What a lovely morning we have today, a lot better than yesterday :) Today I am going to show you a card that I made for my friend and upline Victoria's birthday. I told you I had a lot to make at the end of March...lol

I had just purchased some of the vellum paper sheets from SU for the first time and wasn't really sure about the thickness of them. Well they are quite thin but versitile. If you remember I used one as a wrap over my mums Mothers day card and you could still see through it to the detail underneath. For Victoria's card I decided to try embossing one to see if it came out nicely and didn't tear the paper. Thankfully it didn't tear the paper but did come out nicely, here is the end result....

Now everyone who knows Victoria will know that she adores pink so what other colour could I use as her base card!!!!!  I embossed both corners of the vellum using the Elegant Bouquet embossing folder in the bigshot  and added little pearls to the centre of the flowers to give it some elegance.  I then embossed the butterflies using the Beautiful Wings embosslits dies to add a little colour to the card..  The sentiment is from the hostess set Happiest Birthday Wishes which has been stamped in pretty in pink ink and then punched out using the large round circle punch and layerd onto one of the shapes from the Perfect Pennants Bigz L Dies, again using the bigshot.  As you will see  I have wrapped the vellum around the card, as I did with my mums card, and secured it under the sentiment and on the back with a little bit of snail adhesive that you can hardly see, which is great.

Thanks for stopping by and looking at my work

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Tracy -x-

Right now we have Lee's cards out of the way I am going to post the ones Dean received for his birthday last Friday. Now my lovely hubby has two passions in his life, well after me he does, and those are playing BF2 with his friends on his pc and gardening. Now in the past I have done cards with the pc in mind so I wanted to do something different this year so I thought I'd do one on gardening.  I started thumbing through the catty to see if any of the stamp sets I had would help and inspire me with this and came across Button Buddies that has a snail image in it plus other images I could use, so this is what I came up with:

I think its quite a quirky card and really enjoyed making it.  All the images are stamped onto whisper white card and whisper white ink was used to stamp the sentiment.  The tree is from the set Easy Events and I used the marker pens to colour the tree and omit the sentiment below it.  The "apples" are from the fruit and flowers set and the pumpkin  from Button Buddies.

I was quite pleased with the outcome and it brought a smile to hubbys face when he opened it which is the most important thing.  Tomorrow I'll be back with the one Nicola gave her dad and Leo gave his grandad.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like what I've done.

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Tracy -x-

Now I have finally got a picture of  the third birthday card I did for my future son-in-laws 21 I am able to share it with you.  This one was given to him by my youngest, Kirsty,  There are a lot of elements on this card including embossing with the big shot, using the top note die and the petite pennant builder punch.

The colour combination was real red, tempting turquoise and wild wasabi.  I put some red card behind the buttons and cut around them so that they showed up on the card.  I have then mat and layered the sentiment from the hostess set Happiest Birthday Wishes.

Its a quick post from me today but I have lots of other cards to show you over the next few days so I hope you come back and check out my blog and that they give you some inspiration.  I do not mind if you copy my projects but would like it if you would  link back to my blog if you do.

If you wish to order anything my details are at the top of the page so don't be shy, get in touch :)

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Tracy -x-

I can't believe we are still having this lovely weather yet I haven't sat out in it at all, what a waste...lol.  In my last post I showed you all the birthday card I did for my daughter for her fiance.  Well today I'm going to show you another card that I did for him.  Now the funny thing is I can't remember if we gave him this card or my other daughter, Kirsty, did as I didn't take a photo of the other card... how daft is that?  I've asked Nic to look and see which one is Kirsty's and to take a picture for me so I can put it on here. I am pretty sure this is the one that we gave him... well I hope so....

The colour combination is Concord Crush, Peach Parfait, Pear Pizzazz and whisper white,  I just love the Elebration stamp its soooo cute.  I've used the markers to colour the cake and balloon, I've tried to match the balloon to the ones he got on his Birthday...lol.  The other products used are the big shot, Scallop Circle die, Lace Ribbon Border punch, alphsbet simple numbers die, Rhinestons and corner punch. The birthday sentiment is from the very versitile hostess set Happiest Birthday Wishes.

Thanks for stopping by and having a look.  Please leave a comment as I love to read them.  If you would like to buy any of the products or become a demo please get in touch and I'll be happy to chat to you about things.

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Tracy -x-

21st Mocha Morning card

Hello everyone,

Today is my future son in law's 21st birthday and I was tasked to make his cards from both my daughters.  Here is the one I made for Nicola, his fiancee, to give to him.  I wanted it to be different from ones he would normally recive so I made this......

I have glued two  5" cream cards (not SU) together to give the concertina effect.  I just love the Mocha Morning speciality papers as they are ideal for male cards.   Below are close up of the pages. 

On the front page I have used Soft Suede card as the base and added Very Vanilla card that has been embossed with the Square Lattice embossing folder.  I have used the black satin ribbon to cover up the join of the paper and card.  Lees name has been spelt in Basic Black card using the Timeless Type Junior Alphabet dies with Rhinestones on the L to highlight it.

The middle page is again Soft Suede as the base card and then I have used the reverse side of the Mocha Morning Paper that has been used on the other pages with Very Vanilla on top.  The same alphabet set used to spell "Lee" has been used for the "Today" letters but the 21 is spelt using the Aphabet Simple Numbers dies.  Again Rhinestones have been added to highlight the 21.

