Crafty As L

In the Veteran’s Group where I volunteer, we will be celebrating three 100 th birthdays this year; indeed, the event today was a joint do for Sybil’s 101 st and for Henry’s 100 th birthday. How amazing is that?!   Today’s post is the card I made for Henry who is a cheeky chap and I thought the sentiment (from Clearly Besotted   Laugh Out Loud Again)   suited him well. To begin, I stamped Mama Elephant’s Three Amigos , adding numbers from Lawn Fawn Claire’s Alphabet.   They were stamped in Versafine Onyx black and clear heat-embossed. Using a variety of alcohol markers, I coloured the critters and the grass.   I didn’t know what colour to do the background so opted for a pale-yellow glow. After assembling the card, I felt that more background was needed so stencilled some clouds and sky. I added the birthday sentiment at the bottom and matted the panel on gold foil card and onto a dark brown side-fold DL card blank.

These cards were borne from the leftovers from the die-cut windows from my Beary Good blog post from 28 May.   To make them look like tags, I punched a small hole into the corner of each one.   The Sizzix Framelits Tags Collection has three small tag dies so I cut a few of these to supplement the rectangles. Looking through my stash for sets with small images, I first settled on Mama Eelephant’s Cat’s Meow and stamped an image onto each tag. The next suitable set I found was Lawn Fawn’s Love Letters set. After some simple colouring using alcohol markers, I added a few white highlights using a white Posca pen.   Each tag was adhered to a craft card blank using thin foam tape and the sentiment stamped at the bottom. The second card was assembled the same way but I added a pink tassel to the top tag.

This card was made for a friend who had recently had a heart attack.   I wanted to make something to make him smile as well as to let him know that we are thinking of him. This is Mama Elephant Fish Tank, a die-set that I’ve had for ages but this was its first outing. The set has 2 bowl dies, an inner and outer, but I only used the outer which has a nice stitching detail around the edge.   There is some foliage and then tiny star and fish shaped dies – it was the tiny fish that inspired a shaker card.   I die-cut lots of the fish and 4 of the plants and then ink blended some colour onto them. The My Favorite Things Gill Friends doesn’t have a “get well” sentiment but I have the Greetings Galore, which is also by Birdie Brown in the same font, so I was able to mix and match to make my sentiment. Next, the assembly was done in layers starting with a sheet of acetate for the glass bowl.   Next, I added a layer of ‘sand’ at the bottom and adhered a few of the p...

Our lovely Godson celebrated his first birthday recently so I looked through my stash to find something suitable for a 1 st birthday card.  The Three Amigos set by Mama Elephant caught my eye as I thought I could stack the critters to create a number 1.  Upon further consideration, I decided that it wouldn’t be obvious that the stack was number 1 so I created a one-shaped card in Design Space and cut it out on my Cricut Maker, together with a couple of layers. Next, I stamped the critters and coloured them with my Copic markers.  I stamped the sentiments and added a tiny heart from another stamp set. Using the matching dies, I cut out the critters.  Since the critters would stick out from the No.1 and the Copic markers bleed through the card, I cut additional die cuts from the card base to cover the back of the colouring. The animals didn’t reach the top of the card so I cut a little section of white card and stencilled clouds on it.  I ...