Anchor card

Here's the second of the Masculine cards we made last week. It uses the same colour scheme of Not Quite Navy and Riding Hood Red. This was a smaller A6 card:



Again we have used a piece of the One Sheet Wonder to create the background panel. I stamped 3 anchors and the ship in basic grey and cut them all out. Sadly there are no matching punches for these but I quite enjoy a bit of hand cutting:

I used Linen thread to tie the anchors together. For my Husband was stamped using the For My Family stamp set again. I stamped 'husband' on to a Large Oval and popped that onto a label punched with the Modern Label punch:

 If you would like to buy any of these products, then please get in touch. Next time I'll show you the notebook we made as a small gift. x

Fair Owls

Hi everyone, I recently had a stall at a Spring fair and I was asked to do an activity for the children. Having seen several versions of this owl on the internet, I decided to do these.

These owls have made with Poppy Parade, Island Indigo and Daffodil Delight cardstock. Their bodies are cut using the Pillow Box die and the Big Shot. The 'feathers' are made from strips of designer papers from the Designer Paper stacks in matching or complimentary colours.

I used punchs for the detail - the feet are punched using the 5 Petal Flower, the wings are punched with the Large Oval and the beak is one of the hearts from the Heart to Heart punch. I prepared most things before the fair but the owl was so popular I had to cut lots more. One girl ended up making 5 of them!

Here's a close up of the red one:

The kids loved this, especially as it gave them a little gift box aswell as a cute owl. Why not have a go yourself. x

Up, Up and Away!

This is the last card we made in the cupcake card class. There are lots of versions of this card on the internet and this is my version of it:

We used Bashful Blue for the base card and stamped the 'basket' in Soft Suede ink using the Create A Cupckae stamp set, then punched it using the Cupcake Builder punch. The balloon was punched from Pumpkin Pie card which had been embossed with the Stripes embossing folder. We used the 1 3/4" Circle punch and the large Oval punch to give it the 3D effect. The clouds were punched from Whisper White using the Cupcake Builder punch again. The hills were cut from different shades of green designer paper. Here's the usual close up:



The stamp set and punch are available from the Spring mini catalogue - but only till April 31st. x