The Blues at 60

Morning all.

Now the title is not as morbid as you may think. Our beautiful Practice Manager Turned 60 last week and her favourite hues are blues. Therefore I did not have to go far to come up with a colour palate for her card. The problem arose when I had done a special card from me, and then work asked me to make one that all of them could sign!!! OOoooooooooookkkkkkkkkkk...thinking cap on.......

The one I made for her from the practice was a square card. I think there is something very elegant about blue and silver together. This is what I came up with......

 

I used Vintage Vogue for the flowers and a little fussy cutting. I teamed the flowers with the Fancy Flourish Die from MFT. The curls sat on petals, it was such a pretty effect.

 

 

The "60" perhaps was a little obvious in silver glitter card stock, but hey.....whatcha gunna do??

 

My card was a standard size and I (yup) still went with blue flowers. I found this card by Dawn Olchefske here and thought it'd look OK in blues too. This was my version of Dawn's card......

 

 

As you can see I changed up the sentiment, textured the main background but still used the beautiful Springtime Vintage DSP, which sadly we did not get out here (sniff). The "60" this time was cut in a beautiful sky blue glitter CS from Alice's. I also love the distressed flowers. I had not tried these before, but seriously, they are REALLY easy-peasy. The flowers are cut, spritzed with water and then crumpled, uncrumpled and then let to dry naturally and layered. The affect is magical.

 

 

 

Thanks for popping by again. I hope you liked my blue cards. I will list the "stuff used" separately for these cards as there is both a bit in them.

 

Stuff Used:

Square Card:

CS: (SU) Night of Navy, Whisper White, Soft Sky (ret), Bazzil textured white, Stardream Silver paper and Silver Glitter CS fm Alice's

Ink: (SU) Night Of Navy, Bashful Blue, Island Indigo (stamped off)

Stamps: (SU) Vintage Vogue

Dies: (SU) Window Framelit Dies, Simple Type Alphabet Numbers Dies (ret), MFT Fancy Flourish Die

Other Bits: Dimensionals, Clear Rhinestones fm stash

 

Standard Card

CS: (SU) Very Vanilla, Not Quite Navy, Baja Breeze, Springtime Vintage DSP, Sky Blue Glitter CS fm Alice's 

Ink: NONE!!!

Dies and Punches: (SU) Fun Flowers Bigz L Die, Lots of Tags Sizzlits Dies, Scallop Circle Bigz Die, Wide Oval Punch, Nestabilities Classic Circles Dies

Other Stuff: Cuttlebug Olivia Alphabet, SU Fancy Fan EF, Dimensionals, Lace fm stash, Brads fm Reject Shop

 

Lynda xx

 

 

 

Tulip Fun

Hi all!

As most of you are aware, I am an avid netballer and general all round sports NUT!!! One of the gals on my Monday night team turned the big 40...and of course I had to make the card for the team!!

I have seen many wonderful tulip cards made from the wings of the XL Bird Punch. Given that the birthday gal had experienced the recent loss of her mum, we wanted it to be bright and cheery. Here's the card....

The colour scheme was Old Olive and Real Red. I sponged all the petals and leaves. It gave a wonderful depth I think.

All of the bits on the card were popped up on dimensionals...

I had soooooooooo much fun making this one, I kinda sorta...well definitely got carried away with making them. So you will see a couple more later!!

Thanks for dropping by.

Stuff used:

CS:(SU) Old Olive, Real Red, Whisper White, Rock Star DSP (ret)

Ink: (SU) Old Olive, Real Red, Cherry Cobbler (sponged red petals)

Stamps: (SU) Simple Type Alphabet Numbers

Punches and Dies: (SU) XL 2 Step Bird Punch, Scallop Oval Punch, Large Oval Punch, Nestabilities Classic Circles and Scallop Circles, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder

Other Bits: Olive and Red 1/2 pearls fm stash, Dimensionals

Lynda xx

Pre-Teen Rock - #1

It really is amazing how time flies. Bestie's eldest son was 12 not so long ago...so I have "graduated" to "tween masculine cards"....just typing those words can send shivers down the spine!!!

I was lucky enough to get "Extreme Guitar" before it retired at the end of last catty. I was therefore armed with a least a stamp in my artillery that could be used for such an age group!! I then found this MDS card on SCS. Now we do not have MDS (My Digital Studio) in Australia...so I had a play and came up with this for Master 12.......

I was so very happy with this end result. I did add a couple of my own touches though. I do not have a "splat" stamp, so I improvised with a rough textured clear Kaiser stamp and then ripped a random hole in paper and used it as a mask. It was also stamped off, but you get the general idea.

After stamping the 4 dark strips, it still looked a little bare, so I stamped a music stamp in the same tone in the gaps left behind.

Then it was a matter of adding in the stamped off stars and lining up the guitarist image.

The punched star and sentiment were the final touches. I had to cut the dark star by hand as I needed to just build it a tad more.

Master 12 was happy and thought the card was "cool" which translated I guess is high praise from a chap of that age!!!

Thanks for dropping by.

Stuff Used:

CS: (SU) Sahara Sand, Early Espresso, Real Red, Very Vanilla

Ink: (SU) Sahara Sand, Early Espresso, Real Red

Stamps: SU - Extreme Guitar, Just Jawing, Rough Texture Wheel (ret), Simple Type Alphabet Numbers, KaiserCraft Clear "Grunge" Stamp, Hero Arts -Clings "Musical Clef"

Punches: SU Large Star, Carla Craft CP2 Star

Other Bits: Dimensionals, SAMJ

Lynda xx

Nauti(cal) at 40

At the beginning of September, my baby brother turned 40. Whilst blurfing one day I came across a wonderful card by Vikki Beck (using Sail Away) here. You may have to scroll down to see the card...as there are quite a few stunning male cards shown (it's the 4th one down). I decided to base my brother's card on this.

I had not tried "Acrylic Block Background" Stamping before. For those unfamiliar with it, there is a tutorial link here. Here is my version of Vikki's card......

As you can see I have made a couple of minor alterations, but was thrilled with the final outcome. The sails are on dimensionals, which give it a billowy feel. There is also a close up of the effect you get with the acrylic block. My block had wavy edges, which fitted the nautical theme beautifully.

I tried to carry through the feel of ropes and pulleys with the ribbon through the eyelets.

I hope you like this card as much as I do. Sail Away is definitely my "go to" male card" stamp at the moment.

Thanks for dropping by.

Stuff Used:

CS: (SU) Real Red, Night Of Navy, Whisper White

Ink: (SU) Real Red, Night Of Navy, Bashful Blue

Stamps: (SU) Sail Away, Sanded BGS, Simple Type Alphabet Numbers

Punches: (SU) Large and Small Oval Punches

Other Bits: Dimensionals, Bright Red Eyelets, 3mm Red Satin Ribbon fm stash

Lynda xx