Fire Engine Card

I seem to be hooked on stepper cards at the moment! I miss making birthday cards for all the children who were in my Reception class, so it's always lovely to spend a bit more time on cards for the children I make cards for now.  Leo is having a 'Fire Engine' party next weekend, so after digging out a fire-engine stamp I had in my collection, I got to work making a special card for him. 



Lavinia Stamps Challenge 3 # Pastel Colours

We've just returned from a lovely week in the Lake District with friends.  After trying to explain to Mike how to make a stepper card while we were away, I thought I'd make one for him and Gill to thank them for organising a great holiday.  Trying to get some inspiration for the Lavinia Challenge this month, 'Pastel Colours', I decided to make a stepper card using pastel colours.  This was certainly a challenge for me and was not as easy as I thought it would be.  Usually I use the lovely Lavinia stamps with fairly bright colours.  My card will be winging its way to you tomorrow, Mike and Gill!

 

You can see all the lovely Lavinia Stamps Challenge entries here

Alan's Birthday Card

Alan's birthday is coming up, so I decided to make his card today.  Bristol Rovers are his favourite football team, so I usually make his card in blue and white, often with a football theme.  Their nickname are 'The Pirates' and they wear blue and white quartered shirts, so that's why the little owl pirate is wearing blue and white quarters.

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Cut-Emboss-Ink Competition

I made this card for the Cut-Emboss-Ink competition on the Fiskarettes website.  I decided to make a card for a young lady who will be eight years old soon.  My aim was to create a card which was girlie (she loves pink!), but not too childish. 

I embossed the black background card with a small dot design to give it texture.  The pink and green background behind the silhouette was done using Adirondack inks, which I applied with Ink Dusters, on a die-cut shape.  I used a black Versafine ink pad to stamp the silhouette.  As I wanted the letters and the flowers to match the colours on the fairy picture, I inked a sheet of card using the pink ink pad and Ink Dusters. (The pink is actually a bit brighter than it appears in the photo.) I then used this to die-cut the letters and punch out the flowers.  Finally, the card was embellished with tiny white pearls in the centre of the flowers and green and white brads.

The measurements I used for scoring the right-hand side of the A4 card were, from the bottom of the card:

2½cm, 5cm, 10cms, 15cm, 22½cm

The left-hand side was scored at 15cm.

I used a craft knife to cut a line from the 2½cm score line to the 22½cm score line.