Oh dear I've done it again.... lost track of time and not posted for a while.  I don't know what happens to make me not post, must be something to do work, children, grandson and life in general... how dare these things interfere in my crafting..lol  Seriously though you should start so see quite a few posts coming this way in the next few weeks as I've got to start prepping for a craft fair I'm taking part in on the 30 September in Nuthall.  Luckily I've got lots of ideas from my upline, Victoria, so its just a case of knuckling down to do them.  The only trouble with that is I'm not too keen on repeating things so its going to be a challenge for me just to do that....wish me luck!!!!

Anyway, enough about me, here's a card I made for my gorgeous Grandson, Leo, for his first birthday last month.  I knew what I wanted to do so I thought it would be relatively easy but no, I decided to expand on the theme I had in mind.   The card I wanted to make was meant to be similar to one I made at one of Jules training events which was to create train carriages from punches and stamp the animals from Fox and Friends.  Here is the one from Jules training, isn't it just sweet....

How could I go bigger with this I hear you asking?   Well I decided to do a four fold card and make the inside the train carriages.   To do this I used the Top Note die with the Big Shot and cut out 3 shapes, I then cut them down the middle with one side just slightly more than half and embossed them with the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder.  For the animals in the carriages I used stamps from Elebration, Fox and Friends and Easy Events.  The colour combination is from the Subtles collection and is Bashful Blue, So Saffron and Wild Wasabi.  I've also used coordinating paper from the Subtles paper stack and Whisper White.  

So here is the finished card for our little man....

I was soooo pleased with the end result as its both colourful and fun to look at.  As you can see Leo has all his animal friends on board ready to go celebrate his birthday.  But wait a minute, where's Leo?   

Here he is....I thought it would be fun if the front of the card had Leo "looking" through the leaves to find his friends :)  The verse went on the last page to finish the card off.

I think he liked the card but he was so spoilt on his birthday with lots of lovely new toys I think cards were the last thing on his mind !!!!

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Til next time, take care. 

Hugs

Tracy -x-

Products used:

Stamp sets : Fox and Friends, Elebration, Easy Events, Petite Pairs

Big Shot with: Perfect Polka Dot embossing folder, Alphabet Simple numbers, Top Note Die

Card: So Saffron, Bashful Blue, Wild Wasibi, Whisper White

Subles Paper Stack

Punches: 2 Step BirdPunch, 1/2" and 3/4" circle punch, Scallop Square, Word Window

Accessories: Snail glue, Bright Brads, Flower Brads. Bakers Twine Island Indigo, Piercing tool and mat pack, Dimensionals

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.

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Tracy -x-

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Good morning everyone,

What a beautiful morning, I hope the weather is as nice for you as it is here.  Its still a bit chilly when you go out but we have lovely sunshine which I think makes everyone feel a little happier :)  Today I'm going to show you the card I made for mothers day.  For once I was not last minute.com, I had it all finished by Saturday night ready for delivery Sunday morning so feel quite proud of myself...haha

Here is the card that I did for my Mum, unfortunately Dean's mum passed away several years ago so she was in our thoughts on the day.

I have layerd card and paper onto a card base and attached the sentiment.  I have then attached some vellum over the top and added the flower to the front.  This not only adds decoration but you can put some glue on the vellum underneath the flower to hold the vellum in place on the card.  I have also put 2 tiny bits of snail tape on the top corners on the back to hold it secure also but you can hardly see the snail tape.   Below is the insert and I have used my markers to create the different colours on the flower.

Now I needed to make something to put mum's pressie in so I made this little bag thinking the gift would fit inside, some of it did and some of it didn't...lol

I've coordinated it with a similar flower to the one on her card,  this was made the same way as the ones in the photo frame post,  and used the top note die as the flap to close the bag.  These are the pressies we brought her, guess which one didn't fit in?

Yep you're right it was the necklace and earrings that were attached to it ...lol  The bracelet and fridge magnet only just fit in as well ...lol   The magnet said, " Mums are like Buttons, they hold everything together" which I thought was so true.  I knew that my mum loves the jade colour and when we went out on Monday she wore it and it looked lovely and really suited her.

As you know I'm now the proud grandparent of little Leo so when I brought mums magnet I saw another one that I could not resist as it said " A grandparent is someone with silver in their hair and gold in their heart"  not that I've got a lot of silver in my hair...lol but I thought it was so sweet I had to have it.

Well I hope you've enjoyed looking at my projects again and will  leave a comment for me to read.  Now I'm off to try and make a start on the 8 cards I need for next week !!!

Take care

Hugs
Tracy -x-

Sorry I've not  blogged for a few days but I ended up at A&E last week as my pain was so severe.  Its a little better now as the pain clinic have started me on yet more tablets, I'll be rattling soon lol.  So, I thought I'd pop along whilst I can to show you something very special to me.

None of my daughters are crafters like me so, when they need anything doing its always "Mum can you do this or that"  I bet you all know that feeling don't you...lol  However this time things were different,  Nicola has finally booked little mans christening. In anticipation of the event I ordered the stamp set My Special Day which arrived on Monday 6 February, much to Nicolas delight.  Over the last few weeks we had discussed different layouts for the invitation and RSVP such as a wallet type card, a fan like card etc.   Nicola finally decided on the fan type card.

We decided that the big shot Top Note die was perfect for the job so I managed to do a few samples so that she could show her partner and make it a joint decision.  All the samples involved heat embossing which Nicola has never done and was horrified at the prospect of doing them herself...lol

Anyway, Nicola took the big shot home and some Whisper White card so that she could get started on the cards and wording.   Luckily I had a template where I had cut 2 Top Note dies from a A5 piece of card so she used that to get her spacing right.  Then last Wednesday she came up and, because I was still in so much pain, had to face doing the heat embossing herself !!!!!  This is how the cards came out.....

I'm sure you will agree she did an excellent job with the embossing, I am sooooo proud of her to have completed them all by herself as she had 20 to do.  She did admit that if I had been well enough then she would have asked me to do them so, in a way, I'm glad I couldn't as its shown her just what she can do.  Its also nice that she can say to Leo when he's old enough that mummy did them all by herself as she made an extra one for his keepsake box :)  All the products used are from SU c/o mum...lol except the wording as that was done on her pc.

Well thank you for taking the time to visit my blog.  I'd love it if you left a comment.  If you wish to purchase any SU items please get in touch by one of the methods at the top of the page.

Hugs

Tracy -x-