Another colouring session...

I've been signed off work with a slipped disc. Painful, super painful. So while I'm doped up to the eyeballs on painkillers and propped up in the armchair I thought I would colour in a load more digis. 

I have about 28 waiting with their coordinating papers all ready to be made into cards now!! The good thing about matching them with papers before colouring is that once you're done with the image all you have to do is sort the layout! Making the card is super quick!!! Here's what I knocked up in the hour I could face sitting at my desk:

A cute new home card!

A vintage wedding card

An 'any reason' card. 

A sweet non gender specific baby card.

A sepia celebrate card! (LOVE this digi!!)

Hope you like them!! 

I'm slowly stocking up ready for when we move out... We have sold our house and bought a new build - which isn't built yet. So we have to move in with my inlaws, and my card stuff has to go into storage! So I have to have about 6months worth if cards ready for when we move in with them. Best start on the Xmas cards really!! lol!!!

Tiddly Inks!

Ive fallen in love with some digi stamps from Tiddly Inks - mainly 'Thanks a Latte'

Those girls are so damn cute! And it's such a versatile image!!

I slipped a disc last week so have been off my feet for a few days - perfect time to colour some digis!!

Always a fan of bright, colourful hair - I tend to do unnatural colours 1st. Loving the red and blue!!

Next I had a bash at a sepia style image using only browns and creams. Think I did quite we with my limited range of promarkers!!

I then tried a more 'realistic' colour palette, with a blond and a

Brunette. 

I LOVE this image!!!

Double Slider Card

I'm still on my Fun Fold phase!! I came across this card whilst surfing pinterest and youtube - its a card that has 2 hidden panels that slide out - its so cute!!

I used a 12.5cm square pre folded card for this. 

(you can use card stock, it will need to be 25x12.5cm)

crease the card at 8, 16 and 24cm.

take a strip of the plastic bag and wrap it around the 1st panel - you want tip snug but not too tight - this is going to slide the internal panels up and down.

you will only need 1 strip about 1-1.5 inches wide - I have more cut here as I'm planning on making a few!

the internal panels (the sliders) need to be 7.5x12.5 with a piece of 6.5x11.5 mounted on it. 

you will need 2 of these.

 punch a notch out of the center panel - this will make it easier to pull the slider once the card is assembled.

put some double sided tape at the BOTTOM of the plastic bag - I did about 3 cm high. line your 1st slider panel with the white side facing DOWN onto the centre panel. fold the 1st panel over onto the middle panel.

now put some double sided tape onto the TOP of the plastic bag. line the slider panel up on the 3rd panel with the white facing UP. fold the card up to adhere the slider to the plastic bag.

if you unfold it all now it should look like this :

 fold it back up and put some sticky tape on the thin panel that is left over.

 this needs to stick to the white card underneath the slider panel (where my top finger is) sticking it underneath the slider means sure there isn't any interference to the sliding mechanism when you pull it.

because I have made this from a pre folded card I have a crease running down the front of the slider card. (you wont have this is you have used CS) easily sorted - just add some coordinating card!! this also will strengthen the card - added bonus!

add a make to the slider panel where you want to add a brad to secure your ribbon - this makes it easier when you pull it out to see where you need to punch your hole.

now all that's left to do is decorate!!!

Slider card

Seem to be going through a bit of a phase thing at the moment – a few weeks ago I was ALL OVER digis and colouring. This week I’m bored of them and wanted to do some cards using different folds.

 

I can across the slider card (and the peek a boo card – but that’s another post!!) and fell in love!!

It’s not a standard card that opens – it’s a postcard style card with a slider that reveals a hidden message! With Fathers day coming up I thought this was a perfect card to make for my dad.

 

Unfortunately I didn’t take pictures of the process as I thought it was just going to be a rough ‘practice’ card – but it ended up turning out pretty damn awesome!!!

 

I found the tutorial on youtube and she used a piece of CS cut down – I thought – sod that... I’m gonna use a pre folded card and adapt the measurements! SUPER EASY!!! Saved ALOT of time and meant I had a matching envelope! Can be made in ANY size.

 

So , here is my slider card!

 

Then you pull the ribbon....

 

 

The message panel pops out and the slider reveals a second little area for a cute stamp!!

LOVE THIS CARD!!! So versatile! Think I am going to make on for a wedding we are going to in a few months – I will post all my process and all measurements in that post.

 

Digis, digis everywhere!

Whenever I print a digi out for a card I always fill the rest of the a4 card with other digis to colour and use at a later date. These 'spare' digis get put in a basket in my desk... They have built up quite a bit!!

Well, I finally got round to colouring my digis!!!

I always find if easier to get a couple of coordinating papers and then colour the image according to the colours on those papers. I put the images and the papers in separate envolopes to keep everything together.

Here are a few of my favourite digis - I love saturated canary images!! You can see that I've matched the colours to the papers. 

Now everything is coloured it's just a case of making up each card!! Here's a few I've done. Enjoy!x

New home card and a few more birthdays!

April is a busy month!! More birthdays at work and a few in the family! This new commitment to do a card for everyone is certainly getting the creative juices flowing! 

'Congratulations on your new home' card for my best friend, digi stamp (can't remember where from I'm afraid!!) coloured with promarkers. Sentiment made in Word and colour matched to the backing paper.

A nice clean and simple (CAS) card, 9 squares of coordinated papers mounted in black, 9th square is cut through and has acetate in the window, happy birthday stamped on the inner square. 

A pretty floral CAS card, the stamps came free with a magazine ages ago. Coloured with promarkers. 

The benefit of making them for everyone at work is that none of them an be the same!! Definitely a challenge! X

2 birthdays and a baby!!

Hello!!!

I vowed that this year I would make a conscious effort to make more cards – a list of birthdays came round for my office and I decided that I would make everyone  I work with a birthday card. That, ontop of family birthday cards should give me at least a couple a month that I need to do!!

 

I am slowly seeing my crafting mojo returning and I am enjoying making cards again. As hubby reminded me, there was a point last year where I had a strop about not being able to get something right, threw my tools down and walked away from my desk. My desk stayed that way for months!! Not like me at all!!! Thank goodness my mojo is coming back!!

 

So I thought I’d share a few cards I have been making recently – Ive had 2 female birthdays and a new baby card to make – and LOVED doing them!!

 

The flower digis were free – I have no idea where from I’m afraid, I just googled ‘free flower digi’ and trawled around to find what I wanted!

 

 

 

The baby elephant digi is from pink petticoat – take a look at the website HERE for some SUPER cute digis images and sentiments!