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Ninjago birthday cards

22 Sunday Nov 2015

Posted by Carolyn in Birthday, Kids cards, Kids craft ideas, Kids party

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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!!!) 

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Star Wars kids cards

23 Friday Oct 2015

Posted by Carolyn in 1 3/4 circle, Birthday, Curly label, Jewellery tag, Kids cards, Kids craft ideas, Masculine, Owl, Word Window

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Kids cards, Star Wars cards, Star Wars Punch Art

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 

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Quick kid’s card

12 Saturday Sep 2015

Posted by Carolyn in Kids cards, Kids craft ideas, Kids party

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cards with fluoro textas, Kids cards, quick and easy cards

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 🙂

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

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Ninjago birthday card

01 Wednesday Jul 2015

Posted by Carolyn in Birthday, Framelits, Gift tags & wrapping, Kids cards, Kids craft ideas, Kids party

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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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Fishin’ Around snow globe cards

08 Monday Jun 2015

Posted by Carolyn in 3D / pop up, Baby cards, Cards, Circle treat cups, General occasion, Kids cards, Kids craft ideas

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Fishin' Around, glitter cards, Kids cards, snow globe cards, Stampin Up

As you know if you’ve been reading this blog for a while, when I’m not feeling well I like to sit on my couch and colour in.  Which then leads to a bulk card making session at some future time. Today turned out to be one of those times!

I had to pop into my office and stumbled across a pile of images from the Stampin’ Up! fishing around stamp (now retired) which I’d coloured in and cut out a few months ago, but never got around to making into cards.  

I decided they’d look really cute as snow globe cards, so pulled out a few circle treat cups and some glitter and voila!!

 

  

  

  

  

 

A tip for doing this without getting glitter ALL over your desk (just SOME of your desk!) is to fill the cups and stick the image on as a lid, then add extra glue before sticking the cup onto the card. 

   
  


I stuck the “snow globes” onto 13 x 13 cm square cards. Cutting these (26 x 13cm) from an A4 piece of card stock leaves a nice strip to make an extra  7 x 7 cm notecards at the same time.  Here are some of those:

   
         Images used up, next batch of kids’ cards done, sorted!

Thanks for reading 🙂

Caro 

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Two minute kid birthday card

24 Friday Apr 2015

Posted by Carolyn in General occasion, Kids cards, Kids party, Star, Using up scraps, Washi tape

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kids birthday, Kids cards, using up scraps, washi tape

Hi

Just a quick post to share with you a card I just whipped up in less than 2 minutes for a kid’s birthday party this afternoon.  

I had a vague thought the other day that some washi tape I was recently given with stars on it might go well with my star punch.  A piece of card stock, a few strips of washi tape and a star punch and ta da!!!!

  
What do you think?  Not bad for 2 minutes? 

Thanks for reading 

Caro 

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Super hero party invitation

25 Thursday Sep 2014

Posted by Carolyn in Cards, Invitations, Kids cards, Kids craft ideas, Kids party, Owl, Punches, Word Window

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Hello!   Sorry it has been such a long time between posts.  Life just gets busy!  In my last post I showed you the card I made for my Frozen obsessed son’s 5th birthday.  I’m pleased to report he loved it 🙂

Today I want to show you the invitations I made for his birthday party.  He wanted a dress up party, but he (and I!) were going as super heroes, so he wanted to have super hero themed party invitations.   So here’s what I came up with – super hero owls!

Super hero owl party invitation

They looked pretty cute all lined up together:

Super hero owl invitationsHere’s a closer look at the super heroes, made from the Stampin’ Up! owl builder punch:

Super hero owls Here are a few pictures of how I put the owls together.   Basically I just used various colours cut from the owl punch, and the yellow belts are made from the word window punch.

Making super owl:

Owl punch cut outs

Building super owl!One tip – it’s easier to cut the yellow belt to size from behind:

Building super owls - reverse

Super owl - just needs goggly eyes!

