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!

New Baby Boy card.

Hello again everyone!



Another busy day again. I had promised the girls at work I would make a new baby card for one of our girls who has just had a baby boy. Congratulations, Nicola!

So, I spent most of today resizing and editing some papers from the Lilac Garden (http://thelilacgardendecoupagesite.co.uk/) and from an old issue from Crafts Beautiful for this card. It is quite a big card, the card blanks measuring 34x24 cm. Below you can find some of the papers used and several images of the card.

Here is a picture of the outside of the card. I printed off 3 copies of the backing paper from Crafts Beautiful and cut out 3 different layers for decoupage for the added 3D effect. On top of it are 2 stamps 'It's a boy!' and 'Congratulations' with of course at the back of the card a 'Handmade by' stamped image. As you can possibly already see it is another of the pop out cards.

A close up of the front of the card.

And another closer up picture of the front of the card.

Next is the first view of the inside of the card. I have left a lot of clear space around the decoupaged spinning image and background paper for people to add their own wishes.

Some close ups of the dangling, spinning images. A lovely image of a baby in a pram and 2 tags above it 'Congratulations' and 'Baby'.

A close up of the decoupaged image, the same image is stuck to the back of this one to make spinning it still look nice.

Underneath the decoupaged image another tag, 'Baby Boy'.

Some further close-ups.

And looking at the card from above. You can just see the spinning image.

And another view from above.

I hope you also like this new card. I am quite pleased with it and hope the girls at work are also pleased with it as well as the new mum liking it as well. Most of the day has gone into making this card (at least in between the shopping and school rounds).

Thank you for looking. All comments are very much appreciated! Have a good week everyone.

A tricky swivel card.

Good evening everyone!

Here is my latest card, one I made this morning, with some preparations yesterday, for a class mate of my youngest son. My 'instructions' were to make a card for a 6-year old boy who loves racing and cars. I had the good luck to find this picture below on the BBC website yesterday and thought it would be ideal for a racing fan.

I had also noticed the below image on Monica's 3D sheets at http://www.3dsheets.tripod.com/ and just made it to a A4 sheet with a flipped image on the right side of the picture. This to ensure there would be a front and back side to a flipping image.

I also edited the background that came with this sheet to fit A4 in landscape and printed 2 sheets of this off, one for the outside of the card and one for the inside of the card.

I built up the 3D images and you can see both of them below.

And here are some images of the finished swivel card. The first one is the view from the front. As you can see I have used the same principle as in previous cards on my blog (the get well card and the second tiger birthday card) for the front of the card.

However, to make this card a bit more interesting, I also used the other principle and added a spinning car image to the inside of the car.

Add some stamps, some peel offs and your card is ready to be addressed and sent off.

I hope you like the new card, I certainly did enjoy making it.

And the last image of this card.

Thank you all for looking, I hope you like it as much as I do, and I hope the little boy does. All comments are very much appreciated. Have a lovely week everyone!

Party invitations

Wishing you all a very good Sunday! My Sunday has been quite productive. I have spent most of my day making 8 party invites for my daughter. Her birthday party will be due in a few weeks. Below you can find several images of the cards and also the instructions on how to make them. I hope you enjoy them and the instructions are helpful to those of you who would like to try a swinging card like this as well.

Underneath you can see two photos, the first shows the inside and front view of the cards.

The second one shows the full collection of 8 cards. I had quite a production line going this afternoon.

This is the main image I used, a little bear swimming. I printed off some small images for the front of the card and some bigger ones for the inside of the card.

Underneath you can see the background paper I used.

This is the background paper I used for the inside of the card. I printed it off on both sides of white card (2 on each A4 piece) to fit the A5 card.

This was the image used for the spinning part of the card. It was cut out using the second largest of the classic scalloped edged large nestibilities. Some cards were also cut with this using the above background and featuring the details for the party. This was stuck to the back of the below image with double sided sticky tape and some cotton thread in between.

To allow the card above to spin freely an aperture was cut out using the largest size of this set of nestibilities.

This card was then folded as shown below, a hill fold in the middle and 2 valley folds on each side of this in the middle of the remaining card.

This was then turned over and the image stuck to the card with some more double sided sticky tape. Double sided sticky tape was also attached to the 2 outside panels of the card.

Time for the outside card, for this I used some lilac A5 card.

Next the background paper was stuck to the front of the card with double sided sticky tape.

Then the image (smaller of the 2 printed) was attached to that with double sided sticky tape.

This is a view of the finished card after both parts of the card were stuck together.

A view of the inside of the card with the little bear facing us.

And with the party details facing us.

A view from above.

And here are 2 of the pictures of the finished 8 again.

Thanks for looking at my latest cards again. I would love it if you would leave some comments when you have visited. Have a great time for the remainder of today and all days to follow.