Birthday Candles

Time for another card swap - CM May swap cards – Candles & Sketch (I was extremely late in making and sending these cards)

Card #1 – Candles

I knew what I wanted to do for this theme :)  

I printed some candle digital images from LOTV and foiled them on gloss card, and cut the cardfront with some A6 dies.  I then coloured the candles using Copics.  I mounted the cardfront onto some coloured cardstock, then mounted the cardfront onto a 300 gsm base.

The gold foiling worked beautifully and I was very happy on how it turned out.

 

Linking Card #1 with the following challenges:

AAA Colourful: #29  (all the blues/pinks/greens)

 

 

Card #2 – Sketch

We had a sketch provided – although I did not stick to it precisely …

I used some Kaisercraft designer paper & stamps.  I was going to stamp the cupcake, but decided to fussy cut it from the DP, then mounted to front with 3D foam.

I used the other side of the DP for the background panel and stamped 'birthday wishes' onto coloured cardstock.  

I finished the card with my usual bling!

I am quite pleased with how this card turned out.

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Happy Birthday Liam

It's the nephew's 20th Birthday this month ....... I know I say it every year, but WHERE has that time gone?  Next year will be the big one .... 21 and I just hope & pray that COVID is well and truly gone so that we can have a fitting proper celebration, since his 18th was curtailed due to COVID restrictions!

I used LOTV Candles Digi Set to put together 20 candles, then added the sentiment and printed using Laser Printer.  The Sentiment was then foiled with Red using my Minc.

I hand coloured the candles with Copics, then added Plaid French Dimensions for a raised enameled/3D effect - it really made the lovely colours pop!

I then trimmed the cardfront and mounted on to an A6 black card.

Linking with:

Happy Little Stampers August Challenge - Birthday

AAA - #40 - Anything Birthday Goes

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Happy Birthday

Time for some more crafting :) and inspiration from Freshly Made Sketches.

During my 'tidying up' I came across this lovely textured cardstock in DL size and a pile of beautiful patterned papers (from Blue Edge Crafts if memory serves), I also came across some quilling supplies ..... and a plan formed!

 

Of course, it wouldn't be a card made by me, if it didn't have bling!

 

It was fortuitous that 30 candles fit nicely on the DL card within the context of the Freshly Made Sketches sketch ..... I nearly ran out of 'teardrop' bling for the flames.

Now to find someone who is turning 30 to give it to LOL

Linking with the following challenges:

Freshly Made Sketches #482
Watercooler Wednesday Challenge #WWC314

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Stamp Something Challenge - black and white

Last week's Stamp_Something challenge was to use black & white and one other colour. I know I am a bit late with this one, but I figured I would post anyway. I am pleased with the way it turned out.

White cardstock was stamped multiple times with candle stamp, coloured in red with watercolours and flames highlighted with kindy glitz. Black & red ribbon placed across top third of card and Stamped sentiment mounted with foam dots.

here is another card I did later, just with black & white - does the kindy glitz count as another colour? ;-)

I like the clean look of this card.

Cuttlebug Be Inspired Challenge #27 - numbers

over on cuttlebug_Be Inspired challenge_#27 the theme is numbers

I used the numbers cuttlebug embossing folder to emboss background, enhanced with chalk. Layered CB background on dark blue cardstock, then placed on light blue card. I then stamped the image of candles on white cardstock and printed words on computer and layered candle image & words on dark blue cardstock. Candles & wording were mounted on front of card using sticky dots to raise them off the surface. Kindy glitz was used to highlight borders of dark blue cardstock.

I came across a lovely saying about birthdays and I have just been waiting for an opportunity to use it. I thought it was perfect for this card.

House Mouse Challenge #33 - multiples & TECC61

The challenge this week over on House_Mouse is to make a card using multiples.

I have picked my favourite stamp for this one. Although, with only 2 house mouse stamps, I could just as easily say the other stamp is my favourite as well!

I stamped the image twice, coloured it in twice and then separately layered the candle, little mouse and the icing & mouse on top of the base image. Image was highlighted with kindy glitz and chalks. Image was then mounted on dark purple cadstock, handmade paper and bazzil were layered over soft purple background paper. Paper flowers highlighted with bling. Layout for this was from Taylored Expressions Card Challenge TECC61