Another quick CUP Birthday Card

Hello again bloggin peeps


Another super quick card for my nephew (for my mum to give to him)  and as he wants to be a chef (in the army) this is the design I chose to decoupage for him.


Another 8 x 8 card with a mirri base and a layer of coredinations cardstock embossed around the bottom with an Mbossibilities folder and a ribbon across the top where the embossing finishes.  I had already bought this chef themed decoupage sheet from crafts u print and I cut the topper to the size I wanted.   This was a large topper and there was a cute little mouse asleep and dreaming of cheese who had to be cut off.  I layered it onto gold mirri and glued everything into place.  I decoupaged it all up and printed a frame and sentiment from the craft artist program to match the red colour scheme.


Feeling like this needed something, maybe a charm or a mouse on shrink plastic, was nice enough in real life but sometimes when you look at the photo ... you think I could of this ... or I could have that... I think everybody does that tho.


Anyway all for now


Take care




Cj x

16th Birthday Card using CUP image

Hello again blogging peeps

Another little quickie card from me today in celebration of my nephew turning the big 16!!! who would have thought it, that tiny little boy with the pearl earrings is now 16 and on the verge of getting into the army!  Time certainly does fly!

Anyway my usual 8 x 8 with a gold mirri base and a cream pearl layer on top.  A green piece of ribbon was glued along the bottom and then the two layers were stuck to the card base.  I took a piece of coredinations card stock, embossed it through a brick wall effect folder and sanded back, I then mounted onto some mirri and added some gems which I coloured to black with the noir pens.  I had hoped they would look like bullet holes - not that I want my nephew to be shot at.... you understand.... just the cool effect (still think they look gemmy and not bullet holey if you know what I mean).

I downloaded a sheet from crafts U print by Lee Jacobs http://www.craftsuprint.com/card-making/step-by-steps/male-various/army-doodles.cfm and printed it out.  I cut out all the little doodle man decoupage and the backing piece of camouflage.  I mounted the camouflage on gold mirri and glued it into place on top of the brick wall.  I then glued the doodle army man on top.  I didn't like the little screw decorations that came on the sheet so I covered them with some of my favourite card candi and added some to the other corners too.

I took the whole sheet I had downloaded into the my craft artist program and isolated the piece of the backing paper, I cut the screw decorations off and lightened it and then added my greeting personalising it as I call him the army boy!

I liked this card very much and so did my nephew.  I find male cards a little harder as I feel you cannot decorate with flowers the same way I can with a female one.  This one needed something else in the background and I still love this little doodleman and would like to make another card with him at some point.

Anyway all for now


Take care

Cj x

Humphrey 1st Birthday Card

Hello Bloggin Peeps

Another very quick post from me with a Humphrey decoupaged birthday card.

An 8 x 8 blank which I chose to leave quite a wide border of the white showing which is quite rare for me.  I cut a large square from coredinations cardstock and then embossed with an Mbossibility folder and sanded back.  I cut a gold mirri mat to layer behind it.  I stamped the 1 using a docrafts number stamp onto glitter card and cut it out, glued it to the card and then decoupaged Humphrey with his little crayon.  I added the ribbon tied with 1 knot and glued to the back of the card.  I then added 2 red card candi in the corners.

I cut a larger square of a papermania backing paper with a mirri mat and glued them together and then onto the card blank.  I then glued the large topper I had just made and added 3 card candi to the bottom layer corners.

In real life it looked lovely but on the photo it looks like a sentiment is missing.  In real life..when you look at it the happy birthday's all over the background paper are very noticeable and so it didn't look like it needed one.  In this photo, I think, it looks like something is missing but as it was for a little lad I would have struggled to find something boyish.

Anyway all for now


Take care


Cj x

Spellbinders Easter card

Hello again bloggin peeps

This is a late post of an easter card I did for my sister to give to her friends at church I copied the design in several spring colours, pink, purple, yellow etc I had to make around 14 in total and all were the same ... but different.

Anyway an 8 x 8 card blank...beginning to run low on stock of these now .. I cut a piece of pearl white to cover the card and on the 1st one I made embossed it with a spellbinder Mbossibility folder but was having a really bad time lining it up - more to do with rushing and being tired than the folders themselves.

I then cut a shape for the scroll to fit on in a coloured card with the lattice borders to match and then cut the little accents and the cross from crosses 2. I glued the lattices down on each end of the card and then centralisd the label.  I then arranged the accents so a little of them went behind the label and most in front and glued them down.  I then added the scrolls which were found on ebay and had a lovely easter wish on them.  To finish I added the cross and a tiny bow tied on the glitter girls bowshaper and glue the whole thing to the card.

