Speedboats

It's Adrian's birthday on Tuesday, and I wanted to make him a card with a Harley Davison on it, as he loves his motor bikes..... needless to say, I had not got a motor bike decoupage kit, so he will be getting a speed boat instead LOL

I've not used these decoupage papers before, and was quite pleased with the result, even if it was a little uninspired background wise from me, but I really need to get out and buy some more background papers etc.

Having cut each of the 4 decoupage elements out, I layered them with 3D foam, and matted them onto some silver card stock, before adding it to the dark blue pearled card blank. I then added the metal Happy Birthday embellishment as a finishing touch.

It will be posted today, and hopefully arrive in time for his birthday.

Let Us Begin

And so, now you have seen a selection of what I have made in the past.

From now on, as I create a card, I shall post it, along with the details of how I made it, and using the correct date stamp and time

Until then...... Keeeeeep Crafting! LOL

New Blog

Hi there..... having blogged for a long long time now, it comes as second nature. However, up until now I have only ever blogged the occasional card that I have created, and these have gone on my main site: http://www.cornish-beachbrummie.blogspot.com/ I then saw that Jordiegirl had created a separate site dedicated purely for her cards, and so Card Craft by Jo was born!

I'm not saying that I like to copy other people, but when they have a good idea you can't ignore it. So here we are.

I shall place photo's of what I have created, and would appreciate any comments, good or bad. If I know something works and is liked, I can use the same format again and again with just a tweak here and there.

Let us begin.....

Godchild

For this I used a dark blue pearl card blank, some pale blue mulberry paper, silver border peel offs, and baby buttons.

I took a picture of my Godchild and created a frame from silver card stock and completed it with a small padded teddy bear, and ABC peel offs for the wording Godchild.

Quite inspired for me, considering I had only had an operation a few days before LOL

Shoe-aholic

I used a pearled card blank, die cut pink stiletto's, metallic pressed metal Happy Birthday and Fan decals and and peel off stickers for the name.

The heart paper, and pink card I already had in my box of tricks.

The idea came from one of my favourite craft sites, who offer designs for free - mad about cards.

Strictly Dress-Up

This is absolutely one of my favourites, and I have made it 3 or 4 times now, despite it being very fiddly and taking a good couple of hours to do

Variations For Mothers Day

These lovely papermania embellishments were too good a bargain to miss, and they came together beautifully with some more downloaded paper from Mad About Cards