Cards Gifted to a Friend

A wonderful friend will be 90 years young next Monday and I've been racking my brain trying to decide what to get her as a gift.  I'm sure she will receive lots of flowers, plants, chocolates and the odd bottle of wine when a group of us go out for Afternoon Tea with her next week.  I pop in to visit her regularly and any cards I send her, she displays for weeks and sometimes months, so I thought I'd make her a selection of birthday cards she can send to friends, together with a book of postage stamps.  Here are the cards I made, all designed to send with a regular stamp.

 

 

I'm sharing the last card in a few challenges.  The Happy Birthday is a preloved Poppystamps 'Happy Birthday Channel' die I bought ages ago.  I'd forgotten I had it until I was looking through my dies for a different one, so I used it for the first time on this card.  The orange paper and patterned paper was from my snippets drawer, in fact everything on all these cards, apart from the card blanks was snippets.   The flower was made with Creative Expressions 'Daisy Blossoms' dies.

I am joining in the following challenges:

 Snippets Playground Challenge #542 ~ Use Snippets

NBUS October Challenge #91 ~ Never-Before-Used-Schtuff

A Cut Above October Challenge ~ Use Die Cuts

 Neglected Stuff October Challenge ~ Happy Birthday die

Crafty Calendar Challenge ~ Autumn/Halloween

Oops!  This post should have been scheduled for yesterday, so I'm a day late.  Wishing you all a belated Happy World Card Making Day, hope you managed to find some time to craft yesterday.  I spent all day with a group of crafty friends making cards.

The theme for the October Crafty Calendar Challenge is 'Autumn/Halloween'.  I decided to go with the Autumn option for my DT card.

All the stamps are from Lavinia.  I stamped the wreath using all three stamps from the 'Oak Leaves' set, using a Memento 'Rich Cocoa' ink pad.  The sentiment is one of the 'Heartfelt Verses' set of stamps.  I used two dies from the Sue Wilson 'Double Pierced Circles' set for the image and mat.  A stamp from the 'Acorns' set was stamped in each corner.  All the leaves and acorns were coloured with Promarkers.

The Crafty Calendar Challenge ends on 28th October.  Please hop over to the challenge blog to see the beautiful creations the DT have made for inspiration.

I am joining in the following challenges:

Krafty Chicks Challenge #840 ~ Birthday

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #280 ~ Anything Goes w/optional twist - Fall Foliage

Little Red Wagon Challenge #878~ Autumn Colours

Try It On Tuesday ~ Autumn's Beauty

We Love Stamping October Challenge ~ Shades of Autumn

Sweet Stamping Challenge ~ Autumn 

New Baby

Two cards to share today, now that I know they have been received.

The first card is for new parents who recently welcomed their first child, a beautiful daughter.  The Mum was a pupil in my class many years ago when she was a shy four year old.

I used dies from the Sue Wilson 'Shadow Box - New Arrivals' and 'New Arrivals - Stuffed Animals' sets.  The pink and silver card is pearlised.  I bought the dies about 10 years ago and its been a few years since I used them, so I'll be sharing my card over in the Neglected Stuff Challenge.

I am joining in the following challenges:

A Cut Above September Challenge ~ Anything Goes With A Die Cut

Neglected Stuff September Challenge

The great grandparents have been friends of ours for about 40 years, so I made a card for them too.

I made Hexagon Floating Card, the same fold as the card in my previous post.  It's so easy to make and one of my current favourite folds.  The patterned papers are from Limetree Craft.  I used punches for the circles and hearts.

The card folds flat for posting.

I am joining in the following challenges:

Dragonfly Dreams September Challenge ~ Monochromatic

Creative Creases Challenge #119 ~ Use a Fancy Fold

Try It On Tuesday Challenge ~ Pretty Papers

Everybody Art Challenge #66 ~ Pink

Allsorts Challenge ~ Autumn

It's time for a new Allsorts Challenge and Christine has chosen the theme of 'Anything Autumn'.  I made a Hexagon Floating Card, after watching Paul Ford's video HERE.  I adjusted the measurements slightly to make the middle front panel and little wider.

Someone kindly gave me a part used 8" x 8" paper/topper pad, which included this beautiful piece of patterned paper.  With the leaves in shades of brown, red, orange and shiny gold, it was perfect for an Autumn themed card.  The rich red plain card matched it perfectly.  Behind the middle panel is a strip of strong acetate.  The sentiment is from the Stampin' Up 'Magnolia Blooms' set, stamped with Stampin' Up 'Cherry Cobbler'.  The sentiment circle and mat were punched and attached to the acetate to give the impression that it's 'floating'.

The card folds flat for posting.

There are two prizes of Penny Black stamps, stencil and stickers from Buddly Crafts for the lucky randomly drawn winners. 

I am joining in the following challenges:

Creative Creases Challenge #119 ~ Use a Fancy Fold

Crafty Gals Challenge #280 ~ Anything Goes w/optional twist - Fall Foliage

We Love Stamping September Challenge ~ Include Stamping (sentiment)

Love Those Pretty Papers September Challenge

AAA Birthday Game #89 ~ Use Patterned Paper