Summer Card Camp birthday card

Hello everyone,

I'm so sad that we've reached the final day of the summer card camp. The time has passed so quickly but I'm quite proud of myself that I managed to make a card for all but one of the days as we went along rather than still having a lot of the class to catch up with. We were given a lot of new colour schemes today and I chose to use the last one, with shades of lilac, blue, orange and green. I really enjoyed the trifold card from earlier in the class so I decided to make another but this time I made the flap on the opposite side and used an edger die to fancy things up a little. I used a flower stamp and die and used copics to colour the flower and then used a versamarkd pen and clear embossing powder to give hints of shine and texture. I found it difficult to capture this on camera but you can get a little idea from this photo, although it is a little shinier in real life.

I adapted little tag die to make a very tiny tag to tie onto the flowers and shaped the flowers to give some dimension. I stamped a background stamp on the little flap and added a few little gems to bling it up a bit,

but again it has not shown very well in the photo.

Thank you so much to everyone who has left kind comments on my posts, I've not yet got round to everyone, but I'll be visiting soon now class is over.Thank you also to Jennifer, Nicole and all the guests who have provided such great inspiration, and for making the class so enjoyable.

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs
Carol x

Kraft birthday card

Hi everyone,

It's Day 14 of the Summer Card Camp and we were asked to step out of our comfort zone. I have been avoiding using vellum for as long as I can remember, and brown and kraft colours always equal masculine cards to me so I thought I would do a girly card and use some vellum too. This is what I came up with using sketch 2.

I die cut the vellum with the PTI Wine bottle tag and then embossed some lines on it using a scoreboard. I then made a larger mat by tracing round the die onto brown card and cutting it out. One of the reasons I don't use vellum is the problem of sticking it down, but this time it was easy because I tucked it over the brown mat and glued it from behind. Next I tied some twine around the panel and added a button. I made the flower by die cutting the sections in brown and cream and then layered them up after curling the edges to give a little dimension. I took some lilac card, stamped and embossed in dark purple, cut out a small circle for the centre of the flower, and then stuck the panel onto the base card.  To finish it off I made a banner by cutting some card, stamping and embossing a sentiment and then scoring and folding to have the banner raised up over the panel.

Papertrey Ink Wish big card

Hello everyone,



Today is the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop and as I haven't been able to play along for several months I really wanted to join in this time. This months challenge is a colour challenge and I chose to try this combination.



I used the Happy Harlequin stamp set and a sentiment from Stylish Sentiments Birthday.

I don't want to keep you from the Hop, so I'll keep this short and sweet. Enjoy!

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs
Carol x

Papertrey Ink birthday card

Hello everyone,



Day 13 of the Sumner Card Camp has come round very quickly and for today we were asked to use the same colours and a sketch with a few inking techniques. I made yet another birthday card with sketch 1 this time. I cut a scalloped circle out of the light purple mat and then stamped the mat with Versamark ink and a background stamp. Before stamping, I masked off a little space to put a sentiment. I then cut the scalloped circle again, this time out of dark purple card and inlaid it into the gap so it came further up the card. I stamped one of the PTI Love Tags 2010 onto cream card, coloured it with some Copics and then glazed the hearts with several layers of a glaze pen and stuck it onto the scalloped circle.

I cut  a kraft strip, matted it onto brown card and added die cut letters in several colours to make the word 'Happy', and wrote the word 'birthday'  in the space I had masked off underneath, with a Versamark pen. I added a couple of thin brown strips, top and bottom, and rounded the corners to finish it off.

I wish you could see all the wonderful cards other students are making and putting up in the gallery - it is wonderful to see all the different ways people are approaching the homework tasks.

Once again, thanks for looking in.

Hugs

Carol x

Papertrey Ink Unisex birthday card

Hello everyone,

It is Day 12 of the Summer Card Camp and today we were asked to use yesterdays colours and make a card with die cuts. I made a birthday card that I think would be suitable for either sex and used kraft, brown, purple and blue.

I dry embossed a piece of kraft card with an Embossabilities impression of chevrons and dots and die cut a present and bow. I also die cut a couple of square shapes and added bows to them before embellishing them with dots of coloured card that I cut with my cropodile. A simple sentiment finished it off.

Once again I am entering this into the Moxie Fab World birthday card challenge.

