Grace's 1st Birthday

I was asked to make a pink sparkly, girly teddy bear card for a 1st birthday
I printed the greeting straight onto the card used the bigshot for the name and the butterfly the two teddies and pink skeleton leaves where from my craft box.

Tam the Terror

I was asked to make this card for a friends nephew and the greeting is a private joke in the family as he was a little terror and destroyed everything in his path (Cousins Drumkits etc)

I embossed the greeting with the printer and used a Rob Adamms CD for the Teddy and Big shot for the 30s

Gift for a New Born

Gifts for New born Babies based on the Arty Farty templates this has been designed on DM and cut out with the Robo.
A decoupaged baby placed in the crib and decorated with ribbon, lace, etc

Xmas Branch

Embossing folder, ribbon. stickles and fibers are what I used to make this card

Winter Scene

This I designed using My Craft Studio it is three seperate pictures layered together and tinted and text added

Diamond Anniversary

I Diamond Anniversary designed on DM and cut on Robo
The Floral Bouquet from my floristry skills. the greeting tags printed on the pc in co-ordinating colours

Never ending card folds

Here is an illustration of the never ending card as the flaps keep folding back. It would be good for children to make or receive as it has a magical and tactile quality.
I have just decorated this quickly for illustration purpose

Never Ending card Tutorial

1. You will need 4 pieces of paper 16cm x 8cm score each piece the same half way (4cm) vertically and 4cm from top and bottom
2. Butt two of the pieces together keeping them vertical as per 2nd diagram and add glue or tape to each of the corners as per 3rd diagram
   

1. stick the second two pieces across Horizontally as per diagram 4
2. Then fold flaps back creasing edges with a bone folder
   
   

Footy Star

Footy card I stamped the background added a football ribbon and a decoupage football star.

I printed the greeting onto a banner in mycraft studio

HSM Birthday

I was asked to make a HSM Card for a 10 year old The picture was bought in the States

I added Hearts and Flowers and printed the greeting in matching colours

Babies 1st christmas

Babies firts christmas card
I used the emboss to impress board and the cuttlebug embossing folder added a 3D shoe.
and embellished with lace ribbon, glitter & xmas bits

Printing in Gold and Silver

If you like to print the front of your card or would like to print your verses in Gold & silver you need to customise the ink colours where it says R G B. you can do this where you change the colour click on more colours or customise colour every programme is different so have a look and play about when you close the programm it should default back to black
The list of numbers

Gold enter the number R 192 G 165 B 104
Antique Gold R 165 G 138 B 82
Copper R 205 G 115 B 0
Silver R 151 G 151 B 168

Remeber they will not be metalic but as near as you can get and ideal for printing Wedding Stationery

Using your Printer to emboss

As you can see from a few of my cards I use my printer for the greetings!
you can also use your printer to emboss the greeting with embossing powder, here's how
You will need to set up your programme to print the front of your card, I use publisher and set the layout of the page to suit my printer.
Printer ink normally dries as quick as it leaves the printer but with some coated and pearlised card the ink can take a while to dry (remember some coated cards are now specifically produced for ink jet printers and will absorb so much ink so that it dries quickly)
dust your card with an antistatic cloth/bag first and place in the printer organise your text and before you click print make sure you have your embossing powder ready print out the greeting remove the card from the printer pour on the embossing powder tap off excess and heat and there you have a professional look!

I usually use pearlised card from Joanna Sheen her service is excellent and the price well I haven't seen it cheaper! so that sold me.

You can try this with vellum I have printed out the Wedding vows and embossed with gold and used this as a backing to the topper on a wedding card.

Happy crafting

Scottish Winter

I was asked to make a card with a Scottish theme, apart from the loch ness, haggis And thistles this is what I came up with. I printed the greeting and because I used pearlised card was able to emboss it with silver. I used a winter Lake scene and embellished with tartan, Holly and gems

Under the Mistletoe

I printed the greeting and used the picture in "My craft Studio to get the tile effect matted the picture onto co ordinating colours and added glitter

Polar Bears

Playful Polar bears in the Snow I printed the greeting matted the picture and added snowflakes and glitter

This is a concertina card I had some pink snowflake papers and vellums left over so I decided to make this I put parcels inside and added tiny bows and scrolled paper strips on the front

Funky Christmas Tree

I stamped this image and coloured it with a mixture of water colours and Sakura. Matted it onto gold and green card and used a peel off for the greeting

Christmas Baubles

Baubles I stamped the baubles onto same coloured card cut them out I used a Stencil and metalic ink for the decorative border.

Holly Cream and Green

A few more cards I have been working on I stamped the holly image and cut it out to layer it onto the card used my worded ribbons, stamped the corners and embellished with peel offs and glitter