The birthday card season for me really begins from April when I have a whole plethora of birthdays (and thankyous!) to address up until August, where it calms down a bit. Oh except that I will have wedding craft mania then!
I have been a bit smitten with my alphabet stamps (and that manuscript paper) so all three attempts today make use of them.
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This is for a close family member's E's 60th birthday which is today! Happy birthday E!
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He's a bit of a fan of many types of music- jazz, rock and all that and so I thought I'd celebrate that in this card! I watched an origami tutorial on Youtube to make the shirt. Thank goodness for Youtube- there's NO way I could have followed a book instruction on this! I used peeloffs for the instruments and backed onto a variety of metallic cards. Not so much a fan of this ink pad- it smudged a dozen times and didn't like most of the papers I tried it on!
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Next up was a belated birthday card for one of my favourite bloggers, Katie at www.hooklineandsinkher2.blogspot.com Katie makes no bones about her love of cake (er- every blog post is it?) and so a TOWIC (much nicer version of TOWIE) was definitely the way forward!
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Finally, it was CBC's birthday so I made use of his love of maps and bicycles in this card- using a bike stamp I bought to make the first card I ever made for CBC, combined with reused road atlas and old Royal Academy of Music concert programme.
I must find the pictures of that first ever card at some point- it's one of the cards I have been most proud of (and the most time-consuming- it must have been 10 hours in the make!)
Link-parties galore!!
Linking to:
Sarah's Super handmade Sunday
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Linking to Creative Mondays with Claire Justine xoxo
and Cynthia at Feeding Big's In and out link party
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Lakota, Lakota, wherefore art thou Lakota? I come proferring Tahdahs!!!
I have been a bit smitten with my alphabet stamps (and that manuscript paper) so all three attempts today make use of them.
This is for a close family member's E's 60th birthday which is today! Happy birthday E!
He's a bit of a fan of many types of music- jazz, rock and all that and so I thought I'd celebrate that in this card! I watched an origami tutorial on Youtube to make the shirt. Thank goodness for Youtube- there's NO way I could have followed a book instruction on this! I used peeloffs for the instruments and backed onto a variety of metallic cards. Not so much a fan of this ink pad- it smudged a dozen times and didn't like most of the papers I tried it on!
Next up was a belated birthday card for one of my favourite bloggers, Katie at www.hooklineandsinkher2.blogspot.com Katie makes no bones about her love of cake (er- every blog post is it?) and so a TOWIC (much nicer version of TOWIE) was definitely the way forward!
Finally, it was CBC's birthday so I made use of his love of maps and bicycles in this card- using a bike stamp I bought to make the first card I ever made for CBC, combined with reused road atlas and old Royal Academy of Music concert programme.
I must find the pictures of that first ever card at some point- it's one of the cards I have been most proud of (and the most time-consuming- it must have been 10 hours in the make!)
Link-parties galore!!
Linking to:
Sarah's Super handmade Sunday
Linking to Creative Mondays with Claire Justine xoxoand Cynthia at Feeding Big's In and out link party
Lakota, Lakota, wherefore art thou Lakota? I come proferring Tahdahs!!!