Hello 2012, ive been a bit absent lately

Morning everyone, i have been a very poor blogger of late as I got snowed under with all my xmas Tea light orders that I just never got around to blogging any of my pictures or cards. I am all caught up now so thought I would show you a few of the cards I have made for orders over the past few weeks.

I was asked to commission a card for a friends little boy who was 5 on Xmas day. He loves Superman and Spiderman so I made these 2 cards. I apologise the pictures arent great as I took them at night.

The Superman badge is a google image that I resized in my craft studio and printed out a number of times ( it was a black and white image) I coloured it in using my promarkers and decoupaged the image. I used cricut cart Alphalicious for the number and the words, and my craft studio for the sentiment.

I used make the cut with my cricut to cut out the 'web'. The spiderman image is just from google and resized etc in my craft studio. I used my cricut cart alphalicious to cut the '5' and the 'brother'.

I was also asked for a cute ladies card for an 80th birthday and this is what I came up with, it needed to be quick as the lady only ordered it the day before she needed it so I used my A4 card kit from the Me to You collection to make the above card. I used letter stickers and flowers from my stash to add the extra detail, and the alphalicious cart for the numbers.

I get asked alot to make these types of cards for men usually and I do enjoy making them. One of my regular customers asked me for 2 Everton cards as you can see but because they where for the same customer I tried to make them slightly different whilst sticking to the same theme.

I used a google image in my craft studio and printed it out several times so I could decoupage the image. I used my craft studio again for the sentiments and then (am sure you can guess whats coming next lol)  I used my cricut cart Alphalicious for the number and word. I also created the backing paper for the insides using my craft studio and tiled the image.

Thanks for looking if you got this far, any feedback is always greatly received.

Marie xxx

Football Commissioned card

Good Afternoon all, hope your all enjoying your Sunday. Im taking a break from cleaning the house to have a spot of lunch and catch up on some blog hopping and wanted to share with you a card I made on Friday. It was a commissioned card for a friend I used to work with. It is her sisters 21st Birthday this weekend and she is a massive Evertonian so she wanted a footy card, however I have made everton cards for her in the past so wanted something a bit different and a bit special. Let me know what you think.

I used My Craft Studio to resize and tile the everton badge image whifh i got from google images, this makes up the backing paper. I then printed out the badge 5 times and cut it up to make a decoupaged badge for inside the rosette. The rosette is made with stripes of ribbon cut at approx 5cm and just stuck to the back of a scalloped circle which I cut on my cricut.

I used my Robo to cut the '21 today' (as my cricut has broken and is being sent off for repair *sob sob*).

This is a close up of some of my paper roses I made to go with this project, i just love how these look and at how easy they are to make. I have added some glitter but the pic doesnt do it justice.

Ill be back later with a picture of my new 'jars' which I am using to store all my paper roses in as I sat making a load of these friday night when my virgin went off.

Any comments really appreciated

Hugs

Marie xx

Unusual Wedding card

Hey Everyone,

I was asked to make a wedding card with a twist and wanted to show you what I came up with.
A friend (another child's mum from school) asked me to make a card for her sister's wedding in two weeks, but she had an unusual request - she wanted a 'Jedward' wedding card. Her sister is called Jade and is about to become Jade Ward so they winde her up by calling her Mrs Jedward.
Here is what I came up with.

I used My Craft Studio to resize the wedding image I got from Papercraft inspirations magazine.

I used Alphalicious Cricut Cartridge to cut the Mr & Mrs and Jedward but then glittered them.

I cut the flowers on my Robo/Silluette and then cut them and shaped them into the paper roses following a video tuturial made by Stephanie Weightman from C&C.

The border punch is a MS doily lace

this is the inside view of the card, the picture of jedward is attached to a small 6x6 square card so that she can write inside it.

This is a close up of my paper roses I did glitter them too but the pic is not very clear.

Hope you like it and comments are really appreciated as always

Marie xx

New design using ribbon

Just wanted to share this with you also. I got the design idea from a friend and put my own spin on this.
Let me know what you think of it.

Its a ribbon rosette. I cut the scalloped circle out on the cricut and then cuts strips of ribbon about 5cm and then just looped them and stuck them to the back of the scalloped circle, it was suprisingly easy to do.I
've made this card for a friends chrsitening that me and Roslyn are attending on Sunday.

The image is from the baby decoupage digi set from Pink Gem Designs and the sentiment stamp is from the My Craft Studio papercraft library Vol 3 Violet cd rom.

Let me know what you think 

Hugs

Marie xx

Some cards ive made over the last few weeks

Hello Everyone, Sorry I have been a bit absent lately but just wanted to share these 2 cards I made with you guys.

The 1st one is an order for a Winnie the Pooh 1st birthday card for a set of twin boys.

I got the winnie the pooh images off google and used My Craft Studio to resize them and also to tile the image so I was able to make the backing paper used on the inside for the pop outs.

The next one is also for an order but its a football card for a girl, 21st birthday.

Again I used my craft studio to alter the image from google and make the backing papers for the pop outs.

I used my cricut and Alphalicious cart to cut out the names for both cards.

Hope you like them and comments are much appreciated
Hugs

marie xx