Teacher appreciation

Its the end of the school year, so that means teacher appreciation time. 

Both of my kids had wonderful male teachers who did so much for them. 

Here are the special cards which I created for them.

Card ingredients include:

Stamps: The Greeting Farm Soccer Ian, Paper Smooches Smarty Pants

Coloured in Copics & Watercolour

Paper: Kaiser Craft Class Act

Card ingredients include:

Stamps: Paper Smooches Smarty Pants, Kaszazz sentiment Learning is a Journey

Coloured in Copics

Zombie 9

My son recently celebrated a birthday and this is the fun zombie card I made for him.

Card ingredients include:

Stamp: Craftin Desert Diva's Zombody

Coloured in Copics

Celebrate 40

My incredible twin sister celebrated a milestone birthday so of course 

I had to create a special card for her!

Card ingredients include:

Stamp: Craftin Desert Diva's Celebration Trolls

Coloured in Copics

Reach for the Sky

My darling husband celebrated his birthday recently so of course I had to created something special for him. And this is the end result.

Card ingredients include:

Stamp: Craftin Desert Diva Western Bandits
Colour in Copics

Shine Bright

Another niece celebrated her birthday this month and this is the special card I made just for her.

Card ingredients include:

Stamps: The Greeting Farm You're a Gem
Coloured in Copics

Party Time 21!

This week I'm joining in some 21st celebrations. I've had these freebie 'Hello Spot' stamps from a magazine and thought its make a cute addition to my pop-up box card.

Card ingredients include:

Stamps: Hello Spot magazine freebies

Coloured in Copics.

95 Years Young!

Last week we celebrated my grandmother's 95th birthday with a special family afternoon tea. And this was the special pop-up box card I created for her following that theme.

Card ingredients include:

Stamp: Magnolia Little London Afternoon Tea

Coloured in Prismacolor pencil

A Fintastic Birthday

And the other birthday card this week was another water theme card with this super fun set from Craftin Desert Divas, Jawesome.

Card ingredients include:

Stamps: Craftin Desert Divas 'Jawsome'

Papers: Kaiser Craft Rock Pool paper pack

Ahoy There

It's birthday week in my family this week with 2 nephews celebrating birthdays. This is one of the cards I made for one of the birthday boys.

Card ingredients include:

Stamp: Magnolia Pirate Edwin

Papers: Grace Taylor 'Playtime' paper pack

Live a Big Life!

It was my daughters birthday this week. She is a huge fan of the movie series 'How To Train Your Dragon' and I was able to find this gorgeous little stamp from The Paper Shelter which perfectly suited that theme.

Card ingredients include:

Stamp: The Paper Shelter My Little Dragon Army

Coloured with Prismacolor Pencils

Build-a-Bouquet

I had left this card to the absolute last minute to make for Mother's Day the other month. Glad it turned out as well as it did!

Card ingredients include:

Stamps: Magazine Freebie - Build a Bouquet

Coloured in Copics

Paper: Sugar & Spice Russian Dolls paper pack

A dino-mite birthday!

Here is the other roaring card I was asked to come up with from a friend. I hope the little Chomper loves it as much as I do!

Card ingredients include:

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Critters of the Past
Coloured in Copics

Princess time!

I was delighted when a friend asked me to make a couple of birthday cards for her kids. This one, fit for a Princess!

Card ingredients include:

Stamp: Magnolia Lady Tilda

Coloured in Copics

Live life in full bloom!

My elderly neighbour who always looks after our animals when we disappear for a few days, asked if I could make a card for her friend, one of those pop up cards? So of course I was more than happy to oblige. All I knew about the recipient is that she likes gardening. So I hope she will get a kick out of my effort.

Card ingredients include:

Stamp: The Paper Shelter The Florist Color

Coloured in Copics
Papers: Kaiser Craft Miss Nelly paper pack, cardstock
Dies: Lawn Fawn Grassy Border, Magazine freebie spring garden fence
Other: Rhinestones, ribbon.

You're a classic!

My dear work husband celebrated another birthday so I wanted to make him a cute card with all of his toys on it.

Card ingredients include:

Stamps: Magazine freebies - Happy Travels & Life's An Adventure

Papers: Magazine freebies, cardstock

Coloured in Copics.

Relax, its your birthday

I had fun making this pop-up box card. Not for anything in particular, but just for fun. I used one of the fun stamps from the Magnolia 2018 Advent Calendar with Distress Inks.

Card Ingredients Include:

Stamp: Magnolia 2018 Christmas Advent Calendar stamp

Distress Inks: Skin: Vintage Photo, Tattered Rose

                       Hair: Black Soot, Ground Espresso, Frayed Burlap

                       Bath: Smoked Hickory, Rusty Hinge, Mustard Seed

                       Bubbles: Shaded Lilac, Squeezed Lemonade, Lucky Clover

                       Background: Ground Espresso

Other: Nuvo Crystal Drops: Caribbean Ocean, Silver Lining & Carnation Pink.

                       

 

40 & Fabulous!

My lovely SIL celebrated her milestone 40th birthday recently in style with a surprise roller disco party! Was so much fun and I only fell over 3 times & didn't break anything which is always good! I made her this special pop-up box card and had fun creating the background brick paper with multiple stencils and distress inks. The image was coloured in Distress inks too and the scene came together so well.

   

More Box Cards

Still playing around with pop-up box cards. Still having fun.

  

Stamps: Magazine Freebie A Good Sport, Kaiser Craft Technologic Robot

  

Stamps: Paper Smooches Smarty Pants + The Paper Shelter Ready for School, 

Magazine Freebie Apple Blossom Sprinkled with Love

Hope

Someone very close to me has recently found out they had cancer. I didn't know what else to do other than to make them a card for hope.

Card Ingredients include:

Stamp: Karleigh Sue We Keep the Hope

Coloured in Copics

Papers: Kaiser Craft Miss Empire paper pack

Box Cards

I think I've found my favourite card style; pop-up box cards! They are super fun to make and make use of all of those freebie magazine stamps and left over papers to make super cute scenes.

Here's some I've been working on recently.

 

Magazine Freebie Stamps: Gingerbread Village, Boho Chic

 

Stamps: Paper Smooches Smarty Pants + Dearie Dolls, Yampuff Alyce and Lila

 

Stamps: Paper Smooches Smarty Pants + Saturated Canary Grow, CC Design Little Bug Emma + Apple Blossom Cardmaking Collection #2