I have been a bit smitten with my alphabet stamps (and that manuscript paper) so all three attempts today make use of them.
This is for a close family member's E's 60th birthday which is today! Happy birthday E!
He's a bit of a fan of many types of music- jazz, rock and all that and so I thought I'd celebrate that in this card! I watched an origami tutorial on Youtube to make the shirt. Thank goodness for Youtube- there's NO way I could have followed a book instruction on this! I used peeloffs for the instruments and backed onto a variety of metallic cards. Not so much a fan of this ink pad- it smudged a dozen times and didn't like most of the papers I tried it on!
Next up was a belated birthday card for one of my favourite bloggers, Katie at www.hooklineandsinkher2.blogspot.com Katie makes no bones about her love of cake (er- every blog post is it?) and so a TOWIC (much nicer version of TOWIE) was definitely the way forward!
Finally, it was CBC's birthday so I made use of his love of maps and bicycles in this card- using a bike stamp I bought to make the first card I ever made for CBC, combined with reused road atlas and old Royal Academy of Music concert programme.
I must find the pictures of that first ever card at some point- it's one of the cards I have been most proud of (and the most time-consuming- it must have been 10 hours in the make!)
Link-parties galore!!
Linking to:
Sarah's Super handmade Sunday
Linking to Creative Mondays with Claire Justine xoxoand Cynthia at Feeding Big's In and out link party
Lakota, Lakota, wherefore art thou Lakota? I come proferring Tahdahs!!!
Wow, you actually made all these beautiful cards! You are so talented, they are amazing! And inspired me, I also want to make something that sweet! I know what you mean by plethora of cards and thank yous! I have to be honest, there were so many some time that I went to a shop and bought like 20 cards, just in case I ran out of, like a friend of mine - and no stationary was then open! Very much looking forward to wedding pictures!
ReplyDeleteThose are great and it's nice that there's a personal touch for each person - you can't get that in the shops.
ReplyDeletegreat cards!!
ReplyDeleteTwo out of three posts, I reckon. The other ones I talk about Joe Manganiello :p xxx
ReplyDeletei love them all! that bike/map one is amazing. also, i have to tell you that i had a dream last night that i was at my wedding and nothing was done, and you were there helping me. so thanks for that!! =)
ReplyDeleteAs lovely cards, it's always such a treat to receive a home made card!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing.
Take care love :) x
okay these are the cutest stamps! i can see why you've been using them a lot. they're soooo fun!
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This is incredible. These are literally the most amazing cards I have ever seen. I would be so excited to receive one of these.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant cards. E really liked his.
ReplyDeleteLovely card ideas - thanks for linking up!
ReplyDeleteSarah @ A Cat-Like Curiosity
I love your cards, the top one is amazing :) Thanks for sharing with us at Creative Mondays :)
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