FIRE ENGINE THEMED CARD

Morning crafters

One of my neighbours asked me to make a card for her to send to a little boy in USA who will soon be celebrating his 2nd birthday. 

I love punchart and had saved some inspiration ideas on Pinterest. The fire hydrant was inspiration from Andi Potler's blog here http://www.absolutekreations.com/2013/02/18/punch-art-fire-hydrant-birthday-boy-card/ 

and the fire engine from Carolina Evans blog here http://studioevans.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/crazy-crafters-march-blog-hop-punch-art.html. 

The fire hydrant was too large to fit on the card so I adapted size of all the pieces, using smaller size circles and oval, then used the small punch from duo ticket for the centre of the hydrant, trimmed down to a square. Pieces were lightly sponged to differentiate sections.  The die-cut number was cut from a retired Stampin' Up! set.  All images were mounted onto a piece of an old map from the local area. 

I hope he likes his card as he loves anything fire related :-)

Happy craftin'

Sandra 

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BABY CONGRATULATIONS

Hi fellow crafters

This is a card I enjoyed making for a colleague at work who had just become a new Dad. Quite proud of the compliments when other colleagues signing their congratulation messages. 

 

When David and I were away on a cruise in Hawaii a few years ago, I took part in all the craft activities available on board ship whilst at sea.  We made a bear similar to this use thin wooden circles and so for this card I punched lots of circles using Stampin' Up! Punches, some same colour ink sponged round the edge of each piece (yes, some were very fiddly).  I have also seen a similar image on Pinterest using coudroy covered buttons. 

The balloon strings were made from Stampin' Up! White Bakers Twine, pulling strings all together after mounting on card and rolling a glue dot to keep all strings together, before tucking under bears 'paw'.

 

I can't wait to make a pink version and some more for my stock box. 

 

I hope you have enjoyed seeing this project and feel inspired to create yourselves. 

 

Bye for now, happy crafting :-)

 

Sandra

PUNCHART BLOG HOP - continued !!!!

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Hi there

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Finally this is the card I was desperately trying to finish for yesterdays Blog Hop.

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The tractor is one I have seen online made by Boni @ swapping4fun@yahoo.com. She demonstrated this creation way back in 2009 and I made last year for my Dad who was a farmer all his life until he retired and used to own a John Deere tractor in these colours.

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Now this week I amended slightly to incorporate the tractor but the top of the fence posts were made from Stampin' Up's Medium Jewelry Tag punch #117190 that goes with Tiny Tags stamp set #118091 in the mini catalogue. Trouble was, I wanted to lengthen them so was really pleased to find that the Word Window punch #117406 was exactly the same width so this was used for the bottom of the posts and also the cross bars. These were all punched from Designer Series Paper Tea & Crumpets #111911 which worked very well as there was a wooden textured effect paper in the set.

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The sky was a piece of Designer Series Paper in Bashful Blue #113648 and one of the sides was plain blue. The grass was simply a piece of torn Garden Green Cardstock #109992.

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I then went on to have fun with the clouds and the bushes using Scallop Circle #109877 and Scallop Oval punches #115429 from scrap card and used to sponge against, Whisper White Kraft ink pad #117361 for the clouds and Always Artichoke ink pad #110052 for the bushes. The camera unfortunately does not pick these up very well.

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I adapted to add 2 black buttons from Earth Elements & Neutrals # 103981.

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Hope you like the finished result.

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Sandra

THE SHOW MUST GO ON ............

and it did .......

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I had a slight mis-hap early this morning .... I fell down the stairs !! It was quite a tumble, landing heavily on my Coxix, sliding on my back down the stairs with carpet burns on top of leg, grabbing for bannister on the way down and wrenching my shoulder. I ache all over and it's so uncofmortable to sit down. I texted my friends to say I was on my way, moving very slowly, but all went ahead as planned and on time.

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My Workshop today was another meeting in Stamford at AJ's craft shop with my lovely friends Alan & Jean who moved there last year from Bury St Edmunds, together with a host of regular customers I have got to know really well. (They really do need a bigger room for Workshops ....... how we squash 11 people in there, I still don't know). Everyone was on form and, despite being in discomfort from my mishap, they didn't take pity on me, so the friendly banter continued as always. Everyone had another lovely day, placed their orders and can't wait for the next one.

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Anyway, I have found out today that the waiting list I was on for an ILWS Demo bloghop scheduled for tomorrow, now has a space and I need to create 2 cards from the New In Colours and schedule publish of blog entry for 10am tomorrow !!! I have my work cut out as it's so last minute and with only 12 hours to go, but hey ........ it is my first blog hop so must give it a go. Good job I don't need much sleep !!

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Please pop back tomorrow and follow all the links to get some fab ideas for the New Products. Don't forget to look at earlier entry on this blog for a special sample kit I am offering to customers.

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See you tomorrow.