Tuesday, 14 April 2009

Dare to be Square birthday card for sister-in-law.

Hello all, I have just finished a card for my sister-in-law, who has her birthday in May. A good thing she doesn't know about my blog as yet!

Here is just a quick peek. I thought it would be quite a good one for the Dare to be Square challenge on Funky Fairies as well, but I may just be a bit too late for that.

It has used four of their papers from the pink range, though.


For the spinning image inside the card, I have used the CuddlyBuddly freebie, 4 layers of it cut in different stages for a 3D image. I flipped the image for the other side of the spinner.






Inside the card I used their background and another image in the background.




This is one of the first stages of the card.



For this I chose a pink card blank for the outside of the card and for the inside of the card, measuring 13.5cm square. I then cut out 4 squares of the Funky Fairies backing paper, 12.5, 11.5, 10.5 and 9.5 cm square and layered them onto the base card.
Next I cut out a rectangle half the size of the image at the front of the card. This is one I got from The Lilac Garden.
The second stage of the card was to decorate the inside of the outside part of the card. A bit of the backing paper used on the inside of the card was used for this, with the cuddlybuddly bear image added to this. You can see this below.


And here are some of the views of the finished card, it is quite difficult to show this type of card of in the best possible way. It is again one of the swinging window cards with the swinging image in the middle as well. The picture below shows the card from the side with the swinging window.




Another view of it.



And another one while the card is lying down.





A similar view.





A view from the front with the swinging window. Quite fitting as she is quite keen on fashion and shopping.






A close up of the front decoupage image.




First view of the inside of the card. A spinning CuddlyBuddly with Happy above it and Birthday below.




A view from the top, showing the extra image at the back of the card as well.


A view of the inside of the card, if you look closely you can just spy the background bears.




A close up of the image on the inside.




A view of the inside with the spinner from the side, so the inside bears can be seen.



Another view showing the background bears.

And another view from the front.


I hope you all like the card and although I think I may just about be too late to enter it into the challenge, I will try.
Thank you all for looking. Any comments very much appreciated. Have a good week!

15 comments:

  1. No your not too late Jo, another fantastic card for the FF Challenge, great design!!

    Thanks for joining in with the challenge and good luck.

    Joanne x

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  2. Jo, you get on over and enter this fabby card!!!
    hugs
    Anne x

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  3. Thank you both of you, much appreciated, have entered the card as well.

    Love,

    Jo.

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  4. Yet another fab card Jo - well done.
    Sam x

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  5. Your card is so wonderful!
    Thanks for the love congratulations on my birthday!
    Big hugs Gisela

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  6. Fantastic card...really gorgeous.
    Thanks for joining us again and good luck.
    Emma x

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  7. Great card, thanks for taking part in the challenge again xx

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  8. What a gorgeously unique card. Thank you for taking part in our challenge this week at FF.

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  9. This is a great card when i saw it on trimmie I knew it was fantastic then. I really admire your work so keep it up lots love cheryl xx

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  10. Gorgeous card Jo well done. It seems I have been missing your wonderful creations as I have been online much this week.
    Laptop has now been fixed but I need another couple of days to sift through the mountain of emails! I used my time wisely whilst not online & have made up both of my cards for The CRafty Pad.... so I'm looking forward to seeing you there next week:)
    hugs rozzy xxx

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  11. Jo, What a fabulous card! I love everything about it. Ogilvie

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  12. Jo, What a fabulous card!! I love everything about it, Hugz, Ogilvie

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  13. Jo, your card is absolutely beautiful, well done.

    Vicki x

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  14. Wow, beautiful card! Fabulous creation! thanks for joining us at Stamp Something. :)

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Thank you all for visiting my blog and commenting on my cards and other projects. All comments are very welcome and much appreciated. Have a great day everyone!

Love,

Jo.