A Very Important Date

You guessed it another birthday card, have been colouring and carding up a storm lately!  This one features Alice Time for Tea from Tiddly Inks.

 They’ve got a challenge over at the Tiddly Inks blog, a clean and simple challenge so I thought I’d give that a go.  How do you think I went?  Going to enter this in the challenge and see how I go.  The picture isn’t very good, usually I scan my cards but the embossing didn’t show when I did that so this pic is from my phone, the background is actually white not pink!

I don’t know the recipient’s actual birthday, just that it’s in March or I’d have gone with the “I’m late, I’m late” quote, so kinda fudged with it a bit.  The quote from the movie not the book that is.

No bling or fuss on the inside either although I wish my stamping technique was better!  

Ingredients

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E02, E11, E13 (cheeks E95)

Eyes and teapot B00, B02, B05

Hair Y00, Y02, Y04, Y06, Y08

Dress B00, B02, B05

Clock C-1, C-3, Colourless Blender, Y28, Spica Gold and Clear

Stamps

Alice Time for Tea from Tiddly Inks

Key Moments from CTMH

Life is Tweet from CTMH

Dies

Spellbinder’s Labels Eleven

Cricut carts

Disney Classics

Embossing folder

Papermania Chronology Clocks

Challenge

Tiddly Inks’  CAS Challenge

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Birthday Madness

March really is the month for birthdays, so I have yet another birthday card, this one featuring a SOG image, Mad Hatter Kody.

This card is for a guy so I kept the patterns quite plain and didn’t go for any embellishments other than the die cuts.  Aren’t those teacups cute?  The recipient is a teetotaller, literally, he drinks tea (not coffee) at work all day.

I followed the sketch at this month’s challenge on the SOG blog although I moved my sentiment to fit my theme and flipped the sketch on its side.  I always thought it was the Mad Hatter who was having an unbirthday tea party but turns out it was Humpty Dumpty who got the unbirthday present so instead I used the raven riddle for my sentiment.  It follows through to the inside, where I printed my sentiment on some cardstock before cutting my frame.

Ingredients

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E02, E11

Eyes and teapot B00, B02, B05

Hair E02, Y13, Y15, Y17

Hat and jacket G02, G03, G05, G07

Sock, waistcoat and gloves R24, R27, R29, V12, V15, V17

Cravat Y13, Y15, Y17

Shoes C-5, C-7, 100

Buttons, hatpins and chain Spica Gold

Papers

Starbust Matstack from DCWV

Stamps

Mad Hatter Toby from Some Odd Girl

Dies

My Favorite Things Die-namics Die Always Time For Tea 

Spellbinder’s Labels Four 

Quotes 

Alice in Wonderland  by Lewis Carroll 

Challenge 

SOG March Sketch Challenge 

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Never Stop Believing

I found out on Friday it was a colleague’s birthday, I also had a really good talk with him on Friday night about staying resilient in the face of obstacles (we’re trying to change culture at work!).  In talking about what each of us did to relax I told him about my crafting and we ended up on the topic of Steampunk, which he’d never heard of.  Guess I can’t blame him there, he is male, just turned 47 and his oldest is still only 9 so a bit young to be into that sort of the thing.  But it did mean that I had my theme for his card and this gorgeous image with the sentiment of ‘Believe’ was just perfect given our discussion about believing in the good that we are trying to do to get us through the hard work of change.

Copic colours used:

Girl W-1, W-3, W-5, W7

Frog B93, B95, B97, G94, G99, YG95

Frame C-1, C-3, C-5

Spica

The image is from Simply Betty’s Steampunk Classic Collection 6 and is called Believe.  To further challenge myself I tried a fairly monochromatic scheme, all warm greys for the girl and cool greys for the frame.  Then just the pop of colour on the frog but still in muted tones to keep with the overall look.  I picked out elements to highlight with Spica glitter pens, mostly the outlines.  There were dots at the top that I couldn’t cut around so I added the tiny gems instead.

There’s a new challenge up at the Simply Steampunk Challenges’ site too, it’s to “distress”.  This is their second challenge, I didn’t have time to enter the first so thought I would go with some distressing and enter this into the challenge.

At first I just cut the background papers and inked the edges but I figured that wasn’t distressed enough so I carefully lifted them and used them for the inside.  The papers are from Bo Bunny’s Enchanted 6x6 stack, they were elegant but not too decorative as I was trying to keep this simple being for a man.  I tore them for a more distressed look and then inked the edges with Black Soot Distress ink.  The black frame is a Nestie cut from the same black cardstock as the card itself.  A few smokey gems in the corners I figured was a nice touch of bling without making it girlie.

I used the same papers inside, the first set rescued from the front, and cut another Nestie frame.  I printed the sentiment on the computer and then traced it onto the card and voila, one finished card.

Won’t you go check out the challenge at Simply Steampunk Challenges and play along?

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