Birthday Cards for my Nephew and Great Nephew

 Today, I am sharing the cards I made for my nephew and great nephew

who celebrated their birthdays this week.

They are both very keen West Ham fans and supporters, so I made them in the
team colours, although photographed on different days of the week, they look
 slightly different due to the poor lighting at the moment.

The products I have used are:

Crafters Companion embossing folder - Football Crazy
Spellbinders Nestabilities - Scalloped Circles and Circles

Creative Expressions (Sue Wilson) Pierced Flags

from the Frames and Tags set.
EK Success punch - 3 tiny circles
Cuttlebug Alpabet & Numbers - Olivia (10th)
Numbers and Alphabet - Unbranded (40th & Name)
Hougie Board

   

Thank you for visiting my blog today.
Janice x

 

Eclipse Birthday Card for my Great Niece

Today I am sharing the birthday card I made for one of my great nieces
who loves gymnastics.

I found this free image on the internet, printed it onto card and using the alphabet dies,
I die-cut her name. I then matted the image onto blue card.

Next I embossed the card base and glued the image directly onto it.
I then die-cut the letters using 3D foam, glued them to the card letters,
and then glued them directly into place on the picture.

Lastly, I added the birthday sentiment and the number.

The products I have used are:

Crafter's Companion 'Textures' Embossing Folder - Distress

Marianne Designs - Mini Numbers
Presscut - Happy Birthday
Alphabet dies - Brand unknown

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Janice x

 

Birthday Card for my Great Niece

 Today, I am sharing the birthday card I made for my great niece.
She still very much likes playing tennis (along with other sports), so I was
pleased to find this image online to use.

After printing it onto white card, I used the square 'circle border'
die to cut it out and matted it to a pink card square.

I embossed the card base using the lattice embossing folder, and used
 3D foam to raise the tennis image on the card base.

Lastly, I printed the computer generated sentiment, die cut it with
the banner die and glued to a piece of pink card and cut a narrow
border freehand and added the number.

The products I have used are:

Crafters Companion Die'Sire Embossaliscious Embossing Folder - Lattice

Marianne Designs - Mini Numbers
Square 'Circle Border' & banner die - Brand unknown

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

Birthday Card for my Great Nephew

May and June are busy cardmaking months with five family birthdays!

Today, I am sharing the card I made for one of my great nephews. 
This year I decided to come away from the usual tractors and made
him a football themed card in West Ham colours who he likes.

I partly embossed the card base with the Crafters Companion Football
Crazy embossing folder, and then used my Hougie board to emboss two lines.

I found a free football image which I printed on blue lightweight card
to use as a backing paper, which I matted onto white card with
the edges coloured with a claret Promarker. I attached it to
the card base using 3D foam.

I used a football die on black card, glued it to
some white card and hand cut, and then die-cut the number
in claret card to mount on top of the football.

The sentiment is computer generated.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.
Janice x

Birthday Card for my Great Nephew

Sharing the birthday card I made for one of my great nephew's whose
birthday was in December.

As he is a keen West Ham United fan, I of course had to make him
a card in their home colours of claret and blue!

The products I have used are:

Crafters Companion Embossing folder - Football Crazy

Penny Black - Happy Birthday

EK Success punch - Small circle

Alphabet dies - Brand unknown

Cuttlebug Alphabet and Number dies - Olivia

Hougie Board

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Janice x

 

My 'Inspiration Scribbler' Card for Scribbles Designs

  Today, I am sharing my 'Inspiration Scribbler' project, made for the Scribbler's
midway point of the monthly Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog

which you can see HERE

The theme this month is
'SHEEP Thrills Wanted' - Add one or more sheep to your project

The details of the current challenge can be found HERE

The products I have used are:-

Scribbles Designs  - #703 Mr Wool-oon
Spellbinders Nestabilities - Hexagons and Scalloped Hexagons
Crafter's Companion Embossalicious Embossing Folder - Butterfly Swirl Frame
Promarkers

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

Scribbles Designs 9th Birthday Celebrations - Get Your Zen On!

 

Scribbles Designs is 9!

To celebrate our birthday we're having a special event on the challenge
blog with special prizes to be won.

You can find all the details about the event here on the challenge blog.

First of all we want you to create a project using a mandala or
zentangle - if you head over to the challenge post (link above) you
 will find a special free image which you could use to join in.

There's also the chance to win even more prizes by taking part in 

the puzzles we'll be posting on the challenge blog.

Sharing my design team card…

The products I have used are:

Scribbles Designs - Hip to Be Square

Crafter’s Companion, Die’Sire Embossalicious Embossing Folder - Gun Metal

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Squares

Stampin’ Up - Word Window punch

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

Female Birthday Card

Today I am sharing a 'clean and simple' birthday card I made recently
for my niece, by just using an embossing folder and a sentiment die.

I die-cut the Happy Birthday three times in the purple card,

glued them together to give some dimension, and then glued it

directly onto the embossed base card.

Lastly I added a few pearlised gems.

