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.

My card this week was for a friend’s 60 th birthday.   Handily, one of the things he learned to do when he retired was play the drums so Feel The Beat stamp set was perfect. For the background, I started with Parallax stencil and blended grey ink in the centre, fading to the edges. The drummer was stamped and clear heat-embossed in the centre to begin.   I’d just finished a red, white and blue project so I think those colours were in my head!   I stamped the scribble alternately in red and blue around the edges to make a frame.   Pulling the small stamps from a variety of Visible Image’s music themed sets, I stamped and heat-embossed, in either clear or silver powder, these around the frame and the drummer. Using the sentiment from Make Some Noise and the numbers from Birthday Balloons, I stamped them in the same colours as earlier and matted them on black card. These were added to the card using thin foam tape.   I used the same small stamps to d...

A couple of weeks ago, I attended a  Project 71 event to celebrate one of the veteran’s 100 th birthday.   Derrick was a fighter pilot in the RAF in WW2 and you can read his amazing story here .   Derrick’s sight is failing so I wanted to make a card with lots of texture and some movement so I decided on a variation of the squirrel wiper card from last month. For the card base, I cut two rectangles 5¾” x 7¼” and scored each of them at 5¾” and 6½”.   I also cut a piece of acetate 1¼” x 3¾” for the mechanism, scored a line ½” from the side and bottom edge and attached some strong double-sided tape to the triangle. Next, I made the decorative element to attach to the wiper.   I used Visible Image Birthday Balloons and stamped and die-cut ‘100’.   These number were glued onto a rectangle of blue foil card.   The square of foil was to be the mat layer for the card so I ‘gutted’ it to provide the rectangle for the numbers, saving on materials. To bu...