11 Thursday Feb 2016
Posted in Cards, Kids cards, Kids craft ideas, Using up scraps
As part of last weekend’s card making festivities I needed to make a card for a little boy called Oliver who is turning six.
I had some spotty paper and some spotty stickers in my “I need to use this or else” spare paper pile đŸ˜‰ Five mins later I had a personalised card for the birthday boy.
Here’s hoping he’ll like to see his name in lights (well, spots!)
Thanks for reading.
Caro x
08 Monday Feb 2016
Posted in Birthday, Cards, General occasion, Gift bow, Kids cards, Punches, Using up scraps
Hi
On the weekend I found a bit of time to make some cards. I pulled out my gift bow punch and decided to make some cards using up my scrap stash. Here is one with a plain bow:
Cute, but I decided it wasn’t quite pretty enough, so back to the stash for some “bling” and voila!
Cute quick cards that took about 5 mins each to put together.
Thanks for reading đŸ™‚
Caro x
22 Sunday Nov 2015
Posted in Birthday, Kids cards, Kids craft ideas, Kids party
My son and his friend are obsessed by Ninjago Lego. So I’ve had to come up with a quick and simple Ninjago birthday card for all those birthday parties!
This is all thanks to the kind folks at http://www.halegrafx.com who have some free downloadable Ninjago eye packs.
I downloaded the 3 and 5 inch sheet, cut out the 5 inch eyes and stuck them on some red cards (my son loves the red ninja but they would work equally well for the other coloured ninjas!).
I have a stash of red wrapping paper – voila, a Ninjago present!
(Ninjago Lego inside of course!!!)
25 Sunday Oct 2015
Posted in Birthday, Gift tags & wrapping, Kids cards, Using up scraps
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Another day, another kids birthday present to wrap/card to make.
I found some spotty paper and alphabet colours in my scrap paper stash and voila:
All those colours make my eyes hurt, but hopefully Aston likes a card with his name on it.
I hope you’re enjoying your weekend!
Caro
23 Friday Oct 2015
Posted in 1 3/4 circle, Birthday, Curly label, Jewellery tag, Kids cards, Kids craft ideas, Masculine, Owl, Word Window
Hello
My 6 year old and all his friends are obsessed with Star Wars at present. There are a couple of Padawan birthdays coming up over next few weeks so I’ve been looking for some quick Star Wars cards to make.
Here they are in order of simplicity!!!
The lightsabers are made with the word window and jewellery punches. The Death Star is a print out sized to fit my 1 3/4 inch circle punch. (I made it for this yoda card I made a few months ago).
The next one is basically the same but with the child’s name in Star Wars font – check out the cool tool at logo54.com/movie/starwars
I’m not sure you can really file the next card under “quick” but it was still pretty easy! And still didn’t take more than 10 minutes.
Darth Vader and Obi Wan are made from the owl punch. Vader’s face is the owl’s vest turned upside down with some black fake pearls for eyes.
I made the cape with the curly label punch turned on its side and trimmed off at the sides:
I hope you enjoyed reading this. And here’s hoping the little Jedis enjoy them too!
Caro
12 Saturday Sep 2015
Posted in Kids cards, Kids craft ideas, Kids party
Hi
My son had a birthday party today and the theme was “fluoro”. This is the card I came up with by making a background with fluoro textas and then writing the birthday boy’s name in black Sharpie over the top:
Very simple, but he seemed to like it đŸ™‚
I think if I were going to make another one like this I think I’d use a darker background, but this is what Mr 6 picked so we rolled with it!
Thanks for reading.
Caro x
31 Monday Aug 2015
Posted in Cards, General occasion, Kids cards, Using up scraps
Hands up if you have a box of old paper scraps, embellishments you bought in a discount bin because they’d be useful one day etc etc? I certainly do!
When I was rummaging through my stash yesterday making some cards out of punched out colouring in, I also came across a few scraps of paper, flowers and buttons I decided to turn into cards at the same time.
Here are a few:
What have you got lying around you could turn into a quick card?
Thanks for reading.
Caro x
04 Tuesday Aug 2015
Posted in Dies, Kids cards, Kids party, Thank you, Top Note
I needed to whip up some simple thank you cards for all the generous people who gave my son such amazing birthday presents. And they needed to be very simple and quick to make!
Voila!
The backing is an A4 sheet cut into fours, with some white shapes cut from the top note die. Simple stamping of an owl stamp and a thank you greeting and we’re done!
Now to get organised enough to write them!
Thanks for dropping by.
Caro x
13 Monday Jul 2015
Posted in 1 3/4 circle, Bird Builder, Birthday, Jewellery tag, Kids cards, Kids party, Masculine, Owl, Tag, Word Window
It’s a good friend of mine’s birthday tomorrow and he is a bit of a Star Wars fan. So I decided to update a Yoda card I made a few months ago for his birthday.
All of the instructions you need to make Yoda are in my previous post here.
Here is a close up of Yoda, as well as some of my jewel stars and planets:
And a close up of the greeting, written over an image of the Death Star.
I am a little bit chuffed with this – I made it in Microsoft Word to fit inside my 1 3/4 inch circle punch. I’ve uploaded the image to Dropbox in case you’d like to use it yourself. The text in the image is white, and I printed it out on Very Vanilla card stock to match Yoda’s robe.
A 12 x 12 cm Very Vanilla piece on the inside sponged in silver ink finished the card off.
I hope you enjoy!
Caro x
01 Wednesday Jul 2015
Posted in Birthday, Framelits, Gift tags & wrapping, Kids cards, Kids craft ideas, Kids party
Today I want to share with you the card I made for my son’s birthday. We’ve had Ninjago invitations, Ninjago cupcakes, and Ninjago party stuff – so there’s no way I was going to get away without a Ninjago birthday card!
After being a bit “Ninjago’d out”, I wanted to step it up a notch for the birthday card, and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.
It took me a little while to figure out how I was going to get the peek-a-boo effect so I’ll show you how I did it.
I used a normal C6 card base and cut a 9 x 13cm piece of yellow for the inside.
I was thinking about just drawing / using circle punches for the eyes on the inside of the card, but had some printable eyes left over from the party (web address in the photo)
First I cut out an eye mask, then traced around the shape onto the front of the card (I recommend you cut two – one to trace around and one that will still be neat to use inside the card)
I then needed to be able to cut out the shape. I thought I would use my big shot with a small die just to cut a hole in the centre of the traced area to be able to start cutting out neatly.
Then inspiration struck! The curvy image from the Banner framelits set worked perfectly to get a “tie” at the edge of the face mask area! So instead of just cutting out some space for starting off my cutting, I shifted it off to the side to get this shape:
Cutting out the rest and voila!
The next step was to grab a Sharpie and trace around the edges to neaten them up – but also to colour in the area marked by the impression of the edge of the die (you can see the faint impression in this next picture)
And the end result!
And of course, no little Ninjago fan’s birthday present could be complete without Ninjago wrapping on his present!
(I dropped the glued eyes on the present, so they are not straight, but I’m pretty sure he won’t mind!)
I think it will be a while before I feel like making Ninjago themed anything again, but the little guy has absolutely loved everything, so it’s all been worth it. I can’t wait to give him his card tomorrow on his actual birthday!
Thanks for reading.
Caro x
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