40 Years of Marriage.......

Was asked to make a 40th Anniversary quick card for a Pastor and his wife, put all the components for this card together with the help of 1 of the My Craft Studio CD range.

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To Leave or not To leave???

Young lady at the Skils centre that I'm obliged to attend 2 days a week to surf the net for jobs, when I can find a free computer to use and I also trawl through the daily newspapers for job adverts as well. The less said about these so called Skils centres the better!!! A new firm has taken over the contract and Ms Kellie is not sure whether she is leaving or staying, when I spoke to her on Thursday 24th Sept she was leaving hence the making of the card; when I saw her on Friday 25th Sept she was unsure whether she would be in her post or not with the new employer........The butterfly part of the Template was designed by a UKS forum member named 2magpies.

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A little behind with postings.....

I have to admit to a little slowness in updating these entries lately, have been busy designing some templates that are only half done; also learning how to use the fantastic free Inkscape programme to make SVG files that are easier to cut on my Silhouette Digital craft cutter. Here are a few cards I have made recently.

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Another Paulo template.....

I have to admit that I'm loving these designs that this young man Paulo is sharing so freely, and he had only recently posted the design on his blog; so once again here is my example..............

What a difference the right backing sheet can make to show off the wonderful template design. Thank You Paulo for sharing so freely.

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Heart of the Tree....

Found this wonderful Blog offering SVG files for inspiration, and the Young man from Brazil has some wicked files on offer and this is my version of his design he calls Treetrunk......

And as usual my favorite paper media are Pearlescent paper and card, and the Heart shape is cut from Red Mirri card; scanner is not good at capturing Mirri paper or card......

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Silhouette Cutting....

In between making cards, I have been putting my Silhouette baby through its paces with some newly purchased QK templates; you would have to own a digital cutter that uses the GSD file format to use these templates. There are definitely some talented designers on the QK Silhouette template design team, here is a small selection of those designs using my favourite media at the moment...Black Mirri paper, Bronze Pearlescent Paper and card with adhesive Glitter and Holographic sheets for added bling..

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Happy Fiftieth Earthday......

I love using the Arty Farty range of templates, so was glad to make a Champagne Bottle card, materials used was Foiled metallic paper and card for bottle top and bottle body, foam sheets for 3d effect on bottle labels, peeloffs for added embellishments and then all layered on a Gold Double sided Pearlescent card. Inside verse was printed on Ivory Pearlescent paper and adhered to silver mirri card. I also made a card bag from 1 sheet of 12 x 12 patterned paper with a silver mirri card border edging to the rim of the bag for added strength.

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Sweet Sixteen...

Was asked to make a Photo card for a Young Lady who was reaching the magic age of Sixteen, again was supplied with a multitude of photos to choose from and made a photo college using Googles free Picasa Photo software. As I had been given instructions about the wording for the front, I printed the wording on Ivory Pearlescent paper and made a frame from Patterned MIrri card. I then designed and cut three 3d frames to house the verse and 2 picture colleges....WOW..which in turn was connected together with a scored strip of card to give a ribbed effect. Good thing this wasn't to be posted!!!!

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60 Years Young...

My Friend Bev asked me to make a 60th Birthday Card for 1 of her Church Sisters, she did supply a multitude of photos for me to make a selection to do a college using Googles free Picasa photo programme. I like to use Glossy Photographic paper for printing, which was attached to Gold Mirri card and layered onto Gold Pearlescent Card. Because a lot of the Church Sisters would be signing the card I had to make the card into a thin book, that was secured by strong adhesive and eyelets threaded with ribbon for simple decoration. The lettering was cut from White adhesive Pearlescent paper.

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17 years of Marriage onwards......

Bev A also asked me to make a card for her husband Kenny to celebrate their 17 years of marriage so far, she mentioned Marriage Vows so came up with a display card. I used Blue Foil card layered with Gold Mirri Card and Gold Hearts as a shelf for the other sentiment display cards.

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A walk on the beach......

Bev A asked me to make a birthday card for her Mum's birthday, using a photo from 1 of their holidays. Picture printed on 170gsm glossy photo paper then decoupaged using Inkjet transparency film on top of photo. Finished photo was layered on Gold Mirri card and attached to Lilac Gold Flaked card, image for Cala Lily is no longer available by the designer. I did a Print and Cut on my Silhouette and attached to Gold Mirri card. Also printed Cala Lily image onto envelope.

