Starting Early!!!!!!

Having spent the last couple of days doing birthday and anniversary cards, I thought today I would do something quick and easy. For me quick and easy is usually a card kit. So had a trawl through my stash and came across 4 Kanban kits of the same card that I had bought in my local craft shop back home in Fraserburgh.

I did two layouts - one landscape and one portrait - and adding a wee bit of glitter to the fur trim and bobble of teddy's hat.

That's 4 down, goodness know how many still to go. Thanks for popping by.

Happy Birthdays

The latest cards are for a couple of girls at the school. No instructions came with the cards apart from one was a sister-in-law and the other for a husband.

For the sister-in-law one, I knew that I would use a butterfly topper from Kanban called Autumn Butterflies Coffee and used foam pads to put the topper together. For the bamboo background I embossed a piece of cream lustre thin card, using a new cuttlebug embossing folder from the Oriental Weave collection and coloured the bamboo using copic pens. Then matted it on a piece of coffee coloured cardstock and which was matted on some cream cardstock. Finishing off with a stamped sentiment.

For the husband, I used a few magazine freebies to put it together. The striped and spotted papers came from Creative Cardmaking and the Popcorn topper was another freebie from Simply Cards & Papercrafts. I used some cardstock that I had lying about - Lasting Impressions Cornflower Solid - for the base mats.

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Lazy Cardmaking

Over the last couple of days have taken the lazy route to cardmaking - using a kit. This kit is by Basic Grey and called Nook and Pantry and makes 8 cards. Although it might seems a lazy and uninspired way of making cards, but it is a good way to build up a stash of cards to fit most occasions.

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