St Patricks Day

A collegue asked me to make her some cards for some St Patrick Day to send to some of her friends overseas. Not knowing exactly what to do, I started designing cards, and before I new it I made 9 different cards.

Here they are. What do you think?

Anamaria

Wedding Cards

A collegue at work is getting married and my work collegues asked me if I would make a card to give to him on behalf of the team. I was so thrilled that I agreed immediately. It was rather challenging as normally make a card and I use it, but this time I wanted to make sure that the team were happy with the choise too, so I made 3 instead.

Here are closer pictures of each.

The 2nd card is the one that we finally gave him. As always I enjoyed making them, but the biggest reward was not only the fact that my collegues liked the one we decided to give on behave of the team, but that the groome to be was very touched that I made it for him.

Anamaria

For my sis

For sister's birthday, I wanted to make a card for her with a handbag theme, however what I ended up making is better that I had dreamt. I made a bag in the shape of a hand bag and a mini card to go with with the left over papers I had from the bag. I had seen the bag in a number of places but I ended up making it with the assistance of Leanne Dixon (my SU up line and friend) and a number of blogs where I found photos of it including Makeesha Byl (need to scroll a bit to get to the handbag photo) . With their assistance I managed to get it done. So here is the end result .......

What I did:
For the Handbag:

1. I got the instructions on how to construct the bag from Leanne.


2. I used SU Pink Pirouette card stock for the bag. I cut a piece of pink card stock for the handle from the SU Simple Scrappin' Petal Party Exclusive Scrapbooking Kit.


3. Once done I decided to use similar dimensions of the bag and cut 2 pieces to cover the front and bag of the bag from the SU Raspberry Tart Design Paper (DP) pack.


4. For the buckles I used a 1 1/4" circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch and the Scallop circle punch of various card stocks and DPs from the packs above.


5. Once assembled, I punched a small hole through all of them and used a Clear Crystal Studs (from mixit) to hold it together.


6. I used the same studs for the handles.
   

For the Card:

1. The card is small because I didn't want it to overshadow the bag, so I used some left over SU Pink Pirouette card stock.


2. The card dimensions are 2" by 6 1/4" (fold in half). I used the the left over Raspberry Tart DP that I cut from the front panels for the card embellishment.


3. I stamped the Happy Birthday message at the front.


4. Use a left over pink ribbon and tied it up to finish it off.
   

And voila!

Anamaria

Happy Birthday to you

My brother-in-law best friends birthday was today, and we were invited to celebrate with him. So in the spirit of my new years resolution, I made a card for him. I wasn't sure where to begin, but the end result was not bad (at least I think!!!)

What I did:

1. I use a white card for the base. In my scraps box I had some pieces left of card stock and SU! designer paper that I had used in previous cards. So I used a piece of blue card stock and put in on the left had size.


2. I used a piece of green card stock cut it to fit within the card, used my swirly background stamp with brown ink. Then, I used the ink pad around the edge to give it more dimension.


3. Punched 3 x 1 1/4" circles and 3 x 1 3/8" circles of a piece designer paper that matched the green on the card stock and the reverse had the brown strips that matched the ink pad I used earlier. 2 of the small circles I used the green side and stack that on the brown side of the large circle. Then on the other set I did the reverse. Then I stuck all 3 in a row on top of the green card stock.


4. On top of the green card, I put a brown ribbon and tied it up on the edge as that section looked a little plain.


5. I used the word tag and punch it on white card stock, wrote the Happy Birthday message on it and use the brown ink pad around it for dimension. Unfortunately my finger got on the way and I left a finger print. My husband thought it looked good, so I duplicated the mistake and I "fixed" the rest of the tag to have the same effect. A very lucky mistake as the end result looked good.

Anamaria

Father's Day Card

This year, this card was a little more organise since I did it during my first Stampin Up workshop with my upline.

This item includes a number of different pieces and includes some stamping to create the effect of worn leader. In the inside I got the kids to help me. I created 2 small credit card size cards; one for each where I organise for my daughter to stamp her name on one side and draw something on the other (she chose to draw the 4 or us). I helped my son with the stamping and left him to do the drawing on the other (he picked up a yellow pencil and did some lines, and there I was truing to help him put more colour to these lines. I found out the next day, while putting the items together that he had chosen to do a duck, no wonder he was not interested in using any other colours!!!!).

Here are the results. They did a great job.

I then I added $$$$$ in the inside section of the wallet, as I never now what to buy him. Now he can go and get it himself!

