Happy Birthday Rithika

Evening,

It's that time of year again where I have to make a card for Boss's youngest daughter. I do love the challenge of coming up with something different from last time, but still incorporating her name.

This year I actually had a request from Boss.........please make it bigger and add an 18th for her special birthday.

I have been playing with my 3D embossing folders and white ink in preparation for the class tomorrow, so I decided to use one of them in the background for a little bit of subtle sophistication.

I embossed the floral image on the left hand side of a blue square panel and gently wiped over it with a  white ink pad.

This highlights the detail of the folder in a very subtle manner.

I added some diecut and layered hearts along with her name, 18 and some pearls.

I ran the finished card past my eldest Granddaughter who said that as far as she was concerned it fitted the bill perfectly.....sophisticated but fun. Praise indeed from a 21 year old lol.

Boss seemed to like it so I hope that it was OK.

Better finish packing things up for class tomorrow before it gets too late.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Kimx

Let's Celebrate with a Vintage Biker

Evening 

It's a good job my grandson loves me, or at least I hope that he does, cause I'm late with his birthday card........AGAIN.

There should have been time to get it made, but in my defense I have been feeling rough so time just got away from me. 

Once again I reached for my trusty LOTV Simply Print images,

and chose this super vintage biker.

They print out two images to a page, so I fussy cut around one of the images and added it with silicon glue for some added dimension.

As it is a very special birthday I thought that I should add his age,

after all you are only 18 once, so you should definitely celebrate it.

I'm pleased to say that he was thrilled with it, so my choices were all good. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Stay safe and hugs

Kimx

Dies and Punches for CCM

Evening Everyone,
We have a fabulous new challenge over at CCM.
Jo is our host for Punches or Dies.

Now I have to say that stamping is my first love, but for all that I seem to have amassed a huge collection of dies over the years. This made choosing which ones to use for the challenge a rather difficult decision.

I clearly remember thinking that die cutting was not my thing, until I saw my friend Stamping Caz using a Cuttlebug at The Craft Barn more years ago than I care to think about.

And now I have a truly huge collection which I seem to add to quite frequently.

I particularly love alphabet and sentiment dies, probably because they are the easiest ones to compliment my stamping.

They are also fabulous when you have an unusual or foreign name. I wish that I had had them when my Girls were young. Granted Jenni and Becki may not be particularly unusual but they are spelt a little differently so I could never get anything with their names on without ordering it, usually at extortionate cost.

Stamps with matching dies are also extremely useful.

My card was made for my Boss. The cards that I have made for his girls over the years have been much admired so he asked if I could make one for a friend of his to give to his daughter.
Of course with all those flowers I had to make a box for it, which is probably just as well since I found out later that it had to go all the way to Australia.
I hope that you will find the time to join in with our challenge, I look forward to seeing your creations.
Happy Crafting and hugs
Kimx

Big Birthdays

Hi All
Wow another week over and I've not found time to blog.
To be honest this really hot weather that we have been experiencing has not suited me at all.
I love that it has been bright, don't get me wrong, but it has been just too hot for me to function once I get home from the lovely air conditioning at work.
There have been times when even that hasn't felt like it was working!
This year is a bit of a milestone year for quite a few people that I know - 1st, 16th, 18th, 21st, 50th and even a few 60's including my own in a couple of months.

Here is a card made for a very special young lady who celebrated her 18th birthday a couple of months ago.

As her name is Hollie I added a few holly leaves and used a berry red colour as her nickname happens to be HollyBerry.

I do love the Large Words and Numbers stamps that Francoise has designed for Woodware.
They make brilliant statement pieces to build a card around, and of course if you paper piece them you get at least 2 for the price of 1. 

As luck would have it I didn't have long to wait to use the 2nd panel as my niece celebrated her 18th birthday earlier this month.

This time I used some zentangled flowers to embellish my paper pieced panel.. 

The leaves are die cut from a sheet of card brayered with Sparkle Medium.

The square background has been die cut using a couple of lovely Sue Wilson dies.

I had better get a move on and make the most of the cool snap that we seem to be experiencing today. The rain is too late to save the hanging baskets that I forgot to water while the family are on holiday, but at least it has cooled things down a little bit.

Have a great evening.

Hugs Kimx