For my Biker Brother

As my brother is an avid biker, it's fairly easy to come up with a theme for his birthday card - however, not so easy to keep coming up with new ideas around that theme. This year I used an image from the Dottie and George collection at Charmed Cards and Crafts, and decoupaged it in 3 layers. For the base card, I used a pattern from the DCWV Rock Star Stack. The text is die cut from Funky Foam, and I finished it off with some silver stars. As the card measures 12" x 6", I had to make a box for it for posting.

I love my Cuttlebug

Another simple card, inspired by one that I saw on a blog, but sadly can't remember whose. If I do find my source of inspiration, I promise to edit this post and give full credit to that person. Anyway, here we have three panels of contrasting DCWV card, eah embossed with the same Cuttlebug border folder and then embellished with gems. The greeting is from a Blonde Moments stamp.

Two Simple Cards

Back with the spirit of keeping things quick and easy, here are two cards that I made with the lovely Art Deco lady images from Kanban. The first is embellished with a Cuttlebug embossed panel and a single feather. The second one is pyramage (I think), mounted onto a foiled base card with my first beaded pin that I've secured with a satin ribbon. The whole thing is finished off with a stamped greeting.

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Fantasy Film Dragonfly

I used Fantasy Film with this beautiful Mackintosh-style dragonfly stamp from OneFourZero. Now I have a confession to make - after I had used this clear stamp only once, I managed to tear it in half while removing it from the acrylic block. I was really worried that I wouldn't be able to use it again, but I have to admit I'm impressed with the results -you can't really tell that the stamp was in two pieces when I used it here. I mounted two Fantasy Film dragonflies together to enable me to leave the top pair of wings free. The backing paper is from the Artylicious Butterfly Bliss CD. The greeting is another stamp from the OneFourZero set, embossed in silver.

Oh no!! Peel offs!!

Well there go all my pretensions of being a serious rubber stamp artist - I made a card with peel offs this weekend. This is not something I do very often, I must confess. However, faced with very little time, and even less inspiration, with which to make a card, I decided to experiment with the silhouette peel off and some illusion film. To go with the safari theme, I even managed to use up some glittered animal print card that I have been hoarding for ages. Even further, I used a colour scheme that is way outside my comfort zone. As for the final result, well you will either love it or hate it.

Golden Tree

After a cardmaking hiatus, it'a a busy time for me now as October is filled with friend and family birthdays, and I have just realised hat I need to get a wriggle on with my Christmas cards too. I started playing around with this Klimt Tree samp from Tanda Stamps, then inspiration struck me and I decided to stamp it onto acetate then back it with some Easy Metal leaf. The panel at the side and the background are made with the complementary border stamp. It's really golden and shimmery in real life, but hard to capture on camera.