50th birthday card

A colleague asked if I could make a birthday card for a friend that turned 50. The friend had biked to Paris, so he would like if somehow I could implement that in the card. I knew I had some paper that had Paris and the Eiffel Tower on it, and so I made this card:

From UHK Gallery I used the "Le Bistrot" paper from the "Allo Allo" collection and the small picture with the bike, and from Dovecraft I used papers from the 6×6 paper pad called "Sweet Paris". I have used dies from Spellbinders: Matting basics 6×6 and Elegant Ovals (inside the card), the Happy Birthday is from Tattered Lace, 50 is a magazine freebie die and for the leaves I used a China die. I inked the edges with Distress Ink - Vintage Photo, used flowers from WOC and some halfpearls from my stash.
Here is how the inside of the card look's like:

Another girly confirmation card

I had another order for a confirmation card for a girl, this time with a picture of the girl on her horse.

For this card I used papers from Lemoncraft's "Everyday's Spring" collection. It has some really nice green and pink papers, that fit very well together. Behind the picture I put some pink card stock from my stash. I have used dies from Spellbinders (the squares and the cross), Sue Wilson (the doily), Joy Crafts (the letters for the name) and Nellie Snellen (the circles and Konfirmation). All the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, and the cheesecloth, half pearls and silver cross are all from my stash. The squares were distressed and inked with Distress Ink.

I also made two identical soccer themed confirmation cards, but apparently I forgot to take pictures of those, at least I can't seem to find them on neither my phone nor my tablet, which is a shame cause I would have liked to put them on the blog as well.

Now it's official....

...I have a teenager in the house 😨. On June 5th, my oldest turned 13, and so she is officially a teen, unofficially she has been behaving like one for at least the last year. As usuall I made her a card, and since Lemoncraft has a new challenge, I decided to make it, so it matched their criterias.

I have used paper from the 2 collections "Gossamer Blue" and "Everyday Spring", chipboard from Anemone/Scrapek, which I painted with a coat of white gesso and then I sprayed it with some Cherry Red from Tim Holz Dylusions Ink sprays. The small doily is made with a die from Intricut and the numbers I have cut out using a Marianne Design die, and I used some blue shiny paper bought at a local dollar store for them. Happy Birthday is cut out using a die from Tattered Lace. I used some cheese cloth and some half pearls for decoration as well.




I participate in Lemoncrafts June challenge.

Birthday card for my sister

My sisters birthday is in March, but since we'll be moving in the beginning of March, I've already made the card for her. I have kept it pretty simple, since I don't know yet if I'll be sending it by mail or hand it to her personally.

For this card I have used papers from Lemoncrafts Gossomer Blue collection, which is absolutely stunning, unfortunately the picture doesn't show the colors very well, I'll try to take a better picture in the daylight tomorrow.
UPDATED Feb. 13th: I took some new pictures and the colors are a little better on these.

With this card I'm participating in Lemoncrafts first ever challenge.

Besides papers from the Gossomer Blue collection, I've used craft card for the card base, I used some lace ribbon and chipboard, which is also from Lemoncraft, and some half pearls from my stash. For the flowers and the blue circle I have used dies from Sue Wilson. The flowers on the chipboard I have colored with a Pergamano pencil and then I used some Stickles, Frosted Lace, on top to make the blue stand out more. I also distressed the Lemoncraft papers and used the Vintage Photo ink from Tim Holz on the edges to give them a more vintage look.