A card for Ollie

Here's a recent card I made for my nephew's birthday. I really love the papers which are from the Birthday Basics designer series pack. I know these are going to get used a lot, especially for kids birthdays!!

Ollie's name was stamped with the Noteable Alphabet stamps and the 3 was cut using the Typeset Number dies on my Big Shot.

I added a little scrap of paper inside the card.

I also used the simply scored tool to create an embossed zig-zag effect.

 Kylie x

Bird house New Home card

Here's a card I made recently for Julie Kettlewell after moving into her long-awaited new home. I was so pleased to be able to give her this card and its great to see the family enjoying their amazing house at last.  And I'm not at all jealous of Julie's new craft room - honestly!!

Products used:

Card stock: Melon Mambo, Pool Party, Pretty in Pink, Gumball Green, White Naturals

Papers: Natural Composition

Punches: Bird Builder, Itty Bitty Shapes, 1" Circle, Scallop Border

Other: Pearls, Early Espresso marker

Kylie x

Baby, Baby!

This week my friend asked to make four new baby cards, in the same design as the one I made for her and her husband when their bundle of joy arrived 2 months ago!  She doesn't know whether she'll need cards for girls or boys, so I made 4 of each so she would have them to hand when she got the announcements!

The cute baby vest stamp is from the retired Slice of Life stamp set, but there's a similar one in the Bundle of Love set in the current catalogue.

Stamps: Slice of Life, Pennant Parade

Card stock: Pink Pirouette, Baja Breeze, Whisper White

Inks: Pink Pirouette, Baja Breeze, Basic Grey

Papers: Subtles paper stack

Equipment: Scallop Border punch, Oval punches, Corner Rounder punch

Others: Whisper White satin ribbon

Cheeky monkey

Yet another birthday card commission and this one was for a 2 year old boy.  I got out one of my favourite stamp sets - Fox and Friends and selected the very cute monkey stamp...

I was asked to personalise the card with the little boy's name so I used the Just Perfect Alphabet stamps using the Stamp-a-ma-jig to perfectly position the letters (kind of!!!).

Stamps: Fox and Friends, Just Perfect Alphabet

Card stock: Old Olive, Crumb Cake, So Saffron

Inks: Soft Suede

Equipment: Square Lattice Embossing Folder, Scallop Border Punch, Simple Numbers Dies

New home card

I saw a really lovely bird house card on a blog (click here) this weekend and wanted to recreate it to make a New Home card.

The fence is particularly effective I think - it is punched with the scallop border and then scored using the new Simple Scored tool.  Simple!

The paper I have used for the bird was the Sale-a-Bration papers Everyday Elegance, and the cloud stamp is from the retired Good Neighbours stamp set.

I printed out the sentiment and used the word window to punch it out.

Stamps: Good Neighbours

Cardstock: Soft Suede, Very Vanilla, Lucky Limeade, Pool Party, Poppy Parade

Inks: Whisper White

Equipment: Simply Scored, Scallop Border punch, Bird Builder punch, Itty Bitty punches, Circle punch, Word Window punch

Others: Linen Thread, Brads, Pearls