Happy 70th Birthday Tam

This is a birthday card for one of our families best friends, it's his 70th birthday.

The Spellbinders used are Grand Labels One and Labels One and Fancy Tags .  The sentiments are gold peelies and the playing cards are from Kanban.

A side view of the card, I added a hinge inside the card to stop it from ending up lying flat with the weight of the front embellies.  The greeting is on the back, which I forgot to take a photo of, one of those senior moments.

A very quick card to make and a very quick post today.   My Labyrinthitis is playing up since I came back from holiday and I feel quite sick and dizzy.  Have a great crafting day, hugz,  Janice

Christmas Robin

I love watching the Robins in the garden around Christmas, usually chasing each other rather than getting on with the eating business.  It was a pleasure to make this card.

The image is Kanban and goes perfectly with the blue decorative paper from my stash.  The sentiment is LOTV Christmas Circular Sentiments Set Five.  The buttons I got from a market stall in Morecombe on one of our wee holidays in the caravan.

I am entering this for the following challenges
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - a touch of the blues
Crafty Mess Challenge - Christmas card in non traditional colours

Have a happy and crafty day.  Hugz, Janice

Christmas Bears

Sorry, I've not posted for a while, my mojo has gone south for the winter (again).  It certainly feels like winter here in East Kilbride, the temps have been averaging out at about 8 or 9 degrees, which makes it feel like February or March and it's not improving any.  Now I've gotten my little moan out of the way, we can get on with the business of cardmaking.

This was a very quick and easy card to put together.  The bears are an image from Kanban, so no colouring there, cut out with Spellbinders Standard Circles and matted and layered using both large and small circles and also Big Scalloped Circles Large.  The base of the card was cut using Grand Big Scalloped Circles and Grand Circles. 

The tag is from Spellbinders Fancy Tags, the sentiment is a silver peel-off.   The snowflake border is by Memory Box and is called Frosty Border, love this die and use it at every opportunity, it's brilliant.  The other snowflakes are Spellbinders Create a Flake Three with some clear sticky jewels to make them pop.

That's all for today, and guess what, it's cold and rainy again, although the rain is supposed to dry up this morning.  Hope you all have a great weekend and I hope the weather is better where you are.  Happy crafting, hugz, Janice

It's A Guy Thing

This was a card I made for my neighbour, Colin, who was in a car accident a few days ago.  Guys are always difficult to make for at the best of times but this was put together on short notice.  Kanban to the rescue, Colin is a cat lover and this fitted the bill.

The cat image is from Kanban and is called Egyptian Bastet and the backgound card is simply called Egyptian.  The lettering is gold peel-offs and the blue dots are from Craftworks Card Candi range to match the blue on the image, I've also used some Bling gold jewels to add a bit of sparkle.

I hope this cheers Colin up a bit, it was a nasty accident.  The other guy has been charged with reckless driving, but that doesn't help Colin.  I hope it's not too long before he comes back home to Gillian and Hannah.

Kanban Butterfly

This is a Kanban card, I've had the lovely card and die-cut butterfly for months and not used it.  My husband was out fishing yesterday for a couple of hours and I wanted to make a card that I could finish before he got back, and then he could photo it for me.

Not my usual 6X6 card but an A4 sheet of card halved to make a C5 card, I don't usually go with ready made blanks because I like to mat and layer with the same matching card.  The main image is a Kanban die cut butterfly  called Autumn Butterfly Coffee, and the matching card is Autumn Leaves Copper Small, which I've matted on to shiny gold mirri card.   The Spellbinders are Large Scalloped Circles, Standard Circles Large and the Fancy Tags set.  The ribbon is from my stash as are the pearls from Kaiser Crafts and the sentiment is a peel off. 

Well, that's us back to the beginning of another week, I hope you all enjoyed the weekend weather, it was gorgeous here with temps at around 21C, felt like summertime.   Have a good and crafty day.  Hugz, Janice.

A Day Full Of Happiness

This is a card I made last night at my craft club meeting.  I love the soft colours and how they all blend together.  I had a bit of a disappointment when I started the card, the round sentiment stamp is from an A4 sheet by Lily of the Valley.  I bought the sheet at the Glasgow spring craft show from the  LOTV stand and it should have been the Christmas sentiments, however, when I opened it, although the accompanying acetate sheet has the Christmas sentiments on it, the clear stamps themselves were the Dreamy Days sentiments.  Not a disaster as I was going to be buying them anyway but an inconvenience, I have ordered the Christmas sentiments from the LOTV website, and I will check this time that I've got the right stamps.

The beautiful background card is from Kanban, English Riviera Rose, lilac, it's gorgeous, isn't it?  The Spellbinders dies are the  Classic Scalloped Circles Large, the Standard Circles Large and the lovely corner twiddily bits are from the Fanciful Holiday set.  The center doily is a Marianne die, my friend Lesley cut this out for me to use a few weeks ago at our craft club and this is me just getting around to using it, I think I may have to get this one myself.  The sentiment is LOTV  from Set 6 - Dreamy Days Sentiments, stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black.  I've used some matching gems to add a little bling, they really give the card a lift.  All in all, an easy and quick card to make. 

I hope you like this card, if you do, be sure to leave a comment or use the reactions buttoms at the bottom of the post.  Have a good weekend.  Hugz, Janice.

Kanban Christmas Teddy

Sorry, I haven't had time to make a new card for today.  I was out for most of the day yesterday and then spent most of the evening arguing with B&Q about the start date for my new kitchen.  We did get it sorted out, eventually, but all the agro sure does tire you out, I had an early night and got nothing done. 

I thought I would show you a Christmas card I made in December.  This was soooo easy to make and everyone at the craft club seemed to love it.

The base and die cuts are white hammered card, with a layer of mid green card and I've used papers from a Papermania pad called Home for Christmas.  The teddy, I got out of the Kanban factory outlet when I was on holiday two years ago.  The Spellbinders used are Eyelet Circles, Standard Circles Large and Labels Five.  The white die cuts were chalked with a soft green while still in the dies to create the nice white border.  I used peel offs and clear jewels to embellish.  The eyelet circles were done with shiny gold mirri card, also from the Kanban factory shop at 30p a sheet. 

I hope you like this card, I have quite a lot of the reject Kanban sheets left, mostly they're sold cheaply because their die-cutting is off centre but all it takes to make them usable is to use Nesties to re-cut them a little smaller.  I was a bit disappointed with their shop, my expectations were a little off, I thought they would have a lot of plain card but no, they didn't.  It was still worth a visit and I would go back again.  Well. if I'm going to make a card for tomorrow then I'd best get started.  Have a great day.  Hugz, Janice