Friday, October 31, 2008

Jig Saw Card


This card was done for a 4 elements swap that had to have some textured paper, something with wings, orange oval shape and a jig saw piece. I used a little Jig saw making machine that I had to have a couple of years ago and have only used it once

Weird & Wacky squarish card


This card was for a fun swap called Lets Party. I used the Weird and Wacky squarish card Template then used Pc crafter images to decorate it then cut out a party animal image and popped it in the window

Lace Card


Here is a card I made for a friends Birthday he plays golf so the stickers I had found laying around came in very handy I put them on a white card which I did some lace work down the side and then layered on top a black card

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Card on Card Butterflies


Here is another card on card I made for a swap this time it was butterflies I embossed buth cards the added images of butterflies on both

Brown on Brown


This card was made for a How now Brown Card I had to do for a swap that the main colour had to be only Brown I think it all came together nicely even through brown is not one of my favorite colours

Spinner Card

This card I think is called a spinner card
It was for a swap that had to have moving parts
I cut out a circle in the top of the card so you could see through then I cut another larger circle in white card stock I stamped images of lowers around this in segments on the side of the card I punched out an half a circle so you can turn it the I layered this all on top of another card making sure the "wheel inside could still be turned

Card on Card one for the boys



I think this card is called A card on Card but not to sure I made this for a brother in law I had some small playing cards that I attached to the large card which becomes the insede card if that makes sense then on the smaller card , outside card I used some 3d images of some bottles of booze.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Star Trek


This card was for a Famous Actors Swap I am a bit of a treki so I decided to do the captains of Star Trek Using a 3d image

Lace Blast from the Past


This card was for a Blast from the Past Swap I used a 3d Image of "The King Elvis" and used punches to punch out his name the added a side boarder of lace

Beatles Card

This Card was made for a Famous faces swap
I used an image of the Fab 4

Iris Fold Ice cream cone


Iris folding is not one of my favorite techniques as mine always seemed to be bulky but with this one I used the thicker curling ribbon used to wrap presents with there was no need to fold in half and the edge was perfect and no bulk

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Gallery Card what gets me through the day


I must find out what this type of card is called I will have to ask my good friend Susan who is a bottomless pit of all great tips and information on anything to do with cards or paper crafts.

This was a fun swap about what gets me through the day I used images from Pccrafter as you can see she is having a cocktail to start the day chocolate in between and another cocktail to finish the day with.

just heard from Susan it is called a Gallery card thanks Susan

Sticker Magic


This card was for a reverse sticker swap You had to use a sticker and then send the left behind pieces of to you partner then they would make a card with it and send it back. it was fun to see what everyone did with their opposites

Sympathy Card


This is one type of I can I can honestly say I dont not like making because instead of bringing Joy. I think it is attached to sadness.
This cad I made for a friend who's daughter passed away at the age of 25 I sued whit card the put an over lay of velum which I added an ornare boarder to and then just used to very simple stickers on the front

Ornare Boader card

For this card I used a stamp I had brought from a market for $2.00 I layer it on red and then gold metallic aper then mounted it on while card I added a length of ribbon and them done a boarder down the side of the card in ornare and punch work the placed a strip of red metallic paper behind it

Monochromatic Purples


Here is another card I made just using the one colur this time I used Purples I added a 3d image in the center of this one and used the Fiskars shape cutter to cut the diamond shapes out I coloured some corner stickers in Puple and added them to 2 opposite corners

MonoChromatic Card Blue


When I first heard that i had to do a Monochromatic swap I nearly fainted I had never heard of that word (i am not as smart as most heheh) But thanks to good old Wikipedia I found out it just meant Use of one colour why they did just say that I will never know so here is my take on it I useda blued card the mounted on it another slightly darker shard of blue on top I punched the edges and put some blue cotton round the edge used a roller stamp and then put some blue dimonties on to finish off.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Friendship card


I dont know what you would call this card
this was made for a friend on my CMT group
I used cuttlebug embossing folder Mesh and the Honeycomb Die Images are from PC Crafter

Pop Up Card



This card was made for a Friend I hadn't seen for a while it was pop up card I the images used where from a monthly project from PC Crafter

Heart Throb

This was made for a Valentines Day Swap I used a heart corner adorner place some matching ribbon down the side and used the Darcy's Bear I punched out a heart and placed it in his hands