Oval Slatted Birthday Card

Hello everyone and welcome back.  While cleaning up some craft supplies, I found this pretty paper from Marianne Designs called Country Flowers.

After rummaging through my dies, I thought this Slatted & Eclipse Oval die from Divinity Designs would work well and so I went to work.

I never get tired of this slatted look.  It's so subtle but makes a pretty paper really stand out. 

I normally cut out the slatted shape 3 times using thick cardstock.  Then I adhere each layer to each other using liquid glue.  I find that these 3 layers plus the pretty paper layer gives it enough height without adding too much bulk.  This is especially important when you mail cards overseas. Anything thicker than 1/4" requires additional postage.

On the inside, I used the following products:

Stampabilities - Elegant Happy Birthday

VersaFine Clair Inks - Shady Lane

eK punches - photo corners

And that was a quick and easy birthday card done. It doesn't show on the pic, but I did add a couple of small lilac butterflies to the inside just to add a little more interest and to match the front of the card.  

See you again soon.

Hugs,

 

Circle Slatted Card

Hello everyone.  I made this birthday card for my son's girlfriend. I love playing with these slatted & eclipse dies from Divinity Designs. For this card, I used the Circle one.  I think that it's such a lovely way to use up your pretty papers.

Because I wanted to have both birds as part of the slatted image, the circle had to be placed a little higher up on the card, leaving a bit of empty space at the bottom.  In order to fill up this extra space, I used the Celebrate die, from Karen Burniston, and cut it out of both fuchsia and silver cardstocks so I could make a slight shadow on the word.

The image is from a sheet from Marianne Designs called Country Flowers.

It is a 6 x 6 inch square image.  I cut it to 5" x 5" so it would fit on this 5.5" square card.

The silver mat is 5.25" x 5.25".

I used the Kat Scrappiness - Happy Birthday w/Shadow die and the Pin Numbers die from Marianne Design to create the elements on the inside.  I finished it off by cutting a few photo corners using a very old eK punch.

That is all for today folks.  Thanks so much for stopping by.  I'll see you again soon.

Hugs,

Crafty Gals Corner #276 ~ Anything Goes w/optional twist - Spring

    Hello crafting friends and welcome to our monthly challenge

 at Crafty Gals Corner! I hope you all had a very Blessed and Happy Easter!

  The theme for our challenge this month is

~ Anything Goes w/optional twist - Spring ~

This Center Panel Pop up card was cut using a file from Silhouette.

Both the card base cardstock and the pattern paper are from The Paper Studio.

The sweet little watercolor chick is from a Easter Eggs Topper cutting sheet by Marianne Designs.  The Easter greeting is from a file from Silhouette, resized to fit my card.

I needed a little something extra for the sides as they looked too plain, so I cut out these little flowers using the Elegant Arrangements die set from Sue Wilson Designs.

I added a white panel to the inside so I can write my personal message.

The butterflies were cut using a Martha Stewart punch.

As you can see, this type of card folds flat for mailing and has very little bulk.  I resized this card to be 6.5" x 5" so that it fits perfectly in an A9 envelope.

We would love to see you play along with us.  You have until noon, CST,

on 12 May 2026, to link your project to our challenge.

Hugs,

Easter Circle Layout Card

 Hello friends!  I'm sorry I have been mostly MIA and have not had a chance to go visit your blogs, but I've been dealing with life and it has taken away from my crafting time.  All I've had time for is my DT commitments and very little else.  

I had thought that by now, I would be back to my normal routine.  You see I  gave myself January and February to deal with a bunch of personal things and to catch up on things that needed attending to.  And I made good progress until the beginning of March came around and I realized that Easter is at the end of March and all of a sudden, between Birthday cards, (March is my busiest month with family and friends) Easter cards and New Home cards, I have 23 cards to make this month and some need to be done very soon so they can get mailed and hopefully reach their destinations overseas on time.  Now add 36 Easter treat boxes for hubby's work, as well as my normal DT projects, and well ... I think you understand!  Oh and I almost forgot ... an Anniversary card too 😀 

I have a card to share with you today, that was inspired by some pretty papers from Marianne Design and by a card design made by my sister in law, Marian from Marian Creaties.

Love how it came out.  Of course I love, love this bunny image.  I used the Circle Layout Die from Marianne Designs and cut out the image.  Next I made another 5 layers of just the frame, out of cream cardstock.  I adhered all the layers together and then paper pieced the inserts back into their place.  When this was done, I adhered it to a 6 x 6 card base, added the decorative corners and a placed a small periwinkle pearl on the centre of each.

Herer are a few close ups..

I kept the inside very simple.  This is where I will write my personal message.  I used the same colour cardstock I used to build the frame layers in the front of the card, and cut and adhered the decorative corners to bring it all together.

It fits perfectly into a 6.25" square envelope and although it will need a little extra postage,  It was the first time I made this type of card, but it won't be the last for sure 😀

That's all for today folks. Now I got to get busy with more Easter cards, then the treat boxes and lastly will be the New Home cards.  But there are birthday cards and DT cards inbetween, so do come back to visit when you can.

Now I don't want to jinx it, but hopefully things will return back to a more normal pace in April, and I will be able to come take a look-see at all your beautiful projects.  I do miss that very much.

Till next time,

Fairy Stamper ~ A Birthday Cocktail

Hello friends and welcome back to my Fairy Stamper Friday share!

I have one of the birthday cards I made for my daughter's birthday.  And yes, I actually made 3 because I was commissioned by my mom and son to make a card for her 😀 

This was one of those stamps that called my name as I was browsing thru one of the European Stamps sales events that Fairy Stamper holds every so often.  The best way to know about these special order sales events is to subscribe to their newsletter HERE.

Sometimes, a fancy card fold, a few dies and one stamp is all it takes to make a card 😀

I coloured in the image using copic markers.  For the card fold, I followed a tutorial by Sam Calcott from Mixed Up Crafters.  The stamp I used is called Dolphin Cocktail and it is from Studio Light, designed by Laurens Van Gurp.  During the last European Stamps sales event, there were quite a few of these new stamps by Laurens Van Gurp, all with a tropical "flavour". 😀  The two greeting stamps I was going to use were Birthday Wishes and Deepest Wishes, both Fairy Hugs stamps.  Unfortunately, the two diamonds came out a little smaller than I expected, so I had to look thru my stash of stamps to find something that would fit. The patterned paper was also purchased from Fairy Stamper a long time ago.  It is from a paper pad called Côte d'Azur and it is from Marianne Designs.

As you know I love anything and everything tropical or/and nautical so I had a lot of fun putting this card together.  And the best part ... my daughter also loves anything and everything tropical or/and nautical.  I guess the apple did not fall far from the tree in this case 😀  But then hubby/dad feels the same way, so it's in the genes 😁

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope you will come play along with us and share your magical projects on our Facebook group.

Till next time,

crafty hugs!