The products I have used are:-

Stampin' Up Sizzix Thinlets die - Happy Birthday

Crafters Companion 3D Embossing Folder - Ornate Lace

Thank you for visiting my blog.

Janice x

Birthday Card for my Great Nephew

Today, I am sharing the birthday card I made last month for one of my great nephews.

His favourite football team is West Ham, so it was easy to use their team colours of
claret and blue!

I started by matting the square piece of embossed football card

onto claret card and glued it directly onto the card base.

I then added the number (raised on 3D foam), the sentiment, name and 
hand made card candi.

The products I have used are:

Crafters Companion Embossing folder - Football Crazy

Presscut - Happy Birthday

Number - Brand unknown

Hobbycraft - Circle Punch

Craft Stash Alphabet die set

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

Football Themed Birthday Card

Today, I am sharing the birthday card I made for one of my great nephews who 

was eight last month. 

He loves everything to do with dinosaurs but as he also loves playing football, 

I thought I would make him a football themed card for a change, using some 

snippets of black and white card from my stash.

I started by matting the square piece of embossed football card 

onto black card and glued it directly onto the card base.

I die-cut the football border, twice in white card which I glued together,

and once with black card. After glueing it onto the football panel, I 

 paper pieced the black parts into the footballs.

Lastly I added the sentiment, number, alphabet tiles and punched circles.

The products I have used are:

Crafters Companion Embossing folder - Football Crazy

Card Deco - Happy Birthday 

EK success punch- Small circle

Football border, number and alphabet tiles - Brands unknown

I am entering this card into Snippets Playground ‘Anything Goes’ challenge #419

Di has set up a new challenge blog for using snippets which can be found HERE

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge #147 - 'Anything Goes'

A new challenge starts today over at A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge Blog
where the theme is always 'Anything Goes' 

Sharing my design team card, using the 

 Happy Flowers and Wash It digi papers.

Details of the challenge can be found HERE
where 3/5 randomly drawn winners will each get to choose
3 sets of Lozzy's papers.

I started by printing one of the set of Wash It digi papers onto an A4 sheet
of white card and making a square card base.

Next I printed the co-ordinating Happy Flowers digi paper onto white card,

die-cut the aperture and embossed it with the textures embossing folder.

To finish, I stamped the sentiment, added the floral aperture card using
3D foam, and the pearlised gems.

The products I have used are:
Lozzy's Happy Flowers and Wash It digi papers
Inca wood mounted stamp - Dot Wishes
Spellbinders Labels 3
Crafter's Companion 'Textures' Embossing Folder - Distress

Thank you for visiting my blog today.
Janice x

My 'Inspiration Scribbler' Card for Scribbles Designs

 Today, I am sharing my 'Inspiration Scribbler' project, made for the
monthly Scribbler's showcase of Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog where the
theme this month is ‘Location, Location, Location'

Sharing my design team card...

The details of the current challenge can be found HERE
where we would like you to use any type of  House or Building in your project.

The products I have used are:

Scribbles Designs digi image - #863 Cafe
Crafter's Companion 'Textures' Embossing Folder - Distress
Stampin' Up - Word Window punch
Woodware Punch - Scalloped Oval
Promarkers

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Janice x

Female Birthday Card

I was recently asked by a friend, if I could make a gardening themed card for her to
give to her niece, and this is what I made.

The flowers and the boot were cut from card in my snippets stash. Like most crafters,
I have plenty of them, and they come in very handy to use for these type of dies.

The products I have used are:
Sizzix - Rain Boot Planter
Lawn Fawn DSP - Sweater Weather
Crafter's Companion Embossalicious Embossing Folder - Elegant Frame
Sentiment stamp - Free gift with craft magazine
Promarkers

Challenges entered:
Pixie's Snippets Playground - Anything Goes
Dragonfly Dreams - Happy Birthday

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Janice x

Birthday Card for my Great Niece

 Today, I am sharing the birthday card I made for my eldest great niece who
celebrated her birthday last month.
She doesn't have a dog, but she does love shopping!

The products I have used are:
Digi Stamp Boutique digi image - Shopping Kate (no longer available)
Spellbinders Labels Ten
Crafter's Companion - Sara Signature Love and Romance
Embossing Folder - Heart Trellis
Marianne Designs - Mini Numbers
Promarkers

Challenges entered:

Thank you for visiting my blog today.
Janice x

My Time to Craft Challenge #460 - Use a Ribbon or Bow

A new challenge starts today over at My Time to Craft  where the
theme this fortnight is 'Use a Ribbon or Bow' or both.

Sharing my design team card made for a friend... 

All the details of the challenge can be found HERE

I didn't have any matching pink card in my stash, so I coloured
a piece with a Promaker and die cut the fancy frame.

