Male Thank You Card

Hi,

I've been very busy this week (really!) and have made 4 Thank You cards for my childrens' teachers. I wanted to put this one on my blog first as it is an entry for blog challenge:

As I'm so new to card making, I jumped at the chance of purchasing a super-duper bumper pack of cards from Paper Creator (Summer Grab Bag) which costs only £5 for 30 cards! This card is Number 4 in the range called "Bumper Dad's Boot Pyramid Kit" and is just perfect for a male Form Tutor, who is also a Design and Technology teacher ;)!

The base card is chocolate brown from the A4 Centura Pearl Darks pack (from Crafter's Companion) and I folded it to an A5 tent fold card. The papers I printed onto my 100 gsm white paper and then I matted and layered these onto the card. I only used one layer of the pyramage, just to make the boot & tools stand out. The sentiment was one of 24 that came with the kit. This was printed this onto 160gsm white card and mounted onto the card using sticky pads.

I'm really pleased with this card (as my techniques and design skills are improving!), and so was the teacher! I would like to enter this card for the following blog challenge:

• Challenge 14 - One for the Boys at Crafter's Companion

I hope you like it.

Entry for a Blog Competition

Hi,

I realise I've been quiet for a couple of weeks but I've been otherwise occupied by the children's Sports Days and also seeing Take That at Wembley Stadium last week! Anyway, I have been making a few cards during this time, and also sourcing new things for my stash.

On Sunday, our neighbours invited us to a BBQ they were holding to celebrate her parents' Golden Wedding Anniversary. A gift I could source right away (a nice bottle of wine from our cupboard!) but not a card. So I got out my trusty Crafter's Companion Ultimate Pro and this is the result:

I used a pre-made card base in cream, and then layered a pale pink Flower Fairies paper (a download from Crafter's Companion) on the top. I used one of the envelope embossing shapes on my Ultimate Pro to add some detail to each corner of the paper. I then took some black card from my stash and cut this to a 6cm by 9 cm rectangle, and embossed a line just in from the edge of the card. The '50' was made using the font 'Broadway' in my normal word processing package and increasing its size until it would touch the embossed lines on the black card. I printed this out onto some gold paper I had in my stash, cut the shapes out and layered these onto the black card. I mounted this onto the main card using foam sticky pads. I made the 'Happy Anniversary' tag by cropping a sheet of sentiments tags (a download from Card Making Downloads) so that the one I wanted was left, and then resized this to suit my card. This was printed onto cream coloured 160gsm card and cut out. I rested this tag onto the gold paper, and cut an increased border on the paper so you can see the gold colour behind the cream, and then hung both these tags onto some olive green double satin ribbon from my stash. I used the same ribbon to make a bow and mounted this on top of the tag ribbon.

I would like to enter this card for the following Blog Challenge:
Challenge #2 - Special Occasion at Paper Creator's Crafts (http://papercreatorscrafts.blogspot.com/2011/07/challenge-2-special-occasion.html)

Hope you like it!

Hi and Welcome!

Welcome to my brand new blog. As you will gather, I'm not very good with technology, but bear with me ... I may get better!
I wanted to show you a card that I'm entering into a couple of blog challenges:

I made this card using a Centura Pearl in cream folded to A5. I then cut two squares from burgundy flocked butterfly paper (an Anna Griffin paper that I bought from Hobbycraft) and layered these onto my card. I used a strip of black organdie ribbon (also from Hobbycraft) to go horizontally across the card underneath the topper. I sized the topper (this lovely picture of a lady from times gone by on the beach, which I downloaded from The Graphics Fairy) to suit the card size and the butterfly 'patches' and then printed this onto cream 160gsm card. Having cut the topper out, I then mounted it over the ribbon and patches. I finished the card by making a bow from the black organdie ribbon bow (and added it to the top of the picture) and used a silver peel off sentiment, adding a silver 'squiggle' underneath it.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

• June Monthly Challenge "Vintage" on Card Making World
• Challenge 13 "Here Comes Summer" on Crafter's Companion

Hope you like it!