Happy Anniversary

Started off today with the 2nd of training walks (5 miles) for the Moonlight Prowl in Fraserburgh on the 2nd June. Once I got a few jobs done about the house, settled down to make some cards that I need to get posted this week.

The first (hopefully will get a couple more made) of today's cards is an anniversary card inspired by a sketch that I picked up last week, but can't remember where.

Card Recipe

Cardstock

Base Card - 5 x 5 white card from Craft UK Limited

Kanban Quad Metallic Embossed Cardstock - Cerise

Moondust Paper

Embellishments

Pearls - my stash

Gems - my stash

Happy Anniversary peel-off

Equipment Used

Cuttlebug

Nestabilities - Classic Squares & Classic Scalloped Squares

Cuttlebug die - Butterflies (combo)

Cuttlebug embossing folder - Butterflies (combo)

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Embossing Nestabilities Die Cut

I have to thank Izzy over at Cricut Community Forum for pointing me in the right direction on how to use my Cuttlebug, along with Nestabilities dies and embossing folders (any brand) so that the centre of the die cut was embossed whilst leaving the border edge smooth. I posed the question a couple of weeks ago, after I cut out a shape with a nestabilities die and running the die and die cut through my cuttlebug to form a border edge and then putting the die cut only into an embossing folder and popping it into the cuttlebug. My border edge was also ended up being embossed. Just like the picture below, not very pretty.

I realised that to keep the border edge smooth I would have to include the die in any sandwich that I used so that only the centre would be embossed, but further realised that the die would more than likely end up damaging the embossing folder. Izzy replied that the only way might be not to close the embossing folder. Well today I had a try and success exactly what I wanted.

Enough of waffling on. This is how I did it.

First of all cut my shape out as normal using the sandwich of 'A' plate, 'B' plate, cardstock, die and topping it all off with the 'C' plate.

After carefully removing the die and die cut I made up another sandwich, which comprised of the 'A' plate, shim of cardstock, embossing folder (fully opened), die with die cut (with the die cutting edge facing upwards towards me), tan embossing mat and again topped off with the 'C' plate.

And the final result, just what I wanted.

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Just A Note

House is so quiet, my son's holidays are over and he is now back home. Roll on May when I get home and will see him and the rest of the family again. This morning had to change my plans as my hair appointment was changed till the afternoon. After getting caught up on paperwork got a card made - just to say sending hugs.

Had a wee play at embossing a nestiabilities die cut so that only that the centre of the die was embossed and the edge remains unembossed. Will posted later on how I did it.

Card Recipe

Cardstock

Base card - C6 white card from Craft UK Limited

Mats - freebie paper (no name on it)

White lustre cardstock

Embellishments

Topper - digistamp - Olive (from Digistamp Boutique)

Sequins - my stash

Gemstones - my stash

Crochet Ribbon - my stash

Equipment Used

Cuttlebug

Nestabilities - Deckled Rectangles

Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug Bloom Dots

Stamp - Funstamps - Just A Note

Ink - Whispers Archival - Green Leaf

Challenges

Digistamp Boutique - March Competition

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Pretty Sad

Playing cards today instead of playing tour guide. A sad card to make today, for a family friend who passed away at the weekend back home.

Card Recipe

Cardstock

Moondust papers

White Lustre bulk card

Embellishments

Pearls - my stash

Equipment Used

Cuttlebug

Nestabilities - Standard Circles & Beaded Circles

Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug - Friends Forever

Stamp - With Sympathy

Chalk

Challenges

Allsorts Challenge Blog - 3 in a row

Saturday Challenge - Doilies are not just for cakes

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Thank You

With the end of the school year, Lynn who runs the school thought it would be a nice touch to say thank you to all the girls for making the first year of Sunflower House a success. What could I do that was a bit special but not complicated as I had 18 cards to do. So having had a scramble through my crafting shelves decided to rely on my trusty 'bug' and do some die cutting and embossing.

Using cream lustre cardstock made a DL card, made a mat the whole width of the card from gold lustre cardstock. Using offcuts of the cream lustre die cut three squares with the plain square nestabilities, embossing one, stamping thank you onto another with Mocha Truffle from Versacolor and leaving the third plain. Die cut two butterflies, one in cream and one in gold and embossed them, curling the wings, the cream in the opposite direction from the gold and attaching them together with foam pads and mounting them onto the plain cream square again with foam pads.

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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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