Happy Birthday Easel Card for Mum

Hello again!

This is the easel card I made for Mum's birthday last Sunday.  Lots more stitching too!
Tip - When you have stitched the whole way around the card and you finish off at the end, to tidy up loose ends, give the threads at the back a little tug and the front threads should start to come through to the back.  Pull them completely through, tie them together and tape down.

The double sided paper is from the My Mind's Eye, Quite Contrary range.  The sentiment is computer generated and cut out with labels one nestabilities die.  I stamped some flowers on it and put adhesive gems in the centre.  Then I inked victorian velvet distress ink around the edges. I cut the large scalloped circle with a nestability die and inked the edges with distress ink, then added the rabbit with foam pads.

Thanks for stopping by today :)
Sarah x

Supplies
White card - 15x15cms card (folded size) plus extra 15x15cm square
Bazzill - Vintage Pink
DP - My Mind's Eye
Stamps - Joanna Sheen Messy Rabbit, American Crafts Clear stamp collection (Fun) 59096
Inks - Memento Tuxedo Black, Distress ink Victorian Velvet
Nestabilities - Scalloped Circle, Labels One
Thread
Buttons
Ribbon - Ribbons Galore Australia
Papermania adhesive gems

Messy Rabbit Wedding Card

Insert

Layered Flowers

Box for the card

Hello again!
I have been so bad at updating this blog :(  Mum and Dad came home from Australia last week, their cases bulging with craft goodies for me. So I haven't been crafting much.....just drooling over it all before tidying it away ~ lol.

What I have made though is this wedding card.  I love Messy Rabbit stamps and coloured this pair in with Distress Inks.  I did all the stitching by hand using the Tim Holtz clear ruler to pierce the holes first.  The line along the bottom is a bit wonky where the ruler slipped and I didn't notice until it was too late....oops!  The doily lace edge around the circle was made using the Martha Stewart doily lace edger punch (I saw a tutorial on how to do it ages ago but can't remember whose it was - sorry!) The flowers were embellished with liquid pearls and the leaves with stickles glitter glue.

Enjoy the rest of your day and thanks for visiting :)
Sarah x

Edited to add
The card was too raised to fit in a regular envelope so I made a little box to put it in.  I usually just print an insert for inside my cards but this time as it was going in a box I decorated the inside too.  The heart at the top is stitched (using a papermania template) and the flowers & leaves on the bottom corner are all punched.

Supplies
Paper - Basic Grey Perhaps
Stamp - Messy Rabbit
Colouring - Distress Inks~frayed burlap, tattered rose, victorian velvet, peeled paint, shabby shutter
Punches - Martha Stewart Doily Lace, Woodware Grass ~yellow & green sizes
Flowers - Kaisercraft & Green Tara
Sentiment - computer generated
Cream organza ribbon
White Opal liquid pearls & Stardust stickles

Messy Rabbit Card

Another birthday party for Caleb this week and for once I'm not last minute!
I love the Messy Rabbit stamps and this one is perfect for a little boy :)

Supplies
The papers are Making Memories 6x6 pad ~ Ethan
Stamps - Joanna Sheen, Messy Rabbit
Sentiment - computer generated
Silver brad
Colouring - Koh-i-noor pencils, sansodor oil, blending stumps

Thanks for looking today
Sarah x

Ps. Dad is doing well, the surgery was not as bad as expected :)

Card for Phoebe's 3rd Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHOEBE!

I can't believe our 'baby' is 3 tomorrow and starting Nursery as well!!

As she is pink on the brain at the minute, the card had to have a definite pink theme! I love this Messy Rabbit stamp and think it makes a really cute girly card :)

SuppliesWhite card – 15 x 15cms finished size
Designer Paper – Imaginisce – Fairest of them all
Pink Bazzill card
Green card
White card
White satin spotty ribbon
Martha Stewart punch – Doily Lace
Messy Rabbit stamp – Joanna Sheen
Stazon Black ink
Image coloured with – Koh-I-Noor pencils
Sansodor Oil
Blending Stumps
Nestabilities – Circle & Scalloped Circle
Small white flower – Green Tara
Card Candy – Craftwork Cards
McGill punch – Leaves
Cuttlebug – Tiny tags die
Sentiment - Elzybell’s acrylic word stamps
White brads

Boy birthday

Caleb has been invited to a little classmate's birthday party today and because he has been off school for so long we only found out about it on Monday! We got the present but forgot about wrapping paper so decided to make our own:) We used brown paper and stamped 'sir messy' all over it and Caleb coloured it in. Made matching tags and card and it's all ready for this afternoon. Hope William likes it!

Father's Day & Special Birthday

This year I only had time to make 2 cards, one for my dad and the other for Richard's dad. Richard said he didn't need a card this year so the children didn't make one either. I think Lydia was a bit relieved!!

It's Richard's mum's 65th birthday today too, so I made 2 cards, one from us and the other from the children.

We've had a pretty quiet day, looking forward to the last week of school before the holidays. Still have to make a thank you card for Caleb's teacher. He hasn't had a great year due to illness, but hopefully now his tonsils are gone, the next one will be better :)

Finally....

I haven't really got a clue what I'm doing but here goes.....

I've been looking at other people's blogs for ages and would love to do one of my own but every thing else always got in the way. So here I am on a Saturday morning, should be doing the ironing but am starting a blog instead. Here's hoping it goes well and I can keep it updated!!!

This is a long overdue card, I just finished it last night and will have to deliver it next week.

Sorry Keith and Valerie!
Supplies

Messy Rabbit couple stamp

Memory box papers

Ribbon - Spare parts

Various blooms, stickles, black memento ink, koh-i-noor pencils, sansodor oil, blending stumps and thread for stitching.

I think that's it!