Birthday Robot

Hello!

Today I feature a card suitable for a young boy.  I've always had trouble making cards for males but I knew when I found a robot stamp set that all my worries were over.  Combined with the 'heavy duty' embossing folder I have, the card turned out really well.

awwwww such a cute robot!
So to make this card you just have to stamp the robot, colour him in (I used colouring pencils), stamp a happy birthday and draw dash lines (I used a silver gel pen) around the border.  Then stick it on top of a grey card that has been embossed with the 'heavy duty' embossing folder and then smudged over the top with silver ink.
There you have it, a wonderful male card.

Till next time.
Rorystar

Teddy Bear

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Today I am showing a card I made based off of this youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i4m8ckYi6E .
Here is my version:

I have done it a bit differently.  Firstly I didn't use a panel, I just put the tape directly onto the card base.  I also used a stamp of the teddy bear as the focus point and put my sentiment below it on a separate piece of paper.  You don't have to use washi tape, strips of paper would also work as you can tear off the ends to get a similar look.

Till next time.
Rorystar

Three little birds

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So I forgot yesterday to post (my bad!), so here we are today with a card that uses patterned paper as the main focus.  Usually with my cards I use a stamp as my main focus but I had this paper and I knew I wanted to use it on a card but I didn't want the paper to just become the background like it normally does.
Here is the card:

How I made this card:

1. Using a stencil (or just lightly drawing the shape in pencil) cut both of the bottom edges off the card base.
2. Cut the patterned paper to fit the card front so that three sides are straight and the bottom edge is curved like the card base.  Adhere to the card base.
3. Using a strip of white card stamp a sentiment in a coordinating colour and adhere with dimensional adhesive.
4. Place sticky-backed gemstones on to the card using the blade of a craft knife (trust me it works) following a section of the pattern.

By using the patterned paper as the main focus it certainly reduces the amount of time it takes to make a card.  You do have to be aware of adding too much to the card front, and your efforts should be more focused on showing off the paper by adding small embellishments and changing the card shape.

That's all for today.
Rorystar

Make a wish

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Today I am showing you a wonderful birthday card that is so pretty and of course, easy to do.

Nothing like a bit of glitter in the morning to cheer you up.

So to make this card you will need to:

1. Have a white card base.
2. Cut a panel of white card and a panel of gold glitter card that is slightly bigger than the white one. If you are like me and you don't like to waste glitter paper then cut the middle out and save for a future project. Don't cut too far though, you want to see only glitter around the white panel.
3. On the white panel, emboss (or even stamp) an image that says make a wish.  I used an embossing folder, but there is nothing that says you can't stamp a similar image or even use a sticker or just write it on!  Then stamp along both vertical edges a star border in gold.  Again, if you don't have anything like it, you could draw them or stick on some of those little gold stars and draw little connecting lines between them.
4. Adhere the glitter paper to the card with double sided tape.  Then carefully position the white panel over top also using double sided tape.  If you have cut out the middle of the glitter paper you should have little no to issue with the white panel adhering.  If you haven't, you may find the panel doesn't want to stick because glitter is a vain thing and always wants to be the center of attention.
5. My final step was to carefully graze my ink pad over top of the embossed image to give it more definition and then I stuck a star over the 'i' because why not!

There you go, a simple wee card that doesn't take very long at all to make.  I made 4 of these in around an hour.  I used different coloured glitter paper and changed the colour of the ink for the stamps to match.

Here are the other cards:

Hope you enjoyed this post, till next time.

Rorystar.

Blue Butterfly

Hello!

Little late this week, was too busy yesterday to upload, but I'm here today!
This week I'm am showing off my blue butterfly card.  It is yet again a fairly simple card.

Isn't it pretty!
To make this card you need a large outline stamp of a butterfly, colouring pencils and a wee bit of time.
Stamp the butterfly image in black ink onto a piece of white card, towards the top.  Colour in with pencils (take your time, don't hurry) and adhere some gems to add sparkle.  Underneath the butterfly stamp a happy birthday in a blue (or you could really use whatever colour you feel like really) and then tie a piece of silver ribbon below.  Adhere the panel with dimensional adhesive to your card base and you are all done!
See easy, although a little time consuming if you are like me and take forever to colour things in.

Till next time.
Rorystar.