Cards For Kids!!!

Here is another thing that I don't do very often........cards for kids. I should because with the Cricut and my other die cutting machines I have plenty of suitable things.
Anyway......these were a special order for twins who I have been making cards for since they were born. The last couple of years they have had the same card in different colours....by request......but now they are developing their own little personalities and like different things.
When I first got the order I was a bit stumped at the lion and giraffe request but it's amazing what you have when you rummage around in your stash.

Both cards are made using papers from the Nana's Kids range by DCWV and the giraffe is from the New Arrival Cricut cartridge.

Well I am off to work shortly. We have two classes today so a busy day ahead.
Thanks for dropping by.
Sheila-x-

I Love My Cuttlebug!!!

.........and I LOVE Basic Grey paper.
I think they work really well together on this card I made a couple of weeks ago.
The village scene has been embossed onto some gold card which has fabulous cracks in it so it looks slightly distressed....and then I just edged it with a red chalk ink pad.

Well I didn't get as much done as I would have liked yesterday. My shoulders were giving me a bit of trouble so I spent most of the evening and into the early hours just putting stuff away and clearing my work table and trying not to move my arms too sharply.
I did give myself a bit of a shock when I decided to put all my Bazzill and Core'dinations into a magazine file. I didn't think I had 'that much' but it got filled and then some.....note to self.....get it used woman......lol!!!

It's a gorgeous early autumn day here today and the view from my workroom will be very distracting. It's sunny but misty and the trees are turning which makes for a glorious sight.
It's funny that I love the autumn colours of the trees but I am not over fond of using those colours in my card making except for maybe the darker reds and mustard yellows. I dislike summer and yet I love the blues, greens, aquas and turquoises which would make you think of summer and the seaside...........what a contrary thing I am.

Right I had best get to work.
Thanks for dropping by.
Sheila-x-

Pretty Pink Cupcakes!!!

As promised.......here are a couple more cards made with Sharon Curtis's new cupcake stamps. Very simple and very girly.

The paper......funnily enough is called Cupcakes and is by Crafts House.

For the top card I have stamped the cupcake twice.....once onto a circle of card and then onto a spare piece. I coloured the pink base with a crayon and then a glitter gel pen. For the icing I just used a clear glitter gel pen and then added a brad with a small piece of ribbon to look like a cherry and layered it onto the base. The scallop was then stamped around the cupcake.

The second card uses the same papers but the cupcakes have been stamped in black and then coloured with pencils and Gamsol before being glazed with Glossy Accents.

The scallop and plain circles are Nestabilities.

The link for the stamps is in the next post down for anyone interested in buying them.

I just want to thank Sharon for asking me to design samples with her new stamps. I was very honoured to be asked.

Well I have to move on from cupcakes now for a while as I still need to design some more cards for classes although I need to have an hour just playing to loosen up a bit first......I'm sure you know what I mean.

DD starts a nine night working week tonight so no GA watching for us tonight.....boo hoooooo!!!

We watched some of Season 3 last night and got through half a box of tissues between us......lol!!!

Thanks for dropping by on this wet and miserable Saturday.

Bye for now

Sheila-x-

Go Get Your Cupcake Stamps!!!

HERE

Sharon (glitterangel) now has her cupcake stamps available to buy via her blog.

I'll be back later with more samples.

Sheila

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Christmas Teabag Card!!!

I'm not a great lover of Tea Bag Folding but have to keep my hand in just in case I get asked for a basic class at the shop........which hasn't happened for a while.
Usually I just do one card per year with this technique and more often than not it's a Christmas one as the papers make it more bearable.......lol!!!
This year I have used the Making Memories St Nick papers and cut 3" and 2.5" squares for folding.
I don't like the look when the rosettes stick out so I always glue mine down so that they are flat and decorate them with any leftover peeloff corners that are floating about.
So that's my one card done for this year thank goodness....lol!!!

I'll be having a busy weekend as I need to design some new cards for classes for next week. One is just about finished but I need to do about half a dozen if I can. Then I have card orders in which I would like to get out of the way and I also need to do a few more cards with the cupcake stamps which should be launching tomorrow.......so look out for details of those.

First I am taking a break for a couple of hours to have tea and watch some GA.

Thanks for dropping by today.
Sheila-x-