Another big birthday and yet again I have gone for the shape on a 7x5 as they definitely stand up much better and they are still effective too. I also made a 3d fishing hat for him and he loved both, I am always concerned making guy cards and I am always pleaseantly suprised when they like them.
Another two for the price of one card, I liked this layout so I thought why not use it again, it’s very effective and of course I can use up some of the paper mountain. I couldn’t use my go to first birthday image for one of the boys as he has an older brother and I’d made it for him so of course Mo manning is my first choice for babies and little kids as she seems to capture the expressions so perfectly.
I have had this image coloured for the longest time and unusually for me it’s coloured with pencils on Kraft. The background was left over from another card and that’s not going to get shown for a while.
I decided to try and use some of my already coloured images, I have a lot of those and I have tried several times to use them up but maybe this time I will be successful.
I saw this layout online and thought it looked cool so of course I had to make a card straight away, sometimes that happens although not often lol. Another of the cute Amanda Jane images, these are such a joy to colour so expect lots more.
My friends little boy got a switch for Christmas so of course I had to use the digital pencil boy and the switch die to make his card, they recently moved and it does feel weird him not being next door, I hadn’t realised how much I would miss him chatting underneath my lounge window
A break from the splat cards and also a change from my usual baby cards but when you have used your usual and your back up for this little ones big brothers a new design is called for lol. Again I used already made images which I’ve had ready since 2013!
Once I had decided on the images it came together really quickly.
Normally its a while before you see the boy version of the big six and granted it is a while since the first version was shown but I tend to wait until after their birthdays in case they see the cards on my blog. I did ask for this version of the printable to be made available as I knew it would be perfect for a games loving boy, I might have made more versions too lol,
I made this at the same time as the previous card and I just spotted that the sentiment didn't stanmp properly.... oh well too late now its already posted lol.
You might recognise this design from last year and you would be correct lol. I am still in my well it worked why not make it again phase. The moving rooms which has taken over six months sapped my creativity and a lot of the cards I have made have been variations on a theme, I am hoping that my mojo returns with a bang soon and I can create some new designs
If you thought this looked like the big six version 1 you would be correct, I made a batch of them all at the same time and I thought this would be perfect for those teenage gamer boys
I have this one and one more to show and then I was out of the obsession, well for a little while anyway. With over 600 of these images I will be definitely using them again.
Another day another lili of the valley card, I am sure you will have noticed the theme, this one however is larger than the stamp size which made it so much easier to colour.
I was in my Lili of the valley obsession era when I made this and the subsequent cards lol. I do prefer the digital version but I do need someone to tell me why I still seem to make them the same size as if they were physical stamps lol.
I loved this image as soon as I saw it and I might have persuaded the owner of the Greeting Farm to make the boy one available too lol. I had so much fun colouring this that the design of the card ended up being fairly simple so that the image could steal the show.
Someone please explain to me how my neighbours little boy who was born yesterday is going to school!! He was born just before the first Covid lockdown, which meant he didn’t really see anyone except his parents and us over the garden fence. He’s a sociable little lad though and is such a pleasure to be around, hearing him shout my name over the fence asking me to play will never get old.
So naturally I had to make him a card for his first day at school, he of course loved school and couldn’t wait to go back.
You might recognise this design from the last post and yes I’m continuing to try and make multiples in each sitting, I try and make the characters look like the people I’m sending them too so this young man needed blonde hair.
I had an idea in my head for this card and it as almost exactly how I wanted it to turn out. I kind of wish I had added a game to the screen but there is always next time lol
So a return to the shaped cards, I think I had made so many eclipse I wanted a change and once I popped I couldn't stop lol. I have made so many shaped cards now it is insane.
I found this image on doctor digi and knew it would be perfect for this campervan loving guy, of course you can't buy just one image so a few more might have fallen into my basket lol.
As this little boy doesn’t live in wales I decided the dragon could be a different colour so I went with greens and blues. I do love this colour combo. Everything else is exactly the same, it felt good to get all the cards made in one session even though the birthdays are spread out.
The last of the gamer cards and hopefully the recipient liked it, it wasn’t my plan for his card but I knew next year he would be too old for this image so it was use it now or never.
I like the colouring on this one the best, I think the hair is definitely my favourite.
