March 06, 2016

Mothers Day Card Making Fun

Mothers Day Card Making Fun

Mother’s Day in Blighty is always in March, usually around the 3rd week of the month, so I thought it would be nice to design and make some cards ready for the occassion.  Paper crafting is my new hobby…for Christmas I was given a Sizzix Big Shot machine and I haven’t looked back since!…lately though I have gone one step further and with these Mother’s Day cards, I decided to design them in photoshop and print them out on my computer…

This way I was able to print the basic design off onto card and then print and cut layers to add with 3D foam pads…

Recently I have joined a digital scrapbooking site called Digital Scrapbook.com , Basically I pay a fee a month so that I can digitally download their graphics…and use them for personal use or commercial use depending on the fee I pay…This cuts out all the time it takes to create the graphics myself…and perfect for making cards for the family…go and check them out HERE…

I also created a Card for a friend’s Birthday (above)…(I used graphics from DigitalScrapbook.com)

…and Mother’s Day cards from Rosie to both Nan’s (below)…(these cards were made with papers cut with my sizzix big shot machine.)

…It’s so much fun making them for people and I hope a keepsake for the receivers…

I must admit, I did get a little sticky on the two above!

 I also keep a box with all my ready cut pretty papers and embellishments ready to decorate a card that I am creating…The die’s that are used with the machine to cut these pretty shapes have arrived on my desk by the lorry load (I really do not know how lol!) so that I can have the most fun possible whiling away the hours in my craft room…and boy does time fly!

You know I have always loved to make things so I thought i would show you a picture of a card I made about 7 years ago!…funny thing about these cards though ( I made two similar ones), is that they went missing and I was never able to send them to our Mum’s…I had to buy some in the end! strange that! We always thought we had a ghost in the old house so perhaps the ghost took them lol! (really I reckon Freddy threw them away!)

…and here we have the finished card!…as you can see i couldn’t resist adding a bit of sparkle!

and a close up of the finished Birthday card!

I am having a break from getting the house all ship shape and having a bit of me time, by having fun in this way!…my craft room is in so much mess…there is so many bits of paper on the floor.  Its so nice though to just shut the door when I am finished with no mess in the house…although I do find paper trails…you know the little bits of paper that stick to your feet and then get dislodged in another room lol!

What have you been creating this week?
Do you like paper crafting?
What cutting machine do you have?
Do share with me…I’d love to hear from you.

Speak soon.