Love of Lego!!

Post 77
Todays card is for a Lego addict!!! His wedding cake was large lego bricks!!!
So even though he's turning 30....lego HAD to be the theme! I had a look around Pinterest for ideas and I came up with this card. The bricks are squares of card stock with circles stuck on , using foams pads for dimension.

The greeting was printed off my computer , then coloured using my promarkers. The background has been put through my Big Shot in the swiss dots embossing folder from provocraft.

And as a finishing touch the lego figure was out of my sons toy box, cash negotiations were necessary!!!!

Hope you like todays card.

Happy crafting.

Clair xxx

A simple gift.

Post 76

Today I've got a little gift to share with you. I bought a bottle of lovelyness for my sister and didn't want to wrap it in the usual way....which always looks dreadful!. So I made the large label for the bottle, then I thought it didn't look like much of a gift so I made a little box and filled it with some tealights.

The base card I used for these was some crafters companion kraft card , I used paper from Craftworks  cards, called 'Correspondence', all the paper was distress around the edges with Vintage photo distress ink. I stamped and punched out some flowers, using the Petite petals stamps and punch from Stampin up. The large label is a sizzix die called 'Sassy labels'. I stamped the greeting, from the 'Through the rain' stamp set by Sheena Douglass, in vintage photo ink, and decorated it with the petite flowers.

The box was made with all the same ingredients. I can't claim the design of the box....this is thanks to Sam at Pootles.co.uk, shes done a fabulous video tutorial on you tube just follow this LINK

The 'Happy birthday' stamp and label punch both came from Stampin up, the stamps are called 'Label Love' and the co ordinating punch is the 'Artisan Punch'.

Hope you like todays project.

Happy crafting.

Please leave a comment, it's much appreciated.

Clair xxx

Another Wedding card !!!!!!

Post 75

Haven't been around much lately...sorry guys, I've had a distinct lack of mojo going on and in turn I couldn't crack on to share this, the last card I made...nearly a month ago!!!.
 Happy days the mojo has returned and the stash is creeping out of the cupboards again. Hope you like this card.

The Wedding was on the 12th, the recipients have their card....I can now share it with you!!

My Aunt, for whom I made the card. Had seen a simple card with a  topiary tree, on Pinterest and asked if I could do something like it!!! Well, I went digging through all dies, and punches ,as I knew my cutting abilities wouldn't stretch to this in a million years. I came up empty. Then I joined Stampin up as a birthday present and the first thing in my basket was this punch and stamp set Petite petals, it was perfect for this cards and many more in the future , I'm sure!!!

I started with a circle to work from, I stamped and embossed quite a few flowers, punched them out and attached them to the circle. This looked nice but it missed something. So I stared again. This time I cut out 2 circles, one slightly smaller than the other, so I could add a little dimension to it.

I printed the names and used the stampin up artisan punch to cut it out.

In the background is paper printed from a Chocolate baroque cd rom I've had ages. The grey tones were perfect for this card. I die cut the edges of the paper and the two matts with the spellbinders borderabilities....bracket borders. This was all matted onto the large base card , but it needed something else. I decided to frame the main part of the card with a grey frame.

The box just had the sentiment stamp Mr & Mrs from stamping ups 'Label love', and more petite petals.

Hope you like todays card.

Happy crafting.

Comments would be appreciated , Thank You.

Clair xxx

Diamond Anniversary

Post 74
Good Afternoon crafty friends out there.
Todays card is quite special, it's for a lady to give a couple to whom she was a bridesmaid.

The base of the card is some beautiful Centura pearl Snow white Silver.

 I started with 3 panels. This was dictated by the fact my little Big Shot only has a width of 6inch, so to emboss all the way across the card would involve cutting the card anyway. The embossing folder I used on the outer panels is 'Tied Together' by Coutour Creations , I think this is my all time favourite embossing folder up to press! The ribbon covers the lines between the 3 panels.

I printed off the sentiment and cut it out using a circle spellbinder die, I then cut a frame using the same die and the next size up. This just looked too plain for such an important celebration card so I cut some fancy accents from my 'Moroccan Accents' spellbinders, and stuck them to the back of the circle. The flowers were intially all going to be cream and white, but I had to put a little purple in there too! All the flowers are from Wild orchid Crafts . The leaves just poking out from the flowers are cut from more centura card using the Spellbinders 'Bitty Blossoms' dies 

The card was finished off with a pile of self adhesive gems, on every cross of the lattice, under the sentiment and on the insert...of course.

Oh... and on the box lid too!! Hee Hee!

Hope you like todays cards.

Any comments are much appreciated.

Happy crafting.

Clair xxx

Happy Birthday

Post 73
Todays card is just a birthday card.
The main image is a stamp from Lili of the valley called 'If friends were flowers'. the image is stamped on some water colour paper then coloured with my Distress markers. I cut the paper down so it would fit into my Scalloped  Tag topper punch from Stampin up. I had to cut the bee and butterfly off but then I restamped them and attached them after the tag was complete.

Both backing papers are from Stampin Up, it's in the clearance section and is from a pack called 'tea for two'

The sentiment is from the stamp set Label Love, again from Stampin up and cut out using the co ordinating punch, 'Artisan punch'

The base of the card is some kraft card. All was finished off with some doodling around the edges, and some twill ribbon around the bottom half of the card.

Hope you like todays card.

Happy crafting.

Clair xxx

10th Birthday

Post 72
Todays card is one for my Mum to give my niece. The image is the beautiful 'Alisa with Roses' from Mos digital pencil. She is coloured with alcohol markers. Then glittered around the edges. The pattered backing paper is from my stash....I've had it that long I've no idea what it's called or where it is from.

In the corners are some flowers punched from the Stampin up,  petite petal punch, inked around the edges then a gem put in the centre.

In the opposite corner is another punched flower from Stampin Up, this is from the itty bitty punches range.

I printed off the greeting on my computer.

Hope you like todays card.

Happy crafting.

Clair xxx

Gift wallets

Post 71
You may have guessed I've got a wedding to go to very soon , I've got one final card to share but I HAVE to leave it until after the wedding!!
In the mean time I thought I'd share these two gift wallets / card holders as these days most couples only want money as a gift.

For both of the wallets I've used Craftwork cards papers, from the 'Correspondence ' collection, I don't think these papers are available on line, I bought them at their factory outlet in Garforth, nr Leeds. 

The base of the wallet is centura peal cardstock. I got full instruction for this wallet from you tube called 'Snow much fun gift card holder'. 

For the wrap I used coredinations card, and for the label I stamped and embossed the 'Just for you' Label from 'Label Love' stamp set from Stampin up, and cut out with the co ordination Artisan punch.

On the video she has one pocket for a greeting and the other for the gift card. Instead I made a mini envelope with the Envelope Punch board which fits perfectly in the pocket and is ideal to hold a cheque or cash. I used the artisan punch again to make tabs on the top of the envelope and card.

Inside you can just see the two pockets, made from an envelope.

The second holder is made using the envelope punch board, again thanks to you tube 'Envelope punch board gift card holder. I used some twill ribbon across the top, and the tag is from Stampinup's 'Label Something' stamp set.

The stamp inside is also from the 'Label something' stamp set.

Hope you liked todays projects.

happy crafting.

Clair xxx