Happy 55th Birthday Card for Dave

Hello it's good to be with you on this last day of July! Wow! Really seven months into 2013 already??
I have another commission to share with you today. This is another one for Dave who was 55 this month, last year I did the Red, Black and white Handyman look.
This year it's the Blue look ....

It was hard to find a photo of Dave, however perseverance paid off.

Gail gave me lots of hints for his card so I used them all. I did experiment with some metal work for the card as I was aiming for a bit of the Grunge Steampunk look.

The base card was made from an A3 Quill 210gsm sheet of card stock. I added a sheets of blue design paper from my stash.

I cut a small sheet of silver metal with Spellbinders Circles die, then embossed with a Tim Holtz metal rivet embossing folder. From the waste ( in the centre) I used Spellbinders Sprightly sprockets to make some more gears.
On the corners I used one of the Spellbinders Parisian Accents, for the sentiment I used a Just Rite stamp and Spellbinders Fancy Tags Two die.

I used the cut circle as the frame behind which I added some blue feathers, then created words on my Computer, then fussy cut them out and distressed the edges with some Tim Holtz Faded Jeans blue distressed stain. I added these with glue dots around the edges of the metal as well.

I added some great metal charms that I bought from My2Angels, like this one here, which I decorated with some fine blue ribbon from my stash.

Although this image looks like it's upside down, this is the way it looks on the card, you can see some of the metal gears I added and another of the metal charms from My2Angels.

On the onside of the card I used a variety of stamps from Tim Holtz - Stampendous and also a Hero Arts Clear Stamps FIND JOY 2011 CL497

I used a couple of Peel Offs in the right hand corner (and hand wrote the word 'Today'.

I really like these stamps so here's a close up.

Here are the main ingredients that I used to make this card:

Thanks for stopping by and reading Today's Post, have a great day

In Loving Memory Cards

Thanks for dropping by today. I hope all is well with you and yours. It is STILL raining here, although not as heavy and more sporadically! I keep saying to myself that it's good for the flowers and also good for the water dams - that's if the infrastructure is enabled to capture all this water and not let it run out to the sea!

As people we enjoy the up and downs of Life's events and the emotions that become engaged as we experience the impact of these events whether we perceive them to be good or bad. Sometimes they are sad, particularly when we lose a friend or family member. Just recently I was asked to make Two cards in memory of a friend who had passed on. It is these cards that I have to show you today.

This is the more traditional Sympathy card of the two I am showing you today.


I used HOTP Design Papers and the following Spellbinders Dies:
- Basic Lattice S5-151
- Romantic Rectan' S5-090
- Crosses Two S5-093
- Foliage S4-328
- Venetian Accents S5-118

The white flowers are from Petaloo and the stamp on the tag is from the Flourishes set called Calla Lillies.

A closer view of the Decoupage medallion feature at the centre of the card. I stencilled one of the Crosses Dies with a Tim Holtz Ranger stain called Peeled Paint and then added a light green Rhinestone gem on the very top.

The second card is less formal. I was asked to use bright cheerful colours - hence the yellow Design Paper from (I think) Cosmo Cricket.

To match the Design Paper I also used a Memento Cantaloupe ink pad to stencil some colour to the Spellbinders Resplendent Rectangle die. On the sides I added pearls.

Lace from my stash was woven with a piece of ribbon also from my stash.

The central image was stamped using Memento Black ink and the Lilies are from the Flourishes "Calla Lilies" stamp set and coloured with Copic pens.

I cut the image from White Neenah Solar card stock using a Spellbinders LG Oval Die and layered it with a Spellbinders Floral Ovals die cut using Kaisercraft Liquorice weave card stock.

The person being remembered was a keen wearer of Thongs (Flip Flops was what I called them when I was in the UK) so I thought it appropriate to add this little charm onto this card using a Tim Holtz idea-ology Trinket Pin.

I stamped the sentiment onto the tag using Memento "Bamboo leaves" ink.
The die is from the Spellbinders Fancy Framed Tags One S4-377.

This was the sentiment i used inside the card.
I again used the Flourishes Calla Lilies set, Black Tuxedo ink, white Neenah solar card stock and cut it out with  a Spellbinders Label sixteen die S4-301.

Here are the main ingredients that I used to make these two cards:

Thanks again for stopping by, have a great day and ....