Saturday, January 22, 2011

A trio of birthday or love cards

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I had a super productive couple of evenings spurred on by an absolutely incredible sale at Bugaboo. Ending TODAY (Jan 22) Bugaboo has all their stamps on for 60% off. I went quite crazy and bought myself a whole bunch of new images including the three I have used here.

I kept all three of these cards simple so that the images would really stand out (and even if I do say so myself, I think my colouring is extra good on these!). I'm going to donate all of these cards to Cards for Kids so I wanted them to be usable for all types of occasions although they are each quite clearly most suitable for Valentine's Day or a bithday.

I used some red foil paper that I saved from a box of chocolates (I love repurposing) to matte the image and create the band along the bottom of the card. I also used a square of the foil and embossed it with a Cuttlebug folder. I went back & forth on whether I should touch-up the embossing where white from the back of the paper came through but I decided to leave it as is to match the worn look of the boy's coat & boots.

This next card is definitely for a birthday. I used two embossing folders (notebook from Tim Holtz, "Happy Birthday" from Cuttlebug) to create the background. I used the sketch from Cards & Things.


This is my favourite of of the cards - I'm quite pleased with how tasty the cupcake ended up looking. Kind of a light chocolate with caramel! The sketch for this card is from Moving Along with the Times.

Challenges:
All Sorts - for a boy/male
Challenge Up Your Life - clean & simple
Copic Creations - use something new (the digis)
Moving Along with the Times - SKETCH
Simon Says Stamps - BINGO (I chose die cut, embossing, ribbon
Stampin' Royalty - anything with wings
My Time to Craft - spots & dots
Cards & Things - SKETCH
Aly's Sunday Challenge - things with wings
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11 comments:

  1. UnknownJanuary 22, 2011 at 3:46 PM

    Super cute cards! Thanks for sharing :)

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  2. patriziawithazJanuary 23, 2011 at 8:21 AM

    Looove your dotty card Shelley - the image is great and the colours perfect !! Thanks for sharing your work with us at MTTCC this week x

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  3. Chris (catt871)January 23, 2011 at 6:58 PM

    These are all great cards! Wow you have been busy!!! Love the images and your colouring is FAB!! THANKS for joining us at Simon Says Stamp this week!
    Chris

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  4. savvy teaching tipsJanuary 23, 2011 at 11:15 PM

    Thanks for playing with us at Stampin' Royalty this week.

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  5. KristaJanuary 24, 2011 at 11:39 AM

    Great cards ! Thanks for playing along with C&T !

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  6. LesleyJanuary 25, 2011 at 3:10 AM

    Great cards, love the image! Thanks for taking part in the MTTC challenge xx

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  7. TannyPJanuary 25, 2011 at 5:35 AM

    Super cute cards - those guys are great! Thanks for joining in the Sisterhood of Crafters Birthday Challenge!

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  8. scotspandaJanuary 25, 2011 at 1:38 PM

    three fabulous cards, the first one is my favourite one though :o) fab images

    thanks so much for entering my male inspired challenge at Allsorts this week. Good luck in the prize draw

    hugs

    Amanda xx

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  9. Darlene January 25, 2011 at 4:00 PM

    All three creations are awesome! Thanks so much for joining in on our Birthday challenge over at The Sisterhood! Hope to see you again next challenge!

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  10. ManuelaJanuary 28, 2011 at 12:37 PM

    Great samples! Thanks for playing with us at Challenge up your life!

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  11. Jane WetzelJanuary 31, 2011 at 6:51 AM

    I love Bugaboo and saw that great sale! You did well girl! Love your cards and glad u joined us at Copic Cretions!

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