Myles' Birthday Card - Back Blogged

Yes Jerremy has finally been invited to a Birthday party - invitation and all.
This is the card I made for Myles - I just can't bring myself to buy another card, why would I!!

I am really proud of this card because I didn't use a sketch, I actually had an original thought and went ahead with it.  It took me about 30 minutes roughly, I'm a bit of a slow thinker!!  Now it wasn't all that advanced but, hey, we all have to start somewhere.

Materials Used:
Cricut for lettering - don't know what happened with the shadow not being the right size but I still went with it anyways!!
Random cardstock and paper - as usual
Clear Hooray! stamp repeated 3 times
Random Ribbon
Car sticker popped on foam tape
Kindyglitz

Jilly xx

Eatin' Beets LO

So finally...here it 'tis.. my first LO in over a year.

It took me 9 hours to complete, with very few interuptions I might add. Oh yeah there was that scrappers block!!

If I continue at this rate, don't take any more photos I should have what photos I have, done about 2079.

I had the layout in so many different arrangements before I settled on this one. I am happy how it turned out. I don't really like journaling and after I read it I knew I need to add more in.

I had loads of fun making this and a big thankyou goes out to the girls from my 'scalhints' yahoo group, Sher, Denise & Heather for their help in the wee hours of my morning.

Sher sent me the SVG of the beetroot I used. Isn't he cute. Have learnt from this experience to not use fluffy paper for piecing. Too hard to make look perfect.

Would love to hear some comments...and ways to make this whole process quicker!!!

Cheers Jilly :D

My First Cards

I have been gathering supplies and procrastinating for so long, that I didn't think I would ever get anything made!! So here they are, the first cards I have ever made.

So many firsts today. First time using my versamark pad, a clear stamp, embossing powders, my heat gun, dimension magic, my zyron machines (I love these!!)
I used my Cricut too!!I had a lot of fun making these and I feel a great sense of satisfaction. The photos do not do the dimension magic justice.

This first card I made was for my good friend, Laura for her Birthday. I stamped the hear with a versamark pad, repeating a pattern. I then embossed with gold opals and used my heat gun to melt and seal. I also embossed the edges by dipping the heart edges in the versamark pad. I then filled all the empty space with dimension magic. This photo really does not do it justice. I used my zyron machines to glue everything and I used a rubon for the 'precious' then used dimension magic on it. Finally I added a few stick on diamontes for bling.

I made this for a girlfriend who now has her third daughter... discovered premade chipboard sayings can disguise embossing horrors!!

This card just came from my imagination... When you are on a roll stick to it!!