Birthday Book

I wanted to do this for this Project Tuesday Birthday Book Challenge, but I missed the date (by quite a lot - I need to be more organised!) I created this book as a traditional sewn book, I printed off the pages and trimmed them before sewing them into the black card. I then decorated the front with these free digipapers and a DigiSparkle image.

Black card from WHS

Image: Present from Digisparkle

Papers: Free digipapers from papercraft inspirations

Nesties, bigshot, red paper from ikea, black ink

New Technique

I had a go at a technique I've seen around, using a nestie to emoss a frame. I'm not convinced, I suspect a square or rectangle would work better but I'm yet to buy those (they're on my list!)

Images: Paddington (free from magazine) Fairy (woodware?)

Card balnks: white craft tonic

Other: ribbon from stash, derwent coloursoft & sansador, gel pens

Bible quotes

I really like this stamp set at DigiSparkle so consequently here's another card using it! Love the red and black mix, seems to work quite well so I used it again, along with my nesties which I am definitely addicted to! Card - Black card from WHS
Image - Bible sentiments from DigiSparkle
Others - Red paper from ikea, papermania clear birthday stamps, dew drop moonlight white ink, heart paper punch, nesties and big shot

This is another card using the Be still stamp I think I prefer this card but I was trying to do it another way as I love the stamp. I really should remember that if I like a card I can repeat it!

Card - white card blank
Image - Bible sentiments from DigiSparkle
Other - green card from my stash, nesties, big shot, purple ribbon from market

Can you spot a theme?

Labels again! I know but once I start on something I just keep going. Not convinced by this - should have used a more subtle pink on the wording! Oh well, we live and learn!

Card - Pink card from stash
Image - Present from Whispers birthday stamp set
Sentiment - Happy birthday stamp (can't remember who by!)
Other - Pink ink, black ink, Papermania sticky ribbon, black card, white paper, nesties and big shot

Present Scrapling

Yes another scrapling! Sorry about the poor photo. This really was a 1 minute jobby! The thing that took the longest was deciding which present to put on the bottom!

I sometimes make up a load of these presents, cupcakes at a go and then can just grab one for a card (athough I often waste time deciding on which colours go, so it's often just as easy to make it at the time with the co-ordinating paper!)

Card - Pink cardstock from stash
Image - Sizzix sizzlets present
Other - Happy birthday stamp, pink ink, big shot

Uncle's birthday

I somehow arrived at Wednesday last week without really knowing where the week had gone. This wasn't great as it meant I had to pack as we were going awaythe next day, make sure I had photographed all the cards I wanted to blog this week and then I suddenly realised it was my Uncle's birthday on Saturday! So this is my rush job card (why I hadn't got any in my collection that were suitable I don't know!)

I used a Paddington bear I had stamped, coloured and cut out ready (thank goodness!), so all I had to do was add the blue oval and the sentiment. Why is it that when you're in a rush things just don't seem to come together! Anyway, I finally added 'Uncle' with Papermania alphabet and handwrote the rest - not great but it was appreciated (I spoke to them yesterday!)

Card: CardTonic tall card blank
Image: Paddington stamp (free from a magazine)
Sentiment: Papermania alphabet and blue ink and handwritten with blue gel pen
Others: nesties, big shot, derwent coloursoft pencild and sasador

Champagne celebation

I recently did a wedding card (here) and while I was doing this I had a go at using the digistamp champagne glasses from DigiSparkle, they didn't look right for the wedding card but I decided to go on and make them into a card anyway. I really like them and although it seems odd not to colour the black and white seems to work, I suppose it's quite clean and simple!

Image: Champagne glass from DigiSparkle - I used 2 and skewed them a bit on the computer!
Card: White square card blank
Paper: Plain white paper, black card from WHS
Other: Big shot, nesties, silver organza ribbon from stash