Making spider owl:

Building spider owls(the black circle is also from the owl builder punch)

Building spider owls

Spider owls

Making bat owl:

Building bat owl

Making bat owls

Bat owl belts

Put them all together and you get some cute little super heroes!

Super hero owls

I have to say I was a little sick of making owls by the end of this process though!

Thanks for reading

Caro x

 

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Olaf birthday card (from Frozen)

01 Tuesday Jul 2014

Posted by Carolyn in 1 1/4 inch circle, 1 3/8 circle, 1 inch circle, Bird Builder, Birthday, Cards, Cupcake Builder, Jewellery tag, Kids cards, Kids party, Modern Label, Owl, Punches, Tutorial, Word Window

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Birthday card, Coastal Cabana, Dazzling Details, Frozen crafts, kids birthday, Kids cards, Olaf, Olaf the Snowman, punch art, stampinup, Winter Frost

Hello

Sorry I haven’t posted to my blog in a while.  I’ve been pretty busy with not much time for crafting.   I finally got a chance to make some stuff recently though, so I will show you a few things over the next little while.

It is my little boy’s 5th birthday today (where did that time go?!?) and, like seemingly most children, he is currently quite obsessed with the movie Frozen.   So I decided to tackle Olaf the snowman for his birthday card.   Here is the end result:

Olaf the Snowman card (Frozen)

 

The card background is on Coastal Cabana card stock with some (retired) Winter Frost designer series paper.  I used my dazzling details glitter to add some sparkly snowflakes in the background.  I wrote the greeting (“I like warm hugs” with my Coastal Cabana Stampin’ Write marker and punched it out with the word window punch.  I used the modern label punch to do the background, also in Coastal Cabana.  I put a couple of dots of dazzling details glitter on either side of the greeting for some extra sparkle.

Here’s how I made Olaf (all pieces punched from Whisper White unless otherwise specified):

The base of the snowman – 1 3/4 inch circle punch, with approximately 1/2 cm cut off the bottom

The middle of the snowman – 1 3/8 inch circle punch, with approximately 1/4 cm cut off the bottom

Head – the large oval punch

Feet – the two large circles from the owl builder punch

Buttons – the middle sized circles from the owl builder punch (Basic Black)

Arms – 2 x branches from the bird builder punch (Chocolate Chip).  I thought about trimming the leaves down to make the arms look slightly more twig like, but I decided that was far too much effort!)

Mouth – oval punch (cut off about 1/3 from the top)

Teeth – the base of the jewellery tag punch (retired).  If you don’t have this punch you could easily cut a small rectangle freehand.

Nose – I punched a 1 inch circle punch and then cut it down to an oval freehand

Nose – the candle from the cupcake builder punch (I also thought about using the candle from the same punch, I think either would work) (Tangerine Tango)

Eyes – I glued on some goggly eyes with some mini glue dots.

I drew on the eyebrows with a black texta and have since been informed by Mr 5 that I should have drawn on his hair as well.   Feedback was noted, hair has now been drawn on (although I don’t have a picture of that!).

Apart from the minor criticism about my attention to hair detail, Olaf was received with much excitement today!

Thanks for reading, and I’ll try not to be so long between posts next time

Caro x

 

 

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Ben’s birthday card

16 Saturday Nov 2013

Posted by Carolyn in 1 3/4 circle, Cards, Kids cards, Punches, Star, Using up scraps

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5th birthday, 5th birthday card, Birthday card, Kids cards, name card

Hello!

Today we had a 5th birthday party for a little boy called Ben.   Here’s the birthday card we made this morning:

letter, circle and star kid's birthday card

 

The colours are Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight and Poppy Parade (now retired, but Real Red would look just as good)

I used the 1 3/4 inch circle punch and a star punch as well as using my Big Shot and an alphabet die set to die cut the letters.

My son – and creative director! – insisted Ben needed ‘jewels’ on the card – so he stuck on 5, for a 5th birthday.  I’m actually quite impressed – he stuck them on really quite straight!

