Happy BIrthday Oliver! First card is a ...Tunnel Box Card

 

Evening Crafty peoples, hope you're not too hot! I must admit, I've melted on more than two occasions. Our old fans are blowing their little hearts out, which means, crafty paper is scattered everywhere! Here's one of the cards I made for Grandson Oliver for his seventh birthday today! It should've been dinosaurs but I couldn't find them (they are extinct you know) but I did have some dragons...so I used them instead.

I used one of my very first die cuts (a set of nesting dies) so they must be at least 12 years old, if not older but I've never used the biggest one before now...and guess what...one of the curvy corners didn't have  any thing there to cut with, just smooth metal, so I had to finish it off with scissors. All the smallers dies worked fine. There's about three layers looking through the 'tunnel' to see, at the very back,  Tim Holtz's 'Alpine' Mountains with pine trees. I took ages making them but they can't really be seen.
 

 The dragons are stickers and are guarding the castle's gold, treasure and gems. They are just fixed onto acetate, which is why, on a close up shot the picture looks 'cracked'. The papers I've used are from a 12x12 double-sided pad from The Works.

At least I managed to find a bit of a dinosaur for the back of the card, downloaded for free at Chantahtiadesigns rainbow papers, where I wrote a sentiment, but I rubbed that bit out. (And yes, I'd forgotten I had these dinosaurs!) The whole card folds flat to fit into a 5x7 envelope. Oliver's other birthday card will be here tomorrow, with any luck-because, oops, just remembered I haven't watered the flower pots and hanging baskets or the beans or the tomates yet!...and we have dogs that need a quick pee and a poo walk before bed. (which is why I haven't been here for ages, again!) So, stay safe, keep crafting... and thank you for stopping by.

My DT Card for Penny's Challenges- I love Spinning Around With You!

 

  Hello Crafty peoples! As you know I've been away, so I'm a little late with this card! I had it on timer but, it didn't go! Aggghhh! Over on Penny's Challenge a few weeks ago I was a winner with Niamh's Easter Picnic carton. And as a prize I was sent two digi's of my choice and a digi to use in one of their next challenges as a Guest DT member! Soooo here is my DT card using  Eric and Erica from LeAnn's World 101

Hope you like it. I had great fun making it. 

Because the digi was of two skaters, I decided to make a spinner card. Spinning-skating? Get it? Ok, here's more pictures! Above top is the front of the card. (Seeing it's meant to be displayed open) I used freebie die cuts from Magazines and also the skates were stamped and fusy cut and coloured with Promarkers. Inside the circle on the front is lilac vellum, which I embossed with lots of swirls depicting more 'skating' moves. I've also added gems and a little sparkle...

 On the inside I typed out the sentements on the computer.... so the whole thing reads, 'I love.... Spinning Around With You!' and 'Have a Fantastic Day' (Font is called  Curlz MT, just google the name to find a free download) There's plenty of room on the back of the card to add your sentiment and I think it could be given to a male or female and for any occasion especialy if they're skaters!

The papers I used were mostly from a fabulous 12x12 pad Butterfly Kisses  by Dovecraft/CraftLabel and also a 12x12 pad from The Works. All colouring was done using Promarkers. I reversed one of the digi images so they really did get dizzy when it spun round!

  Apologies to all for being late with this post. Skate over to Penny's Challenges  Penny's Challenge #524 to find out more about their next challenge!! Always Anything goes with Paper! Thank you for stopping by! Hoping to add some...

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613 Avenue- anything goes/let it all hangout (the skaters are hanging!)

Asyoulikeitchallenge-feminine-or-masculine and why (made this card for a GDT  It's now my fav skatting digi!)

 Creativecrafterschallenge-Anything Goes 

Cinspirations.- Masculine

Creativefingerschallenge-

Wordartwednesday..-

Happy Aniversary to Me and Him Indoors

 I'm about three posts behind this week already! I'll add the other bunny cards as promised next...hopefully, but, this card's had to push in, coz it's our aniversary today and this is the card I've made. I was wondering what to do, as I don't think I can ever match the mad motorbike card I made him ages ago or the bench card. Have I posted that yet? Ohoo, maybe I haven't! If that's the case, I'll add that after the bunnies! 

 I was  crafting away listening to Sam Calcott on YouTube make something, and the video rolled on to her making this type of 5x7 'Lock and Pop gate fold card.' I quicky did all the folding and scoring (wondering why there was a half inch fold at either end) when, suddenly, Sam gets out one of her lovely die-cuts to add to the ends that make the front of the card and make them all flowery and die-cuttyingly, gorgeous, which of course I haven't got, so, me, being the worst 'measurer' in the world just added plane ordinary front bits for the 'gates' to make the card the right size. Only... it was too big by a tiny  miniscule spidgen to fit into a 5x7 envelope. All the dies used on that topper, came from The Works. (The tiny hearts are the leftovers from a Tim Holts Sizzix thinlits die, see! I throw nothing away!)

 

This is the card closed. There's another 5x7 and a 6x6, tutorial by Sam, where there was an addition of a belly band. 

 It's not really lovey-dovey card, but the Tim Holtz's paper layered on the front is more manly... and it does mention Seattle in one of the signs... where we've been, just twice, to see our youngest daughter and oldest Grandson.(sometime ago now 😞)

Anyway, this is the back of the card, sitting in all the mess it took to make it! The Butterfly paper  is 'Perhaps,' Basic Grey.com. I've had it for years, never wanting to cut into it, well, I've done it now! I have a few more, different ones, bought back in the day when a whole 12x12  pack was unheard of at my local craft shop, because they'd be so expensive! That's it for today, we are going, OUT! Stay Safe, thanks for stopping by! 

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