Rhubarb and custard

 A bespoke card for a friend who helped when we built a bar on the side of our house so my husband had somewhere to store his home brew instead of it living inside in my kitchen. The bar was named the feisty cat as the friend always got a slap from our cat when he attempted to stroke her. The rhubarb and custard was an in joke between him and my husband at the time and was so fitting and well received.

Just a keep and his dog

 A combined card for a special son who loves his keep and his spaniel . The car design by silhouette design studio though customised as requested for colour and registration and the dog behind the wheel. The stop sign serves as a place for the birthday message.

You are a winner

 My friends son had his school sports day and excelled as he won more challenges than anyone else. He was handed the trophy and allowed to have a photo taken but the minute was fleeting and he came home with nothing but a memory and a photo sent to his mum's phone ( she is a teacher in another school and couldn't be there). He was so disappointed that he had nothing to show his mum or anyone else that represented his win. I found the design for this trophy box on silhouette design studio and decided he deserved  atrophy of his own. I tied ribbons in the 4 house colours to the cup and filled it with some of his favourite treats. He was thrilled when I gave him the trophy and couldn't believe it had all the house colours on the handles,he didn't even realise it had treats inside until his mum said he took it to bed and laid it on his pillow and realised it had a lid. The cup slept in bed with him for months even when it had been squashed and rolled on so I think he might have liked having his own trophy just a little bit.

Superpowers

 My hubby and friends like to have an outing every so often  where they partake in what they call a session of drinking beer. I saw this design on silhouette design studio and thought it would be perfect for their outing. The design was cut in heat transfer vinyl and heat pressed and hubby and friends loved it.

What a star

 A clean and simple design with a die from memory box. The die is backed with mirror card and the sentiment also cut from mirrors to send some magical birthday wishes.

Pink clematis birthday card

 A big bold birthday card in pink and gold. The floral die cut background offers detail to this clean card and a base for the large flower  as a central focus with a tag holding the sentiment of a birthday wish.

Glossy poppies

 These poppies are the focal point coloured and glossy accents added which gives the flowers and enamel effect. The background is from crafters companion and is a double sided diesel that produces this fab geometric background.

Floral borders

The stamps on this card are from a Chloe's creative cards magazine box , I cut extra flowers to create depth. I put the sentiment in a couple of frames centrally. 

 

Clean and simple message

 Clean and simple anniversary card in craft and mirri card. The die is from memory box. 

Poppies and pebble

 You are never too old to learn something new and recently I learnt how to acrylic paint pour and then how to use the finished canvas to create a picture which I used as a background on this card.

The poppy die is from Sheena and I cut it several times to create the 3 d effect by layering certain parts.

All star Dad

 A pretty simple card commission for dad, the backing paper has craft beer bottles and the star has more stars clean and simple but detail when you look.

Golf balls

 A golfer never seems to have enough balls, though they never admit to loosing any,so golf balls for a golfer seems like the perfect card. 

The design for the card by design studio at silhouette.

Slimline job celebration

A pretty central panel wrapped with vellum which has the sentiment and accented with pretty vellum daies with gem centres. All products from Chloe's creative cards.

 

Dino birthday

 A birthday card for a dinosaur mad birthday boy. Design from design studio by silhouette.

Bunny hop

 A fun decoration for an Easter table a fun little 3d bunny. A design studio by silhouette  design, what colour bunny would you choose?

Another box another hat

I love this fun design it's a bit box and  a bit bag

It has quite a lot of detail  and fits perfectly with the hat inside and made a special birthday card  for someone's special  summer birthday.

Everyone knows I love daisies and these pretty summer colours just  made this hat shout summer to me but I guess they may shout spring to others . 

The addition of the little be to me was the finishing touch and in case you haven't guessed not only was the card made with love I made it as if I was sending it to me as unless I have a specific remit for a commission the cards I make I make as if I was receiving them if I don't have someone in mind that I would send the card to.

 

Double birthday for London Irish fans

We have friends who are London Irish fans and whose birthdays are days apart so they share their birthday celebrations.

This year was a big birthday for them both had so big celebration.

It was hard to come up with a card  for each of them that was just a bit different and special too. I found this design which is an American football from silhouette design studio. I am reliably informed there is a difference but I was forgiven  for my error.

I made one for each of them and added their name and age on one side of the ball and London Irish a shield on the others.

Both were very impressed and loved them my girlfriend especially as she was expecting something pink and glittery which she absolutely hates and I had been hinting that that's what her card would be,she is not  a girly girl  and is happiest playing rugby or running. Her husband also used to play rugby and is now happier watching it.

I guess one of the biggest complements I received was when I overheard someone asked if the rugby balls I had made were made from cake and how astonished they were when told they were made from card.

 

When your 64

 

A fun number card with random numbers featuring the recipients age,this card was made for a guy simple clean and perfect for a man and it is sure to stand out from commercially printed cards.

Learning something new

I've not watercolour painted really since at school unless you count the murals I painted on my son's bedroom walls as he went through different fads growing up. I watched Hochanda when hubby was away on business and I got the tv remote control and stumbled across Sheena Douglas demonstrating Crafter's companion aquapens and was fascinated by all the different techniques she was using. I bought some after a few days deliberation and when my son asked what I would like for mothers day he bought me another set and the rest as they say is history. I eventually bought some new stamps also demonstrated and here are the start of the results. I'm sure you will see more and become bored of them but they are just so therapeutically relaxing to paint.

This card is pretty clean and simple in design with a white square base card and an orange matt before the image layer.

The image I think could be used for all occasions and both genders too, perfect for a male birthday, good luck cards and even inspiration cards especially with the sentiment that came as part of the set.

I stamped the image with stazon and then used pebeo masking paint over the image. This allowed me to use the aqua pens with some glycerine to use as you would distress inks to create a blended background. Once the background had dried I rubbed off the mask and painted the image using the aquapens and added f clear sparkle pen overlay to add shine to the drum sides. The sentiment I love and on reflection could even be used on an anniversary card too or for anyone who is a little bit individual.

What's Easter without a bonnet

When I saw this design on silhouette design studio I had to have a go at making it and decided it would be the perfect Easter card for my mum. 

I have a thing about boxes and love hats boxes in particular probably as I like the idea of the era of shopping and having hat boxes in your shopping or even like pretty woman one of my favourite films.

The card itself is an easel card so when closed looks like a hat but when open the hat stands on a tilt showing the message or sentiment .

 I do think this is a fun way of sending a message and I loved making it and it set me off to finding other similar designs.

Easter bunny envelope card

 This fun and cute cars  actually folds flat for posting. The design is from silhouette design studio.

A more traditional religious Easter card featuring a cross with the addition of roses. This one the cross is done in metallic silver mirror card but looks just as good when coloured in brown to symbolise wood.