Simple Birthday Card

I recently needed a quick card and made use of my big 'Happy Birthday' die for this one. I'd previously decorated the base card with blue ink and a bubble wrap stamp plus a sprinkling of mist. Starting from the blue, I chose a primary colour scheme, cutting the sentiment die from red cardstock and backing it with a scrap of yellow paper. I layered it over a strip of blue washi tape and added two yellow stars to finish off.

Supplies

Card - Anita's

Cardstock - Stampin' Up!

Paper - Studio Calico

Stars - Pinkfresh Studio

Ink - Unknown

Mist - Heidi Swapp, Maya Road

Tools

Big Shot & Happy Birthday Die

KaiserCraft Bubble Wrap Stamp

"Best Dad in the World" Father's Day Card

Happy Father's Day if that's today where you are.

I made another cut-file card for this occasion. I had a clear plan for a globe with the phrase 'Best Dad in the World' across it and found the image I needed in Peartree's 'A World to Discover' cutfile. I cropped the second globe away from the wording and cut it from white cardstock at 4.25" before backing the land and sea with scraps of green and blue paper. I then covered my base card in stripy paper and adhered the globe popped up on a layer of craft foam.

I used my Silhouette again to cut the word DAD from patterned paper along with an offset version from red cardstock. I then completed my sentiment phrase with red tile letters.

Supplies

Card - The Works

Cardstock - Papermania

Paper - Basic Grey, Fancy Pants, Echo Park

Letters - American Crafts/Shimelle

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Roller Skate Birthday Card

June is birthday season here, so I've been card-making again for my Twilight Crafts DT project. This time I used the Roller Skate from Jenny Wren Cut-Files, which I sized to about 4" and cut from dark grey cardstock.

I backed the main part of the skate with a floral paper and picked matching coloured cardstock for the other areas. I particularly like the wheels where I die-cut a spokes pattern layer in red before backing that.

I used distress oxide ink for my card background, swiping stripes onto the card direct from the ink-pad.

Supplies

Card - The Works

Cardstock - Bazzill

Paper - Pebbles Seen & Noted

Ink - Ranger, Hobbycraft

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot & The Works Patterned Circle Die

Disclosure - I received the digital cut-file free of charge from Twilight Crafts. All other supplies are my own.

Tents Birthday Card

I seem to be using cut-files on cards a lot recently, but perhaps that's because they are so versatile. I used another Jenny Wren Cut-File (Lockdown Holidays Tent Pic) here but I removed the tents from the title and built a simple scene around them.

I cut the tents at about 4" square and backed them with plain cardstock in appropriate colours.

I coloured my base card with chalks with three bands for sky, a sort-of-hedge and some foreground grass. I then stamped a row of trees over the hedge area and added the tents.

Supplies

Card - The Works

Cardstock - DCWV, Bo Bunny, Payper Box

Chalks - Readicut Crafts

Ink - Memento

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

For the Love of Stamps Tree Stamp

Disclosure - I received the digital cut-file free of charge from Twilight Crafts. All other supplies are my own.
  

Cyclopark

National Scrapbooking Day was a month ago, but most of the challenges had long deadlines so it's taken a while to share all the pages I made. This one was for a Stash Bust Six at Twilight Crafts where Sarah asked us to use six items from her list.

I also attempted another challenge, but missed one of the elements. However that challenge set the colour scheme for my page, the muted primary colours of Pink Paislee's Atlas collection.

I chose a trio of photos from Cyclopark parkrun, where my sister ran with my husband and me, and my stash items are enamel dots, paper scraps, alpha stickers, die-cuts, washi tape and a journalling card.

Supplies

Paper - Pink Paislee Atlas

Letters - Studio Calico

Washi Tape - Unknown

Enamel Shapes - Maggie Holmes, Ebay

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Big Shot & Dovecraft Label Die

X-Cut Circle Punches

Another Starburst Birthday Card

I recently shared a card that I made using the Square Starburst cut-file from Twilight Crafts and Jenny Wren Cut-Files, I'm revisiting that idea today, but with the Photoframe Starburst instead. 

I added a frame to the bottom part of the cut-file in Silhouette Studio and cut the whole thing from white cardstock at just smaller than 5" x 7" to fit the front of my card with a tiny border.

I backed the large open area with a silver paper from Docrafts and the rays with eight patterns from a Basic Grey 6x6 pad. The photoframe was the perfect spot for my sentiment, stamped and popped up on foam adhesive.

Disclosure - I received the digital cut-file free of charge from Twilight Crafts. All other supplies are my own.