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Sunday, 14 March 2010
Happy 30th to my brother-in-law
We were going to go home this weekend to celebrate my brother-in-law's 30th birthday but for some reasons it was only clarified on Saturday morning that he wasn't going home this weekend!! I was a bit annoyed because of whoever was disorganised. Arghhhh......
We tend to get a jokey card for my brother-in-law so I rarely make cards for him. However, when hubby and I went into Paperchase the other day, we saw this card and it made him chuckle. Although it's one of my favourite shop, I still refuse to pay £3.xx for a card so I decided to recreate this card.
I downloaded the funky fonts off dafont for the wordings on the card. I had the design photocopied on the textured card. It could be a bit disastrous with a photocopier as the toner powder never stays on very well on textured card. However, on this occasion it has worked well because I could create the distressed event by slightly rubbing the powder off. I was going to fix the powder with some hair spray but I had run out so I heated it with a heat gun instead, which I didn't know it would work! "29" has been heat embossed with silver powder though it's not showing very well in the photo.
It won't be "29 yesterday" when we give him the card but hopefully he will still like it and it will make him chuckle.
Monday, 8 March 2010
2009 Christmas Cards
I actually wasn't planning on making any Christmas cards. It had been so busy and I didn't want to make any for the sake of it. However, because of the heavy snow, I had to stay home which gave me some extra time to create some cards. Well, I said some, I only made two and half. Why half? I only quickly put a very very simple one together for my hubby which even he thought I only put it together in a haste. Oops!
The robins on the card above were made from felt. The brown circles came from a ready-to-assemble card pack for making teddy bear cards. The small circles were the heads and the big ones were the bodies but I used them to create big robin and little robin. I drew the branches and leaves on with gel pen and stamped "Merry Christmas" on free-hand.
The cute robin card went to my in-laws.
The next one went to my hubby's aunt. I bought some Laura Ashley clear stamps ages ago but never used them so I was determined to utilize them to make at least one card. I stamped the individual patterns on to resemble a bauble. The green ribbon was recycled from some packaging I collected some years ago. (Yep, I do collect "rubbish").
With a bit of embossing powder, a bit of heat and some bling. Wa~la~
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