Fancy fold card

I don't buy a lot of patterned paper/ card for my club as I don't find it cost effective. Recently I found some nice vintage-style pads in The Range and they were so cheap (£1.49 and £1.99) I couldn't not buy them.

I'd watched a video the other day of a card with a similar fold to this one but the measurements were all in imperial and I find it difficult sometimes marking 3/16ths of an inch or whatever.

The card from this pad is perfectly sized to just fold in half and then half again, no faffing. I did then decide to trim some off the height but no silly bits of an inch.

The stamps are a mix of Inkandinkado and Kaisercraft.
The tag punch is SU

Triple-tag Card

To make the tags I used a set of dies from Elizabeth Craft Designs, and then hinged them together at the back.
The finished card is just under 5" x 7"

The sentiment and quote stamps are by Lili of the Valley
All other stamps are by Woodware

Dad

The card I made for my dad for Father's Day recently.

He loves anything to do with nature so I used Papermania 'Home To Nest' range.

Alpha is Sizzix Script

Happy Birthday

Sentiment stamp is by Woodware
Orange patterned card is recycled from a perfume box

Beautiful You

The butterfly and sentiment strip/ tag are by K & Company.

I embossed some pink card in my Cuttlebug and then roughly swiped a Versamark pad over, sprinkled with gold embossing powder and then brushed some off in places before heating. I wanted random parts of gold not an all-over coverage.

Welcome

Stamp is Waltzingmouse, tag is a Spellbinders die.

Paper is Jillibean Soup.

Naughty

Tag is Smirk by Trimcraft.
16 is Sizzix 'Sunset' alphabet. Swirl stamp is Autumn Leaves.

hanglar stanglar

I received some stamped images a year or so ago but wasn't keen so I put them in a drawer and forgot about them.

Having a tidy out and came across them again and thought I ought to use them up.

The sentiment tag is by Kanban, the image is hanglar stanglar.

The blue card with the bunting printed on is actually the reverse of an advertising flyer from Emma Bridgewater pottery! Seemed a shame to put in the bin.

Dreamweaver

Are you bored of these Dreamweaver cards yet?

Dasher

I love this card.
Made at SU class. We used the same stamps as the previous card (Dasher and Serene Snowflakes).
A new technique we learned was how to use SU shimmer paint. You really can't see it on the photo but the card has been sprayed a light shimmery gold.
I have tried shimmer mists in the past and could not get on with them because I felt they warped the card too much. The SU shimmer paint has been mixed with alcohol so once sprayed the alcohol evaporates quickly and the card does not warp at all.

Forever Friends

I bought some Forever Friends stickers in a sale last year and have finally used them.
Actually I'm trying really hard to use up old stash instead of buying new....we'll see how that goes!

Tag Challenge

Please click on photo to make it bigger, when I tried to upload it a better size it hit
everything on the right of my blog!

I made this for a tag challenge on the Waltzingmouse blog.
You can enter as many times as you wish and there is a fabulous prize for the winner.
I love their stamps and their customer service is excellent, definitely recommend paying the gallery a visit!

So, I used a Waltzingmouse Very Vintage Labels No.4 stamp and combined it with 'Season's Greetings' from the Very Vintage Christmas stamp set.
The patterned paper I have had ages and suspect it was a fill-a-box job. The snowflake is Papermania and I got the marabou feather from Ebay. I added some self-adhesive pearls and faux stitching.

Wedding

This was a card that ended up nothing like what the customer asked for....
Sentiment is computer generated, butterflies strategically placed to hide random lumpy bits (think it was double sided tape showing through!).
Gorgeous shimmer paper is 'Elegance' by K & Co, charcoal grey card is fill-a-wallet. Border punch is by Martha Stewart.

Matching box, I left the silver thread untied so that the customer would not have to fiddle about with it ;)

Mini tags are stamped and punched using Stampin' Up Medium Jewelry Tag punch (US spelling for 'jewellery'!) and Stampin' Up Tiny Tags stamps

Christmas

Cuttlebug Script Texture embossing folder, ribbon and papers from stash.

Images are Christmas gift tags.

Birthday Wishes

Stationery tags from The Range

Flowers by Prima, button brads by Making Memories.

Stamp by DoCrafts.