Thought I'd share the remaining two animal cards which I made using toppers and papers printed from a USB. They are similar to the ones in the previous post but then there are only so many ways to use a square topper on a square card 😉😉. I'll try not to bore you with any more animals for a while.
Toppers and Papers - Paper Boutique USB # XI
I have a couple of cards to share today featuring some animal toppers which were four to a sheet and rather than using just one and putting the remainder away for another day I used all four of them to make similar cards. I printed off a selection of matching papers and actually cut into them to assemble these cards which, of course, has left me with more off cuts to store in my snippets collection. Couldn't possibly not save them 😉
A garden themed card to share today which I guess would be suitable to send to anyone interested in gardens. The greenhouse was cut from some dark green card and then the outline cut into the lighter green shape to make a 'window'. Some foliage was stamped onto a piece of white before layering behind the 'window' using thin foam pads so that the greenhouse could be dropped into the aperture. Hope this makes sense - easier to do than to explain 😉 A flower pot and some leaves were die cut and added for a bit of interest. Sentiment produced using My Craft Studio.
A lovely sunny morning here but still pretty chilly, hope you are all having good weather too.
Playing I-spy today which is the latest challenge on the Allsorts blog (using the letter 'B'). I've gone with birds, blooms, blue and birthday and possibly 'bits and pieces' because most of the components used here came from my bits boxes 😉. I really enjoy the challenge of building up a card from a random selection of papers, images and/or die-cuts and hopefully ending up with something which 'gels'. As always there are some great I-spy cards from the design team using a variety of things beginning with 'B'..
Stamping/die-cutting and background papers - from various Stampin' Up sets - (some retired)
Some yellow poppies on a sympathy card to share today. I came across these die cut flowers when I was having a bit of a sort out and thought they should be used rather than lying in a box of oddments. I found some matching paper and card to put this card together and decided to add a sympathy sentiment. The flowers had been printed using a free CD with a matching die which came with a magazine a few years ago. and the sentiment was stamped using a stamp from my favourite free set of sentiments. Quite a quick card to put together once I'd sorted out the components.
Poppies - free CD and die with a Tattered Lace Magazine from a few years ago
Paper and card - from my stash
Sentiment - from my favourite free set of various sentiments.
Off to the Playground this afternoon with the latest card made using some of my snippets and this time it is a card for someone who really enjoys reading. I've used an embossing folder and some dies which came free with a magazine some time ago - probably a couple of years or more because these days I rarely go into any shops where these magazines used to jump off the shelves into my basket. Everything except for the card blank has come from my snippets collection. The background paper was a scrap left from a magazine give-away and I've over-stamped some text detail onto it. The cream snippet was run through the embossing folder and mounted onto a snippet of blue. The 'books' were die cut using several different colours of quite small snippets and I was very careful to save every little piece, including the fall out bits so that they could be popped back into the spines of the books. There were also some stamps with this give away set so I stamped and fussy cut a little plant and a sleeping cat to add to the bookshelves. Decided there wasn't really space for any words on the front but the inside has a birthday sentiment.
Sorting out my stock of cards I realised that I was a bit short on boy baby cards - plenty for girls though. I decided to make at least one card in blues and for this I've used a kangaroo stamp and of course the baby roo which were coloured using alcohol pens and then fussy cut along with a little cluster of hearts. The white circle was die cut from a piece of card which had been stamped with a woodgrain pattern and I've added some more die cuts for background along with a sentiment and three punched white hearts.
Stamps - Kangaroo and Company Stampin' Up
Wood grain - stamp also from SU but retired
Sentiment - from kangaroo stamp set on die cuts from Stitched So Sweetly SU
Rectangles - dies from a John Next Door set
Stitched circles - Sizzix dies