 The final page is the same as the front only reversed.  The edges of the Basic Black card has been created using the Scallop Trim border punch.  The sentiment is from the Hostess set, Happiest Birthday Wishes,  which you could earn if you hold a workshop and have sales above £150, and then punched out using the Decorative Label punch.

I was pleased that Nicola liked it and so did Lee when he received it today. We all went out for a meal last night but Lee thought it was going to be a nice romantic meal with him and Nicola so it was a big surprise for him that when he got to the restaurant there was me, hubby, Kirsty and Alex all sat waiting for him lol. Here is one of the pictures of Lee last night.....

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Believe it or not when we left the restaurant he tied the balloons to his trousers and walked to the pub with them like that, it was so funny as he still got asked for id at the bar....lol

I'll be back tomorrow to show you another card made for Lee., I'm off now to make mine to give him later, Kirsty's is already done thankfully !!!!

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Tracy -x-

Yesterday was my sisters birthday and today its my gorgeous daughter, Kirsty, 20th.  So you can imagine its been a busy time making all the cards.  Luckily I managed to get them done in time and gave them to her yesterday ready to open today.  I'm not sure if I will see her today due to the snow, our road is a cul-d-sac and doesn't thaw out that quick so is quite a nightmare to drive on, but I have spoke to her and sung "happy birhtday" to her over the phone.   Not sure if the singing was a good idea or not....lol

Anyway, here are the cards I made for her:

This one was for my mum to give her.  I have used the Create a Cupcake stamp set and matching punch.  as you can see I have also been using my big shot and embossing folders again along with the For my Family set to create the sentiment.  The colour combo is Crumb Cake, Pool Party and Calypso Coral.

This is the card from me and her dad.  I have used several different products on this card, Under the big top stamp set, big shot and emobssing folders, pennant punch, Happiest Birthday wishes Hostess stamp set and Just Perfect Alphabet for her name.  I even coloured in the image again using the stamp pad and blender pens.  The colour combo is Calypso Coral, Elegant Eggplant and Lucky Limeade.

  You may have guessed by now that I am having a spree of using the 2012 In Colours, I just love them all they are so bright and cheerful.   My eldest daughter choose a card from my stock which was one that I made at a Jules recent training event but I forgot to take a picture.  I will however be doing a similar card in my class at the end of the month so keep looking :)

My SU order has just arrived so off I am to play.  Thanks for stopping by and please leave a comment as I love to read them.

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Tracy -x-

Last night we had our gorgeous grandson, Leo, over to stay and he is such a comic.   At 61/2 months old you can image how inquisitive and fidgety he is.  Well he's had us in stiches over the weekend by pulling such a funny face, not quite sure where he's got it from.  He is almost sitting up on his own with just the odd wobble or two here and there and he really enjoys tummy time with all his toys. 
I finally managed to capture him with one of his funny faces on:

and here he is with some of his toys, isn't he adorable or am I just biased...lol

Well today its my sisters birthday and what a present she got, the lovely snow...  Now if you're like me you will enjoy looking at it but not going out in it.  Lukily, in some ways, I don't have to do that as I'm still off work but still don't like to see the white stuff on the ground.  I managed to make the cards for mum and me and took them down last night.  The girls chose two that I had already made so that took a little bit of pressure off me.

For my mums card I used Paisley Petals to create a elegant card.  I stamped the image onto very vanilla card and then, using blender pens, I copied the colours from the DSP that goes with this stamp set.  The larger flower head had been cut out and mounted using dimesional.  I was inspired to create the corners from a publication demos receive from SU and it's using one of the punches.  If you would like to know more then come to one of my classes to find out how to do it :)  I have also used punches to create the bottom boarder.  The sentiments are from the hostess set Happiest Birthday wishes and the For my Family sentiment set from the main catty. 

The next card is from me.  I've used the Creative elements set and created the background by resist embossing.  The sentiment is again from the For my Family set and the frame has been embossed using the big shot and cut out by hand.  The colour combination for this card is Soft Suede, Crumb cake and Calypso Coral

 
Tomorrows its my youngest's birthday so I'll be back to show you some of the cards I made her.  
 
I hope you have enjoyed looking at my creations.
 
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Tracy -x-

Hello everyone,

Do you, like me, struggle to make male cards?  Well today its my youngest daughters partners birthday and as always I stuggled with the card. So I got my thinking head on and made him this card using the Sale Away stamp.

 I wanted to use some colours I don't usually use so decieded on black, soft suede and cajun craze as the colour theme and I think they work very well together for a male card.  I stamped the image in Cajun Craze on Whisper White card and, using a blender pen, added some "sea" to the card with Baja Breeze by picking the ink up from the lid.  I then did faux stiching on the black card around the soft suede.  Once I had stamped the sentiment from the hostess set Happiest Birthday Wishes I thought that something was missing so I added the buttons which I feel go well on this card.

I've got to pull my finger out as I need another 7 cards for the weekend as its my sisters birthday on Sunday and my youngests on Monday and I've been tasked to make all the cards from us all...the joy...lol.  So I'll be back soon to show you what I've done.

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Tracy -x-