I'm really pleased with how it turned out in the end. It doesn't look so good in the picture as it does in real life, I think I've dropped my camera one too many times as it seems to struggle to focus these days.
Anyway, with it being payday last Friday and a bank holiday weekend, I went over to Hobbycraft yesterday to feed my new habit for craft items! I have some birthdays coming up in September so decided to practice my card making skills. They need a little honing I feel.
The first one is for my cousin's daughter Bethany. I had a plan to do an animal card with a basic Happy Birthday message at the top. I practised yesterday and was quite please with the plan. I have decided that on my cards I'm going to put my Andrea makes... stamp in the bottom right hand corner rather than in the middle of the card. This is what my future cards will look like:
One of things I bought yesterday was a paper creaser, which turned out to be a very good example of how much easier things are when you have the right tools!
Anyway, back to the birthday card. it was all going swimmingly, I did my grass with a glue pen and green pigment powder, and stamped out the animals. They were then sprinkled with clear embossing powder and then heated with my heat gun. Before and after below.
I then went on to do the Happy Birthday across the top and to gold emboss it when the heating tool died. Soooooo frustrating. I've used it like 5 times. I tried using my hair dryer on its hot setting but it wouldn't work for the gold and then the gold powder couldn't be removed without messing up the top of the card so sadly I had to start all over again.The hairdryer could mostly do the clear embossing on the brown but for some of it I had to go over it again with a glue pen and add in more embossing powder. I chose not to gold emboss the Happy Birthday this time and to just colour in the animals as planned. I had thought about buying some water colour pens, but they're so expensive I just bought colouring pencils in the end. Anyway, this is the finished card!
I think it's quite cute!
After this I made a card for my Uncle. I'd been looking for ideas for cards for him online last week and I really like a bunting card that I'd seen. So I bought a pack of double sided paper and cut out some pennants:
Then I did a sketch on the card of where I wanted the bunting to drape and stuck on the pennants. I did need to shift them around a bit to get them to drape evenly so they didn't completely follow the initial pencil lines.
After that it was a case of adding the sparkly string that the pennants are attached to and hey presto! A card with bunting on it!
My final card is for my friend Shobana. I was a bit stuck on what to do, as whilst I enjoy making things, I don't have the ideas without a nudge. So had a look through my card making book and liked the idea of having a window cut out of the card that I could hang a 'gift' from. So I made the gift first and then cut out the window to the appropriate size and edged it with silver:
For the gift I made a double-sided red square with slightly smaller silver squares inside and used ricrac to tie the gift up. After adding a little red bow that I'd bought from Hobbycraft I hung it in the window and this is the finished article!
I've really enjoyed doing this today. It's made me realise that there are few things that would be helpful such as a fine tipped glue dispenser. Something tells me this crafting habit is going to be one of my more expensive ones...!
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