Birthday Wishes

The theme this time at Creative Knockouts is Birthday wishes using this image sweet sunflower

This is a fun card, it is a mini easel card, instead of having the side pieces  sitting up like a stepper card they are glued down. There are tutorials on Pinterest and YouTube. seeing as the sunflowers are brown, yellow and green I thought I would carry on the the same colours I used yellow card for my base, green card for a contrast then a green gingham backing paper. white card was adhered across the bottom layer before gluing the sides down but because my base card was not  yellow both sides I could see what the white was going to look like (not nice) I made my bottom yellow I printed out the image with an extra one, I coloured it with copics then adhered it to the the original with 3D double sided foam Then adhered it all to the fold of the easel, the row of sunflowers I downloaded from the net did two put thin DS foam in between and adhered it to the card decided to put sending love instead of happy birthday for my sentiment I was going to put something on the side panels but it looked too much, so I left them plain. I then added clear gems in the two corners

Love

 For this challenge at creative knockouts is Love, Anniversary etc. and I got to pick the image we were to work with from the the paper shelter  I chose Autumn Love  

From my stash I found backing paper with black hearts on it I adhered it to black card, I put some black lace across it then a white cotton lace then adhered it to a white base. I coloured the image with copics adhered to black card then adhered it to the card I did it on an angle just for a change (am usually a straight girl) I die cut the flowers adding a red bead to them, the red hearts are also a die cut I put a little pearl on each of them, I don't know the names of the dies, then to add to the love thing the couple each had a dog

Celebrations

Well I ran out of days to finish this card Christmas, grandchildren and naughty elves got in the way

This challenge at Creative knockouts was for Celebrations the image I worked with was birthday girl from all dressed up stamps 

My youngest granddaughter, loves unicorns and butterfly's and her birthday is coming up soon

My backing paper is purple gingham and stripes there is a purple ribbon with white edging across the middle of the card not that you can see it the Image has been coloured with copics and cut with a nesting die and a purple doily die is underneath it which has been adhered to the card with foam dots I them printed and fussy cut the unicorn,butterfly and the boxes the sentiment is a peel off it was not that noticeable on the backing paper so I put it on purple card I die cut some leaves then made a flower with the purple car and gingham backing paper

Mrs Peter Xmas

This challenge at creative knockouts is  Time to be merry with an image from Mirtillamente and I chose this image to  use mrs peter xmas

I decided to make a shaped card and this is a triple balcony card (found on Pinterest JanB cards ) was a bit fiddly cutting out the little card and backing papers but worth it to me as I quite like doing shaped cards As we don't have a white Christmas in NZ  thought I would dream of a pink one and I know my little granddaughter will love it. I used pink card for my base card. The backing paper I have used, was just one little square that I found on Pinteress that I liked so I cut and pasted a whole lot of them on a word document and printed it off with a few extras to put in my stash, I haven't got a whole lot of pink copics so I put dot's and stripes on some of the parcels  I printed off the image and it was too tiny for the height of the card so then I did a much bigger one, The image I have adhered to the card with foam tape, I have adhered the image on the three tiers just makes the card a bit more stable. The Merry Christmas sentiment that came with this image I have have printed onto card and adhered to the inside of the card

Martini girls

 The theme this week at creative knockouts is thankful with an image from pattiescreations the image I am using is martini girls

I am not sure what this fold is called but it was simple to do 

                              

The front view 

The backing paper was adhered to the card, the side strips white card the front panel was a plain colour that was  lightly embossed

                                                                                                                                                                    The back view the card is the same only with a white panel so it can be written on the backing paper was smaller because It was all I had left

Then it was time to put it together I coloured my image with copics distress inked the edges and adhered to the patterned backing paper, I added a strip of plain card to the bottom of the girls dresses ( the colouring was a bit uneven) added a birthday sentiment I cut the flower white and was going to give them a purple edge, then I remembered I had bought the grandkids some metallic felt  pens I was quite pleased with how they turned out so they are now mine, but I will share .I  then spritzed the die cut with water and scrunched them up to dry I die cut some leaves put mogpodge on them and left them to dry. the next day I adhered them to the card there is also small sparkly gems in each of the corners and some water gems on the flower and leaves

The Thankful part.... Friends

New crafting buddy

 We recently adopted a cat well she adopted us first, she was a cat that had wandered looking for her home and she made it next door. Gucci is her name ??? the neighbor's decided they would keep her but she was going to the vets to be micro chipped and desexed turned out she already was and she was 3 years old, we thought she was just a kitten The original owners said that they were happy to let Gucci stay with the neighbors. When the neighbor's went away for 3 weeks, I was feeding the cats  Gucci would wait for me on my deck when it was feed time, then she started to come inside but still go next door for her feeds, then she came back over to ours, it got to the stage that she was here all the time so after the neighbors got back she still stayed here. So we decided we had to adopt her She is now a cats weight  and she is just gorgeous. She now has a cat door to come and go, has a  choice of 4 beds to sleep on and has toys to play with, We are now waiting for a water fountain thing for her to drink from, as at the moment she gets on the basin in the bathroom and we have to turn the tap on for her to have a drink. She likes to follow the sun and when I was in my craft room she came in got onto my table promptly walked all around and over my laptop, has been known to sit down on it so I cant do anything and too bad if my hands are under her she then found a spot  and lay down when I went to get a bit of paper that was near her and she put her paw on it as much to say don't disturb me so I didn't, 

She completely run's our household and us but we don't mind 😻

cheerful snowman

 My computer got sick so I have been out of action for a while and I have to say I was going into withdrawals But it is back now.

I missed this card being published 

The image to be used was cheerful Santa from the paper shelter was meant to have a favorite embellishment but I forgot that 

Not too sure what this fold is called but have posted more photos The base card was folded in half and then one side cut from top top bottom papers from my endless stash then a second card was made  one end of the card and the paper was cut on the cuttle bug the bottom of the card is adhered to base card The image I decided to put him in a snow globe,a digi stamp, I adhered the snow globe with foam dots to stand the card p you sit the cut out end on to the folded out part of the card

Here are the rest of the photo's

close up of the globe

standing up

inside of card