Colourful Trio

Hello,

Today you get three for the price of one! I made these cards as a set due to my acquisition of a brand new stamp set.  I went a little bit crazy and ended up with a large panel of brightly coloured circles.  I sat there for a while attempting to figure out what I was going to do with the panel and chose to make three almost matching cards.

To make these cards you need to grab yourself a longish strip of white card and stamp lots of brightly coloured circles on it.  Then you cut it into three equal strips and stamp a 'happy birthday' in black in the middle of each panel.  Pick three different colourful patterned papers and adhere each of them to their own card base.  Outline each panel with a black marker and using dimensional adhesive adhere to the card bases.  Add extra embellishments such as coloured gems, glitter flowers and punched stars.

There you have it! I find creating cards this way to be really quick and great when you realise that there is several birthdays coming up.

Till next time.
Rorystar

Blue Birthday Circles

Hello,

Here is my next card, Blue Birthday Circles!  Again I made this card because of pinterest inspiration (its a great time waster website if you haven't heard of it).  It is also another simple card that doesn't really require much effort.

Yea I know, wonky photo......
Anywho, this is how I made it:

1. Grab a piece of white card and create your base.
2. Cut a piece of blue patterned paper slightly smaller than the card front and adhere to card base.
3. Gather three different patterned papers that co-ordinate well together and cut one medium sized circle from each (either by hand or die cutting machine).  Cut one smaller circle from white card.
4. Using a blue ink pad, stamp a happy birthday greeting (preferably a circular shaped one like I used, but it doesn't have to be) onto the smaller white circle.  Adhere to one of the bigger circles with dimensional foam.
5. Adhere all three circles to the card base beginning at the top right and slightly overlapping the previous circle.
6. Place three pearl gems to the bottom left corner to complete the card.

See, didn't I say it was easy?

Till next time.

Rorystar

A Hearty Happy Birthday

Here is my first card!

I made this a while back due to a spark of inspiration from pinterest.

It is a fairly simple card, a good way to use up some of those scraps of paper.  This is how I made it:

1. Using a heart shaped die (or trace a heart and cut it out with scissors) cut out a large heart from the top portion of a piece of white card.
2. Using black ink, stamp a happy birthday greeting below the heart.  Also with the black ink, stamp a pretty border pattern across the bottom of the card.
3. Glue on two pink heart shaped gems either side of the happy birthday greeting.
4. Using a pink ink pad, gently wipe it along the inside of the heart to define the edge.
5. To make the flower: Using a flower shaped punch, punch out 4 - 6 flowers from a sheet of pink paper.  Make a small cut in the center of each flower with a craft knife and gently push it onto a brad, once all the flowers are on the brad, open up the prongs to secure them in place.  Glue onto card at the bottom of the heart.
6. Grab a piece of computer paper that is smaller in size than the white card and trace an outline of  the same heart on to it.  Using strips of various pink patterned papers cut to 1cm wide, glue them across the traced heart at a diagonal.  Trim off any excess.
7. Using a piece of pink card, create the card base.  Adhere the computer paper with the strips of pink onto the base, making sure to align it so only the strips of pink paper will show through the heart.  Using dimensional foam, adhere the white piece over top.
8. Step away from the table, dust yourself off and give yourself a pat on the back for a job well done!

So there you have it! Not at all hard.  It is one of those cards that can be easily changed to suit the recipient, say blue stripes under a star shape, or yellow under a circle.  The possibilities are unlimited!

Till next time

Rorystar.

An introduction

Hello,

I am Rorystar and in my spare time I like to make cards.  I have created this blog in order to share my creations, show my inspirations, and to hopefully inspire others in their card-making endeavors.  First of all, it should be noted that I am in no way a professional photographer, so sorry if the photos are a little 'funky'.  Second, it should be noted that I have a reasonable sized collection of crafty goodness and I really don't stick to any one brand in particular due mostly to my lack of funds and location (New Zealand).  Thirdly, I make cards because I like doing it, it brings me great satisfaction when I give them to the people I care about.  So, here is the very first post on what I hope will turn out to be a great way to unleash my creativity!

Rorystar