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Shoes, Shoes, Shoessssss.........

I was asked to make a Birthday Card for a young lady who loves shoes, I ended up making a sort of display card made from 130gsm Red & Gold spotted foil card layered on top of 200gsm Gold Shimmer card, pictures printed on glossy 170gsm photo paper layered on Red Mirri card. Lettering and flip flops cut on Silhouette.

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Happy 9th Birthday Aaron....

My Friend Muz asked me to make a card for her friends son Aaron, she E-Mailed me on Tuesday to say I have a picture on my mobile of Aaron that I want you to put on the card for Saturday; of course I said send the picture.............

Later on I E-mailed her and said 'Where's the picture?', 'I haven't got my mobile with me, I'll send it to you this evening'. Something prompted me to ask what his interest were, she said Racing Bikes & Racing Cars.

On Friday Muz got back in touch with me to say, can you just make the card please without the picture and I'll collect on Saturday...I must stop strangling my friends in my imagination..

So I chose a picture of Lewis Hamilton and a picture of Valentino Rossi, printed 2 glossy photos of each picture and 1 acetate print for decoupaging. I decided to make him a double card so that he can choose which side of the card he wants to display.

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Ok now for the second card for Bev's Mum.....

This is the Card I made for Lovely Lady Bev for her Mum as requested. This card was a NO NO we both agreed it looked a bit tacky. So a second card was made, No it looks like an Easter Egg said her friend. Sanity flown out the window, now had half a day to do new card and the brief was keep the Pink Roses; keep the style of lettering but in silver on a white Linen look card that I had used before.

So I Googled Pink Roses picture came up with Roses in glass vase, so printed 1 image on glossy photo paper, then printed same image on inkjet acetate sheet and decoupaged it to look 3D; did the same effect for inside card verse the same as Easter Egg card. On the back of the card another decoupaged vase of the Pink Roses only smaller.

She absolutely LOVED IT, and my sanity was restored.......

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I need 2 cards for my Mum said Bev.........

Lovely lady Bev asked me to make 2 cards for her Mum's Birthday, 1 from Mum's Husband and the other from herself; instructions were not Brown,Black or Green card.......'Easy' I thought to myself.

WRONG......

I showed lovely lady Bev the first Fan card I had made for her Mum's Husband, she said 'No I don't like the colour' it was only half finished, so I made a second Fan card. YES!!! Bev said I Like it. So I removed my imaginary hands from round her neck....

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R.I.P....

Rest in Peace Michael Jackson 2:26pm Thursday 25th June 2009 USA 50 years old.

Playing with some Vector images....

Downloaded some Royalty Free Vector Files called shopping Girls, when I find the link I will post; but for now I used my favorite mediums again. Black Mirri Paper, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder, Metallic Paper, Patterned Transparency film, my fast depleting chocolate shimmer paper and glitter paper.

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Marbles...

This birthday card was for a 9 year old Marble Enthusiast....so went Googling and found multiple marble picture here, and big marble picture at Madmanmarbles (click on link) and the card above is the result.

I used Tesco's Glossy Finish 170gsm Photo paper, decoupaged big marble picture using Transparency Film and also put another big marble picture on back of card(which I forgot to scan!!)

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Hope......

This Birthday card was to inspire a young man on the new direction that he had decided to take and to say 'Anything is possible, follow your Dreams'.......

Print was from Gvartwork (blog no longer exists) The card above is the result of using the print. The decoupage on the card inside speaks for itself.....

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My Own Advice...

I've been told on many occasions that I'm good with the advice, shame that sometimes I don't listen to it myself....Was asked to make another couple of Women cards, my instructions were to make a 30th Birthday card similar to a previous silver and black version; and the second card was to be exactly the same as the silver version just a different name. Did I do what I was asked.....1 card was accepted the other rejected because of my hard ears, so I had to do another silver version as instructed in the beginning.

As usual used The Cuttlebug Swiss dots folder, Blk Mirri paper, Gold Glittered adhesive vinyl. The Digital Cutting Template was a combination from UKScrappers membership is required for free site access (click on link.)

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