Crazicards Crafty Blog

I used a set of Get in Shape Chunky Numbers to make the layers for my card. Then I stamped music all over as the person this is for is heavy into Northern Soul music. I embossed the music in Gold. And then I decided to stamp the base with a large Happy Birthday backgound stamp using versamark again but this time I decided to use some pretty sparkly Gold perfect pearls.

After layering everything up I mounted everything onto Gold mirri board.  I always find it hard to make a card for a man but I think this one turned out ok.

I have entered this card into the Polka Doodle Special Birthday Challenge #10 this week.

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Just wanted to add a new card to my blog and it seems that it will hopefully also be one I can enter in the Polka Doodles challenge and one or two others too this week which is great. I am also an avid stamper and wanted to do something that involved stamping and origami flowers. And this is what I came up with.


I stamped the hummingbird and flowers with versamark then embossed them with detail White Opaque embossing powder.


Then I attached the vellum to the Black mat with brads which I had coloured to match, I only had purple to hand, and then added the black and white oragami flowers with half pearls to finish off. Oh and not forgetting my favourite spotty ribbon. I am well pleased with this card, I hope you like it.

 
Here we are with another card. I thought I might try making some origami flowers and this was the result. They turned out quite well and I will definitely be having another go at making different sizes and shapes.


I chopped off the bottoms and added the brad with a big blob of silicon glue to give them a bit more strength on the card. And finished off with the gold ribbon and sentiment. So my conclusion is making your own pretty flower embelishments is well worth it. I will be trying some other techniques out in the next few weeks and will report back with the results.