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!

Challenge 17 at The Crafty Pad

Good evening all and a Happy Easter!

It looks like I'm on a roll! Second project today and another entry to a challenge. This time at The Crafty Pad.

For this challenge we had to work according to the following sketch.





Another rule of course is to use one of their fabulous stamps. For this one I have chosen a Just Teddy with ball stamp. They are just sooo cute, I'm sure you will agree.

The full image of the square card is below. I have used some of their free papers as well to help make this card and cut out some ovals using nestibilities. The stamp was carefully coloured in using water colour pencils. I have edited the spotty and antique free papers slightly to fit better with the yellow theme of the card.

I also printed of the text 'I know I'm in need of some exercise, but are you sure this is the way to do it?' on one of the papers for to add a funny element to the card. To me it looks like he is balancing on a pilates exercise ball and like so many of us, I do need a bit more exercise to get myself into the right kind of fitness. I always have big plans, but hardly ever manage to follow them up.

To spice it up a little 3 little brads are added to the longitudinal strip of backing paper and 2 flower brads to the corners of the card.




Here is a bit more of a close up.




And a view especially focussing on the stamp and text.

I hope you like the card, I certainly enjoyed creating it and I am quite pleased with the result. Now I just need to find the right kind of person to send it to and the right occasion. I'm sure I'll be able to come up with something.

Enjoy the rest of your Easter weekend!

FUNKY FAIRYS CHALLENGE 11 - DARE TO BE SQUARE! entry.

This is a very quick entry into the challenge at Funky Fairies at the moment. I didn't have a lot of time, but didn't want to let it go unnoticed. For this challenge, which you can find at http://funkyfairyschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/funky-fairys-challenge-11-dare-to-be.html, you need to create a project using at least one of their papers with the theme square.

For this project I have used several of their papers (6 to be exact) and made them into a template for a little cube. I then printed this off on A4 paper, which had a back ground paper from Arty Miss on the other side of the paper.

It was then cut out and stuck together with double sided sticky tape.

For papers used and template, see below.

Above you can see the template for the cube that has been used. Each square is made up of a different Funky Fairies paper. The top one is from their purple Christmas range, as is the one below on the right. (papers h and 40 respectively). The one to the right and below the top one is from the dmaddon2 range, paper 12. Next to that is paper 15 from the dmaddon1 range.

Below this is paper 16 from the birds range and below this paper 6 from the new feeling sweet range.

For the inside of the cube I have used an Arty Miss paper, bfly0103, a free download, just as the ones from Funky Fairies.

Here are some views of the cube. The first one to mainly show off the inside.

And all the following views are to show off all its sides.

Just turned it upside down to show its bird side to its best potential.

Also a view of the bottom side.





And another side view.



Showing off the top of the cube with the feeling sweet paper. I think I'm starting to get hungry now.




And another side view.




And a last view of the cube. I hope you like it. It was quite fun to make it and to resize the papers to fit the squares. To make it function best you do need a sturdy white cardboard to use.

Now it can be used as a little trinket box or if I would add some numbers, it would make a nicely decorated dice.


Good luck to all others entering the challenge and have a lovely Easter!

Male Birthday Card.

Another card added to my blog today. I made this card earlier this week for my uncle, who has his birthday on the 14th. It is always quite tricky to find something suitable, but I think he will probably like this. He used to go camping in France a lot in his younger years.

Here is a sneaky preview of the springy card.


For instructions on how to make this type of card, also look at an earlier entry on my blog at http://trimgym.blogspot.com/2009/03/blue-card-for-funky-fairies-blue.html.

The image used for this card is the one below for a simple, yet effective decoupage. I chose the wine bottle and glass with cheese image.

As I did not have a fitting background yet, I created a matching background by editing the main decoupage image and cutting and pasting it several times on an A4 sheet. I have added this background paper below and you can feel free to use it if you like for your personal use.

And here are some views of the finished card. I used some brown base card and cut this and the background paper to size to fit. Although I usually use a card measuring 15 x 7.5 cm base, 15x15 cm square on top, I this time made it a little smaller to use a bit of left over card I had. You can basically make it any size you like as long as the base width is half the length and the square is the same size as the length.

Above is the frontal view and below is one a little from the side, so you can get a feel of the 3D effect of the decoupage image.

Another side view.

And another view from the front.

I hope you all like the card as much as I enjoyed making it. I'm fairly sure the recipient will like it when he receives it. All comments are very much appreciated. Thank you for looking and have a fabulous Easter one and all.

A Swivel Bear Birthday Card.

A very good Good Friday to all!

I have not had a lot of time lately to make cards and spend time on the web. I did manage to make 2 birthday cards earlier this week though. This one is one I made for one of my cousins, who has her birthday on the 10th of April. Uploading it today is therefore very appropriate.

Below you can have a sneaky first peek at the card. It is another swivelcard using a decoupage image from http://thelilacgardendecoupagesite.co.uk/, see for image a little later as well.

This is the decoupage image used as mentioned above. It is really worth checking out this site as it has very lovely decoupage images that can be downloaded and used for free if for personal use only. (http://thelilacgardendecoupagesite.co.uk/)


To make the card I cut and pasted the main bear image of the decoupage image several times to make an A4 background, I printed this off on A4 peach card for the outer part of the card (double sided printing this time).

I also printed it off on the side of the inner A4 card that is facing the outer card. Another A4 background was adapted for the inside of the card which has an oval area that can be used to put the message.

And here are some images of the finished card, the decoupage image has been mounted on some brown card before adding it to the window. For full instructions on how to make this type of card it is worth looking at my previous cards on here, especially at this blog entry http://trimgym.blogspot.com/2009/03/instructions-requested-for-earlier-made.html.

Another view of the card, which shows the double sided printed card off as well.

A close up of the decoupage image.

Another view of the card.

And a last view of the card.

I hope you like the card as much as I enjoyed making it. Feel free to use the backgrounds if you find them helpful with this image. Thank you for looking and all comments are very much appreciated.

Have a very good Good Friday and a lovely Easter everyone!