A bit of real life? Amazing Fact: hearing aids don't actually work by sitting in their box by the bed ...
Whimsy Stamps stamp is coloured with Copics with detail, fussy cut, popped up on foam tape. The EF background is a magazine freebee, a large square EF cut down to size.
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We have an elderly friend in his eighties who is always making furniture for his demanding children and grandchildren. It's his birthday soon so I thought I'd acknowledge his role as carpenter extraordinaire. I really enjoy making these personalised cards for people I know will enjoy them.
The image is a QKR digital coloured with Copics and fussy cut; popped up on foam tape. Background is a Sizzix EF with texture and screws, spritzed with several layers of Distress Ink Sprays, rubbed over the screws with brown DI, and coated them with Ranger Glossy Accents. The Kraft board with the sentiment is embossed with Sizzix woodgrain, edge border smoothed with bone folder in scoring board and screwed using silver dots with a line through. A couple of tool charm diecuts from dieNamics stuffed into his toolkit. White pen highlights.
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I chose to use some cool cats by Anita Jeram/Colorado Stamps, coloured with Copics on a diecut panel set wonky. Mesh net on a pink base card and a sentiment casually stapled on. The sentiment from the same stamp set, is stamped onto a diecut ticket coloured/dabbed with Ranger Spun Sugar Distress Inks, stapled on with some cool blue staples I found somewhere years ago. The icecreams also have Stickles for sparkle, and a few gems.... Ranger Stickles on the icecreams, gems added in the corner.
At Pokeno, NZ we have icecream shops that are famous for giving giant icecreams in so many flavours - I made these flavours chocolate chip, raspberry sorbet, and neapolitan with a flake bar.
Babies arriving are a great reason to celebrate.
Here I used a Cuttlebug Embossing Folder on pale blue-green pearlescent card for the background panel. The diecut bootee (Marianne 'eline sock') is pieced, then ribbon threaded through and pearls added. The Hero Arts sentiment is silver embossed.
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I go through stages of re-discovering stash I haven't used in a while, getting inspired by it and trying to use it. That's how this one happened.
Here I started with a rich dark green border frame diecut I had in the Bitz Box on my desk (stuff that gets done for some reason, discarded and thrown in the Bitz Box for another day). Sometimes it's a long time until that day comes. I cut a shadow for the greeting from the same card, and the words from gold mirror card. The leafy patterned paper was sitting handy too and they just went together so nicely. The whole panel got wrapped up with lighter green cord and gold pearls added. I love gold pearls.
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The background is stencilled with DI's, some stickles here and there on the sun rays. Stamped image (Stampin'Up) and sentiment, matted onto black.
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I have an affinity with bees, gotten as a child from my granddad who was a beekeeper. He used to tell stories about the bees, and lectured about bees at the local Agricultural College. They are so importaant to human survival. For a great read, find the novel: "Remember Me" by Charity Norman to see how amazing they are.
The background is smooshed DI's misted with perfect pearls. The sentiment stamp is a magazine freebee gold embossed. The panel is diecut and matted onto copper metallic card. A dot of Ranger Stickles on the layered diecut bee, popped up on dimensional foam.
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Soft yellow panel embossed. Sunflower stamped onto a scrap of ink smooshed card and fussy cut with a bit of Copic marker shadow colouring, gold metallic pen stamen dots. The sentiment is matted onto black card to show up the sentiment. A diecut bee with vellum wings ( from my BitzBox) visiting the flower.
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One of our grandchildren is away to university this week. I made this CAS card for her.
The image stamp is a magazine freebie from Practical Publishing - a bunch of wonderful peanuts images. I cut a mask for around the image and coloured the background with brushes and DI's in blues & greens. The hearts have Stickles sparkles.
She is well organised and has lots of stuff to take with her. I made a bag of goodies to go, including a small first aid kit, playing cards etc. and cuddly crochet throw, Ian had made some wood turned pendants and she chose one of those to take with her. So, something handmade from nonna & poppa.
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Things got a bit fishy around here.
The aqua coloured panel is smooshed with several colours of DI's and misted with Perfect Pearls, then given embossing that looks like fish scales; the sentiment (Acid Drops & Whatnots) stamped & diecut and misted as well. The fish are diecut from a Daphne's Diary paper, assembled using snippets of coordinating shaded card for heads and tails. Put onto a black base card to make the colours pop.
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The panel and additional flower is made by smooshing JuiseyArt inks and Distress Inks, allowing to dry and stamping over; Copics are used to add shadows to flower. I fussy cut the flower and used 3Dfoam to pop it up. The centre is highlighted in gold pen and the berries & acorns in white gel pen. Sentiment embossed and gold cord tied around. Matted onto lemon textured card, then onto black base card.
When I was finished I thought maybe I should have done gold embossing to go with the gold cord, and could have easily put another on top with gold embossing. I decided not to as I like the not-matchy-matchy thing, and think it adds a bit of zing and I like unpredictable!
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A pretty bold paper, and in colours I would not normally choose. So I let the paper do the talking and made the stacked sentiment bold too, in pewter metallic. The paper has some textured parts, not exactly glittery, more gel-like.
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