Happy Birthday Riley

My best friend's little boy Riley turned 2 a few weeks ago. He is a very special little boy and since we share a birthday, I had to make sure he got a very special card. They had his party at the Train shed and all the kids got to ride the Thomas the Tank Engine trains. Unfortunately his party was on during convention so I couldn't go, but Jess and Sam went and had a ball. When I found out what they were doing for his party, it didn't take long for me to decide what I wanted to do for his card. This is what I came up with. I used the Choo Choo stamp set and the people from All in the Family. The presents are from the Loads of Love Accessories stamp set. I was unsure of what colours to use, but Jess suggested tempting turquoise as it is the same colour as Thomas.

I started by using the track roller wheel and then sponged some kiwi kiss and bashful blue lightly over it to make it look like a field. I stamped the people and presents on scrap card then coloured them with my blender pens and inks and cut them out. I mounted them with dimensionals. Here is a close up of "Jess" and the presents.

I wrote Riley's name in white gel pen in the smoke to personalise the card. Here is a close up of "Sam" and the smoke. I was really happy with how it turned out and Belinda loved it.

Thanks for stopping by. Til next time.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Supplies:

Stamps: Choo Choo, All in the Family, Loads of Love Accessories, It's Your Birthday, Track roller wheel
Card: Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White, Basic Black
Ink: Black Stazon, Kiwi Kiss, Bashful Blue, Tempting Turquoise, Riding Hood Red, Basic Grey

Other: Stampin dimensionals

Happy Birthday Kylie

My very good friend Kylie had her birthday last Friday, and this is the card I made for her. When I asked her what she liked, she said anything pink with plenty of bling! I chose the sweet always dsp (my all-time favourite paper pack) and based the colour scheme of regal rose and pumpkin pie on that.

I had just received the new level 2 hostess stamp set, Asian Artistry in the mail, so I thought it would be a great opportunity to have a play with it. I think it is a fabulous stamp set, with some very versatile images, that could be used for a number of different occassions.


I started the card by stamping the image with stazon and then colouring with my blender pen and the pink pirouette, regal rose and pumpkin pie inkpads. I coloured the leaves with kiwi kiss. It looked nice, but a little flat for my liking, so I decided to stamp it again and use dimensionals to paper piece the large flower.

As the image was more oval than round, I used my oval nestabilities to cut out the image and the mats. I used two different pieces of the sweet always paper, one of which I used the eyelet border punch on, to give it a nice finish. I covered the join in the papers with a piece of pumpkin pie ribbon and added three pearls from the pretties kit in the top left hand corner.

On the inside I stamped a couple of sentiments from the retired It's Your Birthday stamp set and then placed another strip of dsp along the bottom, which I matted with more regal rose card.

Once the card was finished, I decided there wasn't enough bling on it, and what better way to add bling than to add some dazzling diamonds over the top of all the flowers. I did this by applying some tombow glue and just sprinkling the dazzling diamonds over the top. I just love the tombow glue, once you put it on, nothing comes off it. Here is a close up of the flowers.

I was very pleased with the end result, a nice girly card with plenty of bling!

If you would like to have this fabulous stamp set in your collection, all you need to do is host a workshop in your own home, or have a catalogue party and it could be yours.

Til next time.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Supplies:

Stamp sets: Asian Artistry, It's Your Birthday

Ink: Stazon, Pink Pirouette, Regal Rose, Pumpkin Pie, Kiwi Kiss

Card: Confetti White, Regal Rose, Pumpkin Pie

DSP: Sweet Always

Other: Stampin' dimensionals, eyelet border punch, oval and scallop oval nestabilities, pumpkin pie 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, dazzling diamonds, tombow multi liquid glue, pearls from pretties kit.

Cheers to you

This is the card I made for my brother-in-law's 40th birthday this week. It was a no-brainer as to what stamp set to use - Mark loves beer - well most males do!

I had a quick flick though my papers looking for something that had a yellow/cream in it about the colour of beer and came up with this one from the windsor knot paper pack.

I used chocolate chip for the card base (I am going to challenge myself not to use chocolate chip on my next card, as I seem to use it on just about every card I make!).