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Carol x

Papertrey Ink Masculine Birthday card.

Hello everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful weekend and are cruising nicely into a new week.





It's Day 11 of the Summer Card Camp and we had new sketches and a new colour combination of kraft, brown, turquoise, lilac and deep pink to work with today and I chose to try sketch 3.

Like Jennifer, I found this a difficult colour combination to work with but I took on board her tip to use small amounts of some colours and it turned out ok in the end. I wanted to make a masculine birthday card and came up with this one

I made a panel with the kraft and brown card and the kraft part looked a bit stark so I stamped a star background stamp with Versamark ink to add a little interest. I used the lilac ink to stamp on the aqua mist card and lilac brads to fix them to the panel and I took the aqua mist onto the top panel by adding a little strip of striped paper. I die cut the word 'hello in brown card and overstamped a dotty background stamp with Versamark to finish it off before raising it on foam tape to give a little dimension.  I fixed the panel to the base card, rounded the bottom corners and swiped a little white ink round the edges to soften them a bit. I forgot to take a photo but the inside of the card has a large Happy Birthday stamp.

Once again, I'm going to enter this into the Moxie Fab World birthday challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs
Carol x

PTI Birthday card

Hello everyone and a very warm welcome to Jodi an Danni who are new followers this week. Well the sun is still shining and life is still very busy with lovely summer activities. In fact I could do with a night off but we are off to see Katherine Jenkins at an open air concert this evening, so I have to be quick and go and start making our picnic.

I am playing catch up with Summer Camp



and for Day 9 we were asked to use some Christmas stamps for a non Christmas card using this week's colours. I decided to use this Christmas tree stamp from Papertrey Ink Tree Trimming Trio and

I stamped the tree in blue, brown and 2 shades of green and cut small triangles from them to make a banner on a birthday card.

I sponged the sky background and stamped the grass with a Hanging Out stamp, before stamping the washing line from the same set. I stuck on the pennants, added some glossy accents for a little texture, and added 2 felt birds to sing to each other. I like mixing sentiments and I love the Polka Dot Parade stamp set that has the 'Don't worry, be happy' phrase so I added the little musical notes to show the birds are singing. The phrase 'it's just a number' is really speaking to me at the moment because I am reaching my BIG 60th birthday in September and it seems like a big milestone to me!! I finished off the card by cutting a circle for the sun and using a glitter pen to add some detail.

I'm going to enter this into the Moxie Fab World Birthday challenge

Well I'm off to start food prep but thanks for stopping by.

Hugs
Carol x

Sending you love card

Hello everyone,






Today is day 10 of the Summer Card Camp and Jennifer showed us a trifold card that I wanted to try and I chose to use the second colour combination of white, blue, pink, orange and grey.

I stamped and die cut a lot of different hearts to place on the edge of the card and stamped the sentiments from a couple of different stamp sets.

I found it hard to photograph the card and show both folds, but this is the best I could come up with.

I hope to catch up with a couple of the days I missed in the first week over the weekend.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs
Carol x

Papertrey Ink Special day card

Hello everyone,


Its Day 8 of the Summer Card Camp and for homework today I am making another card with the suggested colours and sketch 3. I took inspiration from the card Julie showed us and I punched one hole in the card and put patterned paper behind it before punching out a set of different sizes of circles and patterns. I die cut and stamped a butterfly, made a little tag for the sentiment, and wrapped some ribbon round for added interest.

I placed the panel on a mat and added a few little pearls to finish it off. I'm really enjoying this class and spending some time back in the craft room. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs
Carol x

Silhouette Cameo Christmas Wreath Card

Hello everyone and a very warm welcome to Bev at Happy Dance, who is a new follower this week. I hope you find something to interest you here.

We've reached Day 7 at the Summer Card Camp and today was all about heat embossing. Amber showed a way to do a kind of ombre embossing and I thought I'd have a go using template one and the colours for this week, (cream, brown, 2 shades of green) but adding a splash of red instead of the blue because I wanted to make a Christmas card.  I used my Cameo to make a 5.5 inch circle card, and then cut a smaller circle in a gorgeous brown patterned paper that has a lovely glow to it, and I inked the edges with distress inks before applying it to the card.

