Pocket Birthday Card

Hello and welcome!

Today I'm showing you the card I made for

my hubby, Dave, for his birthday.

This is made from a business envelope with

a window in it.
I simply folded up the envelope so the window

was at the bottom of the pocket that it made.

I stamped the "happy birthday" on a piece of

white card stock with VersaFine Black Onyx Ink

and positioned it inside the envelope,

before I folded and glued it to make the pocket.

I covered the front of the pocket with some 

alcohol ink covered deli paper from my stash.

Then found some woven burlap type embellishment

in my stash and added that and glued the 

postage stamps on top of it.

We are big fans of  Ireland and castles,

so I thought these stamps were perfect for him.

I then made a small tag to go in the pocket.

I used white card stock and inked it with

a couple Distress Inks,

I believe they were 
Broken China

and

Mowed Lawn

I wrote out a greeting in Gaelic
Go n-eiri an t-adh leat

which basically means

wishing you the best of luck

Slainte means cheers

and gra which means love.

I adhered the entire pocket onto

a piece of card stock.

He loved his card, it is sooooo

him!

Here is a link to a video showing how

to make this kind of pocket, there are 

other uses for these, I just chose to make mine

into a card.  She does a bit more elaborate design

in the video, but you'll get the idea anyway.

Thanks for stopping in today.

I hope you have been inspired in some way

and will return again soon.

Until then,

try something new and different!

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

 

Lego Card

Hello and welcome to
Kristie Kreates!

Today I have a birthday card to share 

with you.  My niece's little guy loves

Legos, so I thought a Lego card would

be perfect for him.

I started with a piece from my stash that

I had created with alcohol inks on glossy

paper.  I simply swiped across the paper

with green, then swiped stripes across with blue,

 turned the paper 90 degrees 

and swiped with more blue.

  This created a plaid background.

 I thought this would work well for a 

background panel.

I then created the legos with my 

Silhouette Studio Designer Edition software.

These were simple enough, just a rectangle 

and circles.  I cut them out with my Silhouette,

using scraps from my stash.

I glued the "base" pieces onto the background panel,

then used round foam adhesive behind the circles

to give the dimension of the Legos.

I used foam tape to adhere this piece to a 

white card stock base, to make a sort of

pocket.

I made a tag to slip in behind the 

Lego panel.
I found a Lego font online, downloaded

it and cut that for the

Happy Birthday sentiment.

When Anthony opened his card, I heard

a "Oh Wow!" from him and that made

me smile.

Thanks for spending time at my blog today,

I hope you've been inspired in some way.

Now go be creative!

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.