and baby girl – the kits are called Bubbles Of Love 6x6 card kit

So for both cards I used an A4 sheet of 300gsm card which I folded in half using line 7 of the blue score board the turn the card and score again to create the 6x6 card.

The base layer was attached to the card front using double sided tape, and there are 2 panels to each kit – one is a pale blue panel with pale blue bubbles on it and then the other panel is a pink or blue mottled looking paper, so I made them both up the same, the bubbles paper was stuck across the card and the coloured panel stuck down the left side.

The topper was mounted using double sided tape, it fitted nicely over the bubbles and between the mottled panels. I have used double sided tape throughout the card so far.

The decoupage was very easy to cut out making the kits perfect for new crafters as well as seasoned crafters.

The sticky pads I am using now are by Stix2 and I like these as they are just 1 mm thick. This gives the decoupage lift but doesn’t make it high and wobbly looking.

The sentiment is the same on both cards – Bubbles of Love but obviously in the colour of the card itself and the text is facing the baby – and I love the baby boy just look at his sweet little face!! 

The sheets were very generous with the decoupage; in fact I only used 3 layers on each card and left over 2 layers which I made into atcs so making this kits even more value for money.

I bought and made up the kits for no other reason than they were lovely to make up and always handy to have just in case a new baby should come along!

The kits also have lots of different sized bubbles to decorate the cards with – after all they are called Bubbles of Love, but I haven’t used them yet as not sure I like them on the cards, but when I come to add some glitter and glossy accents I may well change my mind.

I hope the cards made you smile with the cute babies – and if they did I'm glad I shared the cards and cheered up your Sunday.

Be back again tomorrow with something else – as yet don't know what and I don't think I will be working on anything today as got a touch of headache and apart from that – I can't be bothered with anything, could be because I was up and down all night as I wasn't too well...but never mind!

Take care

Hugs

Angie

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Blue Iris

Hi

It’s another late entry, I completely forgot until hubby asked what card had I put on my blog today, it’s a 1^st because like most men he doesn’t generally take much notice!!!

Its my good friend Ann’s birthday today – Happy Birthday Ann, and I decided to make her a card that is similar to lots of others I make – just because she always comments on them and says how nice she thinks they are.

I have used the Cupcake Crafting Bloomilicious cd – so now you know where I am coming from you should know what to expect!

This is set 7 the blue and lemon flowers – I think they may be Iris but if I am wrong please correct me.

I cut the centre from the insert, removed the printed white borders then folded into half and both sides in half again for the gatefold. I used a full sheet of backing paper to cover the inside of the card then added the insert which left a border along the left and right edges. I used some fine metallic thread and secured it at top and bottom of the insert centre and used 2 pretty lemon circular sentiments back to back with the thread running through it.

For the card front I used a deckle edged blade to cut a piece of backing paper to fit, stuck this in place using double sided tape.

Then I cut out a mat from lemon adorable scorable using an X-Cut die, this was stuck to the card front slightly over to the right as I used some beautiful lemon organza ribbon, I went around the spine with it and secured in the centre, and tied a lovely double bow and this was stuck over the join using a large sticky dot.

My decoupage was carefully cut out and built up using Pinflair gel I believe, the top most pieces were shaped before putting into place.

I struggled to find a suitable sentiment, I have lots of general sentiments in a rainbow of colours thanks to the fab parcel that arrived from Dianne Jackson of Diannes Diecuts, but I couldn’t quite match up with the flow of the card so my bumped box of all manner of sentiments, mainly what have been left over from sheets and kits or printed from cds, and I came across a sheet of butterfly shaped foiled sentiments – what could be better – a butterfly to go with the flowers!!!

And it was in the right colour too, that was glued to the bottom right hand corner with Cosmic Shimmer pva glue. 3 clear ab gems were glues to the bottom corner under the butterfly

And that completed the birthday card, I enjoyed the cutting out and they always look lovely with the cut out centres.

Right then friends, that’s me finished for tonight, time to turn off the craft room lights for another day!

But as always I will be here again tomorrow, hopefully at a better time too!

Hugs

Angie

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