Anamaria

For You Cards

I made this card for my mother-in-law and stepmother-in-law to accompany a scarf that my mum made for them. The cards were the same and they looked fantastic. I used some of the Stampin Up papers that I bought (I think they are from the Mini Catalogue). The cards looked fantastic (see for yourselves!!!). The colours are vibrant and as per all Stampin Up papers complement each other really well.

What I did: I used a pre-made white card that I trimmed a little. Then I chose 4 of the Stampin Up papers and cut squares of 1 1/2" each. The I glued them in mosaic format. I put a black ribbon though them joining in at the front (i put tape at the front to hold it in place). I used my large oval punch on one the Stampin Up papers again. They I use my new scallop oval punch on black card stock. Used my white gel pen and wrote the message with faux stitching and because I couldn't read it very well, I used a black marker and put dots on top.

The end result! Another card that I'm proud off.

Anamaria

PS. This is the first time that I have used the Stampin Up papers to create something on my own and i have to say that I LOVE THEM. And the response of the recipients was great too. Love it when people appreciate what I do with my cards. It gives me a great feeling.

Birthday Card - Gone Fishing 3D Card

I made this card for my brother in law. I loved making this card, because I got to use pieces of cards that I have been keeping for months. I got the idea from various sites that I had seen over the last few months and I just wanted to put those together for him.







What I did:

1. I used some kraft card to cut 2 pieces the same size.
2. I scored 1/2" and then 3/4" on either side.
3. On the back section I put blue card stock on the bottom, then I used blue velum and tore pieces to represent the ocean and did the same with a brown/grey/green speckle paper piece to represent the sand.
4. On the top section I cut a square on the front like a window. I then cut a piece of a wood to represent the fishing rod.
5. Took a piece of fishing line and asked my husband to tie a small fishing hook on to it. I used a glue dot and dimensional to attach it to the card.
6. I used small letter stamps to write the message "Gone Fishing".
7. Then used my oval punch to cut the message out and my new oval scallop punch to matt the piece.
8. Used some dimensionals and attached it to the corner.
   

It look quite good. The reaction was better than I had imagined, so happy with the result.

Stamping Class - August 09

For this class, we did a Xmas Card, using a circle punch to make a 3D Xmas Ball. It looks great.

What I did: used one of the circle designs and stamp it 3 times on white stock, punched them out. Then used a large background stamp with the same ink pad that I used to stamp the circles; placed the circles on it and stamped the back of the circles. Then cut half way up on all 3 and inter twinned them, to cause that 3D effect. Used stick strip to attached the 3rd circle to the embellishment. Then stuck it to a white piece of card stock, which i then matted in green. Cut a piece of designer paper and matted than. Stack it to the side and put a ribbon matching the green around it. Then stick the 3D embellishment. Stamp the message on white stick, cut it with the large oval punch. Then using the scallop oval punch a piece on the same green used, and stick this on the bottom corner of the 3D embellishment.

Then addition, did the same embellishment again, but this time I used Stampin-Up 2-way glue and added glitter to it. It looked fantastic, as you can see by the picture.

Anamaria

Farewell

Two of my kids teachers were leaving this week. And of course I decided that I wanted to make a card for them. I had planned to make the same card for them, but due to a couple of mistakes I ended up with 2 similar cards.

No, it is not a mistake both teachers have the same name.

So what I did: I wanted to stamp the message on the card, but mistake number one, I touched the message on one of the cards and I ended up with part of the messaage in my hand, so instead of combining both, I put the flower embelishment on top of the error. The embelishment starts with stamping and embossing it, then used my new watercolour pencils and water brush for the water colour effect. Then I matted the card with some a beautiful paper that matches the colours of the flowers. Then I cut another piece that I used my punch and attached at the bottom of the card. Then I used ribbon across this where I used the mini oval tag with their names to cover where I joined the ribbon ends.

Wedding Card for my Cousin

This card a made for a cousin overseas, who was getting married. We couldn't go, but my sister and brother in law were able to, so I decided to make a card for him and send some money as present.

This one turned up much better than I though, and it was a great learning experience. This is my first ever embossing experience. I loved it. I think I will be doing this again soon.

So what I did, embossed the wedding card on silver. Then used my colour spot and water brush to pain the flowers. At the bottom of the card I embossed the accompaning words to cake. Then I double matted that. I added dimentionals at the back. Put a silver ribbon across the card and the mounted the cake on top.

Here is the end result:

Anamaria