Here is a teen boys card I made using a scrap of paper from Kaisercraft Attitude 6″ paper pad, a tim holtz sizzix embossing folder – Bricked, and a mix of stamps from Bitty grunge set by stampers anonymous.I distressed and inked all the edges and added a sentiment to the top with brads.It tickled my fancy that the shape of the paper piece I used for the greeting looks a little like those old fashioned street signs! I’m off into the craft room and looking forward to unwinding in there! Til tomorrow…..
Tag: simple card designs
Graphic 45 french Country Plaque
Not a card today! A short while ago it was Mums birthday, and as she is crazy for roosters I made this plaque to put in with her present. The base is a large block of wood – my sister is swapping all her wood mounted stamps over to unmounted for ease of storage and she will then use them with acrylic blocks, she has a lot of stamps and I asked her to give me all the wood off cuts as I can think of lots of things to do with them – anyway this is where the wood came from – it once was the base for a large background stamp. I painted it with Viva metallic gold paint around the edges, and the rest with Vintage photo distress paint ( great stuff) and then covered it with images I had fussy cut from Graphic 45 French Country papers. I haven’t made a card with this paper yet but hopefully will get time this weekend to pull it out and have a play! I added a chipboard piece in the corner.Til tomorrow….
Bundle of joy number 7
This is the last in my Kaisercraft Bundle of Joy series. For this one I have used Kaisercraft 6″ pad for the background, and an image from a 12 x 12 piece of paper. The flowers and butterfly which I edged with pink ink come from the collectables pack that matches the paper collection, and I added lace trim and a ribbon bow. Something completely different tomorrow.. til tomorrow…..
Kaisercraft Bundle of Joy number 6
SEcond post for the day! Kaisercraft Bundle of Joy paper pad and collectables with a little ribbon thrown in! I do like this paper and I havent even started on the boys colours yet! maybe I will find some time this week for that! Til tomorrow….
BUndle of joy number 5
hello, missed my post yesterday as we had no power in the morning, and then when it came back on ( finally) we had no internet, which has only just now been restored, so we may have 2 posts today! I have jumped back to my kaisercraft Bundle of Joy series, as my sister has requested that the rest of this collection be posted – this one uses the paper pad and collectables, and some ribbon and flowers. The pretty oval was die cut using spellbinders floral ovals.I also inked around all my edges for definition. Til tomorrow …. or maybe later today…..
Prima fairy rhymes number 4
Here is the last in my Prima Fairy Rhymes series, I have layered one piece of paper cut from the a4 pad straight onto my card and layered a second with the girl image on top, fussy cutting around some of the imagery. Also fussy cut a butterfly, a banner( which I stamped with a hero arts stamp) and added rhinestones, kindyglitz and a ribbon bow to finish.Tomorrow something new. In the meantime I am making good progress with my order – only 3 more to do, then a challenge card, and then hopefully some time to play with some new purchases! Til tomorrow….
Prima Fairy rhymes number 3
Prima fairy Rhymes paper pad ( a4 size) once again, and the same ideas as the previous card, where I covered a card blank with a corner of the paper, and then fussy cut a second image and placed it on top with foam mounting squares.i cut a banner shape and stamped a sentiment with Hero arts happy birthday stamp,and just added a seam binding bow, rhinestones and kindyglitz.One more left in this series before we move on. I taught a lovely class of ladies this morning ( although all my ladies are classy….) – we did an exploding box, so this weekend I am going to get Nathan busy with the video camera and make a you- tube clip of how I made it. While I have him busy with the camera we will take some photos of the new cards I have been making, and I have just opened an e-mail with an order for 8 cards, so thats my weekend sorted! Til tomorrow
Prima Fairy Rhymes number 2
Number 2 in our Prima Fairy Rhymes patterned paper series. I covered a card blank with a piece of paper from the a4 pad, and fussy cut a second image from some of the same paper, and mounted it on the first with sticky foam pads. the banner strip on this card and yesterdays card were cut from some more paper from the pad, and then I just stamped a sentiment, punched out a few butterflies and added some kaisercraft rhinestones.Another quick card! Til tomorrow….
Prima Fairy Rhymes number 1
Today we start a new group – cards I have made with Prima Fairy Rhymes paper. I bought the A4 pad, and I haven’t had enough time to really create with it so only a few cards just now but we will return to it one day as it’s great paper.This first card is so simple. I just covered a card base with one corner of the patterned paper, it didn’t need anything else except a seam binding bow, kindyglitz and a stamped greeting!Great girls card done! Til tomorrow….
Double pocket card
This card was the third one at last months village lesson. I have called it a double pocket card . We made a tag for the first pocket, and an envelope to hold gift cards for the second pocket. The pockets were easy to construct – two pieces of paper/cardstock the same size as the front of the card, one folded down a little further than the other, and stuck on three sides with double sided tape, but not across the top allowing us to tuck in our tag and envelope. Just a button and twine to finish this one!You could make a bookmark instead of a tag or envelope if you wanted – we put our greeting on the tag, but you could put the greeting on the front of the card, and maybe slip in a book voucher if you made the book mark….lots of potential for this design! Til tomorrow…..
Helens Card Designs 