Boys Birthday cards

This is a very simple card I made for 2 boys who have their birthday this month.  Super easy:  Just stamped their name using the Letter It Stamp Set, cut it out, and mounted it on some Stampin' Dimensionals.  The star paper is from The Big Top Birthday Designer series Paper.  It's great how the paper is specially coordinated with the inks and cardstock.

We will be making 2 of these on the card making day.  I will have all sorts of different colours (I have practically all of them!) so you can do a boy or a girl card or one of each.  The dates are on the righthand side of my blog.
Ness

February Birthdays

January and February Birthdays really creep up don't they?  So, I am getting super organised for the months ahead so I won't miss their birthdays.

For these 2 cards, I used the Letter It stamp set, which is great, because it helps you really personalise a card.  The background paper is Beau Chateau Designer Series Paper, which has some lovely soft blues and pinks in it.  I cut out each of the letters (which I stamped in Weisteria Wonder) and mounted them with Stampin' dimensionals to make them stand out.  If you look carefully, you can see tiny pearls in between the letters.  I think everyone likes a card with their own name on it!

Ness

Same Card, Different Colour

I was just loving myself silly when I made my pink butterfly cards for my neice and friend, that I decided to repeat the pattern, only use blue instead.  Hmm... I think I like the blue better.  What do you think?

Sophie and Simone's Birthday

My friend Simone and my neice, Sophie both have birthdays in November so I made them the same style card.  I made this using the sets: French Foliage, Kindness Matters and Letter it.  I love how the French Foliage set has a stamp that looks like something has spilt on the paper, giving it a really weathered look.  I finished it off with crumbcake Seam Binding Ribbon.  The butterflies were hand cut, which made it a bit fiddly, but worth it.

Ness

Wedding Gift Card Holder

My friend Jane made this at my Christmas Card making Day yesterday.  She has loads of weddings coming up and wanted to make wedding gifts instead.  This is a little money/gift card holder.  Most couples want cash these days, so this makes a gorgeous little keepsake. 

To make this, Jane used Baja Breeze cardstock (4" x 7") and scored at 1" and then at 4 1/2 ".  She then folded it up.  The 1 1/2" part becomes the pocket, so she attached 2 light blue brads to hold it together.  The En francais background stamp was used on Very Vanilla cardstock using Crumbcake ink.  She then inked to edges with Crumbcake, too.  She got to try out our brand new lettering stamp set called 'Letter it'.  We arranged the letters to read A & T instead of T & A (for obvious reasons!)  She used Soft suede ink for that weathered look.  We didn't have an 'and' so we improvised and coloured in the 'and' from the Merry and Type set and cut it out and stuck it on top of a couloured in letter!  She finished it off with some lovely Baja Breeze seam binding Ribbon and stuck on some pale blue pearls, which I think really make it.

The new technique here, is the way we coloured in part of a stamp with the matching marker and stamped only the word or part of the stamp that we wanted.  A special trick is after you have coloured it in, you breathe on it to reactivate the ink  before stamping.

Good work, Jane.  Your friends will love recieving that on their special day.

Ness