Chess Board Birthday

 

Hello, fellow crafters! Do you find it hard to come up with many different themes for masculine cards?  I know I do. I have 3 males that I make birthday cards for each year and each one is different. Trying to come up with ideas each time is not an easy task. The card above is a birthday card I made for my brother whose birthday falls this month and I decided on a chess theme,.

I began by creating my base card in ivory card stock. This was matted with a panel of kraft followed by a panel of black card stock. I searched on line for a chess board image and printed it out. Then I cut black squares and adhered them to the chess board image to give it some dimension. The chess board was then adhered to the prepared base card.  The chess pieces were die cut in black mirror paper and adhered to the chess board using dimensionals.  The sentiment was computer generated and adhered to the chess board with foam tape.This completed my project.

Here are the products/materials used:

Card Stock:  GKD Ivory, Kraft, Black Onyx; Black mirror paper

Dies:  Yvionne Creations Chess Game, Spellbinders A2 Distressed Edges

Ink:  GKD Sandy Beach (for sponging sentiment edges)

Other:  adhesive, dimensionals, foam tape, sponge dauber

 

Thanks for stopping by!  Come back again soon.

  In the meantime.....get creating!

Hang in There (Encouragement)

 

 A friend of my daughter's is going through some tough times and my daughter asked me to make a card. I thought this card would put a smile on their face and let them know that someone cares.

To create this card, I began with die cutting a front panel in blue card stock. Next, I cut out a cloud shape on the panel. At the same time, different sizes of cloud images were die cut, to be added to the panel later.

The tree image was stamped on white card stock, colored with Copics and die cut. The owl image was die cut and assembled. The sentiment was computer generated and die cut. 

Now it was time to put it all together. The base card was prepared in white card stock. The focal panel was adhered to the base using fun foam. Finally, the tree image, owl, clouds and sentiment were positioned and adhered using dimensionals. My project was complete.

Here are the materials/products used:

Card Stock:  GKD White, Kraft, Dark Chocolate, Pumpkin Spice (used my last sheet of this one...no longer available at GKD's; SU Spring Rain

Ink:   Distress Oxide Vintage Photo  (to sponge edges of the bird images)

Stamps:  Heartfelt Creations Sugar Hollow Hangout

Dies: Sue Wilson Double Stitched Rectangles, A Little Birdie Told Me; Poppy Stamps Fancy Clouds; Memory Box Mini Clouds; Elizabeth Craft Poppy the Owl; Heartfelt Creations Sugar Hollow Hangout;  MFT Die-Namics Inside & Out Diagonal Stitched Rectangles

Other: adhesive, fun foam, dimensionals, Copic markers, sponge dauber

 

Hope you enjoyed this post. Thank you for visiting and stop by again soon!

Vase of Flowers Birthday

 Hello again! I forgot to mention this birthday card that I created recently as well. This  one took me a while because those flower images were just to tiny for my hands. I somehow managed to get them die cut and positioned. But it was worth it because I was very pleased with the result.

 

Listed are the products used:

Card Stock:  GKD White, Blue Lagoon, various for floral images

Dies:  Sue Wilson Fancy Cut Border, Elegant Arrangements, IO Bouquet

Other:  adhesive, dimensionals, Wink of Stella 

 

Once again, thank you for visiting my blog. Hope you stop by again soon.

Happy crafting!

 

Thinking of You Get Well and Butterfly Birthday

 Hello Crafters! My sister-in-law fell and sustained an injury to her upper arm. Surgery is not an option at this time and her physicians want to wait and see if it heals on its own. Also, her birthday fell this month. Thus, these are the cards I made for her...one get well and the other a birthday card.

 Here are the products used for the get well card:

 Card Stock:  GKD white, Innocent Pink

Inks: GKD Passionate Pink (to blend around perimeter of card front)

Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp Garden Greetings

Other: Versamark, Gold EP, adhesive, blending brush

 

For the birthday card, these products were used:

Card Stock:  GKD White, Sweet Mango, Dark Chocolate 

Dies:  Sue Wilson Stamp Cuts Butterfly, Hero Arts Postage Stamps Infinity Dies,  Memory Box Lovely Happy Birthday

Other:  Distress Oxide inks to color butterfly, blending brushes, adhesive, dimensionals

 

Thank you for stopping by! I will have 3 more cards to post next month, all birthday cards. 

Hope you stop by to visit.  Until til then....make it a great day!