Happy Birthday Sweetie Pie

Hi folks,

well today is my dearly beloved's birthday and this is the card I made for him (I must confess that I made it just this morning).

I know. You're thinking "Birthday card?" this doesn't have birthday on it anywhere! Well, truth be told  his birthday cards tend to be more "romantically" themed than birthday themed most of the time. And they tend to use somewhat less traditional materials. Once again, I have made him a transparent card (using report cover weight acetate I get at the office supply store - transparencies are too thin) with metal (this time some wire mesh). I swear I have used this stamp on a card for him sometime in the past but...what can I say, I like the sentiment and he's the only one I can use it for so.....

The front of the card is actually just the transparent layer, the mesh, the horizontal strip and the round sentiment panel. It looks like there is a black layer but that is actually from inside the card (which has the same pattern as the front but with a black panel replacing the mesh)

anyways, here's the deets:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches
• wire craft mesh (from the dollar store)
• stamps: Verve 
• Copic Markers: R39, C1, C2, C3, C4, C5 (if you look closely, you will see that the grey colour in the row of hearts is graduated from dark to light as you go from left to right)
• layout: Corrosive Challenge 107

Additional challenges for this card:

• Paper Sundaes #60: Keep it simple (hardly any colouring on this one for me, no patterned papers and an uncomplicated layout)

 Hope you all have a lovely day!

hopping in to easter...

This card is actually one of the projects that we made at Jenn's workshop in Rideau Ferry. It was so pretty that I had to send it to my parents for Easter. My photography skills suck if you haven't figured that out already - or maybe I just need a DSLR....hear that Mr. Easter Bunny?




The card has an acetate base, a painted background on the front {inside} and then all the paperwork is on the outside. An awesome design by Jenn. She's my paper-crafting hero. You should check out her blog . She always has something amazingly cool or cute to ooh and ahh over.

It's getting late for me....tune in tomorrow when I'll post another half dozen or so Easter cards I made this week.

No peeking Doug!

I'm pretty sure my dearly beloved does not follow my paper-crafting blog, but just in case he does --- Doug....back away from this post.

No peeking!

Okay, you say you aren't Doug. Well, you can see the card I made for his birthday. I used this sketch from Sketch Saturday.

Doug recently commented that more cards need to use acetate. Plus, I love to use metal on cards I make for him. One way to making a card masculine I say! Metal...more metal! In this case, some copper sheets and copper mesh I have been ...saving...yes saving...for a special card. A co-worker's girlfriend RAKed it to me quite some time ago.

Anyhow....here is the card.




It was very difficult to photograph. Tried a black background ...that didn't work. So, then I tried it with a white background. Seems to have turned out better.

Elements of the card - acetate base, copper mesh attached with copper eyelets (love the crop-a-dile). Nestabilities labels for the image panel and sentiment panel. The hearts are copper mesh cut with my cuttlebug dies with the two-step heart also cut from black card stock layered on top. The cupcake is from inkadinkado and stamped with stazon on copper and then the frosting is layered paper-pieced from white card-stock. The I love you and happy birthday are stamped in copper and are Studio G images I believe.

There is also an inner panel (not visible in the photo), that is a nestabilities label cut from copper with a white card stock panel layered on top. Already signed and ready for giving.

I hope to find more time to make him another card before his birthday on Friday.