Birthday cards received

I thought it would be nice to show you a selection of cards I received for my birthday back in March, I havent got all of them photographed as yet but I've made a start so here is the first few.

I will try to get a few more on here later.

This on was made by Pam (peejay) I'm not sure how she parted with it, I have hoked and poked at it Pam to get the center details correct lol!

A real flower card made by my Mam

Made by jJackie who is on my design team

Made by Karen who is on my design team.

This one was made by my Mother-in-Law, she has only been crafting for areound a year.

Border Punch Card

I used the Kreaxions 3in1 punch to create a frame as the focal point of the card I took a couple of pretty papers and punched the border down 2 opposite edges then turn the border inwards to show the white side of the patterned paper, I then matched the papers one inside of the other to create the frame.

I used the Stamping up It's Beautiful Wheel to stamp on the base card using Close to cocoa ink.

Using the Wishing You Stamp set by PTI I stamped the dragonfly in brocade blue and close to cocoa ink and sponged the edges, using glossy accent I glazed the dragon fly wings and added a pretty copper ribbon to finish.

Damask Holder Folder

I decided to have a go at a card set contained within a folder.

Lauren my Daughter runs a Slimming World group and I thought it would be lovely for them to recive a well done card from her so I set too with making her a modern card set

The stamp set used is Damask by Papertrey Ink.

A view of the folder opened up, as you can see I made a spine and stamped it to match.

The ribbon that ties the folder runs below the white card acrossthe front the spine and the back, the loose ends of the ribbon are tucked inside for photography purposes.

The inside of the folder, I made a couple of pockets to hold the cards and envelopes then added some white punched and staped card on top of the pockets.

Stamped and scored 6 matching cards to slot inside the folder.

I thought the words below would be very apt for a good weight loss, so, they were stamped inside the cards.

Of course I stamped a smalled image onto the envelope as I wanted all to match.

Mother Card

I new stamp set Mother by Papertrey Ink, I love this set I combined it with the Life set and stamped the silhouette floral onto the base card added a couple of pearls and a punched flower and I was done.

Life

This was made with the PTI stamp set Life designed by Lisa Johnson, I love this set some of the sentiments are beautiful ans the foliage is all suitable as silhouettes.

I stamped onto a very deep coloured purple card stock using Versamark and white detail powder then heat embossed it, the white paper border was made using a 3 in 1 punch made by Kreaxions, I wish I'd bought a couple of these punches when I was at Harrogate as I can't seem to find a stockist in the UK.