On the farm

While on our travels I saw a sign on a farm saying we grow our own bacon and eggs with a picture of a pig and chicken it has always stuck in my mind so this card is based on that sign

The three images are from Bugaboo so it was just a matter of resizing and placing where I wanted them. The backing paper was from a stack pad called all about the boys. Coloured the image with copics and distress inked the edges. Tied some string around the card and added a button. Adhered onto white base card

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Fairy Dust

My card for the DT at creativeknockouts is this lovely Fairy is from crafty sentiments called Flora With Flowers

I don't normally do fairies  but there is a first time for everything, I liked the butterfly backing paper and the yellow card was the best it went with,I adhered paper to card then adhered lace to bottom then adhered to white base card, coloured the fairy with copics distress inked the edge  adhered her to the yellow card sentiment was done on the computer, added all the pearls and a bow on the ribbon

Thanks

 At creative knockouts this week is Fall. Here in New Zealand we don't celebrate it and it's coming into our summer, so this card was a bit of a challenge for me

The card swap, for a card group I am in, was swinking, the idea being that with your ink pads  you start by swiping your ink pad heavy from the top and  pull it up so it is lighter at the end, gradually building up colour as you can see this is what it ended up like

I then cut a frame and embossed it then wiped over my frame with distress ink as I didn't want it to be a stark white I then adhered the frame to the card and then onto a white base card

The digi and sentiment I put onto word,  I put the sentiment onto the message note, then printed it off  I cut the digi with a border on the scan n cut then  coloured it with copics, I used a wink of stellar on the grapes not that it is really visible

So this card went to my swap buddy and was also my DT card

Another Birthday another friend

 I like making birthday cards for friends as you can do what they like and my friend likes frogs

This card folded into three so on the front and second panel I die cut the bull rushes and grass did a couple of wonky w's they were my birds I also used distress ink to make a sky and ground

I don't know but by this time she was probably wondering what was next as once sent her a card and when she opened it  all the bits you get from punches ect came falling out

But no it was just this fella wishing her a happy birthday

Birthday Thoughts

 

This is for a friends Birthday I used a Silk Gloss card for my base not a good idea as it doesn't want to fold properly,Also had to make a new template for this card as the original was rather large

I got another piece of white card adhered  die cuts to two corners Flowers,leaves,and gems from my stash

Also found this sentiment in my stash, think it came from a card sent to me from someone in my card group, that I deconstructed so if you see this and think this was mine... Thank You

I adhered a strip of white silk ribbon on the sides and front  threaded the lace with pale pink ribbon these were adhered to panel last so I didn't get them dirty

The Garage

This week at creativeknockouts the theme is charms 

The image I had to use for my card is the little mechanic and the dads garage logo

I decided to make an easel card  

I found a image off the net that was a wall of a garage I then added a front frame coloured it with copics added the garage sign, found a few tires and an oil drum and my garage was made

My next mission was the bottom of the card finally found in my stash some backing paper that looked like concrete with a lot of oil stains on it

I then got my image and coloured it with copics put a couple oil stains on his clothes cut out the image and placed it on the drive so it looked like it was up on the blocks tool box was a digi stamp did the sentiment on the computer added the keys for my charm

This is another card with the same image it reminded me of my younger brother and his pedal car which looked a lot like this and he was always fixing it  aand years later he became a mechanic 

So this will be his next birthday card

Alex's Creation

 I pick my grandson Alex up twice a week after school and we have a routine food, homework, game or puzzle then computer. He would be on the computer all the time if he had his way but being the responsible Nana 😉 I only let him on for about 15 minutes before his mum comes to pick him up. So we were looking through Pinterest at things we could do (I have a folder with projects for the grandchildren) and he decided he could do this

So Alex was to find some pine cones from his place they have a 10 acre life style block. Pop found us this neat piece of bark. The bark was left to dry on top of the coal range and Alex came last week with the cones

So yesterday we hot glued the sticks to the bark then some rope ribbon with leaves on onto the bark, then the pine cones then came the googly eyes the round things on the bark is the cones before they grew                                                          The pine cones were to represent him and his mum and dad the two dogs the two cats  and the 5 round ones are the chickens, the cow's and sheep are still in the paddock

And here he is so proud of his creation, his mum loved it (so she said)  So for our next project we are off to the beach for some big stones we are going to paint