Female Birthday Cards

 Today I am sharing the birthday cards I made recently for my sister
 and two of my friends.

The same style card, in different colourways.

I used this beautiful 3D Lisa Horton embossing folder to emboss a square
of white card. I just love how deeply embossed the peonies are!

I then matt and layered it onto the coloured card, and glued it onto the base card.
Next, I die cut the ribbon die, glued it onto the embossed square, and
added the sentiment.
 I finished the card by adding the pearlised and diamante gems.

The products I have used are:

Lisa Horton Crafts 3D embossing folder - Blooming Peony

Presscut - Happy Birthday

Ribbon die - 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 
back in September.

I started by glue-ing a square of lilac card to the card base.
I then used the border punch on the smaller piece of white card, adding
an embossed line with my Hougie board.
Lastly, I embossed the remainder of the white card, glued it to
the lilac and added the sentiment, age and name.

The products I have used are:

Presscut - Happy Birthday

Martha Stewart punch - Scallop with 2 Dots

Embossing Folder - Unbranded

Alphabet and number dies - Unbranded

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Janice x

60th Birthday

Today I am sharing a 60th birthday card that I made for a friend
 in the Summer.

I used one of the Hunkydory decoupage images, matted it onto blue card
and glued it directly onto the base card. 

I then added the sentiment, numbers and a couple of

diamante gems to finish.

The products I have used are:

Hunkydory - The Second Little Book of Decoupage

Presscut - Happy Birthday

Marianne Designs - Mini Numbers

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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 youngest great niece 

who celebrated her 1st birthday at the beginning of the month.

I started by embossing the base card with the A4 Swiss dot embossing folder. 

Next, I embossed a piece of white card with the bow frame folder.

I then mat and layered it onto pink card and glued it directly onto the card base.

Lastly I added her name, the number, sentiment and a pink

gem on the bow.

The products I have used are:

Couture Creations A4 Embossing folder - Swiss dots

Cuttlebug embossing folder - Bow Frame

Cuttlebug alphabet dies - Olivia

Presscut - Happy Birthday

Craftstash Alphabet die set

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Janice x

Birthday Card for a Nine Year Old

Today, I am sharing the birthday card I made for my great niece

using a balloon die I was lucky enough to win last year 

in the Snippets Playground

I die-cut the edge of the base card with the balloon die.

I embossed a couple of lines by the balloons using my Hougie board.

Next, I glued a piece of black card behind the balloons and

paper pieced them with coloured card. then added

the sentiment, number and white gel pen lines to the balloons.

The items I have used are:

Gemini Modern Edge’ables die - Balloon Bouquet

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Scalloped Circles

Cuttlebug Alphabet - Olivia

Presscut - Happy Birthday

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Janice x

 

70th Birthday Card

 Today’s card is one I made last month for a friend for her 70th birthday.

I started my card by using the cut and emboss folder directly on to

the front of the card base. Next, I glued a piece of yellow card to the 
inside. I then chalked the embossed floral areas with the pearlescent chalks,
added the die-cut sentiment, number and pearl gems.

The products I have used are:

Lux Craft (Hobbycraft) Cut and Emboss folder - Floral Border

Presscut - Happy Birthday

Marianne Designs - Mini Numbers

Pebbles Inc - Pearlescent chalks 

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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 who

celebrated her 4th birthday on Friday.

I used 3D foam pads to raise the balloons, drew in the balloon strings and 

decorated the heart balloon with punched pink circles.

 The products I have used are:

Presscut - Happy Birthday

Elizabeth Craft Design - Balloons 

Alphabet dies - Brand unknown

Die-Namics - Pierced Rectangles

Cuttlebone Alphabet/Numbers - Olivia

EK Success - 3 hole punch

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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

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Janice x

An Eclipse Card for my Great Niece

Today's card is one I made for one of my great niece's who celebrated 

her birthday earlier this month.

 
I chose one of the Lili of the Valley designs from the art pad, positioned the
letters carefully across the picture using low tack tape and die-cut her name.
Next, I die-cut the letters in black foam and glued both sets together.

After mat and layering the picture to purple card, I glued it directly to
the card base and glued the raised letters in place.

Lastly, I added the sentiment, number and diamante gems.

The products I have used are:

Lili of the Valley Art pad - Just for Girls

Lawn Fawn - Stitched Rectangles

Presscut - Happy Birthday

Alphabet dies - Brand unknown

Marianne Designs - Mini Numbers

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Janice x

Birthday Card for my Nephew

 Today's card is one I made for my nephew earlier this month, using snippets of 
paper and card from my ever growing stash!

I found the idea for this card on Pinterest.

I made the 7"x5" card base using a stone coloured A4 sheet of card.

Next I embossed a smaller piece of brown card with the textured

embossing folder and glued it to the card base.

Using 4 snippets of design papers which I glued to some lightweight card,

I die-cut them with a set of stitched banner dies.

Next, I used a piece of the stone card and die-cut the sentiment banner

with one of the set of Creative Expressions (Sue Wilson) Pierced Flags
from the Frames and Tags set.

Lastly I added the Presscut Happy Birthday and some small circles
punched with an EK Success punch.

