Crafting @ Eighty

Hello everyone. Are you all prepared for any street parties that may be happening in your area?  Its hard to believe that 70 years have gone by since the coronation, & goodness me hasn't our Queen worked hard during those years. Today I have an 80th birthday card to show you. I made it for my friend for whom I make the fund raising cards. It is one of many 80th birthdays during 2021/22. Normally cards for men give me quite a problem on design, but this friend is a great jazz enthusiast so I have a theme to research. For this card I turned to the internet & jazz theme images.  Here is what I was able to make; I just printed the group as was, giving a nice silhouette design, then layered it onto a black card that had been dry embossed & added the "80" & "Happy Birthday". All mounted on a white card, Here is the inside. I found a royalty free image of jazz music sheet for "Happy Birthday To You".  I put this through my Serif Craft Artist p...

 Hello everyone I hope you are all well.  I cannot believe that we are fast approaching the end of May, this year is going so fast! I have been busy making cards for my scouting friend to help raise funds for his group.  So, this last couple of days I have used a card making kit that came with a magazine. The kit is The Secret Garden by Christine Griffiths of Card Making Magic. I still have some pieces left but have made 17 cards so far; The kit was very pretty & also very easy to use. It included the background papers which were patterned one side & plain the other. As some of the embellishments were quite busy I had to make the decision to use the plainer side in some cases. I hope you found them interesting to look at & enjoyed your visit.  Have a lovely weekend.

Good afternoon everyone, how is your weekend? Once again it has been a little while since I last posted here.  So today should make up for it as I have several cards to show you. It fell to me last week to provide a challenge for one of my clubs.  I chose the subject "music".  As it had been my idea I felt I should create several different ideas. Here they are -  This one is Distress Ink through a stencil, using the whole design. The music image was a stamp, I have had it for quite a while & cannot remember the maker. The flourish was also a stamp but the words were another stencil which I inked in 2 parts. The background is from a part sheet of music that I tore into smaller pieces,  then distressed the edges with Distress Ink in Vintage photo. I am not happy tearing books - but this sheet of music had been part of some  items in a small card making kit. So, I didn't feel so bad using it. The Beethoven image is a stamp - again unsure of make. I have wa...

 ..... a video by Natasha Foote. Good afternoon everyone I hope you are well.  Recently, I revisited the videos on YouTube by Natasha Foote. Here is the latest card I created using the idea from the video.  See link at the end of the post. My first attempt did not work, I guess I hadn't fully taken on her, reasonably easy, instructions. So, I went back & tried again. It really was so easy I felt stupid. The design works for me. on 2 counts.  One, it produces a clean & simple card, & two it uses up more of those scraps we all have.  I say clean & simple but of course it can be more "lively & bold" if you so choose. Its a good design for small bulk card making as well.  Why not, every so often have a session of cutting up your strips, build a collection then sit & create!  I might think about this one for some of my Christmas cards!! Here is a link to the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDsVS-nydrU Why not make a couple?...

Good afternoon everyone. Another weekend is upon us plus it is another bank holiday! Just recently a colleague in one of my clubs gave us a project for a different card. It had a flap front. Here is the card I made; The centre panel is actually a slim tent fold card which is glued to a square piece  of cardstock, after adding DSP layer. The banner across the centre is also a flap. The stamped images are from new stamps, to me, from Julie Hickey. A week later I decided to make another one. I didn't choose the papers they chose me. As they were laying on my desk close together & I thought it would be a good idea to use them. As the design was fairly dark I added strip gold peel-offs to lift the look. Surprisingly the "Happy Birthday" looks silver but was in fact gold. Have a good Bank Holiday weekend, lets up the weather will be good to us. Thank you for visiting my little crafty space & please call again.

Good evening everyone. A few more cards to show you that I have made recently using papers & toppers in my scraps & bits box. The resulting cards will be added to a collection I am building for a friend who raises funds for his scouts group. There are two photos of DL cards using left over designer paper, & plus some of those lovely toppers from the pads by Crafty Individuals I have quite a lot of those Crafty Individual toppers, as I used to buy quite a lot of their paper pads including in particular the ones full of toppers. I have so much paper & embellishments that I need to use so helping my friend with his fund raising is one way of putting them to good use. Thank you for visiting my little blog I hope you found it interesting.

This was a challenge set by a colleague in one of my stamping groups I belong to.   "To use up our scraps." Good afternoon, by the way, I hope everyone is well. I have been trying to use my scraps for a little while now but put my mind to doing some different styles for this challenge.                     I actually meant to have the second one of this first style with the squares at the top.                                       As they are complete cards I cannot just turn it up the other way.                                  Most of these cards do not have any sentiment on as I prefer to do that                                  ...