The products I have used are:
Digistamp Boutique - Large Happy Birthday set/Rose
Crafters Companion, Embossalicious Embossing Folder - Florabunda
Spellbinders Nestabilities - Squares
Lacy Frame die - Brand unknown
Promarkers

Challenges entered:
Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes
Daisy Chain Challenges - Uses Dies and/or Stencils
Love to Craft - Anything 

Thank you for visiting my blog today.
Janice x

Birthday Card for my Great Nephew

 One of my great nephews loves anything to do with diggers, so this is the card 

I made for his birthday last month.

I started by making the card base with black card, which I embossed

using the distress embossing folder.

I then printed the Scribbles Designs digi image onto white card, die-cut it 

using the pierced rectangles and then coloured using Promarkers.

I printed his name, matt and layered it with the nestabilities. I then 

added the number four from the Cuttlebug alphabet and number set of dies.

The products I have used are:-

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Circles and Scalloped circles

Cuttlebug alphabet and numbers - Olivia

Die-Namics - Pierced rectangles 

Scribbles Designs digi image - #934 Digger

Crafter’s Companion ‘Textures’ Embossing Folder - Distress

Promarkers

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

Male Birthday Card

Today, I am sharing a card I made for a friend who celebrated
his birthday last month.

Using snippets of paper and card from my ever growing stash, I started by embossing the card base front with the ‘Distress’ embossing folder, and the black card with the ‘Houndstooth’ folder.

Next, I mat and layered the paper and sentiment onto black card.

Lastly, I added the three punched circles in the corner.

I really like this layout which I came across on 

Pinterest, so I’ll definitely be using it again.

The products I have used are:-

Woodware stamps - Made For You

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder - Houndstooth

Crafter's Companion 'Textures' Embossing Folder - Distress

Hobbycraft Circle Punch

Challenges entered:-

Pixie’s Snippets Playground - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Layer It

Allsorts Challenge - Anything Goes option Monochromatic  

TTCRD - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge #134 - 'Anything Goes'

A new challenge starts today over at A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge Blog 

where the theme is always ‘Anything Goes’

Sharing my design team card, using two of the set of Fun digi papers.

Details of the challenge can be found HERE

where 3/5 randomly drawn winners will each get to choose
3 sets of Lozzy's papers.

I started my card by embossing the larger of the two papers with the 

‘Distress’ embossing folder. I then mat and layered both pieces onto blue card, and 

glued the larger onto the card base, and used 3D foam to raise the smaller one. 

I added the mat and layered stamped sentiment using very thin 3D foam 

pads and finished adding the pearlised gems.

The products I have used are:-

Lozzy’s Fun digi papers

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Circles and Scalloped Circles

Crafter's Companion 'Textures' Embossing Folder - Distress

Sentiment stamp - Craft magazine free gift

Challenges entered:-

Aud Sentiments Challenge - Anything Goes + A Sentiment

Ellibelle’s Wednesday Challenge - Hearts or Flowers

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

My 'Inspiration Scribbler' Card for Scribbles Designs - ‘The Power of Eight‘

Today, I am sharing my 'Inspiration Scribbler' project, made for the 

Monthly Scribbler's showcase of Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog 
where the theme this month is ‘The Power of Eight’

Since we are celebrating our 8th Birthday, all you simply need to do, 

is create a project that has a total of EIGHT ITEMS on it.

The details of the challenge can be found HERE

The 8 items I have used are:-

1. White cardstock base

2. Pink cardstock used for matting

3. Birthday cake and sentiment image layer

4. Birthday cake on tag layer

5. Pink cardstock used for matting behind tag

6. Bow

7. Gems

8. Circles in corner

The products I have used are:-

Scribbles Designs digi images used:- 
Birthday Wishes Border and Birthday Cake Slice (free)

Crafters Companion Die'sire Scalloped Tags

Promarkers

EK Success Punch - Three tiny circles

Challenges entered:-

Crafter's Castle - Anything Goes
Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
Di's Digi Challenge - Tic Tac Toe (3 in a row)
Hand coloured image, Digi image, Bling/Pearls
Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments - Anything Goes + A Sentiment

Cute Card Thursdays - Birthdays

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

My Time to Craft #449 - 'Glitter and Sparkle'

 A new challenge starts today over at  My Time to Craft where the 
theme this fortnight is 'Glitter and Sparkle'

Sharing my design team card...

I have actually used sparkly purple card, but unfortunately, it's not showing 
very well in the photos due to the poor daylight at the moment.

I mat and layered the embossed square of white card onto purple sparkly
card and black card and glued it directly onto the card base.
I die cut the flower using black card and paper pieced the petals with the sparkly card.
To finish, I added the sentiment and the purple gems.

All the details of the challenge can be found HERE

The products I have used are:-

Crafters Companion Die'Sire Embossaliscious Embossing Folder - Lattice

Memory Box die - Cecilia Flower
Presscut - Happy Birthday

Challenges entered:-
Cute Card Thursday - Birthdays
Krafty Chicks - CAS
Through the Purple Haze - Colour Palette

Country View Challenges - Squares
Daisy Chain Challenges - Happy Birthday

HLS - Anything Goes with Dies

The Flower Challenge - Embossing Heat or Dry

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x