Dream Crafts

The time between christmas and new years here is often a time to do little, eat a lot and recharge after the year. This year has been no exception to that.

While recharging I had every intention of getting out the sewing machine and continuing with some of those projects that have been pushed aside for other things.

That hasn”t happened, but instead I have been getting on to a few cards. Actually so far only 4 and two of those I haven”t even gotten around to taking photos of.

So this first one I got inspiration from Darlene Designs and I am pretty happy with how it turned out.

I used Stampin Up French Filigree stamp, clear embossing powder and Tim Holts inks to create the background. The butterfly is from the Beautiful Wings Embosslits. It has no greeting because I am not sure what it will be used for as yet.

The second came out of my head so no reference here.

So I teamed up Concord Crush and Real Red Inks for this one and believe it or not these are the only inks on it. I love this Tulip Frame Embossing folder it can go with so many things.

My head is swimming with card ideas, but alas nothing for a card for my Daughters Birthday at the end of January so I will have to put my thinking cap on a bit more.

Richard and Kelley are expecting a baby soon. I am making Kelley a nappy bag as a gift, more about that later.

She did not want a baby shower so I am going to take her out for a girls day next weekend, while Richard and Bevan babysit and cook dinner for us.

Again my limited resources has effected what I do for a card, and my first attempt at this was too plain and boring. So this morning I pulled it all to bits and had another go.

The picture is not the best and I might have to replace it, but this version is so much better.

Richards birthday is the day before so I have made him a birthday card as well.

Yes there really is a line on the fishing pole, and I used my owl punch to make the fish as well. I also found a verse for the inside of the card.

I don not know if you can read it or not, and I cannot remember where I got it from. I have managed to find a list that gives you the ink colour setting for the Stampin Up inks so I managed to print it in the chocolate chip ink colour.

Well not us, but my cousin moved and so I made her a card to go with her housewarming gift.

This was a tricky one as I didn””t have anything that implied a house or moving, so I had to stretch my imagination.

I used my birdcage die and started from there with the little bird holding a key for the new house.

I loved this colour combination of Ballet Blue and a metallic cream, it reminded me of the old fashioned wedgewood. I will be using this again sometime in the future.

I also made a card for my Dear Jane Secret Pal, and I used the new sew suite stamps from Stamping up.

This is the first time I have done patchwork on a card, so still needing some practice in it, but over all not to bad.

I had an idea for making the bird in the cage into an escaping bird so I had to give it a try.

I cut the cage so that it looked like the cage door is open, and I cut two sets of the wings so that the bird could be flying.

I turned it into a Birthday card, but now cannot remember who I gave it to, Luckily I took a picture before I sent it.

We have been invited to a Silver Wedding Anniversary this weekend, and so this required another card. The couple are not people we know well, but rather people in our homeschool group. They are lovely people and 25 years is well worth celebrating, which they are doing with a barn dance.

Anyway, using my limited supplies this is what I came up with.

I was pretty happy with how this turned out and I hunted online for a verse for the inside.

My very good friend Cath, has been making cards for many years. In fact it was through looking at her cards that inspired me to start making some for myself last year.

Needless to say her card needed to be my best work. Now I did copy this design from darlenedesign. She makes very lovely cards and best of all gives a list of all the items in the card.

So armed with my owl punch here is what I made.

Looks pretty plain on the outside. I used a leather grain paper for the envelope and added an owl peeking out.

You can”t see the colours on the cake here, but it is coloured in. I used the cake cuttlebug die for the cake plate and believe it or not it is all silver.

I was also playing around with making boxes, so she got part of her gift in this little triangle box.

I forgot to take a picture of the inside, but it has petals layered in there. and it needed its own tag of course.

I just punched a small hole in the top of this and then threaded some gold thread through to tie it to the box.

And of course no gift is complete without being wrapped. In keeping with the card I wanted owl themed wrapping paper, so I have to make some.

This is the work in progress. I simply cut templates for the circles and scallops in my cuttlebug, and sponged the ink on. The owl in the middle is stamped on from the Punch Bunch set from Stampin Up. When I had finished I sprayed on two coats of spray on gloss to give the whole thing shine and strength. I was pretty happy with the finished product.

I have to say that Cath was pretty impressed, and even went so far as to carefully fold the paper and put it in with her card making stuff.