Birthday and Engagement cards

My youngest son rang yesterday to say he will pop over on Thursday to see us and have some dinner. Then he advised me that it is one of his best friends' birthday next week and she has just accepted a proposal of marriage, so could I make a card for each of these occasions and he'll pick them up tomorrow, no rush then!
The only clue I got as far as subject matter for the cards was concerned was that she liked horses, and for the engagement card he thought a silhouette.
As his wish is always my command, this is the result.

I got the image and sentiment for the birthday card from the internet, mounted them onto some cardstock and finished off with a little yellow flower, a cuttlebug oval and some alphabet peel offs from K & Co.
The engagement card image and backing paper is from Joanna Sheen's Dancing with Shadows CD, mounted onto pearlescent paper, with cuttlebug corners and a Craftybitz sentiment tag.

I haven't had time to do any challenge cards today, but hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to get one done.
Thanks for visiting, I hope you (and Gemma) like the cards.

Wedding card - Version 2

I thought maybe I should give a second choice for this card as I have never met the recipients and have no idea what they'd like! So this is the wedding card version 2.
The beautiful images and sentiment were a gift from Jak. If you've never seen this clever lady's fabulous work before...where have you been? Please check out her blog, she makes the most stunning cards with all of her flowers being made from punches, absolutely unbelievable!
The images have been mounted onto silver miri card and the card itself was made from some beautiful white hammered cardstock from The Papermill.

Wedding card

My eldest son rang me last night and said he had a favour to ask. Well, to be honest, neither of my sons ring me out of the blue midweek unless they want something, so it was no big surprise! He and my DIL are attending a wedding reception on Saturday and he wondered if I'd like to make a wedding card for them. Well of course I would, I had only been waiting to be given the opportunity! Irony is lost on my sons.
Anyway, here is the card. I've used the first sheet of my beautiful Papermill cardstock in ivory linen, the image is actually from the Greetings Card Factory CD, mounted onto silver miri card and the sentiment is part of a download kit. The corners are again silver miri card using the "vintage" cuttlebug dies and finished off with a little pearl on each corner. Another really simple card, but I thought this image looked quite effective, and as the wedding couple are only acquaintances and not close friends I think it will be OK. I apologise for the scan, I obviously didn't line the card up very well as it looks a little skiffy, it is straight IRL!

When I'm 65

Good evening, I'm a little earlier with my posting today as I've just finished making a card for a 65th birthday.
When my youngest son visited for his dinner on Wednesday evening, his flatmate had asked him to request a card for a work colleague called Ted, who was going to be 65. As usual there were no real ideas of what was wanted but she thought that a '50's pinup would be good (she had seen a couple of my other cards with these on) and could I make it A4 so that everyone could sign it?
Well the answer was "yes", the image wasn't a problem, but what sentiment to put on? Well after racking my brains for a while I've come up with this one, now I just hope he has a sense of humour!

Commission for 2 Christening cards

I've never made a Christening card, but last week I received an order for not one, but two. They were for 2 different baby boys but were ordered from the same person, who has her grandson and her (soon to be) godson being christened at the end of this month. Because the same families would be at both events I wanted to make the cards very different from each other and these are the 2 cards I've come up with. I hope you like them, they are both A4 in size and made from Joanna Sheen's beautiful tapestry cardstock (which doesn't scan well) and both sentiments were done on the PC.
If you have never paid a visit to Joanna Sheen's lovely shop before you are in for a real treat. I can honestly say that everything I have ever ordered is of the best quality, add to that the order usually arrives the following day and it has free p&p and who could ask for anything more



The first card is an image from a PC Crafter kit called 'Bunny Rhymes' which has been simply mounted onto an oval nestability, the ribbon effect border along the top of the card is from the same kit. I have added a baby pram charm and hung it from some K & Co blue gingham ribbon.



The second one uses an image from Joanna Sheen's Victorian Companion CD mounted onto co-ordinated backing paper from the same CD. I have coloured some K & Co lace paper with chalks to match the paper and used it to trim the top of the card and hung a rocking horse charm from some ivory chiffon ribbon.

The final card for Mum

Well, I've finished making the third card for my mum's birthday and I think this one probably took the longest time of all of them. Most of the time was spent in trying to decide what to do, as I didn't want them all to look the same.
Most of the items used on this card were from my stash, the image was a gift card that I cut down slightly, the beautiful sparkly lilac paper was from Joanna Sheen and the little lilac corners were from K & Co.
Now that I've finished these birthday cards I can move onto the next project on my ever growing list!

This is another card for my Mum's birthday. Whenever there is a family occasion I end up making my card plus one from each of the kids and usually one from my mum too, at least I haven't got to make one from mum on this occasion LOL
The colours on the card are not as bright as my scanner has made them look, the ribbon is a very pretty pink and the cuttlebug card is a pale banana colour in real life and was part of a wad sent to me by my crafting friend Jenny to tide me over until I get my own cuttlebug.
The little flowers are a free download from a site called Fred, She Said which I came across yesterday and are designed by Tracey Lynn Miller. She has designed some more lovely flowers as digital download kits and I think I may be very tempted to buy some after seeing how pretty the little freebies look. The other bits and bobs on the card came from my stash.
I don't know who will choose to send this card, I'll let my lovely DIL choose which one she likes and my younger son will have the one that's left....once I've made the other card that is!