A Birthday card and a Christmas card for my mum with presents.

Morning all,

Happy Birthday to my mum first of all.

I don't know if she knows where to find my blog, so I left uploading these cards and candles till today, her birthday, just in case.

For both cards I have used an image I created myself. She has a great dog, a Rhodesian Ridgeback, called Ridgie. I only have a photo of her first one and created 2 digistamps. One is SantaRidgie and the other is BirthdayRidgie. Hope you like them. For the candles I used a picture of the kids and for the second one some stamps from the Crafty Pad.

Feel free to use my images for your personal use only, the same goes for the 3D decoupage sheets and the background papers I created with him. Please make sure you do keep my signature on the stamp though when using and do not claim as your own.

So here are some pictures of her birthday card for today. For this card I used this week's sketch from the Crafty Pad and changed it slightly to fit the A4 card and orientation I needed. I did not use one of her lovely stamps, but my own digistamp, 3D decoupage sheet and background paper on the inside(see below the views of the card). The other background papers are freebies from Funky Fairies amongst others. As I have used the sketch I am also going to enter it in this week's challenge at the Crafty Pad. Hope Debbie and her team like what I have done with it as well as my mum will hopefully like it.

One of the candles below, does use Debbie's lovely stamps.
























And the digistamp, 3D decoupage sheet and background paper used can be found here on my sisterblog 'Trimgym's digistamps and images'. All digistamps and images on my sister blog are available for free download, please do not claim them as your own, leave my signature on, use for personal use only and if you would like to share them, please direct them to my blog.





(The assembled 3D imaged looks like this )






And here are some images of the Christmas card I made for her. Hope you like them.

For this card I used 2 A4 cards, cut out the shapes with nestibilities for the swinging window. Not an easy task and much experimenting needed, but with a lot of aluminium foil and masking tape used to cover half of the die to ensure it wouldn't cut through the card where it shouldn't I finally managed. As it did leave slight indentation in the card, I covered that side with half of a cut out piece of holographic card cut out with the same die. On the inside I used my own backing paper, the one at the front is a freebie from Funky Fairies.

I must admit I like this card better than the birthday card.




























The images and papers used can be found here on my sister blog 'Trimgym's digistamps and images', of course again only for personal use and do not claim as your own.






(The assembled 3D decoupage image looks like this:)




I also created some candles for her, one with a picture of the kids on, the other with some lovely stamps from the Crafty Pad, unfortunately it doesn't come out very well on the red candle (nice and smelly as well), but I hope she likes them anyway.