Happy birthday to a Lego obsessed 6 year old

Here is the latest card to have gone out from my crafting table:

Having looked on line for something to print off to put on the front of the card and been disappointed with what was available I took some inspiration from other cards that people have posted on line.  I borrowed a Lego piece from one of my sons models and did some measuring.  The smallest plain circle die that I have is 1.5cm (from a flower set) so with much scribbling on the backs of old envelopes I scaled up the Lego brick dimensions to fit an A5 card.

As you can see here:

I stamped the die cut circles with a tiny sentiment from the "London" stamps (which reminds me I can now blog the card I made for someone else with those stamps) to echo the logo that is on the Lego bricks, and added the name with alphabet peel offs..  I ink smudged the edges of each circle and brick to match the card to give a bit more depth, and raised the circles on sticky pads.  

I am quite impressed with myself at having managed to create this from scratch. 

Cheers for now.

Heartfelt birthday wishes to my friend

Today I'm blogging about the card that I made for my friends birthday.

The front of the card is my interpretation of a bunch of balloons.  The glitter heart is raised on sticky pads to add dimension.  But inside.....

 I saw the die for this in the sale on the Sizzix website for a hugely reduced price, and I just couldn't resist it.  It does take a while to put together with much referring to instructions, which thankfully came with pictures!

As you can see this produces a 3D "sculpture" inside the card which did leave me a small corner for a sentiment.

I was really pleased with the way that this one turned out, especially the colours.  The floral paper was actually a small piece of leftover wrapping paper which I had been saving because I liked it so much.  All the dark purple came from one A4 piece of card.  So actually quite a thrifty card.

A few Thank you cards

Well I've finally got the Thank you cards finished for my son's birthday presents.  And now that he has written them I can post them on here.

This first one I started at the last craft session.
I die cut two scalloped triangles from craft card and fixed together down one edge.  The triangular mat I embossed with the Chronology clocks folder and chalked the image in a light fawn colour.  The pocket watch is from the free stamps from the Do Crafts mag a while back, which has been layered on a dark green scalloped circle and then onto black card die cut with a frame borrowed from Ann at http://binifant.blogspot.co.uk/.   I raised this on sticky pads.
The sentiment is an old wooden backed stamp, stamped on the off cut of card from the pocket watch.  I inked the edge with a co-ordinating green ink, then layered onto the remaining piece of green card and raised it on sticky pads.

The second card I have to show you is very simple indeed.  I have used the stamp and die from a Do Crafts goody bag again, stamped in green and layered onto green card.  The mat is a sage green paper, cut with a deckle edge and inked in same green as the stamped image.  And, as ever, I couldn't resist putting some gems at the corners.

I have continued the theme, this time stamping in brown.  The mat is stamped with a Chronology stamp in the same brown ink.

The third card continues with the theme again in green.

I hope that these cards give you some idea of my style.  I like things simple, but with a little bit of bling.  I have some more cards which I have made, but can't post them yet, as I feel it would take away the surprise for the intended recipient if they stumbled across my blog before they receive the card.

All the best

LouP