Challenges entered:
Pixie's Snippets Playground - Anything Goes

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Janice

My Time to Craft Challenge #457 - Inchies

A new challenge starts today over at My Time to Craft  where the

theme this fortnight is ‘Inchies’

(A group of 4 or 9 images or a larger image cut up into 4 or 9)

Sharing my design team card...

All the details of the challenge can be found HERE

I started by stamping the postage stamp stamp, four times on the white card using

Versa Colour ink. I then stamped a flower to each one, stamping them 

in Versafine black ink.

I punched a border in black card, added the stamped panel and glued it

onto the embossed card base using 3D foam.

Lastly, I added Glimmer dust to the flowers and glued on the sentiment.

The products I have used are:

Docrafts wood mounted stamp

Martha Stewart border punch - Quilted

Stampin’ Up stamps - Itty Bitty Buds

Presscut - Happy Birthday

Embossing Folder - Craft magazine free gift

Versa Colour Ink - Misty Mauve

Challenges entered:

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments - Flowers + A Sentiment

C.R.A.F.T Challenge - Birthday Bloghop

Creative Knockouts - Flower Power

Watercooler Wednesday  - Feminine
AAA Birthday  - Happy Birthday

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Janice 

An Eclipse Birthday Card

 Today I am sharing the birthday card I made for my youngest great nephew.

I printed the animal image onto card and then 

used the large letter dies to create his name. I then glued each letter onto 

black foam to create the dimension.

The products I have used are:

Presscut - Happy Birthday 

Cuttlebug Alphabet- Olivia

Large Alphabet - Brand unknown

EK Success punch - Small circle 

Challenges entered:

Crafty Creations - Anything Goes

Dream Valley - Anything Goes

Make the Card Challenge - Masculine

The Paper Players - CAS and Animals

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Janice x

Birthday Card for My Great Niece

Today, I am sharing the card I made last month for my great niece’s

1st birthday.

I stamped the number onto a pink patterned piece of card and

used 3D foam to attach it to the embossed hearts panel.

I added a few sequins for a bit of sparkle.

The products I have used are:-

Presscut - Happy Birthday

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Ovals and Scalloped Ovals

Docrafts - Xcut Embossing Folder- Hearts

Docrafts Papermania - Typography Stamp

Name - PC generated

Challenges entered:-
Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes
Creations in Pink - Anything Goes
Creative Sketchy Girls - Girls Only
Allsorts Challenge - Feminine

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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

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Janice x

Birthday Card for a One Year Old

Today, I am sharing the birthday card I made for the little boy who

lives next door to me.

The products I have used are:

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Circles and Scalloped Circles

Presscut - Happy Birthday

Lower Case alphabet

Upper case alphabet, number and Stitched banner dies - Brands unknown

Couture Creations A4 Embossing Folder - Swiss Dots

Woodware punch - Small star

Challenges entered:

Seize the Birthday - Sparkle and Shine

Sisterhood of Crafters - Embossing (wet or dry)

Watercooler Wednesday  - Masculine

TTCRD - Anything Goes

Pixie’s Snippets Playground - Anything Goes

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Janice x

 

Female Birthday Card

Today, I am sharing the birthday card I made for my niece last month.

Using one of the images from the Hunkydory Little Book of Dresses,

 I mat and layered it onto pink and black card.

I then added the Presscut Happy Birthday sentiment and some gems to finish.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

Birthday Card for my Great Niece

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

great nieces who celebrated her birthday last month.

It doesn’t show very well in the photo that I die-cut

the balloons from sparkly pink card. 

To finish, I drew the balloon strings using

a silver marker pen and added the pink gems.

Challenges entered:-

Ike's World - T is for Three of a Kind or anything Goes

(Three balloons or die-cuts)
Shopping our Stash - KISS (Keeping it simple Sister)
Make My Monday - Clean and simple
Scor-Pal - More than one score

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Janice x

13th Birthday Card

Today’s card is one I made for my friend to give to her grandson

for his thirteenth birthday.

 The products I have used are:-
Presscut - Happy Birthday 

Embossing Folder - Brand unknown

Docrafts Papermania - Typography Stamp

EK Success Punch - Small circle

Pierced banner die - Brand unknown

Name - PC generated

Challenges entered:-

Creative Sketchy Girls - Male Cards
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - Anything Goes
Watercooler Wednesday - Anything Goes with a Masculine Twist
Love to Scrap - For the Boys
Papercraft Business Challenge - Father's Day or Male
Dare 2B Artzy - Masculine

Dragonfly Dreams - Make it Masculine

International Art and Soul - Blue as the Main Colour

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Janice x

My Time to Craft Challenge #434 - 'Summertime'

A new challenge starts today over at My Time to Craft

where the theme this fortnight is 'Summertime'

Here is my design team card, made for my great niece who
was ten yesterday and loves playing tennis. 

All the details of the challenge can be found HERE

I found the idea for this card on Pinterest.

The products I have used are:-
Spellbinders Nestabilities - Circles
Presscut - Happy Birthday
Craft Stash - Alphabet die
Marianne Designs - Numbers CR1282 

Challenges entered:-

Aud Sentiments - Anything Goes + A Sentiment

Creative Knockouts - Anything Goes

Seize the Birthday - Birthday /Optional - All About Summer

Watercooler Wednesday - All about Occasions
Creative Moments - Anything Goes/Optional Twist - Summer Sports

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Janice x