This was a pretty little card, didn't take too much time and when they were all finished and lined up in a row drying they looked pretty awesome.  My sisters friends at the church liked them and told her they didn't deserve such nice cards lol I was just glad they liked them!

Anyway all for now


Take care


Cj x

Superquick Hunkydory Wedding Card

Hello again Bloggin Peeps

Me again with a super quick blog of a super quick Wedding card.  As usual an 8 x8 with a gold mirri base.  Then a layer of centura pearl white paper, embossed with the Mbossibility folder from spellbinders.  The topper had a frame all around it which I cut away and mounted onto more gold mirri.  I cut the sentiment from the same sheet and matted it onto blue as the wedding theme was blue.  Before sticking the pearl layer down I tied a huge bow and then stuck the topper in place.

I coloured some hat pins and a heart on a hat pin and stuck them into my bow adding a small blue bead with some collall glue over the ends of the pins so no-one got pin pricked.

As I said this was a super quick card and took less than 1/2 hour to make, longer for the glue to set of course lol.

Anyway all for now


Take care


Cj x

Magnolia Edwin Easel Card

Hello again another quick one from me before I pop out for the day.

This is another 8 x 8 size card in an Easel style.  To make this card I stamped footballer Edwin and coloured him in and then cut him out.  I then took an 8 x 8 card and scored about halfway across the front of the card and folded it.  I took another of the same card and cut the front off to make my first layer.  I then cut a gold mirri mat to sit centrally.  I then found some pale blue backing paper and cut to the mat the gold mirri and glued it down.  I took a beautiful piece of blue coredinations and cut to a size that left some nice edges and embossed it through one of the Mbossibilities before sanding it back.  I then cut a small gold mirri mat to sit behind it.  I cut a thin strip of blue striped card and glued 1/3 from the bottom of the coredination layer.

I added a royal blue velvet ribbon across the bottom of the base layer and then glued everything into place as above.  I used a blue check paper and a spellbinders die to cut the layer Edwin was going to sit on and then cut a gold mirri circle to sit behind and glued them into place.  Edwin was shaped using a shaping tool and his little arms and legs were really dimensional even though he was only one layer he really popped out of the topper.

I printed two sentiments the happy birthday and the son one and using more spellbinders cut the pieces out for the cards.  I used an offcut of the coredinations and embossed it again before matting onto gold to make the stopper.  I also cut a matching blue check paper to size for the bottom with yet another gold mirri.  I assembled all the remaining pieces as above and glued into place.  I then added a little card candi in the corners.

This was a beautiful card to look at in real life probably because little Edwin did look real.  I have never been able to get such good dimension on a cut out magnolia figure and this is probably down to the quality of the neenah card I stamped onto.

Anyway best go

Take care


Cj x

craftsuprint image 40th birthday card

Ok hi again bloggin Peeps

Another of these comissioned cards, another 8 x 8 this one was a little different for me as I designed one of the background layers myself.

I used a large holographic blue background as a base layer and cut a white pearl card layer to go on top.  I used distress inks to colour it light blue and left it to dry.  I then took two football stamps one from a Kanban kit and a smaller one from a Docrafts kit and stamped randomly with the glue pad adding mica powder to bring out the design.  I then stamped with the glue again the larger football several times and mica powdered again before using the round spellbinder to cut them out.

I cut some more of the holographic blue using a romantic rectangle die and then using labels 25 positioned it over the base piece of the decoupage I found on craftsuprint by Gordon Fraser...  he has quite a few lovely designs on there and I have to say I did buy a few so you will see some more at some point although this one I had to use my craft artist to get him running the other way he originally was running to the right.

I then stuck the piece I had cut to the romantic rectangle.  You will see that part of the foot and arm were cut out from the base as I wanted it to look like he was running off the topper I cut out the decoupage and layered him up.  With the spellbinder borderabilities I cut some more holographic blue to mount my little die cut footballs and glued them on.  I then took some peel offs to the footballs and stuck them down to the card.  I then glued the topper into place too adding a little football  in front of his foot and glued the whole thing to an 8 x 8 card.

This card for me is a bit of an achievement in that this is only the 2nd time I have made a backing piece from scratch.. this is more to do with time than ability I think but I was really pleased with the result.

Anyway all for now


Take Care


Cj x