Merry & Bright

I took part in a Card Swap for my CraftMad friends :)  Now that my card has been received, I can share photos.

The theme for the month was Merry & Bright (1 card with baubles)

I stamped several Christmas Trees with a selection of rainbow colours, then stamped 'Merry Christmas' sentiment in black ink.

I then trimmed and layered cardfront onto Dark Green cardbase, and finished with kindy glitz.

For Card 2, I stamped some baubles and watercoloured with ink, then added kindy glitz.

I die cut 'merry' out 4 times and layered them together onto cardfront.  Stamped '& Bright' with black ink, then layered cardfront onto red cardbase, and finished with kindy glitz.

 

 

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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 Barbara!

November is my sister's birthday

 

We both have many happy memories of our time at St Clair Roller Skating Rink at Woodville, so the card had to include roller skates!

Altenew Vintage Vibes layered stamps set & dies used to create the skates.

DP ombre background, layered cardstock.

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.

now you're sixty-four!

I have been waiting years to make Mr Fixit's 64th Birthday card - I always knew I wanted to do something relating to The Beatles' song "When I'm Sixty-Four"

 

I found the full lyrics online and inserted them into a document.  I duplicated the text so that it filled the entire page, then printed it using and inkjet printer.

 

Then I created the hearts and printed them using the Brother Laser printer, and then foiled the hearts using the Mini Minc & Gold foil.

A blue border was added, then the cardfront was added to a 300gsm cardbase with foam squares.

 

 

It wasn't until I read the second verse of the song properly, that I realised it really did suit us down to the ground!

 

You see, when I first met Mr Fixit, he was an Apprentice Electrician and my main hobby at the time was knitting & crocheting LOL  And when we were first married, we would spend our weekends in the garden with the dreaded weeds!

 

So my darling Mr Fixit, the answer is YES!  I still need you and yes, will feed you!

love you heaps!

 

When I’m 64

When I get older losing my hair
Many years from now
Will you still be sending me a Valentine
Birthday greetings bottle of wine
If I'd been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door

Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four

You'll be older too
And if you say the word
I could stay with you
I could be handy, mending a fuse
When your lights have gone
You can knit a sweater by the fireside
Sunday mornings go for a ride
Doing the garden, digging the weeds
Who could ask for more

Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four

Every summer we can rent a cottage
In the Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear
We shall scrimp and save
Grandchildren on your knee
Vera, Chuck and Dave
Send me a postcard, drop me a line
Stating point of view
Indicate precisely what you mean to say
Yours sincerely, wasting away
Give me your answer, fill in a form
Mine for evermore

Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: John Lennon / Paul McCartney
When I'm Sixty-Four lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

 

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.

Family Birthday Time!

It's time for the usual family get together for all the September/October birthday people :)  We are doing it a little bit earlier this year, as the Sister-in-law Sharon is going overseas to work for a while.

 

Great-nephew Archie turned 7 and I chose a LOTV Number Bears '7' digistamp, sized to print on an A6 cardfront, with computer generated text.  

 

Image was hand coloured with copics and the number '7' highlighted with Dimensional Magic.  

 

Cardfront was trimmed to size, a blue border added, then layered onto 300gsm cardbase with foam squares.

 

Great-nephew Lucas will turn 9 and I chose a LOTV Candles digistamp, sized to print on an A6 cardfront, with computer generated text.  

 

The candles were hand coloured with copics, then highlighted with Dimensional Magic which seems to bring out the primary colours so beautifully (see Shopping our Stash Challenge - colour me beautiful!)

 

Cardfront was trimmed to size, a blue border added, then layered onto 300gsm cardbase with foam squares. 

 

 

Linking With the following challenges:

Inkspirational Challenge #299 Clean & Simple

Shopping our Stash SOS506 - Color me beautiful

 

 

 

The niece Lauren has a birthday on 6th October and I gave her a card I had in my stash.  You can see how I made the card HERE  You may remember I entered this card into a challenge in May and it was chosen as a Princess of Clean for Freshly Made Sketches :)  

 

 

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.

Thinking of you

Here is the last of my sympathy cards made for family members of my friend Gavin  (see my previous two posts).

 

This card is for Jenny, Gavin's partner.

 

Background was made by 'spattering' several different inks, then mounted onto cardbase.  Flowers & leaves were stamped in black & clear embossed and watercoloured.  Extra layers of die cuts were added for dimension.

 

Sentiment was heat embossed in gold on a strip of vellum.

Flowers were arranged and added to cardfront in layers.

 

I am loving playing with my Altenew stamps #Altenew

 

Linking With the following challenges:

The Flower Challenge #84 - use a die

Happy Little Stampers - September - anything goes with dies

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge - Anything goes with flowers

ITEMS USED

Altenew Stamps & Dies - Build-a-flower Anemone Coronaria, inks, Clear Embossing

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.