The little birthday boy seemed very chuffed with his card – so job done!   I was actually really pleased with how it turned out – sometimes the simplest cards are the most effective I think?

Thanks for reading.

Caro

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Easel cards part 2

13 Tuesday Aug 2013

Posted by Carolyn in 3D / pop up, 3D projects, Cards, Extra Large Oval, General occasion, Kids cards, Punches, Tutorial, Uncategorized

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3D, cards, Kids cards, Punches

The other day I showed you some drink labels for a party I’d made using an easel card layout.  This is another card technique that is really quite simple – but usually gets a ‘wow’ from the person who opens it up.  Who doesn’t love minimum effort and maximum wow?!?

Easel cards are really versatile – labels, place settings, cards, grown up, kids … anything really! I’ve found that kids particularly love these because they have to figure out how they work.   It can also be a nice way to display a photo on your desk or kitchen bench.

Today I want to show you how to make the card.  First though, some pictures!  Here’s an example of a kids one from the front:

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And as an ‘easel’:

photo-7And some “grown up” butterfly ones:

photo-5photo-4I think this last one is the first card I ever made after going to a class run by the very talented Sally Ann Williams (check out Sally’s blog at http://www.sallycancraft.com)

[And yes, I’m still sorting through my old photos!!!]

Making the cards

To make these cards you need 2 pieces of card stock.  I like to use these dimensions: Piece 1 – 21 x 11 cm and Piece 2 – 11 x 11cm.  Why these dimensions?  Well, an A4 piece of card stock is 21cm along the short side, so it’s easy to just cut at 11cm to make your first piece.

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Step 1 – score Piece 1 across the short edge at 5cm and 10cm in from the long edge.

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Step 2 – fold the 10cm score line over as a valley fold.  Then fold the 5cm score line as a mountain fold (ie, back on itself)

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Step 3 – decorate Piece 2 (11cm square) however you like.  This will be the front of your card.  I’ve found it can be quite effective to leave your square plain and actually decorate a separate 10.5 x 10.5cm piece of card stock and layer that onto the front of the card. This gives you a nice layered/framed effect.  In the two butterfly cards I’ve shown you above I’ve done two layers – a 10cm x 10cm white piece and a 10.5 x 10.5cm mat.

Step 4 – put some glue onto the ‘folded back’ section.  This is where you will stick the front of the card.  I’d recommend using Snail Adhesive from Stampin’ Up!.  I’ve tried other glues from Officeworks and $2 shops but in my experience they are not strong enough for an easel card and lose their stick after a few days.

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Step 5 – stick on your card front!  This picture gives you the idea of how the card is stuck together:

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Step 6 – you need to add something to the base of your card to make the ‘easel’, ie, to prop the front of the card on so it will stand upright. You want a finished card that works like this:

photo-3What can you use to prop up the card?  It can be anything that is thick enough for the front layer to rest on and stay upright.  This could be a button, a piece of thick ribbon, or a punched shape raised on dimensionals as I’ve used here.  (Dimensionals are double sided sticky foam dots sold by Stampin’ Up! which add height to embellishments on your projects).

Here is an example of how I’ve used punches and dimensionals to make a “prop” for the easel card:

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I’ve cut 3 large oval punches in brown card stock and stuck them to the card base.  I’ve then stamped and punched a white ‘For you’ image and used dimensionals to stick it in the middle of the punched ovals to give some height to prop up the easel card.

You can also use plain ribbon if it is thick enough, like this:

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Or a button, like this:

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Note: if you use a button the card won’t sit quite as nicely when the front is closed.

Hopefully that all made sense – feel free to leave me a comment if you’d like me to explain anything!

[BTW: The red card in the pictures is one I made while I was writing this post so I could take photos and demonstrate the steps.  I broke my own rules and stuck the square piece on before I decorated it, so I could show you another way to prop the card up.   I now have to figure out how to decorate the front!)

Thanks for reading – I hope you enjoy making your own easel card.  Or if you have tips on how I can make mine differently I’d love for you to share them!

Caro x

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