Commission Card...Baby Vinnie x

This card is a commission, made to welcome a very special baby into the world and to congratulate his Mum and Dad on his arrival. The lady who requested the card tells me they have had a very long hard journey and many tears to get him here, their story reminds me of just how much we all take for granted every day !!

 xhugsx 

I have used my faithful Cricut and Sampler Cartridge to make this card, using Me to You backing papers, gorgeous blue lace and lots of gems. 

I used Faded Jeans distress ink for definition...

...and Papermania letters and peel off numbers, on a spellbinders die cut oval, for the most important part topped off with a triple bow!!

I am entering Vinnie's card into the following challenges: 

Allsorts "Ice Cream Colours"

The Paper Shelter "Anything Goes"

Fussy and Fancy "Boy Attitude

"Try it on Tuesday "Anything Goes"
The sponsor for this Challenge is:

For Lisa x

This is a card commissioned by the lads in our local pub's dart team so plenty of space for all those signatures needed here!! Bless them they have hearts of  gold for all their testosterone fuelled, beer drinking, blarney !! (Joking boys !! xox)

I've used another of the fabulous Papermania Foldies 6"x6" square cards as the are great for "collection" cards. 

I've used a combination of Papermania Lincoln Linen papers and the pretty bits from its collection and printed sheets of thin printer card and glossy paper with coordinating yellow papers from the Capsule Collection DVD.

From the back

From the front

 I like to make these cards in stages as it would be quite easy to get lost in the 10 sides and make a mess lol!!

So I first spent time time using the Cricut Elegant Edges Cartridge to cut the background papers.

I printed some of the Urban Stamps from the DVD and die cut some with Spellbinder label dies and hand cut some of the little shapes. I kept them black to add some definition and distress inked every single edge.

Spellbinder and Marianne D roses as ever .....

This flower is made from a used, inked, tumble dryer sheet

....and some embossing.

I completed all of the card before embellishing with lots of gems, flowers, tiny bows and a little bit of ribbon.

From this .....

...To this.

Congratulations x

My hairdresser Kirsty has just had a beautiful baby boy....he is absolutely gorgeous I met him this morning !! Oh he's soooo very very cute !!

Here is the card I made for her to celebrate his birth.

 I used a spellbinder die for the name plaque and made the rattles from the Cricut Sampler Cartridge. I  kept it clean and simple, matting and layering the co-ordinating Me to You papers with a piece of Papermania.textured card.  I added pretty ribbons and lace and some capsule collection gems .

I love the 'itty bitty little feet but cannot remember where they came from :-( 

xHugsx

Happy Birthday Shane x

Not only am I blessed with two beautiful daughters I also have a fabulous "nearly" son in law.

He bought me chocolates on the May bank holiday to make up for the fact that I was working with a lovely message attached .....oooooh he nearly made me cry it was so thoughtful 

Here are the cards I have made this evening for his birthday on Sunday

I have used a Kanban Steampunk topper and 2 pieces of co-ordinating card stock with some ribbon to hide the join for this card. The back ground to the sentiment is a perfectly matching spellbinder die. I have embossed   6 Tim Holtz Sizzix cogs with fran-tage vintage gold embossing enamel and added 2 strips of extra sticky tape also embossed for added interest.

The second card was a much quicker make, using my Cricut I cut his name twice using the Wild card cartridge and shadowed the letters. I have used "happy Birthday" backing paper with 2 strips of glitter card stuck them together and hey presto job's a good 'un with a few well placed nail heads to finish.

Picture will follow tomorrow my phone is refusing to upload the pic's lol must be telling me its bed time

Sweet dreams x x