Kraft Cards for Guys and Girls

I made a couple of cards at the weekend using some 6 x 6" Kraft cards: one for a male friends 19th birthday and a feminine version using the Sweet Pea papers from Craftwork Cards. For the male card I stuck with a simple pale blue, white and brown colour scheme to tie in with the colours in the cute Wellington image that I chose from the Ultimate Die Cut Pack. I used a large brown button from the Boofle Buttons pack which I threaded with some garden twine to add a bit of texture. I also poked holes around the torn paper to give the card a shabby chic look, as well as inking the edges of the checkered paper with Chestnut ink. To complete I added a Craftwork Card message tag, brown brads and some pale brown spotted Candi.

For the female version of this card I used the gorgeous Sweet Pea papers from Craftwork Cards. Tearing and inking the background paper as before, I layered up the foreground with a stamped image from the Papermania Botanical Prints Urban Stamps set that I then mounted onto pink, purple and Kraft card. I added a lilac ribbon to the background to tie in with the colour scheme as well as two of the die cut flowers from the Sweet Pea paper pack, to which I added button centers. To complete I added a Craftwork Cards message tag, some pink and purple pearl gems and three pink Candi to the bottom corner.

Purple Birdcage Card

Well it's Friday again and I've just got one final physiology lab to survive this afternoon before I get to go home for another weekend of crafting. I made this card last weekend and didn't realise that I hadn't put it up on here, so let me rectify that now! I found these Kraft Card birdcages from Craftwork Cards in my mum's stash and decided to go with a purple and brown colour scheme for this 5 x 7" card. I double-mounted a sheet of the Craftwork Cards Bohemian paper onto purple card and then Kraft card to create a background and added some handmade purple paper behind the love heart in the birdcage to keep with the colour scheme. I also threaded through some purple velour ribbon and added some purple gems to give it a bit of extra sparkle!

I added another strip of lilac ribbon along the top of the card and some more purple gems in the bottom corner to tie all the elements together. The "With Love" message is stamped in Chestnut ink onto Kraft Card using the Craftwork Cards Printer Block letters, which I love! I like how it produced a really subtle, almost watermark look that doesn't overpower the rest of the card. I cut the letters out individually and mounted them onto the same purple card I used in the background so that they weren't lost against the birdcage. To finish, I added a little birdy with a purple gemstone for the eye and some of the little Craftwork Cards flowers with purple gem centers. Hope you like it!

Sweet Pea Floral Card

I discovered this pack of Sweet Pea paper from Craftwork Cards in my mum's stash of new goodies and though the colours were just gorgeous! I started this 5 x 5" card with a decorative circle piece of the paper and then layered it up with a strip of the zig-zag paper and a torn section of spotty paper mounted onto some pale pink card. I made the co-ordinating flowers using the remains of a sheet of the Bohemian die-cut flowers (also from Craftwork Cards) as a template to form various styles of flowers to layer up. The buttons at the centers are from the Spots and Stripes Capsule collection by Papermania.

The message tag is a die-cut one from Craftwork Cards which I mounted onto co-ordinating lilac cardstock and embellished with some pink pearl gems. As a final touch I added some pink and lilac punched butterflies with flight lines in a purple pen.

DoCraft Designer!!!

Just been told that I'm getting the opportunity to design for docraft for 6 months!!! I'm so excited, can't wait to get started! :D

http://docraftsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/design-team-march-august-2013.html

Congrats to all the other new designers and good luck to everyone!

Tatty Ted Get Well Soon Card

Another of my friends had to go in for surgery last week and is finally back on her feet so I thought I'd cheer her up with a get well soon card and some lovely choccies. She loves the Tatty Ted bears so I used one of the images from the Ultimate Die Cut pack in combinations with some Craftwork Cards embossed cardstock from my mum's stash. I stuck with muted colours, choosing the lilac and blue that are in the flowers the teddy is holding. I re-shaped the embossed frame so that the center was a flower instead of the pre-cut square so that it tied in with the die-cut flower embellishments that I made.

To complete the card, I added some lilac gems and buttons to the center of the flowers as well as a Craftwork Cards sentiment mounted on some pale blue cardstock. Hope it cheers her up...if not I'm sure the choccies will do the trick!

For You Gift Box

After being subjected to three hours worth of biology lectures I thought I'd take a quick time out and update my blog before I hit the books again. When I was at home this weekend I made another gift box using some 8 x 8" Kraft Card and some of the die-cut flowers from Craftwork Cards. To begin with I made up the little flowers for the top, layering them up and adding gold brads at the center of the two smaller flowers. I chose a sheet of the blue, beige and teal Sweet Pea paper to go behind the flowers as I wanted to introduce some colour to the box. I stuck a small square of the paper on some gold Mirri card before mounting onto the box and decorating with the flowers and a teal-inked message tag.

For the sides of the box I used another of the papers from the Sweet Pea range and cut rectangles of different colours which I then mounted onto gold Mirri card to tie in with the top of the box. To complete I added gold gems to the corners of the sides to add a bit of final sparkle. I love how simple these flowers are to use and they look fantastic on loads of different projects.

Well that's all from me for now, hope you like the box!

Blue Birdhouse Card

I was flicking through some of my mum's new Craftwork Cards goodies over the weekend and discovered a set of die cut images that included this cute wee birdhouse. Feeling a bit inspired, I chose to make a 5 x 5" card using the birdhouse in combination with a Kraft card bird which I decorated with blue glitter pen.

I decided to stick with a blue, beige and brown colour scheme and so I used a couple of the blue flowers from Craftwork Cards which I cut out and creased to give a little bit of dimension. To the centers I added silver brads to give some sparkle, as well as some silver gems to the flowers on the birdhouse. In the background I used a paper that tied in with the detail on the birdhouse mounted on some co-ordinating blue card. To complete I added a greeting banner made of Kraft card with one of the Craftwork Cards message tags and some more silver gems to the top left corner.