I then cut out a wreath shape that I got from the Silhouette Store, plus lots of little fern shapes in two shades of green, which I then built up into an evergreen wreath. I punched a few red circles for berries to dot around. Amber used different shades of embossing powder on her card but as I only have white and clear embossing powder, I had to improvise. I wanted to stamp the sentiment on vellum so I used versamark ink first, then added kraft coloured ink, and finally added dark brown ink, then stamped and quickly added the clear embossing powder and heated from below so I didn't scorch the vellum. 

I scored and folded the vellum into a banner shape, cut a couple of v's on the ends, and added a couple of holly sprigs to finish off. I was inspired by one of Carole's cards yesterday to use my Cameo for Camp, and I really enjoyed playing today.

I'm going to enter this card into Sparkle Creations challenge to use embossing.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs
Carol x

Father's Day card

Wow, I go missing for ages and then do 2 posts in one day! Today is Day 5 of the class and we were asked to select a sketch and use brown, blue and 2 shades of green on a card and this is what I came up with.

The front of the card is cut down and the brown stripey paper is on the back and you can see that a bit better on this photo

This is a very simple design and I liked the clean lines but we were asked to use 2 shades of green and I wasn't sure that the 'rock n roll' leaf would count so I tried adding another strip of patterned paper to the front:-

Hmm - I'n not sure about this - what do you think? I think I prefer the first one.

Thank for stopping by.

Hugs
Carol x

New baby card

Hello everyone,



With all the lovely weather we've been having, it is hard to be indoors in the craft room but the Summer Card Camp is offering such a lot of inspiration that I just have to keep popping in. Day 4 was ideal for this because for the homework we were asked to make a card in 10 minutes!!! Such a challenge for me because I take forever to decide what to do and how to place items. Nevertheless, I took on board all the advice, planned my card in advance, and adapted one of the card sketches we were given. Having made two very colourful cards for the first 2 homeworks, I returned to my comfort zone and just used different shades of blue with white on this one.

I used a PTI die to cut the sentiment word out of spring rain cardstock and cut it again in white card before stamping it with a dotty background stamp. I then offset the words to give a shadow effect.

All materials are from Papertrey Ink and it is my first use of this gorgeous bird from Polka Dot Parade 5. To finish the card off I cut one of the tiny tags and tied it around the 'y' with some crochet thread.

That pesky little bow almost took me over 10 minutes but I just scraped in with 9 minutes 39 seconds. Whew.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Carol x

Summer Card Camp 2 Birthday card

Hello everyone, and thank you to those who visited yesterday after my absence.

For Day 2 of the Summer Card Camp



we were asked to use the same colours but try a masking and inking technique on a large stamp. This was a technique I haven't tried before and I don't have many large stamps but I decided to have a go. I took all my rubber stamps off their wooden blocks a while back and I found a lovely large flower stamp but I didn't note the name or manufacturer, so if you recognise it, could you please let me know so I can credit it correctly?

I took the stamp and masked off areas at an angle and inked it up in three colours before spraying the ink with water and stamping it onto watercolour card. Whilst it was drying I die cut a tab and embossed the word happy in white,

cut the the word 'birthday' in pink, and cut a double ended banner in blue, before assembling the card

At this point I thought the card was lacking something so I added some tiny hearts on the tab and inside the letter D of birthday, and cut a larger heart and stamped it with orange polka dots. As I said yesterday, I don't often use bright colours but, I'm loving this combination. I'm going to enter this card into the Birthday card challenge over at Moxie Fab World

Thanks for looking in.

Hugs

Carol x

Papertrey Ink Engagement card

Hello everyone, and a very warm welcome to Marjoram and Donna  who are recent new followers. I'm sorry to have been absent for so long but life has been busy with holidays and summertime activities which are wonderful but keep me out of the craftroom. Well to get me back in the flow I've enrolled on the Online Card Classes Summer Card Camp 2.



For the first week we are asked to use certain colours and try a sketch or two and I came up with this card for a member of our choir who has just got engaged.

I used the Papertrey Ink Wine Bottle tag die for the yellow banner and when I had finished the card I could see it was missing something, so I cut the bottom of the die again in blue card and placed it underneath the yellow one, along with a sliver of card at the top and it looked much better. I die cut the two cute little birds from felt

to give some texture, and added a little pink tag and button to finish it off. This card took me out of my comfort zone because I don't often mix bright colours but I'm quite pleased with the results.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs
Carol x