I put the paper on the base and then did a strip of sage shadow with chocolate chip on top. I ran a piece of vanilla taffeta ribbon around the block and placed one of the large cream grommets over the top of the ribbon and tied in a knot in the centre of it. I stamped 8 of the beer mugs onto some whisper white card and coloured them in with my blender pens and so saffron and more mustard ink. I then cut them all out and mounted 7 of them onto the block with some dimensionals. I stamped the sentiment (using my stamp-a-ma-jig) in chocolate chip ink, stamped it out with the large oval punch and then cut it off just under the sentiment, before adhering it to the card front.

Here is a close up of the beer mugs.

I finished off the inside of the card too. I was doing this a lot last year, but I guess have just been a bit lazy lately, so haven't been doing it so much.

This is the inside. I just stamped "happy 40th birthday" across the middle, with my stamp-a-ma-jig for perfect placement, did a strip of card and dsp along the bottom and adhered the last beer mug with a dimensional.

I hope Mark likes it.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Supplies:

Stamp Sets: Cheers to You, It's your birthday(R), unknown numerical

Ink: Black stazon, more mustard, so saffron

Card: Whisper white, chocolate Chip, sage shadow

DSP: Windsor knot

Accessories: Vanilla large grommit(R), vanilla taffeta ribbon, stampin' dimensionals, blender pens, large oval punch, stamp-a-ma-jig

Happy Birthday Jess

Well it is Jess' 6th birthday today and there is so much excitement in our house. We are off to the Easter Show for the day, so fingers crossed it doesn't rain.

I ordered the Pony Party stamp set to make Jess' card and then realised last weekend that it wasn't going to be here in time, so after making a couple of phone calls I managed to borrow one from Christie (thank you so much Christie).

I had so much fun making this card, the stamp set is a fabulous one for little girls' cards, especially if you like paper piecing and colouring as much as me!

I had Jess pick her favourite dsp, so I had a starting point. I stamped the image twice in stazon ink and coloured it with my blender pen, then paper pieced it so it had lots of dimension. I did lots of layering and finished the card off with a faux bow (the instructions for which came from the ultra talented Teneale Williams). I used lots of two way glue and dazzling diamonds to give the card some "bling".

This is the inside. And a close up of the pony.
Just a short post today as the kids are itching to get going. Hope you all have a fabulous day.

Til next time.

Keep on Creating.

xx Nicky

Supplies:
Stamp Sets: Pony Party, It's Your Birthday(R)
Ink: Black Stazon, Pirouette Pink, Riding Hood Red
Card: Whisper White, Riding Hood Red, Pirouette Pink
DSP: Bella Rose
Accessories: Eyelet border punch, stampin' dimensionals, riding hood red taffeta ribbon, sherbet button(R), two way glue, dazzling diamonds, blender pens

My baby boy is 4

Well it has been a long time between posts. We have had school holidays for the past two weeks and with being away and having the kids around, unfortunately blogging has taken a back seat. I have still managed to fit in lots of card making though, so I have a lot to share over the next few weeks.

My baby boy Sam turned 4 years old yesterday, it doesn't seem that long ago since he was a baby. We have had 5 days of birthday celebrations for him with various friends and family members, so he has been pretty spoiled. He asked me to make him a construction cake for daycare on Wednesday, and this is the cake I made him.It has some matchbox construction vehicles and a whole lot of crunchie rubble all over it, with tiny teddy biscuits scattered around as workers. Everyone at daycare loved it - except the poor teachers who had to clean up the mess after the kids had eaten it!

Sam has been monster truck mad for a while now, so I decided to try and make him a monster truck birthday card. This is what I came up with ...

I used the ute from loads of love and coloured it the same as one of his favourite trucks, Sudden Impact. I used the wheels from the truck in my by land stamp set and then added some extra bars down to them and on the tray of the ute. I stamped the sentiment and cut it out with my new star punch.

I decorated the inside like this...

He was so excited that I had made him a monster truck card, and I was very excited when he actually recognised that it was supposed to be Sudden Impact! Obviously my drawing skills aren't as bad as I thought they were!

I have a birthday card for one of Jess' friends to share with you next time, but until then...

