Racing 50

A lockdown big birthday is very different to how you imagine you will be spending it, when I had my lockdown 50th last year I joked with a friend that at least he would be able to celebrate his but here we are and nope he can't. Hopefully though we will both get to celebrate large soon. 

I wanted to try another of the shaped cards, I had made on for my mums 70th and loved it so decided I wanted to see what 50 looked like. My friend Kathleen had made the 70 one for me on her scan and cut so I thought I should have a go on my cricut and it was easier than I expected, so all I can say is expect lots of these on here in the future lol.

My friend is a fan of formula one and his team is mercedes so I based the card around that theme, I used the newest creative stamping for the background images and the formula one car and found images on the net to colour the car with the colours of the mercedes team. 

Ingredients

Image: creative stamping 92

Inks: Hawaiian shores from papertrey ink and silver delicata ink 

Card: Hawaiian shores from papertrey ink, cement from MFT and black from recollections at Michaels

Thinking of you

I really don't like making this type of card and I always feel like i am tempting fate if I have any ready made but once you get the sad news it is really difficult to make a card and send it in a timely manner so I might need to have a few on hand just in case.

Quite a few dear friends have lost people recently and I wanted them to know I was thinking of them, I never know what to say in these circumstances but I hope they know I am thinking of them.

Ingredients

Image: elegant butterflies from clearly besotted

Sentiment: brushed greetings from clearly besotted

Card: Hawaiian shores from papertrey ink

Dies: wonky stitched rectangles and blueprints 20 both MFT

Green Stripes take 3 - the final one

This is the last of the green stripy cards, at least for now. I can't promise there won't be more though because they are so much fun to make and I can sit and chat whilst making them and I rarely mess them up lol.

I used a different die for this one and the stripes are bigger because they are the bits left after I have cut the thinner stripes lol. 

The image was already coloured and in my draw but I changed her dress and bow to match the stripes and I also redid her hair to make it darker.

Ingredients

Image: panda girl from the Greeting Farm

Stripes: twisted citroen, mowed lawn and rustic wilderness distress inks

Dies: blueprints 20 from MFT

Green Stripes take 2

This card is the one I made the green stripes for, the lady that started my cardmaking journey all those years ago loves Pandas and green is her favourite colour so i decided what better idea for a card than the stripy backgrounds I have been telling her I have been making and a cute panda image lol.

Not much else to say except she loved the card and she said it brightened her day which is always lovely to hear.

Ingredients

Image: Nerdy Panda from Some Odd Girl

Stripes: twisted citroen, mowed lawn and rustic wilderness distress inks

Dies: blueprints 29 from MFT

Green Stripes

Oh no another stripy card I hear you say, now maybe I should apologise for all the stripy cards but I just can't lol. You see I just can't seem to stop making them and as the saying goes "once you pop, you can't stop" and that is certainly the case with me at the moment. I had made the green stripes for a particular card and there were quite a few left over so I thought maybe I should use them up rather than throw away and so I made two more cards and this is one of them.

One I had made the background I needed an image and I found this in my coloured images draw and it was coloured in 2013, can you believe it and it still looks ok lol. 

Ingredients

Image: Ian from the Greeting Farm

Stripes: twisted citroen, mowed lawn and rustic wilderness distress inks

Dies: blueprints 29 from MFT

Apologies and a Card

Hello everyone, long time no speak. I will start this post by apologising for my long unintended break from my blog. I never intended to be away this long, in fact I never intended to have a break at all but sometimes life just gets in the way. We are all well and no one was sick but I am finding the current situation with the lockdown, virus and pandemic very hard. 

I would never have considered myself a great hugger but not being able to hug anyone for a year has meant that I have missed it more than I could ever have imagined and when I do get to hug people I am going to struggle to let go. 

Anywho you didn't come here to think about the outside world you came to see a card and thats exactly what you are going to get, a nice cheery card to boot lol. Is there anything cuter than a little one with a pram?

Ingredients

Image: twin from Mos Digital Pencil

Paper: fairytale from Nit Wit

Card: pretty in pink (retired) stampin up

Dies: blueprints 2 and 13 from MFT, scalloped circles from spellbinders and XXl stitched circles from Crealies

Everyday Purse from Concord and 9th

Every year my friend Jane makes little table gifts for charity and I purchase them to give to family and friends that I don't buy main gifts for. I pop them in with the kiddos presents and attach a label so that they know who they are for. I have had lots of different things over the years and it is something I look forward to. Well 2020 happened and Jane wasn't able to sell the gifts this year so I wondered what on earth I could do as I know the adults look forward to a little bit of chocolate or sweets. 

I remembered I had wanted this bag die so much and had bought it at the start of lockdown and never removed it from the packaging so I opened it and had a go, as the old saying goes "once you pop you can't stop" and so far I have made over 30 bags lol. I have used old paper pads and printed paper and each new one is my favourite lol. I do think that I have had my monies worth from this die. Now all I have to do is make something for the guys.....