Never enough time in a day!

So busy making cards again that I forget to post!

Made a few more baby & kids cards recently and all but one have been received so here are those few...

I think this is one of my favorite cards that I have ever made, it's up there with Evie's (my daughter's) 7th birthday card! Made for a guy at work celebrating the birth of his daughter. A4 again.

A close up of the topper which could have just been a normal sized card by itself! 

I was asked to make these for a twins 1st birthday!  These were just normal sized cards for a change!

and the last two are a maternity leave card and congratulations card for the same polish lady, hence the language!

Only 2 more A4 birthday cards to just add a finishing touch too and 1 more to make tomorrow night then I can finally start making some christmas cards! Every year I vow to start in January and here we are again, no cards and no time!!!

Kay

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A quick post...

before bed.  It's been a long day!!!

A cute baby card to celebrate. A4 again.  Using the silhouette and just a few sheets of paper, some card candi and stickers!  

Will add more notes on what was used tomorrow when I have more time!

Kay

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Tiered Cake Card...

I am determined to keep updating my blog till I've caught up with all the cards I've made.  This time, it's one from August!!!

Another A4 card, for a special lady...

The papers I used were K&Co Scrap Pad To Go ~ Chocolate Neopolitan collection and 2 sheets of gold mirri board. Plus one sheet of white card stock for the cake print out.

The cake is printed from the Block Party Portfolio from Quickutz from my silhouette software.  I added the candles onto the image and added 5 more separately on the page as I wanted to cut them all out including the cake.  I coloured all of the cake and candles with promarkers and used gilding flakes on the cake stand.  Then cut it all out and layered it so the candles were decoupaged. 

I used the stately circles from Spellbinders for the rosette using all the same card as before and the ribbon's and button are from my stash. The hat pins are from Create & Craft and the gems from my local craft shop, I think they were papermania brand.

I wanted to do something a bit different and hadn't really used the images for printing, just cutting.  I should use the silhouette and the software more.  All the layers were stuck with foam pads and the ribbon and hat pins with a glue gun.  

Well after a kids party turned into an all day outing it's definitely time for bed at 9.30pm! This weekend I have made 4 more A4 cards as well so they will all be up here once received.

Kay

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Watch out pirates ahoy...

Back again, I've been so busy making cards, running round after the family, decorating and working that I have really neglected this blog, time to remedy that!

I have mostly been making cards again, but I did find time for a bit of scrap booking one Sunday morning...

The picture has been staring at me for months, in a rack of papers but where I could see it.  Taunting me!

First I chopped up the paper to make a card with my son for one of his friend's birthdays as I knew it was a bit bold for a whole scrap booking page...

We made this together...

Then a week later I did this! 

I was attacked one Sunday morning in bed by pirate's.  As you can see they were quite intimidating and did get their breakfast demands met!

I am getting asked about Christmas cards now and only have a few left over from last year!  One year I will actually start them in January!  No new ones made at all so that is the next project.  Luckily I have all my Christmas stuff in one place so time to dig it all out.  

In the meantime I will be posting more pics of all the large A4 cards I have been making...

Kay

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Welcome baby Daniel...

 We got to meet baby Daniel...

It was his naming ceremony yesterday so I made him a card and a door hanger for his room.

Made with little boy blue kit from create and craft. with a spellbinder die, a Martha Stewart punch and some ribbon and buttons thrown in.

Door Hanger

Using an MDF hanger from Hobbycraft I covered it in ranger Broken China paint after sanding down the edges! I then used a spellbinder die to cut out the aperture and saved what I had cut.  I inked everywhere with a Tim Holtz denim ink pad and stuck the paper onto the wood with glossy accents making the showing paint around the aperture glossy (that last bit was a happy accident!).  The toys banner is like a parchment which i decided to tear and ink then put the glossy accent behind the lettering to stick it. I used ribbon that I used on the card and the same heart button with string and just knotted it together and glued with a glue gun.  The circle is what was cut out for the handle which I topped with a sticker from the same Little Boy Blue kit, and the letters were from the same kit.  The baby gro is K & Co from my scrapbook stash!  

A lovely keepsake for a lovely little boy...and I stole him for a bit!

Awww he is adorable!

Kay

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Someone turned 4!

Happy 4th Birthday to my little Mr Handsome!  Well my son Thomas was 4 on Thursday so as usual I made the cards and was left wrapping all the parcels! He had his favorite chocolate cake and went bowling and as the only person to get a strike he won!  He loves frogs so they had to be included in some of his cards!

Choo Choo!

This was an A4 card which I cut using a Craftwork Cards template, I also cut the template out of K & Co paper and stuck it on the front.  The 4 was cut using a silhouette die cutting machine (with the black surround cut by eye) and the black Thomas plate is a spellbinders die.  The frog stamp is from Hobbycraft, as is the ribbon and the circles for the wheels.  To make the black wheel trims I used a Tim Holtz clock stamp which was covered by the circles and the twine is also Tim Holtz.  The banner is Stampin' up as is the star stamp and the border is a Martha Stewart punch which i did twice and layered.  I printed son from the PC and used the banner punch to cut it.  Then I used a little bit of Card Candi from Craftwork Cards to finish it all off.  All edged with a dark blue ink pad! 

Jeremy Fisher

Each year for my father in laws birthday I make a make a gift of making all his cards for the year, for him and my brother in law!

I saw this stamp in Hobbycraft ages ago and got it just for a Thomas card!  I stamped it twice, coloured with pro markers and cut one out to layer him up.  I used spellbinders to cut the circles and printed out the special grandson sentiment and cut into a banner/flag by hand.  The Happy Birthday tags are also spellbinders and the stamps were from a Hobbycraft set.  The ribbon is from QVC from when they used to actually have craft on!  The 4 is from a K&Co chipboard set that I have kept and use as templates!  The stripey paper is from a Gorjuss pack and all edged and stamped in Adirondak Lake Mist which I found cheaply on crafty sellers on facebook!

All Aboard!

For my brother in law I made this for him to give, the spotty paper is from Stampin' Up and the blue card is from my stash.  I embossed a Couture Creations tied together folder for the sea to give it texture and just used a scrunched up ink tool pad with white ink to make the clouds.  The boat is a Sizzix die my dads cousin gave me which Thomas liked the look of in the box and I cut this out of scraps and added a 4 sticker.  The sun is Card Candi and the stamps are from a Male set by Papermania.  All edged with a pale blue ink!

Next on the list is more A4 cards for work then it's time to start on Christmas!

But first Dinosaur Golf!  I hate golf but Dinosaur golf is fun!

Kay

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Steampunk Male Card...

This was another A4 card for work, for someone special!

I used spellbinders die for the cogs and a Kanban stamp and Promarkers for the figure.  The card is plain black A4 and the beige is from a Gorjuss pack of 12 x 12.  I embossed using a couture creations folder on gold card and finished with a Hobbycraft happy birthday stamp with archival ink.  The ribbon is black plastic and was given to me so I have no idea where they came from (!) and the gems are Papermania.  

  Quite a simple card once all the bits were cut out!

Kay 

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