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Supplies:

Stamps: Loads of love, by land (r), it's your birthday(r)

Ink: Black stazon, yoyo yellow, only orange, real red, basic gray

Card: Brilliant blue, only orange, whisper white

Accessories: Large star punch, stampin' dimensionals, blender pen, cuttlebug texture folder

Flight of the butterfly #2

Hi all. Time for another flight of the butterfly card as promised. This was the first card I did for Sam's friend, but once it was finished I wasn't sure if the colours were right for a 4 year old, so I ended up doing the one in my last post. Jess has a friend who is having a birthday in October, so I thought we could give this one to her - which also means one less thing for me to have to do in the next couple of weeks.

For this card I started off by choosing the raspberry tart dsp and then used colours from the paper for the card. The base card is cameo coral. I placed a block of the raspberry tart dsp along the bottom of the card and then covered the join with a strip of real red card, which I paper pierced along both sides. I then added some old olive ribbon.

I stamped the butterflies in cameo coral, and used real red to place the flowers over the bottom one, with the help of my stamp-a-majig. I then stamped the small butterfly on a scrap of paper and cut it out, then mounted it over the large butterfly with some stampin' dimensionals to lift the wings up. Lastly, I added the sentiment, again with the help of my stamp-a-majig.

For the inside of the card, I cut a piece of white card and then stamped the outline butterfly randomly over it in cameo coral ink. I then stamped the happy birthday sentiment in real red ink.

If you would like to purchase any of the supplies I used to make this card, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Supplies:

Stamps: Flight of the butterfly, it's your birthday

Ink: Cameo coral, real red

Card: Cameo coral, real red, whisper white

DSP: Raspberry tart

Accessories: old olive 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, stampin' dimensionals, stamp-a-ma-jig

Hi all, we are having a bit of a run on birthdays this week. The card I have to show you today is one I made for David's Auntie's 60th birthday.I knew I wanted to use the Eastern Blooms stamp set, but wasn't sure what colour scheme to use. An easy way to decide on a colour scheme is to look at the colours used in our designer series paper sets. I had a look through my papers and decided on this paper out of the Washington Apple dsp.

I started off by making a card base out of so saffron card, which I stamped with the En Francais background stamp with so saffron ink. I inked the flower image with my so saffron and pumpkin pie markers, which allowed me to make the image multi coloured. It looked nice but I thought it needed something extra to make it a bit more special. I remembered I had a pack of flower fusion felt flowers that hadn't been opened yet, so I used a few pumpkin pie felt flowers, which I adhered with white brads.
Next I stamped the happy birthday sentiment from the Think Happy Thoughts stamp set with pumpkin pie ink. I punched it out with the 1 1/4" punch. I like to personalise my cards a little, so I used an old number set I have had sitting in my drawer and stamped 60 with riding hood red ink. I then cut it out and mounted it with stampin dimensionals. I also punched out a 1 3/8" circle from so saffron card and the scallop circle from pumpkin pie card and layered them all together.

This card is all about the layering, so I mounted the main stamped image and the dsp onto pumpkin pie card before attaching them to the card front with stampin dimensionals. A piece of riding hood red ribbon was used to finish the card off.

I like to do an insert for the inside of my cards, the one I made for this one is really simple. I just cut a piece of white card to fit the inside, then stamped Happy Birthday (from the retired It's Your Birthday stamp set). I inked the three flowers from the Eastern Blooms set with pumpkin pie ink and then blended it with a little riding hood red with a sponge dauber and stamped them onto a scrap of whisper white card. I attached them to the bottom right hand side with stampin dimensionals.

I hope you like it.

Sam and I are off to a 4th birthday party this morning, so I will have that card to show you next time.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Supplies:

Stamp sets: En Francais, Eastern Blooms, Think Happy Thoughts, It's Your Birthday (retired), unknown number set
Ink: Pumpkin pie, so saffron, riding hood red
Card: So saffron, pumpkin pie, whisper white
DSP: Washington Apple
Accessories: Flower fusion, 5/8" striped grosgrain ribbon, scallop circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, stampin dimensionals, sponge dauber, scissors, markers, white brads